Right place, right time for whale researchers
8/31/2016
University of Otago researchers have released stunning drone footage of right whales frolicking off the coast of the Auckland Islands. The Auckland ...
Stunning drone footage has emerged following a University of Otago expedition to measure the status of right whales, which breed mainly off Port ...
8/29/2016
A 15m long right whale and her calf photographed by a drone off the subantarctic Auckland Islands during a recent University of Otago expedition to ...
8/28/2016
Scientists have successfully used drones to capture detailed images of Southern right whales during an expedition to New Zealand's naturally hostile ...
University of Otago's RV Polaries II arrived back to Dunedin last week with more than 100 different individual images of right whales in an effort to ...
15.0m mother and calf right whale photographed from the drone. Credit: S. Dawson, taken under permit from Department of Conservation.
The expedition to the subantarctic Aucklands Islands included photographic surveys of the whales from small vessels, and a drone was used to ...
In addition to photographic surveys of the whales from small boats, the expedition used a drone - a small four-rotor helicopter equipped with a ...