When Dolphins Speak

GDEP team member, Talia Levine, recently had an article published in Georgia Health News. Her article, featured below, explores shared wildlife and human health risks surrounding a Superfund site on the Georgia coast. When pollutants escape into our waters, the…

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Chill Out, Hot Stuff!

Dogs pant, lizards bask in the sun, polar bears have a thick coat of translucent fur and humans sweat. All of these are different strategies used to regulate body temperature. Thermoregulation is the process that the panting dog, the basking…

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What is this?

Welcome to the Georgia Dolphin Ecology Program (GDEP) blog! As a research team devoted to the study of common bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus), we spend countless hours on the water each year watching for dolphin fins to emerge. Our surveys…

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