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February 9th, 2023

Article: Finding a Whale in a Watery Haystack

The Ocean Decade Collaborative Center for the Northeast Pacific co-hosted, with Fisheries and Oceans Canada, a two-day webinar and workshop series in November 2022 Detecting Large Marine Megafauna from Space that has received media attention.

Satellite detection of whales is improving rapidly, but finding the behemoth creatures is still surprisingly tricky.


Read or listen to the full article written by J. Besl at Hakai Magazine.

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