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Annual Reporting

  • Atlantic Annual Reports
  • Pacific Annual Reports
Recently added reports
AFTT Annual Monitoring Report - 2025 - 11,758.46 KB
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  • Annual Report
Ocean:
  • Atlantic
Region:
  • AFTT
2024 AFTT Annual Monitoring Report - 10,896.62 KB
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  • Annual Report
Ocean:
  • Atlantic
Region:
  • AFTT
2024 Combined Pacific Annual Monitoring Report (HSTT, MITT, NWTT, GOA TMAA) - 2,387.02 KB
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  • Annual Report
Ocean:
  • Pacific
Region:
  • GOA
  • HCTT/HSTT
  • MITT
  • NWTT
Transmittal letter - Draft 2024 HSTT Annual Monitoring Report - 88.52 KB
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  • Annual Report
Ocean:
  • Pacific
Region:
  • GOA
  • HCTT/HSTT
  • MITT
  • NWTT
2023 AFTT Annual Monitoring Report - 15,006.51 KB
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  • Annual Report
Ocean:
  • Atlantic
Region:
  • AFTT

Technical Reports

  • Atlantic
  • Pacific
Recently added technical reports
Jones, Danielle. Haul-out Counts and Photo-Identification of Pinnipeds in Chesapeake Bay and Eastern Shore, Virginia - 2024-25 - 3,202.08 KB
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Type:
  • Technical Report
Ocean:
  • Atlantic
Region:
  • AFTT
Species:
  • Gray seal
  • Harbor seal
Methods:
  • Photo ID
  • Visual surveys
Waples, D.M., K.W. Urian, and A.J. Read.. Photo-Identification Analyses in the Cape Hatteras Study Area 2025 Annual Progress Report - 5,652.08 KB
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Type:
  • Technical Report
Ocean:
  • Atlantic
Region:
  • AFTT
Species:
  • Beaked whale
  • Goose-beaked whale
  • Short-finned pilot whale
Methods:
  • Photo ID
DeAngelis, A., and S. Van Parijs. Analysis of Acoustic Ecology of North Atlantic Shelf Break Cetaceans and Effects of Anthropogenic Noise Impacts: 2025 Annual Progress Report - 750.20 KB
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Type:
  • Technical Report
Ocean:
  • Atlantic
Region:
  • AFTT
Species:
  • Baleen whale
  • Beaked whale
  • Odontocete
Methods:
  • Passive acoustics
Southall, B.L., W. Cioffi, R. Schick, C. Harris, A. Harshbarger, A. Kristan, D. Nowacek, A.J. Read, Z.T. Swaim, D.M. Waples, and D.L. Webster.. Atlantic Behavioral Response Study (Atlantic-BRS) 2025 Annual Progress Report - 9,688.83 KB
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  • Technical Report
Ocean:
  • Atlantic
Region:
  • AFTT
Species:
  • Beaked whale
  • Goose-beaked whale
  • Short-finned pilot whale
Methods:
  • Controlled exposure experiment
  • Behavioral response
  • Tagging
Ozog, J., D. Rees, and D. Engelhaupt. Seal Haul-out Aerial Surveys in Virginia 2025 Annual Report - 1,038.63 KB
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  • Technical Report
Ocean:
  • Atlantic
Region:
  • AFTT
Species:
  • Harbor seal
Methods:
  • Visual surveys

Publications & Presentations

Recently added publications
Trabue, S.G., W. Cioffi , J. Aschettino, D. Engelhaupt, A. Engelhaupt, B.L. Southall, D.L. Webster, Z.T. Swaim, D.P. Nowacek, and H.C. Rosenbaum.
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Type:
  • Monitoring Program Publication
Ocean:
  • Atlantic
Region:
  • AFTT
Species:
  • Baleen whale
  • Minke whale
Methods:
  • Tagging
  • Visual surveys
Harnish, Annette E., Robin W. Baird, Michaela A. Kratofil.
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Type:
  • Monitoring Program Publication
Ocean:
  • Pacific
Region:
  • HCTT/HSTT
Species:
  • Bottlenose dolphin
Methods:
  • Behavioral response
  • Tagging
Transue, L.M., S. M. Van Parijs, S. C. Tennant, D. W. Linden, R. Briner, H.A. Koilpillai, G.E. Davis.
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Type:
  • Monitoring Program Publication
Ocean:
  • Atlantic
Region:
  • AFTT
Species:
  • Baleen whale
  • North Atlantic right whale
Methods:
  • Passive acoustics
Recently added presentations
McLellan, W., H. Foley, R. McAlarney, E. Cummings, Z. Swaim, L. Hodge, J. Stanistreet, K. Urian, D. Waples, C. Paxton, D.A. Pabst, J. Bell, and A. Read. Patterns of cetacean species occurrence, distribution and density at three sites along the continental shelf break of the U.S. Atlantic coast - 2,610.43 KB
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Type:
  • Monitoring Program Presentation
Ocean:
  • Atlantic
Region:
  • AFTT
Species:
  • Blue whale
  • Fin whale
  • Humpback whale
  • Minke whale
  • North Atlantic right whale
  • Beaked whale
  • Bottlenose dolphin
  • Goose-beaked whale
  • Risso's dolphin
  • Short-finned pilot whale
  • Sperm whale
  • Spotted dolphin
Methods:
  • Biopsy sampling
  • Passive acoustics
  • Photo ID
  • Visual surveys
Širović, A., A. Rice, and E. Chou. Detection of blue whale calls from 7 years of data in Southern California - 896.67 KB
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Type:
  • Monitoring Program Presentation
Ocean:
  • Pacific
Region:
  • HCTT/HSTT
Species:
  • Blue whale
Methods:
  • Passive acoustics
Rone, B., R. Baird, D. Webster, and D. Anderson. Satellite telemetry results indicate an open-ocean population of sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) in Hawaiian waters - 110.80 KB
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Type:
  • Monitoring Program Presentation
Ocean:
  • Pacific
Region:
  • HCTT/HSTT
Species:
  • Sperm whale
Methods:
  • Tagging

Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals

The SMM holds its conference every two years to promote science, collaboration, and improve the quality of research on marine mammals around the globe. Image courtesy of The Society for Marine Mammalogy.

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