Stories
Field notes and highlights from deployments, collaborations, and data discoveries
FaunaLabs combines conservation science, engineering, and field research to better understand whales and dolphins in the wild. Here are updates from tagging expeditions, technology development, and collaborations with marine researchers.
MARESIS: Measuring humpback whale health in Brazil
Starting in the Abrolhos Bank region of Bahia, Brazil, FaunaLabs supports humpback whale deployments focused on establishing health baselines and understanding responses to anthropogenic acoustic disturbance — in partnership with Instituto Baleia Jubarte and Brazilian collaborators, with project sponsorship from Petrobras CENPES.
How suction-cup tags study whales without invasive attachment
A plain-language explainer of modern whale tagging technology: how non-invasive suction-cup whale tags work, what they measure, and why this approach matters for ethical, high-quality marine mammal bio-logging.
What’s inside a marine mammal bio-logging tag
A guided tour of what modern whale tags measure — movement, acoustics, environmental context, and emerging bio-optical sensing — and how these data streams combine to reveal underwater behavior.
Whale tagging technology: how scientists study whales in the wild
An accessible overview of whale tagging technology and why whale tags are one of the most powerful tools for studying whales beneath the ocean surface.