Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab

cetaceans

MGEL collaborates with New York State to correlate Acoustic and Visual Survey Data for Cetaceans 

The Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab is launching a new project partnering with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC). In 2020, the State of New York finished collecting three years of acoustic and visual data on large whales in state waters. MGEL will work on an analysis of this data, correlating the visual …

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New and Improved: Mapping Updated Biologically Important Areas for Cetaceans 

MGEL has played a large role in the mapping of Biologically Important Areas (BIAs) for cetaceans, a project that aims to expand on previous BIA work. This second iteration, BIA II, has resulted in a series of publications, four of which MGEL has contributed to. In this context, Biologically Important Areas represent areas and times …

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