Location: Cook Inlet
Timing: August - September
Funding: NOAA
Project: A boat-based biopsy survey will be conducted to provide information on the sex, genetics, diet, and hormonal status (for stress, pregnancy, sexual maturity, etc.) of individual beluga whales. In collaboration with GREMM scientists, blubber samples will be collected using a darting gun. Photographs of each biopsied whale and associated whales will be taken and analyzed to identify individuals, which will be matched to the existing LGL photo-identification catalog.
Contact
- Robyn Angliss, Program Manager, Cetacean Assessment and Ecology Program
