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Category: Blog & Field Reports
Bingo: Dolphin Species Edition
We’ve got a new Kids Science Activity just in time for summer break and camps! Or, for those teachers working hard on their fall lesson plans.
Bingo: Dolphin Species Edition.
Yup – it’s free!
Maternal Style Research Poster
Did you enjoy DCP’s Pectoral Fin Contact poster? Then you’ll love our informational poster on dolphin maternal style. DCP researchers are using underwater video data to better understand how dolphin moms use touch with their calves.
Download the new PDF for free!
Deep Dive AND Dolphin Lesson
On Tuesday, 25 June, come learn about underwater noise from Dr. Lindy Weilgart.
Deep Dive starts at 11:00a ET.
Dolphin Lesson follows at 11:50a ET.
Click for Meeting IDs. And don’t forget the passwords!
Summary for DCP’s June Field Courses
We had two really productive, one-week field courses with Colorado State University (CSU) and St. Mary’s University (StMU) with 28 students in total! We conducted 13 sessions of morning observations with underwater video and space use data collection. This yielded …
Facing Fears and Monkeying Around
Our last morning began with our usual data collection – space use and Kathleen’s underwater video observations as well as surface observations. It was a relatively quiet session from …
Data, Data, Data!
Of course, we began the day with data collection … and it was relatively quiet (maybe even a tad bit boring) for surface observations and space use data collection. Kathleen agreed, saying the underwater views were similarly quiet. There were numerous …
Double Dolphin Dare
Today was packed full of dolphins from the morning data collection session to our dolphin encounter and, slightly delayed, swim with dolphins to a lengthy/double platform session where we learned a bit more of what dolphin training involves. It was HOT and …
Coral Cuties
Our day began, as usual, with dolphin data collection. It was nearly as hot as yesterday but with no breeze and no clouds. The sea was calm and the dolphins were somewhat active in small bouts of leaping activity across the …
Go with the Waves
We woke to a very calm day but there was a slight breeze that gave a few wavelets. Kathleen mentioned that the current picked up as she was wrapping up data collection. Of course, the session seemed very eventful and several dolphins were …