GOMxST_BrNW
Completed
Planned route: 9 segments · ~3 days steaming · 8 stations
Operating area: Western Gulf of Mexico
Route: Cocodrie (Louisiana) - United States → Cocodrie (Louisiana) - United States
Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium
Project aboard
This project uses wide-baseline arrays of moored passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) recorders to record sounds produced by the critically endangered Rice’s whale ( Balaenoptera ricei ) in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico (GoMx). The data from this passive acoustic monitoring program will be used to increase knowledge of Rice’s whales’ spatiotemporal distribution and movement patterns in the GoMx to meet management needs. This project aims to support NMFS’s understanding, analyses, and management of human impacts on Rice’s whales in the GoMx.
People aboard
- Heloise Frouin-Mouy · Chief scientist
- Melissa Soldevilla · Principal investigator
Party size: 2
Estimated vacant berths: 14
Equipment
No equipment listed for this cruise yet.
Schedule data from UNOLS Marine Facilities Planning · operator cruise code Soldervilla · MFP reference 24/4301 · synced Sep 24, 2026