Song of the Whale and team has just arrived back in Beaufort, North Carolina, having completed the first cruise of MAPs – the Marine Mammal Passive Acoustics and Spatial Ecology project.
For the next few months, Song of the Whale and team are based in Beaufort, North Carolina, close to Duke Marine Lab, conducting research off North and South Carolina. MAPS, a cooperative agreement between the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) and University of North Carolina-Wilmington (UNCW) in partnership with Duke University, aims to study the distribution and behaviour of marine mammals there; the main focus is deep diving species in the offshore waters of the US Outer Continental Shelf, along the shelf and shelf break as well as deep ocean waters.
The project brings together a diverse team of people, including scientists from the University of North Carolina Wilmington, Duke University and Aarhus University, the MCR team with R/V Song of the Whale and the public – citizen science is a vital part of the project and a new app is under development to enable the public to contribute valuable data to the project.
Follow the team and find out more about the project on National Geographic Open Explorer and at www.duke.edu/oceansmart and MAPS@duke.edu
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