Authors

Publication Date

2026

College

College of Natural Resources & Sciences

Department

Wildlife

Document Type

Poster

Description

A study on how abiotic factors such as beach aspect, driftwood coverage, sediment size, and beach shape can influence the amount of marine mammal carcasses stranded per beach per year. With stranding data provided by the Maine Mammal Research and Education Program for 2025 along the Humboldt coastline of pinnipeds and cetaceans. This study can help allocate the effort based beach surveys performed by the Marine Mammal Research and Education Program (MMERP).

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