Trans-Atlantic Cetacean Survey

The R.V. Celtic Explorer departed Cork City on Saturday 29 January, bound for St. Johns, Newfoundland. Conor Ryan and Alessandro Pierini from Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology are carrying out a visual and acoustic survey for cetaceans in collaboration with Memorial University of Newfoundland. Emily Wilson (MUN) will simunltaneously be surveying seabirds. A blog which will be written each day (depending on the internet signal) can be followed here: http://transatlanticcetacean.blogspot.com/