WHOI Featured Stories July 22, 2009Buoys Help Avert Whale-Ship Collisions Exploiting technology used to build better tires, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution engineers built a remarkable mooring line that was stable and quiet enough to detect whale calls, yet strong and stretchy enough to survive stormy seas. Source: Oceanus Magazine  June 20, 2007What Does It Take To Break a Whale? Graduate student Regina Campbell-Malone's research on the strength, flexibility, and breaking points of whale bones will help set vessel speed limits to prevent collisions that kill North Atlantic right whales. Source: Oceanus Magazine  March 29, 2006Caught in the Middle of the Marine Mammal Protection Act In the past few years, several research projects have been halted because of conflicting interpretations of the Marine Mammal Protection Act. Energy, shipping, and naval interests claim the MMPA hampers their ability to work in the sea. Environmentalists and animal rights advocates want the act strictly enforced. In between are scientists. Source: Oceanus Magazine  January 20, 2006To Find Whales, Follow Their Food WHOI biologist employs an array of tools to reveal right whale feeding habits and habitats. Source: Oceanus Magazine  January 19, 2006Diving into the Right Whale Gene Pool Like forensic detectives, a multi-institutional team of scientists has followed a thread of DNA from the highly endangered right whale population across the oceans and back through generations. Source: Oceanus Magazine  January 17, 2006Doing the Right Thing for the Right Whale The situation is urgent: Seventy years after whaling was banned, the North Atlantic right whale population has not recovered. Only 300 to 350 remain, and the species is headed toward extinction. (First of a series of three articles.) Source: Oceanus Magazine  August 25, 2005In and Out of Harm's Way No more than 350 North Atlantic right whales survive today, and ship strikes are a leading cause of death for them, which live near and migrate through high-traffic coastal waters. Researchers are proposing that the U.S. government adjust shipping lanes around some ports and slow ships in other East Coast waters. Source: Oceanus Magazine  March 16, 2005Playing Tag with Whales The challenge of designing a device to learn what marine mammals do on dives is the stuff of dreams for an electronics engineer. Source: Oceanus Magazine  March 16, 2005Run Deep, But Not Silent For the first time in history, we can accompany a whale on its dive, hear what it hears, and observe its normal, natural, previously hidden behavior in the depths. Working closely together, scientists and engineers have created an innovative new device—the digital acoustic recording tag, or D-tag. It attaches to a living whale and records nearly everything that happens on its dives, without disturbing the animal. Source: Oceanus Magazine  November 4, 2004Scientists Muster to Help Right Whales It is a sad irony that we have cataloged individual photographs of the remaining North Atlantic right whales and given each of them unique numbers and sometimes names, yet still know too little about their physiology, behavior, and habitats to take effective steps toward ensuring their survival as a species. Source: Oceanus Magazine  November 3, 2004Whither the North Atlantic Right Whale? "Today only a remnant of the population survives, no more than 350 whales clustered in calving and feeding grounds along the eastern seaboard of North America. Only occasional right whale sightings in the Gulf of St. Lawrence or in the waters between Iceland, Greenland, and Norway give echoes of their once substantially greater range. Source: Oceanus Magazine  November 1, 2004The Tale of the Whale Putting a population to the test.  November 1, 2004The North Atlantic Right Whale A species on the edge of extinction struggles to recover  November 1, 2004The Collision Course of Whales and Humans Ships and right whales are meeting too often at sea  November 1, 2004Oh, What a Tangled Web We Weave Fishing lines are snaring the unwanted bycatch  November 1, 2004A Slippery Rope An experiment in flossing with fishing line  November 1, 2004The Death of Churchill WHOI News Releases July 22, 2005Endangered North Atlantic Right Whale Study Says Population in Crisis Ship strikes and entanglement in fishing gear threaten the survival of the remaining 350 North Atlantic right whales, and scientists say that unless emergency management actions are taken the population will face a catastrophic decline and become extinct. Source: Media Relations  November 29, 2001Endangered North Atlantic Right Whale Study Shows Sharp Decline in Mothers Source: Media Relations  July 19, 2001Study to Assess Risk Factors of Vessel Collisions with Endangered Northern Right Whales Source: Media Relations Testimonies & Briefings October 4, 2006WHOI Scientists Provide Congressional Testimony Source: Oceanus Magazine WHOI Researchers, Labs, and Groups Mark Baumgartner» Visit Web site  Hal Caswell» Visit Web site  Mark Hahn» Visit Web site  Biography» Visit Web site  Michael Moore» Visit Web site  Peter Tyack» Visit Web site Video & Animation The North Atlantic Right WhaleDr. Michael Moore talks about the North Atlantic Right Whale and what the future may hold for this endangered charismatic species. » iPod compatible » MP3 (audio) » View Video (Quicktime) » View Video (Media Player) Other Sites We RecommendRelated whale groups, programs, and institutions
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