United States, April 22 -- Data and AI leader SAS is helping Fathom Science Inc., a North Carolina State University tech spin-off that is building digital twins of the ocean, validate their state-of-the-science whale location prediction model so vessels can avoid striking critically endangered North Atlantic right whales. Fathom Science seeks to provide expert, tailored information on the marine environment to enable timely and reliable decision making, empowering transformative marine operations and conservation efforts.To help protect the whales, Taylor Shropshire, Head of Marine Resiliency at Fathom Science, combined analysis of historical whale sightings with Fathom's ocean model to create WhaleCast, a heatmap projection showing the lik...