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December 17, 2025
Press release on narwhals hit moorings

Hokkaido University and the National Institute of Polar Research have issued a joint press release about our research on Narwhals hit moorings—questioning safety assumptions of oceanographic monitoring in the Arctic.

Podolskiy E.A., Ogawa M., Otsuki M., Hasegawa K., Sugiyama S.,

Repeated narwhal interactions with moorings challenge safety assumptions of passive acoustic monitoring in the Arctic.

Communications Biology, November 12, 2025.
DOI: 10.1038/s42003-025-09106-4

For more details, please see the link below.
https://www.global.hokudai.ac.jp/news/24139/