🚨New #Preprint🚨 #Arctic humpback #whales respond to nutritional opportunities before #migration 👉🏽We examined a novel foraging site established in the last decade, during the WINTERS ❄️🐳 🐟🧵doi.org/10.1101/2022.1… @Joanna_Kershaw Logan Pallin, Ph.D. SMRU (now posting at Bluesky) UiT Norges arktiske universitet

New paper looking at long-term patterns in ecosystem phenology near Palmer Station, Antarctica! dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.4…

Tomorrow is #WorldWhaleDay 🐳🎉 This fin #whale is lunge feeding. Baleen #whales lunge feed by opening wide and expanding their throats to engulf water and food 🌊🦐 They use baleen plates to push water out and keep food in. Stay tuned for more whale-tastic content!

This is a mother our Maui team saw last year and this year with two different calves! This data is valuable for determining the heath of the North Pacific population of humpbacks. We’d like to thank the Marine Mammal Commission and Dolphin Quest for funding this field season!

New technologies 🛰️⚙️📸 help us study #whales in new ways. Here Chris Johnson 𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘀 𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗻𝘀𝗼𝗻 is flying a drone over #Antarctic minke whales to monitor the population using photogrammetry and measure their width and length to see how they are bulking up on Antarctic krill 🦐 🧵⤵️

Fascinating new note by Susannah Calderan Jennifer Jackson Ryan Irvine et al., showing #southernrightwhales feeding on #krill during winter off #SouthGeorgia. Rapid chases were required to catch such large and fast-swimming krill. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

#Whales 🐳 have long captured the fascination of researchers but studying these #ocean giants is challenging. Scientists rely on zodiacs for stealthy manoeuvring and deploy tags to help uncover #whale ecology. 📽️⤵️ Curious minke whale from our recent expedition to #Antarctica.

Slowing down ships presents one of several promising avenues for reducing harm to whales in an increasingly noisy and busy ocean, finds a new study in Science Advances. scim.ag/3xj

This is fantastic; very cool video imagery!

Fantastic week of reconnecting with colleagues, amazing presentations and conversations to inspire the next steps of some amazing collaborations in the making 🐋🐧🇦🇶 #conservation #ClimateActionNow #SCARBiology2023

DOUBLE LUNGE FEEDING FIN WHALES 🐋 Totally stunned, we watched 2 fin whales lunge feeding at the surface for around 30 mins. Dolphins, bluefin tuna and seabirds rounded up the shoals of fish into baitballs, allowing this incredible feeding event to take place in the Celtic Sea.

Antarctica sea-ice hit a historic low Feb 2023. Winter had more record-breaking declines 📉 🦐 Krill populations are declining in some regions, causing a reduction in humpback whale pregnancy rates 🐋 Urgent action is needed – #CCAMLR must establish marine protected areas!

Alarming new story in AP News on the impacts of #krillfishing on our rapidly changing #Antarctic marine ecosystem. Change is needed now! Honored to be part of the solution! #ClimateAction #humpbackwhale youtu.be/KyvK9y4WNcU?si… via YouTube

With the help of satellite tags 🛰️ researchers were able to follow the complete migration cycle of an Australian southern right #whale 🐳 for the first time! The migration route stretched over 6,000 km, from Western Australia to #Antarctica and back. #ProtectingBlueCorridors

New #RSOS paper used tracking data from fin #whales to identify their foraging grounds in the Mediterranean. Read more: ow.ly/40PX50QWtOK Viola Panigada @LuisHuckstadt

The IWC Scientific Cttee has completed 2 weeks of #cetaceanscience in Slovenia, and closed with a standing ovation for Chair Alex Zerbini who will step down after presenting the Cttee's advice at IWC69 in Sept. Meeting report at iwc.int in approx 3 weeks

Over 5 years of writing code, collating metadata, processing, QCing, reprocessing, QCing, reprocessing… not to mention the weeks, months, & years of field work by a small army of researchers. I am SO excited that we’re sharing this incredible dataset. 👉 nature.com/articles/s4159…