Amazing! I hear only great things about New Zealand - people and wildlife! Hopefully Iβll get over there at some point!
Amazing! I hear only great things about New Zealand - people and wildlife! Hopefully Iβll get over there at some point!
Other physical differences include their beak length, dorsal fin shape, and overall size. Theyβre related at the subfamily level (Delphininae) but are in different genuses.
Cover of βGuide to marine mammals of the worldβ with illustrated common dolphin
Theyβre different! AWSD span the North Atlantic and have a yellowish patch between their dorsal fin and tail. Common dolphins can be found in most oceans and have an hourglass shape on their sides (illustrated version on the cover of my fav field guide!)
Humpback whale in mid-breach
Atlantic white-sided dolphins
It was an exciting day out on the bank today! I saw my all-time favorite whale (Pitcher) who started breaching and flipper slapping during our trip, and found a pod of Atlantic white-sided dolphins on the way back home π¬
#StellwagenBank #MarineLife #HumpbackWhale #Dolphins
Saltβs fluke
Saltβs world-famous dorsal fin
The Grande Dame of Stellwagen Bank has returned! Salt is the first named and most well studied of the GoM humpback population and inspired 50+ years of whale research and conservation. Weβre very excited to see her back again at her summer home!
#Salt #HumpbackWhale #StellwagenBank #MarineLife
Humpback whale ventral pleats expanded and rostrum in the air after a lunge feed
Humpback whale fluke about to go below the water
Humpback dorsal fin breaking the surface with a container ship behind it
Itβs still a little crazy to me that whales hang out so close Boston. And Iβm so grateful I get to see them all the time ππ¦
Front body and dorsal fin of a Fin whale
Humpback whale rostrum sticking out of the water with blowhole visible as seagulls fly around it
A Mola mola laying just below the surface of the water
Got some great looks yesterday at a few fin whales, lots of feeding humpbacks, and this big old Mola hanging out at the surface in #StellwagenBank #whales π¦
#addOcean please π¦
I've wanted to write this article for years. About my and other's struggles to even survive sometime in #academia. Thank you to the amazing editors at @plosbiology.org that gave me the forum to write this piece. #science
My New England Aquarium name tag reads βCoretta Naturalistβ
Photo of a gull from below against a solid blue sky
A humpback whale mid-breach
A fluke of one humpback whale to the left of another whaleβs blow
Up to something new π
π MAJOR OCEAN WIN! π’ UK Government commits to ratifying the High Seas Treaty (aka the BBNJ) by the end of the year, as confirmed by Ocean Minister @emmahardymp.bsky.social at the UN Ocean Conference just now π
#OceanProtection #UNOC3 #UNOC2025 #OceanWin
@oceana.bsky.social @hugotagholm.bsky.social
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#jobopportunity #seabird #ornithology
A photo of the lecture theater with the projection screen displaying the reef conservation UK logo on the left and Coretta standing at a podium on the right
Name badge from conference reads Coretta Granberry - ZSL - Committee
It was such a great experience to be on the #RCUK2024 committee!
Massive thanks to everyone who was able to come and make the day so special. From sea fireflies to creating a coral biobank, there was so much more to learn in coral science and conservation!
Honoured to be a plenary speaker at #ReefConsUK this year!
Excited to share insights from a decade of studying & conserving fish #spawningaggregations in #India in my talk titled:
"Site-fidelity: place-based ecology and the case of the squaretail groupers"
π£Newly launched 30x30 Southeast Asia Ocean Fund accepting expression of interest for π΅20-500K grants on a rolling basis. #OceanOptimism asiacf.org/30x30Fund
Share your blue art! ππ«§
#SciArt #paleoart #artbyjulio
A photo of NHM Londonβs specimen PV OR 14954, an upper left canine of Homotherium latidens.
In honour of this insane Homotherium cub news, hereβs a lovely H. latidens canine we have at NHM London, one of the first discovered in England and among those used by Richard Owen to describe the species in 1846.
Happy #FossilFriday!
Join us at #RCUK2024 at ZSL London on 30th November!
Last tickets still available, for details and how to register see www.reefconservationuk.org/rcuk-2024.html
Hope to see some of you there!
I love spotted eagle rays. Love them!
#MarineLife
Cover from The Economist from two years ago "Say goodbye to 1.5Β°C; why climate policy is off target". It has a graphic of the Earth with an apple on its head, and a arrow shot through the Earth.
A gentle reminder that if we miss the 1.5Β°C target (and we certainly will), the next target is 1.51Β°C and not 2Β°C. We need to keep fighting.
Every tonne of COβ emitted makes the job of future COβ removal harder, and every 0.01Β°C of temperature increase makes the world more chaotic and dangerous.
π #PhD opportunity π Study seabirds & fish on the beautiful Isles of Scilly with Dr Alice Trevail, Dr Richard Sherley & Dr Kristian Metcalfe at @uniofexeter.bsky.social to maximise conservation gains!
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