A government funded #acoustic#monitoring project assessing the importance of Irish shelf edge habitats for #whales & #dolphins. Project led by @GMITOfficial
Dr Simon Berrow, Principal Investigator of the @ObSERVEAcoustic project at the Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology, on the discovery of 380 sperm whales off the coast of Ireland. Listen here https://t.co/U2ajUekqFW
Sperm whales are one of the most abundant great whale species in the deep waters of offshore Ireland, according to our new study.
The study was recently published in the Journal of Cetacean Research and Management https://t.co/ZGBqoiD4Ge
Minister of State for Rural Affairs and Natural Resources @SeanCanney launched the ObSERVE Programme findings in @GMITOfficial today.
The ObSERVE reports are available at
https://t.co/wYAUt4svw6
Through state-of-the-art research, ObSERVE has expanded our knowledge of the extraordinary range of species, habitats and physical features to be found off our shores #scicomms#LifeBelowWater https://t.co/ciZWQaa55y
New paper published from the ObSERVE-Acoustic project. First confirmed sightings of #Sowerby's #beaked#whale with calves in the Northeast Atlantic.
https://t.co/KNijZir9Bs