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A Semi-Automated Method for Estimating Adélie Penguin Colony Abundance from a Fusion of Multispectral and Thermal Imagery Collected with Unoccupied Aircraft Systems

scientific article published on 11 November 2020

A convolutional neural network for detecting sea turtles in drone imagery

scientific article published on 3 January 2019

A standardized protocol for reporting methods when using drones for wildlife research

scientific article

Abundance and survival rates of the Hawai'i Island associated spinner dolphin (Stenella longirostris) stock

scientific article

Accumulation of PBDEs in stranded harp (Pagophilus groenlandicus) and hooded seals (Cystophora cristata) from the Northeastern United States

scientific article published on 22 April 2018

Applying Unoccupied Aircraft Systems to Study Human Behavior in Marine Science and Conservation Programs

scientific article published on 18 October 2019

Assessing the disturbance potential of small unoccupied aircraft systems (UAS) on gray seals (Halichoerus grypus) at breeding colonies in Nova Scotia, Canada

scientific article published on 19 March 2018

Automated detection and enumeration of marine wildlife using unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) and thermal imagery.

scientific article published on 24 March 2017

Baleen whale prey consumption based on high-resolution foraging measurements

scientific article published on 3 November 2021

Cashing in on Spinners: Revenue Estimates of Wild Dolphin-Swim Tourism in the Hawaiian Islands

scientific article published on 13 August 2020

Chronic exposure of Hawaii Island spinner dolphins (Stenella longirostris) to human activities

scientific article published on 24 October 2018

Comparing Uncertainty Associated With 1-, 2-, and 3D Aerial Photogrammetry-Based Body Condition Measurements of Baleen Whales

scientific article published on 26 November 2021

Contrasting trends in gray seal ( Halichoerus grypus ) pup production throughout the increasing northwest Atlantic metapopulation

scientific article published on 22 December 2020

Deep learning for coastal resource conservation: automating detection of shellfish reefs

scientific article published on 25 February 2020

Drones address an observational blind spot for biological oceanography

scientific article published on 15 February 2022

Drones and convolutional neural networks facilitate automated and accurate cetacean species identification and photogrammetry

scientific article published on 21 July 2019

Drones and deep learning produce accurate and efficient monitoring of large-scale seabird colonies

scientific article published on 22 May 2021

Drones reveal spatial patterning of sympatric Alaskan pinniped species and drivers of their local distributions

scientific article published in January 2022

Elasmobranch Use of Nearshore Estuarine Habitats Responds to Fine-Scale, Intra-Seasonal Environmental Variation: Observing Coastal Shark Density in a Temperate Estuary Utilizing Unoccupied Aircraft Systems (UAS)

scientific article published on 8 December 2020

Estimation of Intertidal Oyster Reef Density Using Spectral and Structural Characteristics Derived from Unoccupied Aircraft Systems and Structure from Motion Photogrammetry

scientific article published on 30 April 2022

Evaluating monitoring methods for cetaceans

article published in 2016

Factors affecting harp seal (Pagophilus groenlandicus) strandings in the Northwest Atlantic

scientific article

Fast and Furious: Energetic Tradeoffs and Scaling of High-Speed Foraging in Rorqual Whales

scientific article published in 2022

First description of migratory behavior of humpback whales from an Antarctic feeding ground to a tropical calving ground

scientific article published on 15 October 2021

High pregnancy rates in humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) around the Western Antarctic Peninsula, evidence of a rapidly growing population.

scientific article published on 2 May 2018

Integrating Drone Imagery into High Resolution Satellite Remote Sensing Assessments of Estuarine Environments

Intra-seasonal variation in feeding rates and diel foraging behaviour in a seasonally fasting mammal, the humpback whale

scientific article published in July 2022

Modeling Salt Marsh Vegetation Height Using Unoccupied Aircraft Systems and Structure from Motion

scientific article published on 21 July 2020

New Remote Sensing Approaches for Investigating the Submesoscale Structure and Biology of Frontal Eddies in the Gulf Stream

scientific article published on 24 March 2021

Operational Protocols for the Use of Drones in Marine Animal Research

scientific article published on 25 September 2020

Predictive modeling of spinner dolphin (Stenella longirostris) resting habitat in the main Hawaiian Islands

scientific article

Quantifying Nearshore Sea Turtle Densities: Applications of Unmanned Aerial Systems for Population Assessments

scientific article published on 18 December 2017

Rapid and Accurate Monitoring of Intertidal Oyster Reef Habitat Using Unoccupied Aircraft Systems and Structure from Motion

scientific article published on 17 October 2019

Robotic Vehicles Enable High-Resolution Light Pollution Sampling of Sea Turtle Nesting Beaches

scientific article published on 19 December 2018

Robust ocean color from drones: Viewing geometry, sky reflection removal, uncertainty analysis, and a survey of the Gulf Stream front

scientific article published in 2022

Scaling of maneuvering performance in baleen whales: larger whales outperform expectations

scientific article published in March 2022

Scaling of swimming performance in baleen whales

scientific article published on 23 October 2019

Seasonal gain in body condition of foraging humpback whales along the Western Antarctic Peninsula

scientific article published on 21 November 2022

Seasonal variation in the spatial distribution of basking sharks (Cetorhinus maximus) in the lower Bay of Fundy, Canada

scientific article

Shark detection probability from aerial drone surveys within a temperate estuary

scientific article published in March 2020

Super-aggregations of krill and humpback whales in Wilhelmina Bay, Antarctic Peninsula

scientific article

Temporal and regional variability in the skin microbiome of humpback whales along the Western Antarctic Peninsula.

scientific article

Temporally Generalizable Land Cover Classification: A Recurrent Convolutional Neural Network Unveils Major Coastal Change through Time

scientific article published on 2 October 2021

The effect of acoustic harassment devices on harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) in the Bay of Fundy, Canada

scientific article published in November 2002

The effects of climate change on harp seals (Pagophilus groenlandicus)

scientific article (publication date: 2012)

The role of beach state and the timing of pre-storm surveys in determining the accuracy of storm impact assessments

scientific article published in July 2020

The scale of the whale: using video-tag data to evaluate sea-surface ice concentration from the perspective of individual Antarctic minke whales

scientific article published on 12 October 2020

Tracking wildlife energy dynamics with unoccupied aircraft systems and three‐dimensional photogrammetry

scientific article published on 30 September 2021

Trends in Stranding and By-Catch Rates of Gray and Harbor Seals along the Northeastern Coast of the United States: Evidence of Divergence in the Abundance of Two Sympatric Phocid Species?

scientific article published on 22 July 2015

Unoccupied Aircraft Systems (UAS) for Marine Ecosystem Restoration

scientific article published on 12 June 2020

Unoccupied Aircraft Systems in Marine Science and Conservation

Why whales are big but not bigger: Physiological drivers and ecological limits in the age of ocean giants

scientific article

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