From ehines at sfsu.edu Thu Oct 2 11:03:49 2008 From: ehines at sfsu.edu (Ellen Hines) Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2008 11:03:49 -0700 Subject: [MARMAM] International Marine Conservation Congress, call for oral presentations, posters, speed presentations Message-ID: <48E50D05.1050406@sfsu.edu> sorry for any cross-postings The call for proposals for oral presentations, speed presentations, and posters for the International Marine Conservation Congress (incorporating IMPAC2) is open until 15 October 2008. Details for submission can be found at the conference website, http://www.conbio.org/IMCC SCOPE: The Marine Section of the Society for Conservation Biology will be hosting its first stand-alone meeting, the International Marine Conservation Congress (IMCC), from 20-24 May 2009 at George Mason University near Washington D.C. This will be an interdisciplinary meeting that will engage natural and social scientists, managers, policy-makers, and the public. The goal of the IMCC is to put conservation science into practice through public and media outreach and the development concrete products (e.g., policy briefs, blue ribbon position papers) that will be used to drive policy change and implementation. This meeting will encompass the 2nd International Marine Protected Areas Congress (IMPAC1 was held in Geelong, Australia in October 2005). The IMPAC2 component will consist of an organized cross cutting issue within the IMCC addressing MPAs though the full range of posters, papers, workshops and symposia. IMCC encourages authors to submit papers that apply to the major Themes and tracks below, describing original work, including methods, techniques, applications, tools, issues, reporting research results and/or indicating future directions. Major themes that will be addressed include: -Global Climate Change*, -the Land-Sea Interface*, -Ecosystem-based Management, and -Poverty and Globalization* Cross-cutting issues encompass topics of global relevance and importance to marine conservation that relate to the major themes: -Marine Protected Areas -Education, Outreach and Capacity Building* -Governance Arrangements* -Fisheries and Aquaculture* -Economics* *We are particularly interested in submissions in these themes. We anticipate that cross-cut issues will result in proposals on a variety of sub-topics. Individuals are limited to being the primary presenter for only one oral, speed, or poster presentation. If your name appears on more than one abstract, make sure you are listed as the presenter for only one of them. ORAL PRESENTATIONS will be limited to 15 minutes: 12 minutes for presentation and 3 minutes for questions. Contributed oral presentations will be grouped by theme and topic. POSTER PRESENTATIONS Poster presenters will receive general instructions on poster format In the email notification of acceptance. Posters will be displayed prominently and for the entire meeting; special sessions dedicated to posters will allow in-depth discussion between authors and attendees. SPEED PRESENTATIONS If your paper topic would be of interest to a wide range of people and you would like your presentation to lead to an extended conversation with colleagues who are specifically interested in your work, you may wish to submit an abstract for a speed presentation. In the first hour of a speed presentation session, 15 speakers will be given four (4) minutes each to present their key ideas and results. In the second hour, presenters will station themselves at separate tables where they can interact with people who are interested in learning more about their work. *We strongly encourage submissions for speed presentations! PLENARY SPEAKERS Dr. Daniel Pauly, Dr. Ratana Chuenpagdee, Dr. Rod Fujita, Dorothy Childers and Alexandra Cousteau. Dr. Callum Roberts will be giving the Dr. Ransom A. Myers Memorial Lecture at the evening banquet on May 24th. PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURES Please go to www.conbio.org/IMCC IMPORTANT DATES 1st Call for oral presentations, speed presentations, and posters: 1 September - 15 October 2008, decisions by 30 November 2008 2nd Call for 1500 word submissions (for submissions accepted at the first call only): 1 December 2008 - 15 January 2009, decisions by 1 February 2009 Early bird registration: 15 November 2008 ? 15 February 2009 CRITERIA FOR SELECTION We encourage proposals from individuals or groups involved in cutting edge conservation science or practice who can demonstrate an alignment with the goals of the Society for Conservation Biology and the SCB Marine Section, which are: * Conservation Science: The scientific research and knowledge needed to understand and conserve biological diversity is identified, funded, completed, disseminated and applied to research, management and policy. * Conservation Management: Conservation practitioners and managers are provided the scientific information and recommendations needed to conserve biological diversity at all scales. * Policy: Policy decisions of major international conventions, governments, organizations, and foundations, are effectively informed and improved by the highest quality scientific counsel, analysis,and recommendations so as to advance the conservation of biological diversity. * Education: Education, training, and capacity building programs are identified, strengthened, and developed to inform the public, education leaders, and support current and future generations of conservation scientists and practitioners. To increase the probability that your abstract will be accepted, and in your preferred format, please consider the following criteria carefully: 1. scientific merit 2. application to marine conservation/management 3. relevance to chosen theme/cross-cutting issue(s) 4. relevance to IMCC theme (?From science to management and policy?) 