Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution


Gulf of Maine, Winter 2025-2026


Study objectives

A Slocum G3 glider was deployed in the northern Gulf of Maine to conduct a near real-time survey for baleen whales, including the seriously endangered North Atlantic right whale.

Principal Investigator: Mark Baumgartner (WHOI)

Analysts: Julianne Wilder (NOAA NEFSC)

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Sounds

What types of sounds are we monitoring? Find examples of the sounds right, fin, sei and humpback whales make here.


Questions

Please email Mark Baumgartner at mbaumgartner@whoi.edu. For a general desciption of the detection system and the autonomous platforms, visit robots4whales.whoi.edu.


Acknowledgements

The Slocum glider was expertly prepared and deployed by Mackenzie Meier (with sage and timely advice from Diana Wickman) and piloted by Mark Baumgartner. Support for this glider mission was provided by the Northeastern Regional Association of Coastal Ocean Observing Systems (NERACOOS), and in-kind support for acoustic analysis was provided by the NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center's Passive Acoustic Branch.


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