Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Michael Moore Front Page  |  Curriculum Vitae (external file)  |  Projects  |  Photo Gallery Projects » NOAA Prescott » Management of Stranded Marine Mammals » Right Whale Necropsy » Marine Mammal Diving Pathophysiology » Marine Vertebrate Zoonoses » Right Whale Collisions » Right Whale Health » MWRA » Sperm Whale Bone Project » Bone pathology » Large Whale Restraint Modelling Ship and Right Whale Interactions Collaborators: Regina Campbell-Malone, WHOI/MIT Graduate Student Ken Balwin and Igor Tsukrov, University of New Hampshire With support from NOAA Fisheries and the WHOI Ocean Life Institute we are using the lower jaw of the right whale as a test case, we are modelling the phsysical and material properties of blunt force collision between right whales and large ships. This should establish a better understanding of the force required for lethality in such a collision.   2008                Campbell-Malone, Barco S, Daoust, PY, Knowlton, A, McLellan W, Rotstein D, Moore M. Gross  and histologic evidence of sharp and blunt trauma in North Atlantic right whales (Eubalaena glacialis)  killed by ships. Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine vol. 39:37-55

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