The Dominica Sperm Whale Project

Tweets from the field: tracking families of sperm whales since 2005.

[The Dominica Sperm Whale Project @DomWhale]

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!

[Project CETI @ProjectCETI]

✨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.

[Ariana Strandburg-Peshkin @ariSPeshkin]

⭐️OPEN PHD POSITION: Communication & collective action in spotted hyenas⭐️
Come work with us to analyze high-res GPS, audio, & IMU data from an entire hyena clan, currently being collected @MaraHyenas!
Apply by 16 Dec 2022: https://t.co/RGqsQhJj1c

[The Dominica Sperm Whale Project @DomWhale]

How huge are sperm whales?

Now we know thanks to work by @mglarou and team!

[Maria Glarou @mglarou]

How to weigh a sperm whale without a scale? Check out our latest #openaccess article published in #MarineMammalScience:
➡️https://t.co/ZUUzZhBTd9 @marinemammalogy

Many thanks to @FChristiansen83 & our collaborators at @DomWhale, Pelagos Cetacean Research Institute, @ATursiops 👏🏻

[Can I Have A Word on CKCU @CanIHaveAWord2]

Today: @sgero of @DomWhale, @projectceti, and @Carleton_U joins to talk about sperm whales, their language, and their culture. And makes me want to go to Dominica. 4pm on @CKCUFM or stream it now: https://t.co/Zsi6cuP8CJ

[PNASNews @PNASNews]

A study finds that certain acoustic communication signals—“identity codas”—function as symbolic markers of cultural identity among Pacific Ocean sperm whale clans. In @PopSci: https://t.co/Ovz5DwgfVR In PNAS: https://t.co/YAoVkOmDwd

[The Dominica Sperm Whale Project @DomWhale]

@popoky35 @_fvachon Hello, thanks for caring about Hope and the whale families off Dominica.

Happily, we just saw Hope in July - happy and healthy!

[The Dominica Sperm Whale Project @DomWhale]

Great new science from Dr. @_fvachon and her team about the sperm whale clans in the Eastern #Caribbean

[Royal Society Publishing @RSocPublishing]

Ocean nomads or island specialists? Culturally driven habitat partitioning contrasts in scale between geographically isolated sperm whale populations: https://t.co/8PQu8uqKLS @_fvachon @taylorahersh @_lrendell @sgero #RSOS #ecology

[The Dominica Sperm Whale Project @DomWhale]

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!

[Taylor Hersh @taylorahersh]

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: https://t.co/bwjas8P679

[Shane Gero @[email protected] @sgero]

New view, same whale families!

Stay tuned for the adventures of the @ProjectCETI summer season

#MangoHouse

[CETIfellowshipDominica @Cetifellowship]

On #WorldOceansDay, Project CETI Dominica teams up with local artist omtni president of kubuliarts to raise awareness about the importance of the ocean and the biodiversity therein.

[CETIfellowshipDominica @Cetifellowship]

Project CETI Dominica's Marine Conservation Fellowship
We have extended the deadline to the 20th June, 2022.

[The Dominica Sperm Whale Project @DomWhale]

Watch this video to learn about results of @_fvachon sperm whale surveys across the Lesser Antilles

[Felicia Vachon @_fvachon]

Video abstract by the very talented @SackettMeredith (@art4ascientist ) 😊: https://t.co/LxRiLWurb0

[The Dominica Sperm Whale Project @DomWhale]

Felicia’s amazing work showing the way that spent whale clans in the eastern Caribbean have smaller home ranges and prefer specific islands!

[Felicia Vachon @_fvachon]

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"

https://t.co/kZ61Rclq64

[Alex Boersma @AlexBoersma_Art]

We made a thing! “The Whale Who Swam Through Time” explores the 200-year life of a bowhead whale, and the changing arctic environment that surrounds here. This latest collab w/ @PyensonLab was truly a dream project, and I can’t wait to share it! Preorder: https://t.co/RU6zeA5vBb

[The Dominica Sperm Whale Project @DomWhale]

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!

[Flukebook @Flukebook]

We have finally formalized Flukebook in a published methods paper in Mammalian Biology Special Issue: https://t.co/JDYSqJQfrz

We’ll done @WildMeORG!!

[National Geographic @NatGeo]

#WorldWhaleDay: Meet Explorer Shane Gero, who hopes to create a new dialogue around the conservation of whale populations that is about more than just numbers https://t.co/tNtDJZKdVp

[National Geographic Society @InsideNatGeo]

As part of @ProjectCETI's efforts to understand sperm whale communication, our Exploration Technology Lab is developing a custom Crittercam that will capture advanced low-light video of sperm whale behavior! #WorldWhaleDay

[National Geographic Society @InsideNatGeo]

Whales have been great stewards of the ocean environment for more than 30 million years, & our understanding of them has only touched the surface. 🐋 Follow @ProjectCETI & #NatGeoExplorers David Gruber, @sgero, & Robert Wood on their journey to decode whale communication.

[National Geographic Society @InsideNatGeo]

Did you know? @ProjectCETI (Cetacean Translation Initiative) is using advanced machine learning and gentle robotics to interpret the communication of one of the world’s most enigmatic ocean species: the sperm whale! #WorldWhaleDay Photos by Amanda Cotton

[Shane Gero @[email protected] @sgero]

Excited for this chat with @AllPlanets and @EllenGarland4 next week!

Don’t forget to register!

@ProjectCETI @InsideNatGeo @DomWhale @CarletonBiology