5. clarity of presentation (e.g. abstract begins with a clear statement of an issue and ends with a substantive conclusion) Please note: We do require that all presenters register for the IMCC by the end of early bird registration: 15 February 2009 TRAVEL GRANTS To encourage international and student participation, we will offer the opportunity to apply for grants to offset travel and other expenses. Please go to the following website: http://www2.cedarcrest.edu/imcc/travel_award.html MENTORING PROGRAM To encourage participation of members whose first language is not English, we will offer a mentoring service for participants who wish to submit abstracts for oral, speed or poster presentations. If you want to take advantage of this mentoring program, simply submit an abstract according to the standard guidelines; indicate that English is not your first language, and that you would like your abstract to be mentored. Instructions will be sent to your email address after you submit your abstract online. A mentor will contact you and provide guidance on grammar and clarity of writing. The mentor also will ensure that the abstract meets the technical criteria for submission. Note that it is NOT the role of the mentor to provide scientific guidance, or to write the abstract. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION Please email IMCCprogram at conbio.org -- Ellen Hines, PhD Chair, Scientific Program, IMCC Associate Professor Department of Geography and Human Environmental Studies San Francisco State University 1600 Holloway Ave San Francisco, CA 94132 From swtmojo13 at aol.com Thu Oct 2 15:00:15 2008 From: swtmojo13 at aol.com (swtmojo13 at aol.com) Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2008 18:00:15 -0400 Subject: [MARMAM] Lecturer in Mammalian Biochemistry Message-ID: <8CAF2F1629F5B53-1700-5FB@webmail-da08.sysops.aol.com> Position Title: Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Mammalian Biochemistry at Massey University Reference Number: A473-08B Department: Institute of Molecular BioSciences Division: College of Sciences Location: Palmerston North, New Zealand Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Mammalian Biochemistry (A473-08B) Institute of Molecular BioSciences, College of Sciences You will have a PhD and postdoctoral research experience in Biochemistry, Molecular Biology or a related discipline and enthusiasm for teaching at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Location Palmerston North, New Zealand Term of Contract Permanent Salary Range View Academic Salary Information... Closing Date 31 October 2008 Position Overview Applications are called for a Lectureship/Senior Lectureship in Mammalian Biochemistry within the Institute of Molecular BioSciences. You will have a PhD and postdoctoral research experience in Biochemistry, Molecular Biology or a related discipline and enthusiasm for teaching at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. We request a clearly articulated plan for the development of an independent and innovative research programme designed to reinforce and develop mammalian biochemistry as a research theme within the Institute. Projects that incorporate mammalian genetics or physiology would be desirable. Enquiries of a scientific nature should be directed to Dr Kathryn Stowell (Tel: +64-6-350-5155/7517; Fax +64-6-3505668; E-mail:k.m.stowell at massey.ac.nz or Professor B Scott, E - d.b.scott at massey.ac.nz. Information about the Institute can be found at http://imbs.massey.ac.nz Job Description ? Purpose Statement We seek applicants who are able to establish an active research programme and contribute to the undergraduate and postgraduate teaching in biochemistry. Responsible To The Head of the Institute of Molecular BioSciences. Key Accountability Areas Research: Lead an active research programme in Biochemistry Publish papers and other scholarly works in academic journals, books and other media Present research at national and international meetings Seek both internal and external support for research Teaching/Research Supervision: Undertake undergraduate and postgraduate teaching Develop curricula for both undergraduate and postgraduate courses Co-ordinate and administer the teaching of courses Supervise the research activities of postgraduate students and postdoctoral fellows Undertake continuing personal professional development Service to the