Webinar: Climate Change and the Oceanography of the North Atlantic Right Whale Population

Описание: We are pleased to announce a new research project now underway. North Atlantic right whales are among the most endangered marine species, with fewer than 500 individuals remaining. In the last few years, the species seems to have shifted northward in summer. There has also recently been an unprecedented number of right whale deaths in Canada’s Gulf of St. Lawrence, an area where right whale sightings had previously been rare. Officials in both the U.S. and Canada would like to know what is causing the range shift. One possibility is that the whales’ primary food source, a planktonic copepod called Calanus finmarchicus, has moved north because of rapid warming in the Gulf of Maine. Thus, the Lenfest Ocean Program is supporting Dr. Charles Greene of Cornell University and colleagues to conduct an analysis of plankton samples to determine if right whales are moving in response to their prey. Learn more here: https://www.lenfestocean.org/en/resea...