#Budget2024 💰 makes the largest investment in 20+ years for grad students & postdocs! It will support financial needs, boost mental well-being, allow focus on research, & promote diversity by easing barriers for underrepresented groups. 🎉💪🏽 #SOSBudget2024

On April 2, experts conducted a necropsy on North Atlantic right whale #1950. Preliminary findings included catastrophic injuries: a dislocation of the whale’s spine and fractures to all vertebrae in the lower back, consistent with blunt force trauma from a vessel strike.

Come join the Davies Lab at UNB Saint John! Work with #whales 🐋 #plankton 🦐 & some pretty cool people! 😎

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#marinebio #jobopening #jobopportunity #marinemammals #marinescience

In an incredibly rare event, our #AndersonCabotCenter aerial survey team spotted a gray whale off the New England coast last week, a species that has been extinct in the Atlantic for more than 200 years! 😮

More: bit.ly/49EydNl

#AerialSurvey #GrayWhale

On March 3, we were notified of a dead North Atlantic right whale stranded on Cumberland Island NS in Georgia. It was identified as the injured 2024 calf of right whale #1612 “Juno,' first seen on January 3, 2024, with serious injuries from a vessel strike: bit.ly/3iB1282

I’m sad to share that on March 3, NOAA Fisheries reported another dead North Atlantic #rightwhale in Georgia. It was identified as this vessel-struck calf 😥💔 at least it is not suffering any longer

More info here: bit.ly/3iB1282
Necropsy pending

This is not just an investment in #gradstudents , this is an investment in our future and our planet. 🌏🧬🐟🧑‍💻
Justin Trudeau and Chrystia Freeland please include more funding for young #science professionals in the 2024 budget!

Support Our Science #SupportOurScience

The perfect news for #WorldWhaleDay !! 🗞️🐋💙

Day 2 of the 5th annual Canadian Wildlife Federation #rightwhale stakeholders workshop. Today we are hearing from Alexandra Mayette about vessel strike risk & Fisheries and Oceans about #whale surveillance efforts 🚢🐋✈️