Marine mammal specialist Michael Moore (left) and MIT/WHOI student Regina Campbell-Malone (now a postdoctoral investigator at WHOI and Brown University) use fine lines to suspend the skeleton of a right whale in a WHOI parking lot. (Just off camera, a pair of coyotes spent the day eyeing the biggest bones they’d ever seen.) The bones, particularly the jaw, were imaged in three dimensions with a laser scanner. Campbell-Malone has worked with Moore to develop a computer model of right whale bone properties and how they respond to massive, blunt trauma, such as ship strikes.
(Photo by Tom Kleindinst, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Image and Visual Licensing
WHOI copyright digital assets (stills and video) contained on this website can be licensed for non-commercial use upon request and approval. Please contact WHOI Digital Assets at images@whoi.edu or (508) 289-2647.