This year I finished my Master’s thesis, where I used acoustic tags to track the migration of Alewife in the Bay of Fundy.
Quick Facts about Pilot Whales
A pilot whale, despite what the name suggests, is not a whale that flies! Neither is it really a whale, but rather a large dolphin in the family Delphinidae. The genus Globicephala is shared by only two species of odontocetes: …
Quick Facts about Atlantic Sturgeon
Atlantic Sturgeon (Acipenser oxyrinchus) Fish rule the world!! That is, they are one of the oldest animals on this planet. Fish were here long before the dinosaurs – about 500 million years ago — and they still thrive today. In …
Quick Facts about the Horseshoe Crab
Despite their name, horseshoe crabs—bizarre, ancient critters—don’t look like horseshoes, and they’re definitely not crabs. Horseshoes are actually arachnids, more closely related to spiders, ticks, mites and scorpions than they are to other decapods! Horseshoe crabs first appeared over 450 …
Lessons Learned in the Field
During the summer of 2017, I worked as a field technician for the Cape Breton Pilot Whale Project (CBPWP), founded by members of the Whitehead Lab at Dalhousie University to study the social structure and vocalizations of long-finned pilot whales …