Students will explore the use of tagging technologies in the research being conducted in the Southern Ocean around Antarctica.

Students will learn what marine mammal stranding is, how to read and interpret data to determine where and why strandings are occurring, and create a PSA to raise awareness about proper response to strandings.

Using marine mammal stranding data, students will create a model to document the location of strandings on the Oregon coast.

In this lesson, students will be using the BLAST tool to compare mitochondrial DNA samples from unknown whale species to known sequences.