Projects

These are some of the projects I’m currently involved in, or have worked on in the past. Each at least contains a basic summary, but feel free to contact me at hansen.johnson@dal.ca for more details.

Right whale location uncertainty

Estimating right whale location following visual or acoustic detection to inform dynamic management

Baleen whale habitat partitioning

Using ocean gliders to understand how baleen whales partition habitat

Real-time detection range

Evaluating the range-dependent accuracy of a near real-time baleen whale monitoring system.

Right whale feeding in the Gulf of St Lawrence

Characterizing community composition of zooplankton near feeding right whales in the southern Gulf of St Lawrence

Right whale sonobuoy surveys

Comparing vocal behavior and group composition of right whales with visual and acoustic aerial surveys.

WhaleMap

Display results from right whale surveys in Atlantic Canada.