Dear colleagues, On behalf of my co-authors, I am delighted to share our new Note published in Marine Mammal Science showing that UAVs flown by professional pilots can collect breath samples from killer whales with little impact: Lo, C. F., Nollens, H. H., Nollens, B. A., Sears, M., Hanson, M. B., Weiss, M. N., Sheppard, J., Welch, C., Friel, R., & Gaydos, J. K. (2024). Behavioral responses of Bigg's and Southern Resident killer whales (Orcinus orca) to uncrewed aerial vehicle-based breath sample collection. Marine Mammal Science, e13192. Please find this publication available open access through the following link: https://doi.org/10.1111/mms.13192 You can find a short digest about the paper in our recent blog post here: https://www.seadocsociety.org/blog/studying-how-killer-whales-respond-to-the... Best Regards, Catherine Catherine Lo (she/her/hers) Research Assistant SeaDoc Society www.seadocsociety.org<http://www.seadocsociety.org/> [cid:55d8dd3d-dda1-4ac4-b21b-7fa7f3e00211]
