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February 20th, 2021
MMS 75: Using satellite telemetry tags to examine foraging ecology and habitat use of sea lions
Dr. Michelle Lander talks about some of the highlights of her research using tags on pinnipeds, and about the difficulties of tracking animals that spend a large portion of their time underwater, in remote locations, in the ocean depths.
February 13th, 2021
MMS 74: Whales and shipping traffic
Dr. Ashley Scarlett talks to Dr. Luis Bedrinana-Romano about his team’s new paper on priority areas for blue whale conservation and the overlap with vessel traffic. They also talk about how their paper went viral on social media thanks to an informative animation they used.
February 06th, 2021
MMS 73: Mysterious manatees
January 30th, 2021
MMS 72: Watching fur seals out at sea
Dr. Ashley Scarlett talks to NOAA ecologist Carey Kuhn about her fascinating work on northern fur seal foraging ecology that integrates video cameras mounted on fur seals and prey mapping with unmanned surface vehicles (Saildrones). This technology has enabled Carey to fill in some of the long-missing information gaps there have been, about how seals feed out at sea.
January 24th, 2021
MMS 71: Scotland’s Celebrity Whales of the Sea
Dr. Ashley Scarlett talks to Lauren Hartny-Mills, about two much-loved, famous fins that visit the west coast of Scotland, Knobble the minke whale and John Coe the killer whale, and the key role citizen science has played in understanding the movements of these two celebrity whales.