Dolphin Monitoring
The use of telemetry (radio and satellite) allows individual dolphins to be consistently relocated over time, enabling detailed studies that evaluate habitat usage, behavioral ecology (how dolphins spend their time) and provides insight into dolphin social structure. These same methods in tandem or in addition to photo-identification methods are utilized to monitor dolphins that are […]
IRL Aerial Surveys
Hubbs-SeaWorld Research Institute is committed to monitoring cetacean populations and has been studying whales and dolphins in the Indian River Lagoon since the 1970’s when the first studies of these populations were initiated. Systematic long-term monitoring of abundance and distribution is essential to management and conservation and necessary to assess mortality trends and anthropogenic impacts for cetacean […]