[SEMCO] Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution - Know Your Ocean Science Chats - Tracking Humpback Whales in Antarctica

[Karen E Johnson]

Please join our speaker Daniel Zitterbart, Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering Department, while he talks about “Tracking Humpback Whales in Antarctica”.
Humpbacks migrate thousands of miles to their feeding ground in the Southern Ocean, yet nothing is known about how these whales find the krill that they consume. WHOI scientists joined an expedition aboard cruise ship Polar Latitudes to study the feeding habits of humpback whales on the Antarctic Peninsula. Using Zodiacs to get close enough to the whales to attach digital recording tags, his team logged whales’ diving and feeding behaviors. They also used fish-finding acoustic systems to correlate the location of the whales with their prey. Learn their findings from this research, accompanied by stunning images of Antarctica, humpback whales, and other sea life encountered in the majestic southern continent. To learn more about our upcoming Know Your Ocean Science Chats visit us at https://www.whoi.edu/who-we-are/visit-whoi/events-happenings/know-your-ocean-science-chats/. The chat will be held at our at Ocean Science Discovery Center at 15 School Street on Tuesday, July 23 at 3 p.m.


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