Back to the lab

Sadly my winter field season has come to an end. It was a lovely 4 weeks up in Kaikoura, but now I've returned to cold and cloudy Dunedin. Some of the highlights of the trip include the 3 humpbacks that we saw passing through on their migration, as well as a sperm whale spyhopping and lunging out of the water. Unfortunately I didn't get any pictures of the sperm whale when it was leaping up out of the water, but I did manage to take a few pictures of the humpbacks. I've posted the pictures into my photo-album on flickr, so feel free to have a look.

Winter fieldwork pictures

I would have liked to spend another month in the field, but its important that I actually analyze the results and use that information to improve our methods and instruments. So I'll spend the next few months working in the lab trying to make sense of the 35 gigabytes of recordings that we made. All in all I believe it was a great success, and it would not have been possible without the extensive help of my supervisors Steve Dawson and Liz Slooten.

Also in Kaikoura I got to see my friend Rio Rossellini. Rio is an artist who draws lovely pictures of marine life. You can check out her artwork on her website listed below.

Rio Rossellini's Artwork

I'll keep this short because I'm tired and have unpack and get some food before the hills here get too frosty to drive on. Gotta spend time in the sun while its shining here in gray cloudy Dunedin.