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Sperm Whale Seismic
Study (SWSS)
 The Summer Breeze
The
Summer Breeze is a chartered
Hunter 46 sailboat out of St Petersburg, Florida. She is conducting a “Mesoscale
Population Study Cruise” (PDF file) from June 9 to August 3, 2005 as
part of SWSS. Mesoscale is jargon for an intermediate scaled
observation of whales between highly detailed digital-tag studies
literally recording every whale movement over several hours and the
broad scale satellite-tracking of whales up to 18-months showing whale
surface locations once or twice a day. The sailboat will quietly track
a group of whales over several days. This is the second Mesoscale
Cruise and is under the direction of Dr. Jonathan Gordon (University of
St. Andrews, Scotland), Dr. Bernd Würsig (Texas A&M University), and Dr.
Christoph Richter (Queens University, Canada).
Summer Breeze Leg 2 Crew, L to R, Raul Diaz-Gamboa, Ricardo Antunes,
Christoph Richter (Chief Scientist), Sam Dufrense, Capt. Phil Bauerlein,
Thomas Gordon;Not Pictured: Sierra Deutsch
Summer Breeze researchers use video and still photography to record
events
Summer Breeze Leg 1 Crew, L to R,
Jonathan Gordon, Christoph Richter,
Sam DuFresne, Ricardo Antunes, Sierra Deutsch, and Philip Bauerlein
(Captain)
Summer Breeze Crew
June 2005
Christoph Richter (Field Party Chief),
Bernd Wursig (Mesoscale Project Coordinator), and Stacie Arms (Business
Coordinator, review
final plans for the Mesoscale Cruise of the Summer Breeze, June 2,
2005.
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