06/17/2016 - The Whalesafe project was presented today in Turin during the sixth of Cetacean Group workshop, organized during the congress of the Italian Society of Marine Biology (SIBM).
The University of Genoa (Department of Earth, Environment and Life and Physics Department), and the Port Authority of Savona, will illustrate how the WhaleSafe project, funded by the European Union, will promote the conservation of whales, through creation of a detection and alarm system with intelligent buoys, which will avoid the possible collisions of these whales with ships.
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The deployment operations for the buoys built by Edgelab for the WHALESAFE project have started. The operations are coordinate by Ilma Sub, under the supervision of University of Genoa (DIFI and DISTAV) on board of the 'Menkab', and of the Capitaneria di Porto di Savona.
The two Life projects ARION and WHALESAFE presented at the 30th Conference of the European Cetacean Society (Madeira, 14-16 Ma?rch 2016). the theme of the congress is: "Into the Deep: Research and Conservation on Oceanic Marine Mammals"
Whalesafe will be presented at the "Consciousness and communication in Dolphin" international conference at Palazzo Ducale, Genoa on May 5th.
The project was presented to the press on 11 december 2014, h 11:00 AM, at the Aula Ligure of Università di Genova. Following are some links to press articles (in Italian) concerning the event:
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