{"id":535047,"date":"2023-11-01T13:43:36","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T17:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/?p=535047"},"modified":"2023-11-01T13:43:36","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T17:43:36","slug":"big-eyes-along-the-mid-atlantic-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/big-eyes-along-the-mid-atlantic-coast\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Eyes Along the Mid-Atlantic Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_535050\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-535050\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-535050\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2023\/11\/Big-Eyes-on-deck-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2023\/11\/Big-Eyes-on-deck-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2023\/11\/Big-Eyes-on-deck-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2023\/11\/Big-Eyes-on-deck-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2023\/11\/Big-Eyes-on-deck-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2023\/11\/Big-Eyes-on-deck.jpg 1512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-535050\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Big Eyes on deck: The large binoculars are mounted on a platform on the bow of the R\/V Armstrong to allow unobstructed views of the sea. Credit: Corey Accardo, NOAA.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_535049\" style=\"width: 639px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-535049\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-535049 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2023\/11\/Big-Eye-view-629x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"629\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2023\/11\/Big-Eye-view-629x1024.jpg 629w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2023\/11\/Big-Eye-view-184x300.jpg 184w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2023\/11\/Big-Eye-view-768x1250.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2023\/11\/Big-Eye-view-944x1536.jpg 944w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2023\/11\/Big-Eye-view-1259x2048.jpg 1259w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2023\/11\/Big-Eye-view.jpg 1512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 629px) 100vw, 629px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-535049\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Big eye view: A view through the eyepiece shows the world as seen by the marine mammal observer. Credit: Corey Accardo, NOAA.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_535048\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-535048\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-535048\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2023\/11\/Big-Eye-moon-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2023\/11\/Big-Eye-moon-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2023\/11\/Big-Eye-moon-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2023\/11\/Big-Eye-moon-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2023\/11\/Big-Eye-moon-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2023\/11\/Big-Eye-moon.jpg 1512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-535048\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Big eye moon: Objects other than marine mammals can be brought up-close by the big eye binoculars. Credit: Corey Accardo, NOAA.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Large binoculars called \u201cbig eyes\u201d are used to help marine mammal observers detect and identify distant sightings.\u00a0\u00a0Personnel from the NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service were graciously included in the OOI Pioneer Array cruise as part of an exploratory survey targeting North Atlantic right whales and recording all other marine mammals encountered.\u00a0\u00a0The population is painfully small, with only around 350 individual North Atlantic right whales left. One of the most important subsets of this population, reproductive females and their offspring, use these waters offshore of the mid-Atlantic coast as a migratory corridor between the northern feeding grounds and the southern calving grounds.\u00a0\u00a0Right whale research on platforms of opportunity, and the WHOI R\/V <em>Neil Armstrong<\/em> in particular, has become extremely important for conducting North Atlantic right whale surveys in this under-studied area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Large binoculars called \u201cbig eyes\u201d are used to help marine mammal observers detect and identify distant sightings.\u00a0\u00a0Personnel from the NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service were graciously included in the OOI Pioneer Array cruise as part of an exploratory survey targeting North Atlantic right whales and recording all other marine mammals encountered.\u00a0\u00a0The population is painfully small,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":535050,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[251,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535047"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":535051,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535047\/revisions\/535051"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}