CCOM/JHC researchers Kurt Schwehr and Roland Arsenault are part of a multi-organization team that has developed an iPad/iPhone app that helps mariners avoid collision with endangered right whales along the east coast of the United States.

Read the NOAA press release here>>

Download the free app from the iTunes store here>>

Get more information on Whale Alert and the groups responsible for its development  here>>

National Geographic's News Watch blog has a post about the app. Read "Weird & Wild: New App Tracks Rare Whales with iPhone and iPad" here>>

The UNH Media Relations press release, "Protecting Whales? Thanks to UNH, There's an App for That," is available here>>

(Image provided by NOAA.)