{"id":95064,"date":"2019-04-23T14:29:30","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T00:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=95064"},"modified":"2020-05-08T11:19:13","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T21:19:13","slug":"manoa-mmrp-whale-sightings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2019\/04\/23\/manoa-mmrp-whale-sightings\/","title":{"rendered":"Decline in humpback whale sightings examined in UH<\/abbr> collaboration"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>
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Mother humpback and calf.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Marine Mammal Research Program<\/a> (MMRP<\/abbr>) at the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Mānoa<\/a> and UH<\/abbr> Hilo<\/a> collaborated earlier this year with other groups to quantify the bioenergetic demands of humpback whales migrating between Alaskan foraging grounds and Hawaiian breeding grounds.<\/p>\n

MMRP<\/abbr> doctoral students at the Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Institute of Marine Biology<\/a> in the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology<\/a> (SOEST<\/abbr>) will apply expertise in utilizing drones and leading technology to measure whales.<\/p>\n

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With colleague Jens Currie, Lars Bejder releases a drone to study humpback whales off Maui. Photo credit: HIMB<\/abbr> Marine Mammal Research Program<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Other participants were the Pacific Whale Foundation<\/a>, University of Alaska Fairbanks and Alaska Whale Foundation.<\/p>\n

“This unique collaboration has provided excellent opportunities to sample a high number of humpback whales early and late in the breeding season and across different age categories,” said Lars Bejder<\/strong>, MMRP<\/abbr> director. “The 2019 Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> sampling season is done for the year, and we will return to Maui from January to March 2020.”<\/p>\n

Based on a joint press release with the Pacific Whale Foundation.<\/em><\/p>\n

—By Marcie Grabowski<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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