Each day the Dolphin Explorer departs the dock on Marco Island, in
Southwest Florida with passengers who join our survey team as we document
the population of resident dolphins.
For three hours, we travel a route in one of two survey areas.
Each time we encounter dolphins, we photograph their dorsal fins,
and record their location, behavior and other related data.
Discover new insights into the population of dolphins with creative use of these queries
LIVE NEWS
As of Monday, May 21, 2012
we have made 1,694 survey trips with
5,254 sightings.
Most recent
survey was on Sunday, May 20, 2012 resulted in 5
sightings with a total of 17 dolphin Viewed.
Of those, 16 cataloged dolphin were identified
.
We are developing a system that will allow the public to join our them as Citizen Scientist who can use our
Dorsal Fin Identification program to help us identify dolphin photos by their dorsal fin.
We take hundreds of dolphin dorsal fin photos every month that need to be compared to our Dolphin Catalog for identification.
The public's assistance will be greatly appreciated.
Watch this space if you are interested in this project.
