Skidaway Institute of Oceanography and University of South Carolina


Coastal Georgia, Winter 2025-2026


Study objectives

A Slocum G3 glider was deployed off the coast of Georgia to conduct surveys for baleen whales, including the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale.

Principal Investigators: Erin Meyer-Gutbrod (University of South Carolina) and Catherine Edwards (Skidaway Institute of Oceanography)

Analysts: Erin Meyer-Gutbrod, Amadi Afua Sefah-Twerefour, Abigail Kreuser, Lydia Duncan Sims and Ryan Walsh (University of South Carolina)







Platform location:




Analyst-reviewed species occurrence maps:




Daily analyst review:

DateSei whaleFin whaleRight whaleHumpback whale
12/15/2025
12/14/2025
12/13/2025

Detected
Possibly detected
Not detected


Time series:




Diel plot:




Links to detailed information:

Automated detection data

Analyst notes

DMON/LFDCS diagnostics

Platform diagnostics





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 prepared and deployed by Karen Dreger and James Bird (SKIO), and Brady Patton and Ryan Walsh (USC). Funding for this work was provided by the SECOORA and Maine Community Foundation.


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