Date/Time
Date(s) - 05/10/2016
7:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Location
New England Aquarium
New England Aquarium Vice President of Research Scott D Kraus, PhD will dive deep into the topic of whale eyesight and his work to develop alternative entanglement risk-assessment models for ropes and fishing gear to decrease the number of whale deaths right here in New England.
Whales live in a world where visibility is rarely more than 40 feet, and most whale researchers believe they find their way around by sound. In fact, their use of sound is critical, but for close-up interactions with neighbors, feeding, and collision avoidance, vision may be even more important. Over the last five years, the Aquarium has done field and laboratory experiments to develop an understanding of what whales see. Dr. Kraus’s nighttime whale work was recently featured in Scientific American. Join him to find out how his team’s findings may help reduce fatal entanglements by large whales in fishing gear.
Register online: http://support.neaq.org/site/Calendar?id=106525&view=Detail
