By Amanda Bradford, Marie Hill, and Kym Yano PIFSC Cetacean Research Program Once used mostly for military purposes, unmanned aircraft systems (UASs, aka drones) are becoming increasingly popular...
https://pifscblog.wordpress.com/2018/02/19/from-the-ground-up/
By Karin Forney HICEAS Cruise Leader In our last update on the progress of the Hawaiian Islands Cetacean and Ecosystem Assessment Survey (HICEAS), the NOAA Ship Reuben Lasker had finished three o...
https://pifscblog.wordpress.com/2017/12/29/hiceas-2017-is-complete/
By Erin Oleson and Amanda Bradford HICEAS Chief Scientist and HICEAS Cruise Leader One of the primary goals for a ship-based survey like the Hawaiian Islands Cetacean and Ecosystem Assessment Sur...
https://pifscblog.wordpress.com/2017/12/22/false-killer-whales-going-through-a-phase/
By Shannon Coates and Mark Cotter HICEAS Lead Acoustician and HICEAS Cetacean Observer With the the Hawaiian Islands Cetacean and Ecosystem Assessment Survey (HICEAS) of 2017 winding down, we wer...
https://pifscblog.wordpress.com/2017/12/20/dolphin-dinosaurs-still-exist/
By Jim Carretta HICEAS Cruise Leader When we last checked in on the progress of the Hawaiian Islands Cetacean and Ecosystem Assessment Survey (HICEAS), one of the two NOAA ships involved in the s...
https://pifscblog.wordpress.com/2017/12/13/from-two-ships-to-one/
By Lauren Jacobsen HICEAS Visiting Scientist Lauren is a Lab Associate with the Bioacoustics Research Program at Cornell University and practices veterinary medicine in western New York. She part...
https://pifscblog.wordpress.com/2017/12/08/studying-a-cryptic-species-by-edna/
By Paula Olson and Shannon Coates HICEAS Lead Observer and HICEAS Lead Acoustician One of the joys of participating in offshore surveys like the Hawaiian Islands Cetacean and Ecosystem Assessment...
https://pifscblog.wordpress.com/2017/12/05/dolphins-from-the-outer-limits/
By Marie Hill and Eric Archer HICEAS Cruise Leaders Following up on the last progress report of the Hawaiian Islands Cetacean and Ecosystem Assessment Survey (HICEAS) of 2017, we have completed a...
By Rachel Holton and Amanda Bradford PIFSC Young Scientist Opportunity Intern and HICEAS Cruise Leader While the Hawaiian Islands Cetacean and Ecosystem Assessment Survey (HICEAS) focuses on dete...
https://pifscblog.wordpress.com/2017/11/24/hiceas-seabird-observers/
By Ann Allen and Jennifer Keating HICEAS Acoustician and HICEAS Lead Acoustician What is a DASBR? In a previous Hawaiian Islands Cetacean and Ecosystem Assessment Survey (HICEAS) blog post (Eaves...
By Amanda Bradford and Jeff Moore HICEAS Cruise Leaders When we last checked in on the progress of the Hawaiian Islands Cetacean and Ecosystem Assessment Survey (HICEAS), the first leg of HICEAS ...
https://pifscblog.wordpress.com/2017/11/13/the-hiceas-adventures-continue/
By Suzanne Yin and Andrea Bendlin HICEAS Lead Cetacean Observers Disclaimer: Biologists, like other groups of people, have a lingo that we use in our daily work. Just like “a slice to go” m...
https://pifscblog.wordpress.com/2017/10/04/the-longmans-beaked-whale-aka-indopacetus/
By Joe Fader and Seth Sykora-Bodie HICEAS Visiting Scientists Joe and Seth are 3rd-year PhD students at Duke University Marine Lab in Beaufort, North Carolina, and each participated on a leg of...
https://pifscblog.wordpress.com/2017/09/27/from-graduate-studies-in-beaufort-north-carolina/
By Ali Bayless HICEAS Acoustician The objective of the NOAA Ship Oscar Elton Sette is simple: provide a platform to conduct research for the Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center. The long hou...
https://pifscblog.wordpress.com/2017/09/14/making-science-happen/
By Amy Van Cise HICEAS Cetacean Observer It didn’t take many days into the ongoing Hawaiian Islands Cetacean and Ecosystem Assessment Survey (HICEAS) to see short-finned pilot whales (Globiceph...
https://pifscblog.wordpress.com/2017/09/08/the-secret-lives-of-short-finned-pilot-whales/
By Erin Oleson HICEAS Chief Scientist The Hawaiian Islands Cetacean and Ecosystem Assessment Survey (HICEAS) of 2017 is a huge effort. The study area covers over 1.8 million square nautical miles...
https://pifscblog.wordpress.com/2017/09/06/first-leg-of-hiceas-is-complete/
By Hope Ronco, Helena Dodge, and Kristen Tovar Laysan Island has approximately 250 resident Hawaiian monk seals, which is the most of all the islands and atolls in the archipelago. When we arrive...
Keelan B. and Brittany D. comprised our monk seal team at Lisianski Island. This is the only camp that has only two field researchers making it critical that they get along and can work togethe...
This morning the sun rose into a clear blue sky, the wind gently tousled the flags on the ship’s masts, and the sea rolled slow and steady with barely a ripple on the surface. These are perfe...
By Amanda Bradford and Rachel Holton HICEAS Cruise Leader and PIFSC Young Scientist Opportunity Intern When Staci DeSchryver–an Oceanography, Meteorology, and Earth Science teacher at Cherokee ...
https://pifscblog.wordpress.com/2017/08/21/sea-salty-memories-for-life/
Jessie Bohlander On June 29th, 2017, for reasons we will never know, Rocky (RH58), a 17 year old female Hawaiian monk seal decided to have her tenth pup at one of her favorite haul out sites on O...
https://pifscblog.wordpress.com/2017/08/18/rocky-and-kaimana/
We know that fishing is important to you and is an important part of Hawai‘i’s culture. We also know that money spent on fishing is important to the Hawai‘i economy. You spend money every t...
By Adam Ü and Paula Olson HICEAS Cetacean Observer and HICEAS Lead Cetacean Observer The killer whale (Orcinus orca) may be the most recognizable marine mammal on the planet thanks to its striki...
https://pifscblog.wordpress.com/2017/08/01/killer-whales-in-the-tropics/
A day in the life of a cetacean acoustician By Shannon Coates and Rachel Holton HICEAS Lead Acoustician and PIFSC Young Scientist Opportunity Intern Early mornings–late evenings–listening som...
https://pifscblog.wordpress.com/2017/07/28/eavesdropping-on-the-ocean/
By Stacie Robinson What does “aaaaaaaaaaggaattgtgaagactatat” mean to you? To the scientists of NOAA’s Hawaiian Monk Seal Research Program, it means the beginning of a new era of conservat...
https://pifscblog.wordpress.com/2017/07/27/benny-and-the-genes/