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The application of GIS and spatiotemporal analyses to investigations of unusual marine mammal strandings and mortality events

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Norman, Stephanie A., Huggins, Jessie, Carpenter, Tim E., Case, James T., Lambourn, Dyanna M., Rice, Jim, Calambokidis, John, Gaydos, Joseph K., Hanson, M. Bradley, Duffield, Deborah A., Dubpernell, Sandra, Berta, Susan, and Klope, Matt

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In 2006–2007, an unusually high number of harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) stranded along the Washington and Oregon coastlines. Spatiotemporal analyses were used to examine their ability to detect clusters of porpoise strandings during an unusual mortality event (UME) in the Pacific Northwest using stranding location data. Strandings were evaluated as...

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95616, U.S.A. E-mail: whaledoctor@gmail.com JESSIE HUGGINS Cascadia Research Collective, 218 1/2 W