The Farewell
Today we pen our last blog and offload the R/V Falkor. The mood can best be described as despondent, as we are all very sad to...
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EBlimp
Getting the Lingo Down, and the Blimp Up
Today was another exciting day, full of marine mammal sightings and small boat operations. We spotted humpback whales, short-finned pilot whales (a target research species),...
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Carlos Waihrich
Sea Shanties and Ship Operations
Today was very eventful with continued DIDSON operations, small boat operations, acoustic sampling of additional areas for pilot whale echolocation activity (a.k.a. ‘clicking’), and more...
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Leighton Rolley
Successful Search Patterns
What a great morning to be a Marine Mammal Observer (MMO). After two gloomy days with nothing but our thoughts and a few humpback whales...
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Jessica Chen
Standing Watch
At 7:00 this morning on the R/V Falkor, we were feeling lucky, because we’ve entered better whale habitat as we've moved south. Our sharp-eyed marine mammal...
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Jessica Chen
Listen Carefully
We've completed the first full day of operations. The most exciting part of the day was shooting off an XBT, an expendable bathythermograph. This is...
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Jessica Chen
Whale Practice
Aloha from the sea! Today we cast off, leaving Honolulu to head toward Kona. The trip takes about 12 hours to complete sailing at 10...
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Jessica Chen
Training Day
The team has done lots of training to get ready for this cruise aboard Falkor. One week before embarking, the scientists involved in Marine Mammal Observations...
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Jessica Chen
Getting Ready
Aloha everyone to day one of our cruise blog. We were thrilled to board the vessel today--even arriving early, which is an accomplishment in itself...
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Jessica Chen
The Secret Lives of Whales
During the first of three student cruises, the team aboard RV Falkor answered questions about whales' decision-making process about how and where whales feed in the deep sea,while...
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