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 Comparison of Fluke catalogues and DNA Data will provide information on migratory exchange between breeding regions within Oceania and Eastern Asutralia.
Map of Oceania showing location of New Caledonia, New Zealand, Tonga, Solomons, Cook Islands, Vanuatu, Fiji, Samoa and French Polynesia. |
The South Pacific Whale Research Consortium is a network of independant researchers studying Humpbacks and other species of Cetacea in Oceania and Eastern Australia in the Southern Pacific Ocean basin. Research on humpbacks is being undertaken in New Zealand by Professor Scott Baker and Nadine Gibbs; in Tonga by Kirstey Russel and Dr Rochelle Constantine; in New Caledonia and Vanuatu by Dr Claire Garrigue; in the Cook Islands by Nan Hauser - who is also a PhD Candidate at the Southern Cross University Whale Research Centre; David Paton in Samoa, Fiji, the Solomons and by Dr Michael Poole in Moorea, French Polynesia. In 2003 The Oceania Project became an Affilliate of the South Pacific Whale Research Consortium to participate in Pacific-wide studies of humpback whales using both Photo ID and Genetic techniques. The collaborative work is already revealing migratory interchange between South Pacific and Eastern Australian Humpback Whale breeding areas. (Garrigue et al 2007). |
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