On Friday, 18 October 2025 we hosted approximately 500 high school students at
Grad Student Makes Marine Mammals "Click"
Thu, 06/22/2017 - 3:29pm
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Fall 2025 Student Research Presentation and Reception
On the evening of Thursday, 16 October 2025, we celebrated the research activities of our undergraduate and graduate
UL Lafayette Physics Master's student Sakib Mahmud tests combinations of passive acoustic monitoring equipment to find the best method to detect and measure marine mammal populations affected by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. His findings will help improve our understanding of long-term environmental impacts of the spill on deep-diving marine mammals and aid in improving oil spill regulations, monitoring, and mitigation efforts.
Read more in this June 22, 2017 feature article on the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative webpage.
Photo: Sakib stands on the deck of the R/V Pelican during LADC-GEMM’s 2015 recovery cruise. (Photo by Natalia Sidorovskaia)