Sep 20, 2023 | PRESS
Dr. Jooke Robbins, Director of the Center’s Humpback Whale Studies Program, is co-author of a new study published today in the journal PLOS ONE, “Vulnerability to climate change of United States marine mammal stocks in the western North Atlantic, Gulf of...
Sep 1, 2023 | PRESS
An international team of marine scientists, led by the University of Groningen in the Netherlands and the Center for Coastal Studies in the USA, has studied the DNA of family groups from four different whale species to estimate their mutation rates. The results...
May 9, 2019 | PRESS
May 9, 2019 Northern Arizona University Good genes: Researchers break down DNA of world’s largest mammals to discover how whales defy the cancer odds Contact: Heidi Toth (928) 523-8737 heidi.toth@nau.edu Scientists know that age and weight are risk factors in the...
Nov 12, 2018 | PRESS
Press Release from IWC October 30, 2018 From today, an online handbook will equip anyone who wants to go whale watching with places to go and questions to ask. A collaboration between the International Whaling Commission and the Convention on Migratory Species, the...
Dec 2, 2017 | PRESS
December 2, 2017 Humpback whales are not only making a splash along the beaches of Long Island and New Jersey; they have also been sighted inside New York harbor. A recent study found that humpback whale numbers are increasing inside the New York-New Jersey harbor...
