HONOLULU, Aug. 2 -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release:
Video news release (details below): https://go.hawaii.edu/7ARhttps://go.hawaii.edu/7AR
NOTE: "NOAA NMFS 27548" must be on all whale video and still photos
Marine mammal research has attained new heights as scientists at the University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa are deploying noninvasive suction-cup tags onto humpback whales using drones. Traditionally, researchers from the Marine Mammal Research Program (MMRP) in the Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology approached animals closely via boats, deploying tags using a seven-meter carbon fiber pole. Now, technological advances are allowing the team to tag whales from the sky, dramatically shifting how marine data...