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Full Title: Long-term Assessments of Rice’s Whales for Endangered Species Recovery Planning This project will use passive acoustic monitoring, physical oceanographic data, and acoustic tracking arrays to quantify relationships between trends in relative Rice’s whale density, oceanographic factors, and ambient noise to enhance understanding of the whale’s ecology and reduce uncertainty, improve management outcomes, and … Continue reading
Full Title: Co-producing a conceptual model to support assessments of cumulative effects from multiple stressors on Houston area dolphins under CERCLA and OPA Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA) decision makers will evaluate whether or not to pursue NRDA claims that include restoration of Houston area bottlenose dolphins potentially injured by releases of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) … Continue reading
Full Title: Creating Secure Warm-Water Habitat Networks for Manatees along Florida’s Gulf Coast: Developing a Vision, Identifying Gaps, and Prioritizing Restoration Sites This project prioritized efforts to restore, enhance, and create warm-water habitats in order to provide a network of thermal shelters for manatees along Florida’s Gulf Coast. Lead Investigator: Charles Deutsch, Florida Fish & … Continue reading
Full Title: Developing a research framework to support assessments of cumulative effects from multiple stressors on dolphins in the Houston area under CERCLA and OPA This project established a collaborative working group to scope and design an evaluation framework for the assessment and restoration of Gulf marine mammals in the face of multiple stressors. Lead … Continue reading
Full Title: Assessing Long-term Trends and Processes Driving Variability in Cetacean Density throughout the Gulf using Passive Acoustic Monitoring and Habitat Modeling This project characterizes seasonal, annual, and decadal trends in marine mammal species in the Gulf and assesses the role of ocean conditions and human activities in driving these trends. The Team: Melissa S. … Continue reading
Full Title: Trophic Interactions and Habitat Requirements of Gulf of Mexico Rice’s Whales This project developed a comprehensive ecological understanding of Rice’s whales, including the physical, oceanographic, and biological features defining critical habitat and their ecological role in Gulf of Mexico marine food webs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvZjuUcW89c The Team: Lance P. Garrison (Lead Investigator, NOAA, lance.garrison@noaa.gov) Melissa … Continue reading
Full Title: Assessment of movement patterns and critical habitat for coastal and continental shelf small cetaceans in the Gulf of America using newly developed remote satellite tagging techniques: Part 2 This project developed a new and innovative approach for attaching satellite tags to small cetaceans without having to capture them. The Team: Michael Moore and … Continue reading