WHITE-BEAKED DOLPHIN (Lagenorhynchus albirostris): Western North Atlantic Stock

White-beaked dolphins are the more northerly of the two species of Lagenorhynchus in the Northwest Atlantic (Leatherwood et al. 1976). The species is found in waters from southern New England, north to western and southern Greenland and Davis Straits (Leatherwood et al. 1976; CeTAP 1982), in the Barents Sea and south to at least Portugal (Reeves et al., in press). Differences in skull features indicate that there are at least two separate stocks, one in the eastern and one in the western North Atlantic (Mikkelsen and Lund 1994). No genetic analyzes have been conducted to distinguish the stock structure. In waters off the northeastern U.S. coast, white-beaked dolphin sightings have been concentrated in the western Gulf of Maine and around Cape Cod (CeTAP 1982). The limited distribution of this species in U.S. waters has been attributed to opportunistic feeding (CeTAP 1982). Prior to the 1970's, white-sided dolphins (L. acutus) in U.S. waters were found primarily offshore on the continental slope, while white-beaked dolphins were found on the continental shelf. During the 1970's, there was an apparent switch in habitat use between these two species. This shift may have been a result of the increase in sand lance in the continental shelf waters (Katona et al. 1993; Kenny et al. 1996). POPULATION SIZE The total number of white-beaked dolphins in U.S.and Canadian waters is unknown, although one abundance estimate is available for part of the known habitat in U.S. waters, and two estimates are from Canadian waters (Tabl

Geography News, v36n1, Spring 2013

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Geoscience after IT: Part L. Adjusting the emerging information system to new technology

Coherent development depends on following widely used standards that respect our vast legacy of existing entries in the geoscience record. Middleware ensures that we see a coherent view from our desktops of diverse sources of information. Developments specific to managing the written word, map content, and structured data come together in shared metadata linking topics and information types

Geography News, v35n1/2, Spring/Fall 2012

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Geography News, v37n2, Fall 2014

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Decisions on Washington Place Names

"ANNETTE. Lake, at the head of Humpback Creek, west of Silver Peak, King County, Wash.

Bangladesh through the Alphabet

Students will understand the difficulties of Bangladesh and possible solutions to those difficulties

I\u27ll Trade You Dollars for Taka

Students will convert currency from USD (United States Dollars) to BDT (Bangladesh Taka) and vice versa. Students will familiarize themselves with common prices in BDT and make comparisons costs of similar items in USD

Body Art

Students will explore the history of, uses of, and impacts of body art on cultures. Students will identify global practices of body art. Students will design their own works of body art

Map of Kabul

Sahab Geographic and Drafting Institute, Tehran (1966?). Scale 1:17,400. In English and Arabic. Map No.9