by jstepanuk | Jun 30, 2020 | Uncategorized
The Thorne lab has been diligently searching the New York Bight for humpback whales since mid-May. After a few days of wishfully scanning the horizon, we finally had three epic survey days filled with humpback whales! We found our first whales very close to shore...
by Melinda Conners | Jun 25, 2020 | Uncategorized
We’re very excited to have completed the first season of albatross research at Bird Island, a remote seabird and seal colony in the sub-Antarctic. Research scientist and seabirder extraordinaire Dr. Rachael Orben set out in late November 2019 for the British...
by eheywood | Jun 18, 2020 | Uncategorized
It has been a busy year for our ocean monitoring project in the New York Bight! The project, funded by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, is an interdisciplinary multi-trophic level project that provides key information on the status of the...
by Kimberly Lato | Jun 17, 2020 | Uncategorized
We have recently wrapped up our 2020 gull field season, led by MS student Kim Lato. Kim began studying herring gulls (HERG) and great black-backed gulls (GBBG) at nesting colony in Stony Brook in 2019 as part of the lab’s ongoing gull project investigating gull...
by Lesley H Thorne | Nov 14, 2019 | Uncategorized
Dr. Rachael Orben set sail for South Georgia earlier this week to conduct field studies on black-browed (Thalassarche melanophris) and grey-headed albatrosses (T. chrysostoma) at the British Antarctic Survey’s Bird Island Research Station. Rachael will be deploying...
by eheywood | Aug 20, 2019 | Uncategorized
Risso’s dolphins (Grampus griseus) in the Hudson Canyon area. Photo: Julia Stepanuk Now in the second year of research cruises funded by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, researchers from the labs of Drs. Janet Nye, Lesley...
