On behalf of our research team working on behavioral response
studies of marine mammals in southern California (SOCAL-BRS), we
would like to announce the availability of our annual report from
the 2011 field season. Please go to: www.socal-brs.org and pull
down the page that says SOCAL-11 - you will find a link to the .pdf
right under the photo and header. We would like to especially thank
all of our team members for their hard work, as well as the support
of our research sponsors at the
U.S. Navy, Chief of Naval
Operations, Environmental Readiness Division (OPNAV N45) and the
Office of Naval Research. Thanks also for the efforts of NOAA’s
Office of Science and Technology and Office of Protected Resources,
the Southwest Regional Marine Mammal Stranding Network, the Channel
Islands National Marine Sanctuary, the fun and dedicated crew of the
M/V Truth from Truth Aquatics, the California Coastal
Commission, and the American Cetacean Society.
We are well into the analysis of both of the first two years of data
and have presented some of the preliminary results; peer-reviewed
publications from the SOCAL-BRS project we be forthcoming in the
coming months. We are planning a slightly modified field approach
in the summer and fall of 2012 - further information on these plans
will be available at socal.brs.org in early summer. We will again
provide the from-the-field blog when our fieldwork begins in late
July.
Brandon Southall (on behalf of the SOCAL-BRS team).
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Brandon L. Southall, Ph.D.
President, Senior Scientist, SEA, Inc.
Research Associate, University of California, Santa Cruz
9099 Soquel Drive, Suite 8, Aptos, CA 95003, USA
831.332.8744 (mobile); 831.661.5177 (office); 831.661.5178 (fax)
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