Science & Data

Join science center seal researchers Kimberly Murray and Ellie Heywood, their Tufts University collaborator Wendy Puryear, and several other partners on a balmy 40° January day sampling and tagging gray seals on Nantucket, Massachusetts.

Field biologist Emma Fowler shares some of the marvelous sights and scenes, unusual finds, and bucket list achievements from the spring Gulf of Maine Bottom Longline Survey.

Blog 2 of the gray seal pupping season in the Northeast. Some sampling and tagging was in store for researchers, but not until a rescue took place.

Every year scientists from the Northeast Fisheries Science Center make a trip to Muskeget Island to gather information during gray seal pupping season. This year they tried a different approach.