Once the sea turtle cold stun season is over, Wellfleet Audubon holds several necropsy sessions where all of the turtle carcasses, sometimes numbering into the hundreds, are examined and sampled.
The Northeast Fisheries Science Center recently completed an aerial survey of harbor seals along the entire coast of Maine, the first since 2012. A NOAA Twin Otter aircraft covered the area in six days, surveying nearly 1,000 locations during harbor
North Atlantic right whales are in crisis and will go extinct if the current population decline is not reversed. Learn how NOAA and partners use aerial surveys to get updates on individual whales in this Q&A with Tim Cole, an aerial survey researcher.
North Atlantic right whales are approaching extinction, and vessel strikes, also known as ship strikes, are a leading cause of their declining population. Explore the strategies and challenges of reducing these dangerous collisions in this Q&A.
