These reports highlight science activities and events from the U.S. Antarctic Marine Living Resources Program Field Camp at Cape Shirreff, Livingston Island, part of the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica
We provide the first comprehensive demographic assessment of the Endangered Mediterranean monk seal Monachus monachus population residing in the Madeira Archipelago to identify factors that may impede population growth.
To understand environmental factors influencing Hawaiian monk seal exposure to Toxoplasma gondii, we examined monk seal strandings from toxoplasmosis in relationship to location and rainfall patterns throughout the main Hawaiian Islands.
We use innovative passive acoustic technologies to study the behavior, movements and distribution of marine animals and their contribution to soundscape ecology. We also evaluate how man-made sounds affect marine animals.
The gear library is a collection of on-demand or “ropeless” systems, built with help and donations from environmental and academic organizations, that we lend to fishermen for testing.
We conduct surveys and develop abundance and distribution models to better understand how protected species such as whales, dolphins, and sea turtles use our waters.
Live encounter data provides the first complete set of survival rate estimates for the Endangered Mediterranean monk seal birth into adulthood, as well as the first age-specific reproductive rates for the species.
