The Dominica Sperm Whale Project
@DomWhale
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Tweets from the field: tracking families of sperm whales since 2005.
Dominica, West Indies
Joined January 2011
Working with @DOMFisheries and @DominicaStateCo early on to create experiential learning opportunities on the water through our research has grown dramatically into the amazing @ProjectCETI Fellowships in collaboration with @InsideNatGeo! Meet the first team of Fellows!
✨Please meet Whitney, Omari and Khade, the 2022/2023 CETI Fellows!✨ CETI's Dominica Marine Conservation Fellowship is a community-based 10-month, multi-module training program for the next generation of conservation leaders in Dominica.
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RT @ariSPeshkin: ⭐️OPEN PHD POSITION: Communication & collective action in spotted hyenas⭐️ Come work with us to analyze high-res GPS, aud…
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How huge are sperm whales? Now we know thanks to work by @mglarou and team!
How to weigh a sperm whale without a scale? Check out our latest #openaccess article published in #MarineMammalScience: ➡️@marinemammalogy Many thanks to @FChristiansen83 & our collaborators at @DomWhale, Pelagos Cetacean Research Institute, @ATursiops 👏🏻
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RT @CanIHaveAWord2: Today: @sgero of @DomWhale, @projectceti, and @Carleton_U joins to talk about sperm whales, their language, and their c…
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Sperm whale researchers from across the #Pacific team up to understand how cultural clans of whales broadcast their identity! We’ll done @taylorahersh and team!
1/10) Very happy to announce that our new paper is out in @PNASNews! We show evidence that sperm whale clans in the Pacific Ocean use identity codas as symbolic markers of vocal clan identity. Read the paper at:
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RT @sgero: New view, same whale families! Stay tuned for the adventures of the @ProjectCETI summer season #MangoHouse
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RT @Cetifellowship: On #WorldOceansDay, Project CETI Dominica teams up with local artist omtni president of kubuliarts to raise awareness a…
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RT @Cetifellowship: Project CETI Dominica's Marine Conservation Fellowship We have extended the deadline to the 20th June, 2022. https://t.…
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Watch this video to learn about results of @_fvachon sperm whale surveys across the Lesser Antilles
Video abstract by the very talented @SackettMeredith (@art4ascientist ) 😊:
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Felicia’s amazing work showing the way that spent whale clans in the eastern Caribbean have smaller home ranges and prefer specific islands!
First PhD chapter published in RS Open Science! with @taylorahersh @_lrendell @sgero and H.Whitehead! "Ocean nomads or island specialists? Culturally driven habitat partitioning contrasts in scale between geographically isolated sperm whale populations"
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RT @AlexBoersma_Art: We made a thing! “The Whale Who Swam Through Time” explores the 200-year life of a bowhead whale, and the changing arc…
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All of the whale families we study are on @Flukebook. If you are in #Dominica and take pictures of the whales, please contribute by sharing your pictures through Flukebook. Your pictures could help to better understand the whale families movements and habitat use!
We have finally formalized Flukebook in a published methods paper in Mammalian Biology Special Issue: We’ll done @WildMeORG!!
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RT @NatGeo: #WorldWhaleDay: Meet Explorer Shane Gero, who hopes to create a new dialogue around the conservation of whale populations that…
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RT @InsideNatGeo: As part of @ProjectCETI's efforts to understand sperm whale communication, our Exploration Technology Lab is developing a…
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RT @InsideNatGeo: Whales have been great stewards of the ocean environment for more than 30 million years, & our understanding of them has…
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RT @InsideNatGeo: Did you know? @ProjectCETI (Cetacean Translation Initiative) is using advanced machine learning and gentle robotics to in…
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RT @sgero: Excited for this chat with @AllPlanets and @EllenGarland4 next week! Don’t forget to register! @ProjectCETI @InsideNatGeo @Do…
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