Community: Participate in community activities that further advance the profession or field and which are consistent with the University Charter and Strategic Plan University Responsibilities: Serve on University and/or Institute committees, as requested Ensure the observance of University policy and codes of practice in all teaching, research, community service and administrative practices Contribute to the development of the Institute working environment of teamwork and co-operation Any other duties as requested by the Head of Institute Person Specification ? Qualifications A PhD in Biochemistry, Molelular Biology or a related discipline. Experience Post-doctoral experience in Biochemistry, Molecular Biology or a related discipline is required. Research experience in mammalian biochemistry is highly desirable. Experience in mammalian genetics or physiology would be an advantage. Attributes and Skills An excellent knowledge of biochemistry Initiative and enthusiasm Experimental creativity Ability to write scientific papers Ability to supervise others Ability to stimulate and excite students and researchers High level of computing skills Ability to write research grants and contracts A good knowledge of bioinformatic tools Commitment to quality improvement, upskilling personal development Ability to organise and maintain quality records Integrity and confidentiality Time-management skills Ability to work as a member of a team Region: Palmerston North, New Zealand Closing Date: 31/10/2008 View the details of this job by following this link: http://jobs.massey.ac.nz/positiondetail.asp?P=5527 Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Mammalian Biochemistry (A473-08B) Institute of Molecular BioSciences, College of Sciences -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pabsta at uncw.edu Sun Oct 5 05:10:36 2008 From: pabsta at uncw.edu (Pabst, D. Ann) Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2008 08:10:36 -0400 Subject: [MARMAM] Announcing two Assistant Professor positions in the Department of Biology and Marine Biology at UNC Wilmington Message-ID: TWO ASSISTANT PROFESSOR POSITIONS MARINE BIOLOGIST AND Cell/Molecular Biologist The Department of Biology and Marine Biology at the University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW) invites applications for two tenure-track positions starting August 2009. Marine Biologist: Candidates in any sub-discipline of marine biology are encouraged to apply. Cell and Molecular Biologist: Candidates with research interests in the field of sensory biology are especially welcomed. Duties for both positions include undergraduate and graduate teaching; the cell and molecular biologist will contribute to the anatomy and physiology sequence. Each successful candidate will be expected to maintain an extramurally funded research program involving graduate and undergraduate students. The Department offers B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees and excellent support for research is provided in the Department (http://www.uncw.edu/bio/ ) and at the Center for Marine Science (http://www.uncw.edu/cmsr/ ). Candidates must have a Ph.D. and post-doctoral experience. To apply, complete the online application available at http://consensus.uncw.edu by electronically submitting separately (1) a letter of application including brief statements of teaching and research interests, (2) a curriculum vitae, and (3) contact information for three references. MS Word or Adobe PDF attachments are preferred. For questions about the Marine Biologist position, contact Dr. Steve Kinsey (kinseys at uncw.edu; 910-962-7398); for assistance with the online application process, contact Ms. Tracie Chadwick (chadwickt at uncw.edu; 910-962-3536). For questions about the Cell and Molecular Biologist position, contact Dr. Ann Pabst (pabsta at uncw.edu ; 910-962-7266); for assistance with the online application process, contact Ms. Debbie Cronin (cronind at uncw.edu ; 910-962-3707). Priority will be given to applications received by November 10, 2008. The Department is committed to promoting diversity in education and UNCW actively fosters a diverse and inclusive working and learning environment. Qualified men and women from all racial, ethnic, or other minority groups are strongly encouraged to apply. UNCW is an equal opportunity employer. D. Ann Pabst Biology and Marine Biology University of North Carolina Wilmington 601 S. College Rd. Wilmington, NC 28403 Phone: 910-962-7266 Fax: 910-962-4066 pabsta at uncw.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From info at scanningoceansectors.org Sun Oct 5 15:45:11 2008 From: info at scanningoceansectors.org (Yvonne Miles) Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2008 08:45:11 +1000 Subject: [MARMAM] Last Week for registration on JNCC MMO and PAM training Courses Message-ID: Hi All *Scanning Ocean Sectors ? A Marine Mammal Observer (MMO) training company and Joint Nature Conservation Committee ? JNCC, recognised course for industry and research.