We are collecting simultaneous water and biopsy samples from sperm #whales in project #eWHALE. Biopsy samples will serve to validate #eDNA obtained from water samples collected near the whales in the #Azores. Know more at ewhale.eu and follow eWHALE

We just finished a mission to test the acoustic system boing developed by project OCEAN. Ocean Navigation Awareness. Check out the official video of the mission: youtu.be/PpdyFc-oLoI

The Azores Whale Lab - Cetacean Ecology Group is happy to announce a recent paper on the evolution of fin whale songs in the North Atlantic published in eLife - the journal  Miriam Romagosa: Romagosa et al., 2024: doi.org/10.7554/eLife.…). Okeanos - UAc

On Tuesday morning (11th of June), the Azores Whale Lab - Cetacean Ecology Group joined the Eco-Encontros event at elementary school “Escola Básica Integrada da Horta (Faial)” for a fun and educational marine life art activity. Okeanos - UAc Daviana Berkowitz

In the afternoon (11th of June), the Azores Whale Lab - Cetacean Ecology Group headed to the high school “Escuela Secundaria Manuel de Arriaga” to present our work on understanding and protecting whales in the region, led by our colleague Daviana Berkowitz-Sklar Daviana Berkowitz Sergi Pérez Jorge Okeanos - UAc

Our study on fin whale food talk is mentioned in this month's National Geographic portuguese edition, on an interesting article about fin whales seen off the coast of Portugal royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.10… Miriam Romagosa Okeanos - UAc

On the 7th June, the Azores Whale Lab provided practical exercises on photo-id and bioacoustics to the Master’ students (University of the Azores). They had the opportunity to collect photo-id pictures of common dolphins and to acoustically detect and locate sperm whales