Macronutrient composition of sea otter diet with respect to recolonization, life history, and season in southern Southeast Alaska by Nicole L. LaRoche, Sydney L. King, Emily A. Fergusson, Ginny L. Eckert, Heidi C. Pearson

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A collaborative and near-comprehensive North Pacific humpback whale photo-ID dataset by Ted Cheeseman, Ken Southerland, Jo Marie Acebes, Katherina Audley, Jay Barlow, Lars Bejder, Caitlin Birdsall, Amanda L. Bradford, Josie K. Byington, John Calambokidis, Rachel Cartwright, Jen Cedarleaf, Andrea Jacqueline García Chavez, Jens J. Currie, Joëlle De Weerdt, Nicole Doe, Thomas Doniol-Valcroze, Karina Dracott, Olga Filatova, Rachel Finn, Kiirsten Flynn, John K. B. Ford, Astrid Frisch-Jordán, Christine M. Gabriele, Beth Goodwin, Craig Hayslip, Jackie Hildering, Marie C. Hill, Jeff K. Jacobsen, M. Esther Jiménez-López, Meagan Jones, Nozomi Kobayashi, Edward Lyman, Mark Malleson, Evgeny Mamaev, Pamela Martínez Loustalot, Annie Masterman, Craig Matkin, Christie J. McMillan, Jeff E. Moore, John R. Moran, Janet L. Neilson, Hayley Newell, Haruna Okabe, Marilia Olio, Adam A. Pack, Daniel M. Palacios, Heidi C. Pearson, Ester Quintana-Rizzo, Raul Fernando Ramírez Barragán, Nicola Ransome, Hiram Rosales-Nanduca, Fred Sharpe, Tasli Shaw, Stephanie H. Stack, Iain Staniland, Jan Straley, Andrew Szabo, Suzie Teerlink, Olga Titova, Jorge Urban R., Martin van Aswegen, Marcel Vinicius de Morais, Olga von Ziegesar, Briana Witteveen, Janie Wray, Kymberly M. Yano, Denny Zwiefelhofer, Phil Clapham

“…The combined dataset and image recognition tool represents a living and accessible resource for collaborative, basin-wide studies of a keystone marine mammal in a time of rapid ecological change.…”
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A deep learning approach to photo–identification demonstrates high performance on two dozen cetacean species by Philip T. Patton, Ted Cheeseman, Kenshin Abe, Taiki Yamaguchi, Walter Reade, Ken Southerland, Addison Howard, Erin M. Oleson, Jason B. Allen, Erin Ashe, Aline Athayde, Robin W. Baird, Charla Basran, Elsa Cabrera, John Calambokidis, Júlio Cardoso, Emma L. Carroll, Amina Cesario, Barbara J. Cheney, Enrico Corsi, Jens Currie, John W. Durban, Erin A. Falcone, Holly Fearnbach, Kiirsten Flynn, Trish Franklin, Wally Franklin, Bárbara Galletti Vernazzani, Tilen Genov, Marie Hill, David R. Johnston, Erin L. Keene, Sabre D. Mahaffy, Tamara L. McGuire, Liah McPherson, Catherine Meyer, Robert Michaud, Anastasia Miliou, Dara N. Orbach, Heidi C. Pearson, Marianne H. Rasmussen, William J. Rayment, Caroline Rinaldi, Renato Rinaldi, Salvatore Siciliano, Stephanie Stack, Beatriz Tintore, Leigh G. Torres, Jared R. Towers, Cameron Trotter, Reny Tyson Moore, Caroline R. Weir, Rebecca Wellard, Randall Wells, Kymberly M. Yano, Jochen R. Zaeschmar, Lars Bejder

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Biologically Important Areas II for cetaceans within U.S. and adjacent waters – Gulf of Alaska Region by Lauren A. Wild, Heather E. Riley, Heidi C. Pearson, Christine M. Gabriele, Janet L. Neilson, Andy Szabo, John Moran, Janice M. Straley, Sarah DeLand

“…They have been used by NOAA, other federal agencies, and the public to support planning and marine mammal impact assessments, and to inform the development of conservation measures for cetaceans.…”
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Assessing the Behavioural Responses of Small Cetaceans to Unmanned Aerial Vehicles by Joana Castro, Francisco O. Borges, André Cid, Marina I. Laborde, Rui Rosa, Heidi C. Pearson

“…Vertical Take-off and Landing (VTOL) UAVs are appropriate for morphometric, behavioural, abundance and demographic studies of marine mammals, providing a stable, nonintrusive and highly manoeuvrable platform. …”
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