* We have years of research behind the effective training of MMOs with courses adapted to the requirements of the clients, and taught by professionals in their specialised fields. With years of experience in the work of an MMO. *Please note that registration will close on the 13th October for the October courses * *UK** PAYMENT ONLY* *Total cost of course for 3 days including boat trip * *? PLEASE NOTE PAYMENT IS IN **GBP** BY TRANSFER ONLY OR **CASH*** * * *Late registration will be 4 weeks from course start date and will cost ?550 * *Registration will close two weeks before course starts.* * * NOTE ? There will be *ONLY **ONE** MMO COURSE IN OCTOBER 27TH- 29TH *** * ** Due to high request are running a Passive Acoustic Monitoring course for MMOs on 30 - **31st October 2008** * *This course is booking up quickly so don't leave it late* Please visit our website for more information and to register for all courses, payment must be made immediately for late registration. At the end of October there will be 2009 dates for training up on the website *Note ? There are limited numbers for each course so please book early to avoid disappointment.* If anyone is interested in advertising in our newsletter please contact us for the next issue is due out in December 2008 www.scanningoceansectors.org info at scanningoceansectors.org -- Yvonne Miles 9 Long Street Point Vernon Hervey Bay QLD 4655 Australia 0431 824 063 mob 07 4124 8320 land line info at scanningoceansectors.org www.scanningoceansectors.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Paul at ess-ltd.co.uk Mon Oct 6 08:22:53 2008 From: Paul at ess-ltd.co.uk (Paul Gill) Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:22:53 +0100 Subject: [MARMAM] Job opportunity - Marine Ornithologist / Offshore Survey Manager Message-ID: Job Vacancy - Marine Ornithologist/ Offshore Survey Manager Environmentally Sustainable Systems Ltd (ESS) is a well established UK-based consultancy operating primarily in the offshore ornithological survey and assessment market. With experience on over seventy offshore and onshore renewable energy projects, we are diversifying into emerging offshore and terrestrial markets, including wave and tidal, housing, commercial and other terrestrial developments. Due to expansion in the offshore wind, wave and tidal sectors we are currently seeking a highly experienced marine ornithologist with good knowledge of marine mammals to lead offshore survey and assessment work including marine ecological impact assessment studies and ongoing monitoring. The post will be based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Candidates must possess: ? Expert knowledge of UK seabirds and ideally marine mammals. ? Proven track record in organising and leading offshore surveys. ? Project management and report writing skills. ? Experience of GIS and databases. ? High level of organisation, adaptability and ability to work in a team. - Please find an outline of roles, responsibilities, and criteria below application details We offer a competitive salary with attractive training and development prospects and strong commitment to environmental excellence, the highest H&S standards and the pursuit of high quality standards. Interviews will take place in Edinburgh in late October 2008. Closing date for applications is 14:00 14th October 2008 To apply for the above post please fill out the application form at http://www.ess- ltd.co.uk/ information/ recruitment. php (please use as many pages as necessary and expand boxes to fit your requirements) , and send along with a covering letter to paul at ess- ltd.co.uk or by post to: Paul Gill (Director), Environmentally Sustainable Systems Ltd, 70 Cumberland Street, Edinburgh, EH3 6RE. The Job: Roles and Responsibilities: 1. Managing seabird and marine mammal surveys. 2. Co-ordinating and liaising with offshore contractors, boat skippers and clients. 3. Data coding, summarisation and presentation in interim reports, using database and macros. 4. Data searches, evaluation, analysis and interpretation. 5. Producing maps using ArcView GIS. 6. Writing offshore reports. 7. Writing offshore tender documents and quotations. 8. Financial management of offshore projects 9. Quality management, health, safety and environment risk assessment. 10. Attending client meetings, conferences, seminars and workshops. 11. Assisting other Project Managers where appropriate. 12. Tracking bird and marine mammal survey and research, biodiversity assessment and EcIA. 13. Tracking offshore markets and targeting work opportunities. 