From mid-February, two of our postdocs, Dr Elisa Seyboth and Dr Renan Lima, will be joining a research expedition to Antarctica, as part of the activities of the Brazilian Antarctic Program! Visual monitoring will be performed, to collect data to investigate the distribution and abundance of humpback whales and other baleen whale species. Also, we aim to get biopsy samples to continue investigating aspects related to their diet and genetics, and contaminants concentration. The data will be added to a long-term database, being built since 1996!
