Spent the last few days setting up our new rib "Albi" which will use to survey white-beaked & bottlenose dolphins off Northumberland. Had 15+ bottlenose greet us on or first sea trial outside Blyth harbour! Very promising, will bring proper camera equipment next time.

Went out to deploy a hydrophone near Newbiggin today and got our first #WhiteBeakedDolphin sighting off Blyth. We'll be back out again tomorrow! #Northumberland NCL Marine

Another shot of our sighting yesterday #WhiteBeakedDolphin #Northumberland

Pictures of the team at work on Newcastle University ‘s research vessel Albi, collecting audio, image and video data for projects that span computer science, engineering & marine biology Engineering at Newcastle NCL Marine @computingncl CDT in Cloud Computing for Big Data #cetaceans #conservation #bigdata

Teaming up with Billy Shiel to increase our chances of collecting data! Both Newcastle University ‘s vessel Albi and the vessel up at Seahouses will be out regularly. Yesterday’s trip was a huge success! Matt Sharpe Per Berggren Nick Wright Cameron Georgia Atkinson Ben Burville

Had a great sighting of bottlenose dolphins from Whitburn heading North this morning. Here they are showing off near Tynemouth

Beautiful white beaked #dolphin off #Northumberland coast Leading research into this species with PhD student Matt Sharpe & the Newcastle University team Per Berggren Nick Wright NCL Marine Cameron @KN_Richardson Thanks to boat operator William Shiel Billy Shiel