14. Developing effective stakeholder networks & relationships 15. Contributing to systems for continuous improvement and problem prevention 16. Undergoing Safety and Professional Training as appropriate 17. Reporting directly to Director The Person: Essential Criteria: ? Must have expert seabird and good marine mammal identification skills. ? Educated ideally to degree level or above (at least diploma or equivalent) in a relevant discipline ? Proven track record in organising and leading offshore surveys ? Project Management and report writing experience with attention to detail ? Proven track record in delivering high quality outputs to agreed deadlines to meet project execution and deliverables within budget ? Ability to work well under pressure and be able to use own initiative in a self motivated fashion ? A genuine concern for environmental issues, and a sympathetic interest in renewable energy. ? Capacity to understand clients needs and design cost- effective solutions to meet these. ? Excellent computer skills including Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, and GIS (preferably ArcView*). ? Excellent interpersonal and teamwork skills ? Capacity to rapidly grasp, evaluate and present complex information from a variety of sources. ? Good communication skills both verbal and written ? High level of organization and adaptability Desirable Criteria: ? Expert marine mammal identification skills and practical knowledge of survey techniques ? Knowledge and experience of biodiversity assessment and/or ecological impact assessment. ? Masters degree in a relevant discipline. ? Practical experience in ESAS seabird surveying techniques. ? Up to date Personal Sea Survival Techniques/BOSIET/ HUET Certificates. ? First class customer care, networking and telephone skills Paul Gill MIIEM Principal & Director ESS Ltd 70 Cumberland Street Edinburgh EH3 6RE Tel: 0131 556 9119 Fax: 0131 556 9118 E-mail: paul at ess-ltd.co.uk Website: http://www.ess-ltd.co.uk Please consider the environment and only print emails where necessary -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mbaumgartner at whoi.edu Tue Oct 7 06:33:29 2008 From: mbaumgartner at whoi.edu (Mark Baumgartner) Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 09:33:29 -0400 Subject: [MARMAM] publication Message-ID: Colleagues, The following paper was recently published in a special issue of a journal that does not typically print marine mammal articles (sad as that may be). I thought some of you may be interested. The article is freely available for download at http://aslo.org/lo/toc/vol_53/ issue_5_part_2 or by request to me. Kind regards, Mark Baumgartner Baumgartner, M.F. and D.M. Fratantoni. 2008. Diel periodicity in both sei whale vocalization rates and the vertical migration of their copepod prey observed from ocean gliders. Limnology and Oceanography 53: 2197-2209. Abstract: The daily activity cycles of marine predators may be dictated in large part by the timing of prey availability. For example, recent studies have observed diel periodicity in baleen whale vocalization rates that are thought to be governed by the diel vertical migration of their zooplanktonic prey. We addressed this hypothesis by studying associations between sei whale (Balaenoptera borealis) vocalization rates, oceanographic conditions, and the vertical distribution of the whales? prey, the calanoid copepod Calanus finmarchicus, during May 2005 in the southwestern Gulf of Maine using an array of autonomous ocean gliders. Each of the four gliders was equipped with sensors to measure temperature, salinity, and chlorophyll fluorescence. Three of the four gliders carried a digital acoustic recorder and the fourth carried a 1-MHz acoustic Doppler current profiler. We observed strong diel periodicity in the acoustic backscatter measured by the current profiler that we attribute (based on a corroborating shipboard study) to the diel vertical migration of C. finmarchicus. Sei whale vocalization rates also exhibited diel periodicity, with more calls detected during the daytime when C. finmarchicus was observed at depth. We found no evidence to suggest that the observed patterns in sei whale calling rates were attributable to diel periodicity in background noise or acoustic propagation conditions. Sei whales are adept at foraging on nearsurface aggregations of C. finmarchicus; therefore we expect that the whales were feeding at night. We hypothesize that calling rates are reduced at night while the whales are feeding, but increase with social activity during the day when copepods are either more difficult or less efficient to capture at depth. The gliders? persistence during adverse weather conditions experienced during the study allowed continuous collocated observations of whale vocalization behavior and oceanographic conditions that have not been previously possible with traditional shipboard techniques. Mark Baumgartner Assistant Scientist Biology Department Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution MS #33, Redfield 256 Woods Hole, MA 02543 mbaumgartner at whoi.edu http://www.whoi.edu/sites/mbaumgartner (508)289-2678 phone (508)457-2134 fax -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ajmilette at gmail.com Tue Oct 7 18:13:33 2008 From: ajmilette at gmail.com (aliza milette) Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 15:13:33 -1000 Subject: [MARMAM] Cetacean Research Internship Opportunity Message-ID: <3b7ea6980810071813j40455c28y173a08d0ca4cf0e4@mail.gmail.com> *Internship Opportunity*: The Dolphin Institute (TDI), Ko Olina, Hawai'i is offering a limited number of internships for college-level students to assist in field surveys of cetaceans, in processing of obtained data, and in development and presentation of marine conservation