Cetacea

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • Bycatch of marine mammals in U.S. and global fisheries. 
  • Carbon monoxide binding by hemoglobin and myoglobin under photodissociating conditions. 
  • Carbon monoxide binding by simple heme proteins under photodissociating conditions. 
  • Comparison of real and idealized cetacean flippers. 
  • Extrapolating cetacean densities to quantitatively assess human impacts on populations in the high seas. 
  • From the track to the ocean: Using flow control to improve marine bio-logging tags for cetaceans. 
  • Global coverage of cetacean line-transect surveys: status quo, data gaps and future challenges. 
  • Habitat-based cetacean density models for the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico. 
  • Lift and drag performance of odontocete cetacean flippers. 
  • Minimizing wildlife impacts for offshore wind energy development: Winning tradeoffs for seabirds in space and cetaceans in time. 
  • Origin and evolution of large brains in toothed whales. 
  • Reactions of bowhead whales, Balaena mysticetus, to seismic exploration in the Canadian Beaufort Sea. 
  • The comparative anatomy and phylogeny of the tentorium cerebelli. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Nowacek, Douglas, Randolph K. Repass and Sally-Christine Rodgers University Distinguished Professor of Conservation Technology in Environment and Engineering, Duke University Energy Initiative