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Scientists Use Bioacoustics to Protect Marine Mammals

Marine mammals such as whales, dolphins, and seals have an amazing ability to hold...

Personal Perspectives

Listening for Clues About Sonar’s Effects on Marine Mammals

Many animals depend on their eyes to navigate, find food, locate mates, and for...

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Seeing with Sound: Acoustic monitoring of beaked whales

When compared to dolphins and large baleen whales, beaked whales lose a bit of the...

Article

Saving Sharks and Dolphins, Near and Far

Sophi Bromenshenkel is an unlikely shark-lover. She's eight years old and hails...

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Splash – Monitoring Humpback Whales

Students learn the importance of monitoring endangered marine mammals like humpback...

Lesson Plan

Collision Course

Students analyze maps of shipping lanes and whale sightings to devise a new...

Personal Perspectives

Plastic Trash Plagues the Ocean

Once upon a time, the ocean was considered the last place where we could still find...

Personal Perspectives

World Heritage Goes Marine

Last week, the United Nations’ World Heritage Convention went blue. Two of the...

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Struggling to Survive, But with a Chance to Thrive

Progress for Eight Endangered Ocean Creatures From snails to whales,...

Lesson Plan

WebQuest: Sensory Biology and the Plight of the Right Whales

This lesson introduces high school students (grades 9-12) to the topic of sensory...

Lesson Plan

The Best Hope for Northern Right Whales

Students engage in a simulation to see how whales can have trouble avoiding ships....

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Net Results

Students will study and replicate a model of the factors affecting fisheries...