| My wife, Carol, studies population statistics of marine mammals. She received her M.S. in biology studying data collected on Pilot Whales in the Faroes Islands north of Scotland. That work was funded through the University of Massachusetts by the National Marine Fisheries. In 1998 she spent 10 months studying bottlenose dolphins in Cromarty, Scotland for the University of Aberdeen, funded by the Scottish National Heritage Foundation. Cromarty is located on the tip of the Black Isle in northern Scotland, a bit north east of Inverness. The town has its own web page which describes the town and provides links to maps of the region. The picture at the right is from Cromarty looking north across Cromarty Firth toward Nigg. | |
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The picture on the left is Carol on a short walk we took in Glen Affric. I have set up another page with more pictures of travels in the Scottish Highlands. |  |
The picture on the right are some of the bottlenose dolphins playing under the Kessock bridge near Inverness. The picture was taken by some of the lighthouse personnel on one of their twice a month dolphin surveys. Carol has gone on a number of the surveys and says it is common to see the dolphins jumping out of the water and riding the bow wave.
The University of Aberdeen field station where Carol works is located in
the light house in Cromarty. While the light house is still operational,
the field station is located in the former light house keeper's quarters.
Several times per month people at the field station take a small boat out
on Cromarty & Moray Firths on dolphin surveys. They photograph the
dolphins and identify where they were seen (and with whom). They are
able to identify each dolphin by unique dorsal fin markings.
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Carol rented a house 4 miles out of Cromarty in Jemimaville. This is a
small town in a rural farming district: On one side of the street are
cultivated fields, on the other side is a short row of houses. The
backyards border on Cromarty Firth. The picture on the right is Jemimaville.
Her house is the section of the row house in the picture on the left with
the wooden door.
| The picture to the left is of the backyard taken from the kitchen window The picture on the right is of the back yard taken from the house. The view is looking north across the firth at Invergordden. |  |
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