New Dolphin and Whale Sightings Added
New Dolphin and Whale Sightings Added
Posted May 29, 2020562 new marine mammal sightings are now available through PacIOOS Voyager. Observations were collected around the Hawaiian Islands by Robin Baird and his team from Cascadia Research Collective between February 2013 and November 2018. The data set includes 7 dolphin species (bottlenose, Fraser’s, pantropical spotted, Risso’s, rough-toothed, spinner, and striped) and 13 whale species (Blainville’s beaked, Cuvier’s beaked, dwarf sperm, false killer, fin, humpback, killer, Kogia, melon-headed, pygmy killer, pygmy sperm, short-finned pilot, and sperm).