Cruise Report : NOAA Ship Gordon Gunter Cruise (GU18-02), June – July 2018, Trophic Interactions and Habitat Requirements of Rice’s Whales

The primary objective of this cruise was to deploy telemetry tags on Rice’s whales. A mix of tag types was available, with a focus on deploying short-term camera and/or acoustic tags that provide detailed information on animal movement and feeding over short durations. Tags are attached via close approach to free-ranging whales with the scientific small boat, R3. Additional survey objectives included acoustic recordings via deployed sonobuoys, scientific echosounder surveys (EK60) and cetacean tissue biopsy sampling. This report was created in 2019 and published at NOAA’s Institutional Repository in February 2024.