Tweets from the field: tracking families of sperm whales since 2005.
Dominica, West Indies
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Working with @DOMFisheries and @DominicaStateCo early on to create experiential learning opportunities on the water through our research has grown dramatically into the amazing @ProjectCETI Fellowships in collaboration with @InsideNatGeo!
Meet the first team of Fellows!
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⭐️OPEN PHD POSITION: Communication & collective action in spotted hyenas⭐️
Come work with us to analyze high-res GPS, audio, & IMU data from an entire hyena clan, currently being collected @MaraHyenas!
Apply by 16 Dec 2022: imprs-qbee.mpg.de/54728/PhD-…
How huge are sperm whales?
Now we know thanks to work by @mglarou and team!
How to weigh a sperm whale without a scale? Check out our latest #openaccess article published in #MarineMammalScience:
➡️onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… @marinemammalogy
Many thanks to @FChristiansen83 & our collaborators at @DomWhale, Pelagos Cetacean Research Institute, @ATursiops 👏🏻
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Today: @sgero of @DomWhale, @projectceti, and @Carleton_U joins to talk about sperm whales, their language, and their culture. And makes me want to go to Dominica. 4pm on @CKCUFM or stream it now: cod.ckcufm.com/programs/507/…
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A study finds that certain acoustic communication signals—“identity codas”—function as symbolic markers of cultural identity among Pacific Ocean sperm whale clans. In @PopSci: ow.ly/pFjc50KO4Or In PNAS: ow.ly/2pPT50KO4Oq
Sperm whale researchers from across the #Pacific team up to understand how cultural clans of whales broadcast their identity!
We’ll done @taylorahersh and team!
1/10) Very happy to announce that our new paper is out in @PNASNews! We show evidence that sperm whale clans in the Pacific Ocean use identity codas as symbolic markers of vocal clan identity. Read the paper at: doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2201692…
Great new science from Dr. @_fvachon and her team about the sperm whale clans in the Eastern #Caribbean
Ocean nomads or island specialists? Culturally driven habitat partitioning contrasts in scale between geographically isolated sperm whale populations: ow.ly/mupS50Kl3GO @_fvachon @taylorahersh @_lrendell @sgero #RSOS #ecology
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New view, same whale families!
Stay tuned for the adventures of the @ProjectCETI summer season
#MangoHouse
The Dominica Sperm Whale Project retweeted
On #WorldOceansDay, Project CETI Dominica teams up with local artist omtni president of kubuliarts to raise awareness about the importance of the ocean and the biodiversity therein.
ALT Calibishie, Dominica
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Project CETI Dominica's Marine Conservation Fellowship
We have extended the deadline to the 20th June, 2022.
Watch this video to learn about results of @_fvachon sperm whale surveys across the Lesser Antilles
Video abstract by the very talented @SackettMeredith (@art4ascientist ) 😊: youtube.com/watch?v=fyE5kcwJ…
Felicia’s amazing work showing the way that spent whale clans in the eastern Caribbean have smaller home ranges and prefer specific islands!
First PhD chapter published in RS Open Science! with
@taylorahersh @_lrendell @sgero and H.Whitehead!
"Ocean nomads or island specialists? Culturally driven habitat partitioning contrasts in scale between geographically isolated sperm whale populations"
royalsocietypublishing.org/d…
The Dominica Sperm Whale Project retweeted
We made a thing! “The Whale Who Swam Through Time” explores the 200-year life of a bowhead whale, and the changing arctic environment that surrounds here. This latest collab w/ @PyensonLab was truly a dream project, and I can’t wait to share it! Preorder: barnesandnoble.com/w/the-wha…
All of the whale families we study are on @Flukebook.
If you are in #Dominica and take pictures of the whales, please contribute by sharing your pictures through Flukebook.
Your pictures could help to better understand the whale families movements and habitat use!
We have finally formalized Flukebook in a published methods paper in Mammalian Biology Special Issue: link.springer.com/article/10…
We’ll done @WildMeORG!!
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#WorldWhaleDay: Meet Explorer Shane Gero, who hopes to create a new dialogue around the conservation of whale populations that is about more than just numbers on.natgeo.com/3h3CuzW
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As part of @ProjectCETI's efforts to understand sperm whale communication, our Exploration Technology Lab is developing a custom Crittercam that will capture advanced low-light video of sperm whale behavior! #WorldWhaleDay
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Whales have been great stewards of the ocean environment for more than 30 million years, & our understanding of them has only touched the surface. 🐋 Follow @ProjectCETI & #NatGeoExplorers David Gruber, @sgero, & Robert Wood on their journey to decode whale communication.
The Dominica Sperm Whale Project retweeted
Did you know? @ProjectCETI (Cetacean Translation Initiative) is using advanced machine learning and gentle robotics to interpret the communication of one of the world’s most enigmatic ocean species: the sperm whale! #WorldWhaleDay Photos by Amanda Cotton
The Dominica Sperm Whale Project retweeted
Excited for this chat with @AllPlanets and @EllenGarland4 next week!
Don’t forget to register!
@ProjectCETI @InsideNatGeo @DomWhale @CarletonBiology
Next #SETITalks event: Whales, their song, their culture
Tue, Feb 15, 11:00 AM PST
We invited @EllenGarland4 and @sgero to describe their research and discuss the culture of whales, the understanding of their song, and @ProjectCETI.
Register to attend: buff.ly/3IZSlvB
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This is going to really fun! Join @EllenGarland4 and @SETIInstitute and I for a chat about whales:
seti.org/event/seti-talks-wh…