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Learning from the losses

January 3, 2007

Summer Student Fellow Maya Yamato measures the head of a minke whale–Balaenoptera acutorostrata–that WHOI researchers were asked to investigate in the new necropsy lab at WHOI’s Marine Research Facility.  WHOI biologists contribute to several regional and national efforts to understand what causes deaths to marine mammals. (Photo by Tom Kleindinst, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)