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Can you hear me now?

By Marjorie Mooney-Seus | Alaska Fisheries Science Center on Nov 2, 2016 At Sea, Featured, Science/Education

Gray whales alter their calling behavior to compensate for increasing levels of noise to improve their chances of being heard by other gray whales. Hearing each other is key to whale survival. NOAA scientists Marilyn Dahlheim and Manuel Castellote found that the number of times a gray whale calls is adjusted depending on the […]

NOAA Fisheries Scientists Successfully Spawn and Hatch Arctic Cod in Captivity

By Marjorie Mooney-Seus | Alaska Fisheries Science Center on May 3, 2015 At Sea, Featured, Science/Education

So what’s the big deal about successfully growing Arctic cod in a laboratory? It represents another step forward toward understanding how these “bellwether” fish in the Arctic marine ecosystem may fare with a warming ocean and climate change. It also opens up a new frontier to study cod development in a laboratory setting. Up until […]