Workshop: Boat-based cetacean surveys

We taught survey techniques to spot cetaceans from a ship and discussed cues to find whales and dolphins, including different types of blows, splashes, bird activity etc…

This free workshop included a practical activity in which passengers brought their binoculars to the deck of the ship and engaged in scanning the horizon for cues to spot cetaceans during our sailing to Antarctica. This workshop is part of our citizen science program which aims to include data collected by passengers during the MS Fram voyage.