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LEWISTON — The 2023-2024 season of the Great Falls Forum is set to continue Thursday, Feb. 15, and feature Dr. Kanae Tokunaga, senior scientist in Coastal and Marine Economics at the Gulf of Maine Research Institute. She will talk about “Climate Change and the Blue Acceleration in Maine.” This free, public program will take place […]
Whale populations recovering from historical whaling are particularly vulnerable to incidental mortality and disturbance caused by growing ocean industrialization. Several distinct populations of rorqual whales (including humpback, blue, and fin whales) migrate and feed off the coast of Oregon, USA where spatial overlap with human activities are on the rise. Effective mitigation of conflicts requires better foundational understanding of spatial and temporal habitat use patterns to inform conservation management. Based on a year-round, multi-platform distance sampling dataset (2016-2021, 177 su...