We are starting our 2016 fieldwork in Vestmannaeyjar of 1 month… This fieldwork will be a collaboration between the Marine Research Institute and the University of Cumbria. This last couple of days have been full of team members arriving and setting up equipment! We still have some work to do on land before we get on the boat… But just yesterday some killer whales were sighted close to the main island Heimaey where we are staying! So things look promising here and we are very excited to start!
This season we will be collecting photo-ID data, behavioural observations, sampling feeding events, biopsy samples, acoustic recordings and land-based observations. With this we investigate the distribution and movements, social and acoustic behaviour and foraging ecology of the Icelandic killer whale population.
We’ll keep you posted on the progress of the fieldwork through the next weeks! Here are some pictures from these first days from Marie Louis, who's joining us this year.
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| The view from Heimaey. Photo by Marie Louis. |
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| Minke whale seen from land. Photo by Marie Louis. |
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| Killer whales seen from land. Photo by Marie Louis. |
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| Killer whales seen from land. Photo by Marie Louis. |
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| Team members scouting for whales! Photo by Marie Louis. |
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| The midnight sun in Heimaye. Photo by Marie Louis. |
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| Killer whales seen from land. Photo by Marie Louis. |
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| Puffin. Photo by Marie Louis. |
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