Sustained Monitoring of Whales at South Georgia
This project is creating a long-term framework for monitoring whale numbers and behaviour.
Stephanie Martin
Coordinator South Georgia Humpback Project
Morley, S., Campanella, F., Baylis, A., Barnes, D., Bell, J., Bennison, A., Collins, M., Glass, T., Martin, S., Whomersley, P., Young, E., & Schofield, A. (2024). Fisheries acoustic data, whale and bird data from two transits from the Falkland Islands to Tristan da Cunha during March 2018 (RRS James Clark Ross) and March 2019 (RRS Discovery) (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/db06c590-4f6d-4a8a-9b8c-ce45204103c1
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South Georgia’s Lost Giants
Read more of: South Georgia’s Lost GiantsSouth Georgia’s Lost Giants is part of the British Antarctic Survey’s “Wild Water Whales” project studying the recovery of whales from historical exploitation in South Georgia.
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Hungry Humpbacks
Read more of: Hungry HumpbacksHungry Humpbacks studied how humpback whales, the largest predators of krill in the region, fed at South Georgia.
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Field Update from Cumberland Bay Acoustic Moorings Deployment
Read more of: Field Update from Cumberland Bay Acoustic Moorings DeploymentIn January, we finally deployed two of the acoustic moorings in Cumberland Bay. This was after almost a year and a half in delays mainly due to large icebergs in the area.
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Scientists study whales and fish to protect South Georgia’s marine ecosystem
Read more of: Scientists study whales and fish to protect South Georgia’s marine ecosystemscientists are focusing on two major projects: one on whales and their consumption of krill (a shrimp-like creature that’s abundant in the Southern Ocean), and another on populations of bottom-dwelling fish.
