Cetacean monitoring in the Mariana Islands Range Complex, 2015

Authors :: Hill, Marie C. (Marie Chapla)
Oleson, Erin M. (Erin Marie), ǂd 1977
Baumann-Pickering, Simone
Van Cise, Amy M.
Ligon, Allan D.
Bendlin, Andrea R.
Ü, Adam C.
Trickey, Jennifer S.
Bradford, Amanda L.
Publication Year :: 2016
Publisher :: U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service, Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, 2016.
Abstract: This report includes a summary of the most recent visual surveys that were conducted in the winter (February–March) and summer (August–September) of 2015, the movements of a false killer whale (Pseudorca crassidens) that were satellite tagged during the PIFSC Mariana Archipelago Cetacean Survey in May–June, 2015, the results of nuclear and mitochondrial analysis of short-finned pilot whale samples collected during small-boat surveys of the southernmost Mariana islands (2011–2014), and analysis of beaked whale occurrence long-term passive acoustic data set for 2014–15. Analyses of acoustic data for baleen whales are still underway and will be reported at a later time.