New Maps Reduce Threats to Whales, Dolphins
Center (SEFSC); the University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW); the Virginia Aquarium and Marine Science Center (VAMSC); and other colleagues at Duke’s MGEL. Data used to construct the new maps came from surveys conducted by researchers at NEFSC, SEFSC, UNCW, VAMSC and the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. Principal funding for the mapping project came from the U.S. Navy Fleet Forces Command and NASA (grant ##NNX08AK73G). CITATION: “Habitat-based Cetacean Density Models for the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico,” Jason J. Roberts, Benjamin D.
Joint Effort on to Repair Hudson River Cable
Hudson Transmission Partners, LLC (HTP), owner and operator of an electric power cable buried beneath the Hudson River between Edgewater, New Jersey and New York City, is working closely with the U.S. Coast Guard, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP), the New York Department of Environmental Conservation (NYDEC), and other agencies to contain the release of small amounts of non-toxic cable fluid into the Hudson River. The fluid release was detected on Saturday and is the apparent result of damage to a portion of the cable in the Hudson River near the New Jersey shoreline
February 2025
