White et al. (2024b)

Author Information

Laney White, Josh Adams, Emma Kelsey, Gavin Haight, Alex Rinkert, and Jonathan Felis: USGS Western Ecological Research Center

David Pereksta: Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM)

Matthew McKown, Abram Fleishman, and Jeff Schlueter: Conservation Metrics, Inc.

USGS WERC Seabird Studies Team: Southern California PSG Regional Report 2024

Josh Adams, Laney White, Jonathan Felis, and Alex Rinkert (USGS Western Ecological Research Center), in collaboration with Matthew McKown, Jeff Schlueter, and Abram Fleishman (Conservation Metrics Inc.), and with support from David Pereksta (BOEM) are working on manual, low-taxonomic identification of targets detected using a machine learning model in applied to aerial imagery collected off southern-central California between 2018–2021. 

Josh Adams, Laney White, Gavin Haight, and Emma Kelsey (USGS WERC), in collaboration with David Pereksta (BOEM), are working to expand the Motus Wildlife Tracking System in central and southern California with a focus on increasing tracking capacity for seabirds and bats off southern-central California and in the Southern California Bight. To date, eight new stations have been added to the network. 

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