Antarctic Foraging Ecology
Collaborative Research: Antarctic humpback whales – fine scale foraging behavior, trophic dynamics and predator-prey ecology This research uses a combination of state-of-the-art technology and a multidisciplinary approach to test specific hypotheses regarding interactions among the environment, krill, and Megaptera novaeangliae …
CMSP and Ocean Energy
GIS Coordination for the UNC Coastal Wind Power Study and Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Bird and Wildlife Use and Fishing Activity in Eastern Pamlico Sound and the Coastal Ocean in Northern Raleigh Bay and Eastern Onslow Bay At the request …
Global Fisheries Conservation
Over-exploitation of the world’s fish resources has caused serious decline in fish populations, and there is widespread concern that the world oceans will be unable to supply fish products for future generations. Given the importance of marine fisheries for food …
OBIS-SEAMAP - Protected Species Database
OBIS-SEAMAP (seamap.env.duke.edu) is a spatially and temporally interactive online database for marine protected species, collecting data from ship/aerial surveys and satellite telemetry as well as acoustic monitoring and PhotoID around the globe. This 10-year service is made possible by contributions from …
OBIS-SEAMAP Acoustics
Expansion of OBIS-SEAMAP for Passive Acoustic Monitoring Data In collaboration with Melissa Soldevilla (SEFSC), J Hildebrand (Scripps), C Clark (Cornell), S Van Parijs (NEFSC) To deal with diverse methods for the detection, classification and localization of passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) …
Regional Fisheries
Spatio-Temporal Analyses of Bycatch in the New England Groundfish Fishery New England’s transition to catch share management, via sectors, has created an incentive for fishermen to reduce interactions with non-target species, which they previously discarded under days-at-sea management. For the …
Global Ocean Biodiversity Initiative
Informing global intergovernmental efforts to sustainably manage and conserve biodiversity Funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation, and the Belgian Federal Government. The Global Ocean Biodiversity Initiative (GOBI) is an international partnership advancing …
State of the World’s Sea Turtles
State of the World’s Sea Turtles SWOT — the State of the World’s Sea Turtles — is a partnership led by the Marine Species Flagship Program at the Oceanic Society, Conservation International, and the IUCN Marine Turtle Specialist Group, and …
Census of Marine Life Mapping & Visualization
A New Map of Ocean Life The Census of Marine Life was a global network of researchers in more than 80 nations engaged in a 10-year scientific initiative to assess and explain the diversity, distribution, and abundance of life …
NOAA Cetacean Density and Distribution Mapping Working Group
As part of the NOAA Cetacean Density and Distribution Mapping Working Group, MGEL is developing a cetacean data gap analysis to spatially and temporally determine where data needed to build distribution models are lacking. This analysis will be used to …
Tools for Marine GIS
Marine Geospatial Ecology Tools (MGET) is a free, open-source geoprocessing toolbox that can help you solve a wide variety of marine research, conservation, and spatial planning problems. MGET can perform tasks such as: Downloading and converting oceanographic data into GIS …
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