Media & Outreach
Learn more about our research by reading and listening to these articles.
Mirnong Maat in the Media
Mirnong Maat featured in a recent Landscope article on ‘Migration Mysteries’ that was also picked up by Southerly Magazine. You can read the article here: Carroll et al. 2022. Migration mysteries, southern right whales_Landscope.
Mirnong Maat: 2022 fieldwork summary
As we prepare for the 2023 field season, we also reflect on what we’ve learned from the whales tagged and work done in 2022. You can read the summary of the 2022 field season here: Mirnong Maat_Report_16May23.
Changing foraging habits of southern right whales over four centuries
Science Magazine covered our recent article in PNAS on where southern right whales go to feed and how this has changed since the whaling era and since climate change has started impacting the Southern Ocean: You can read the SciMag article here and see our PNAS paper here.
NZ Geographic
New Zealand Geographic reporter Bill Morris and photographer Richard Robinson brought their fieldwork and drone flying skills to the University of Auckland 2020 Tohorā research team and created an amazing article on the recovery and future of Tohorā: Read it here or subscribe!
Radio NZ dives in
Alison Balance interviews Dr Emma Carroll about what she hopes to uncover about Tohorā nō Aotearoa as part of the University of Auckland and Cawthron Institute research project.
Tech Titans
Dr Emma Carroll explains how satellite tracking and genomic techniques can help understand how Tohorā are coping with changing seas in an article for The Conversation.