education programs for local students and the general public. TDI is a marine mammal science and education center located at Ko Olina in leeward Oahu that focuses on whales and dolphins in Hawaiian waters. It is directed by Dr. Adam Pack, Assistant Professor at University of Hawai'i at Hilo, and Dr. Louis Herman, an emeritus professor at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. Further information on TDI can be found at www.dolphin-institute.org. During the winter of 2008-2009, TDI will focus on surveys of cetaceans off the Leeward Coast of Oahu, on processing and analyzing our archives of dolphin and humpback whale data, and on public education programs. The internship is part time and unpaid. Interns are responsible for their own housing and transportation to Ko Olina. On-water research will be conducted aboard our 19 or 21foot outboard boats. Data processing and analysis will take place at the Ko Olina lab. Public education may take place at our learning center at the Ko Olina lab, at public venues, or at local schools. Interns can expect to participate in and learn a variety of facets of marine mammal research including: Photo-identification Digitizing and enhancing identification photographs Behavioral recording Data entry and analysis Conservation Boat safety Familiarity with cetacean research and literature Public education. We are accepting applicants immediately. Interns must complete at least three full days for a three-month period. Interns who are interested is staying longer will be evaluated at the end of the three-month period. The internship begins at the end of November 2008 and ends at the end of February 2009. Requirements: College or post-college education preferred; experience in research; two letters of recommendation; ability to work closely and harmoniously in a team atmosphere; self-motivation. Desirable qualifications: Marine mammal experience, experience with computer programs such as Aperture, Photoshop, FileMaker Pro, digital photography experience. Placement for this internship is highly competitive. TDI is looking for extremely motivated and dedicated individuals. Send cover letter indicating why you are seeking this internship and why you feel you are qualified, complete resume, college transcripts, and two letters of recommendation. *Send applications or inquiries by email* to the Field Project and Education Coordinator, Aliza Milette, at AJMilette at gmail.com. Positions are open until filled, but early application is encouraged. -- Aliza J. Milette Field Project & Education Coordinator Cetacean Project The Dolphin Institute AJMilette at gmail.com office: 808-679-3690 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Kate.Swails at noaa.gov Wed Oct 8 06:57:11 2008 From: Kate.Swails at noaa.gov (Kate Swails) Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 09:57:11 -0400 Subject: [MARMAM] Authorizations and Permits for Protected Species (APPS) online permit system launch Message-ID: <48ECBC37.6040703@noaa.gov> The NOAA Fisheries Service's Office of Protected Resources, Northwest Regional Office, and Southwest Regional Office are pleased to announce the launch of the Authorizations and Permits for Protected Species (APPS) online permit system. The goal of APPS is to provide a consolidated location where researchers can apply online for several different types of permits under the authority of the Endangered Species Act (ESA) of 1973 and the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) of 1972. (https://apps.nmfs.noaa.gov ) APPS covers permits/authorizations for a variety of different species including, but not limited to, sea turtles, Pacific salmonids, shortnose sturgeon, whales, dolphins, seals, and sea lions. The types of permits and authorizations that are currently available online through APPS are: . MMPA/ESA scientific research/enhancement . MMPA/ESA parts . ESA 10(a)(1)(A) scientific research/enhancement . 4(d) authorizations for Pacific marine and anadromous fish APPS includes a Pre-Application Guide (PAG) to tell researchers what type of permit they need, if any. The PAG informs the user how to obtain the appropriate application online or by contacting a permit analyst. Besides providing the convenience of applying for a permit online, APPS offers researchers a variety of advantages both during the application process and after their permit has been issued. APPS provides researchers the security of a password-protected profile. Researchers have a customized Portfolio page that displays all current and previous permits that they are/were affiliated with. Applications can be edited until the researcher is ready to submit. Researchers have the ability to track their application through the review and clearance process. By viewing the Status page, researchers can find out whether their application has been published in the Federal Register, who has been assigned as their permit analyst, and what types of analyses (e.g., National Environmental Policy Act) are required. After a permit has been issued, researchers can continue to access APPS to instantly view their take tables, personnel list, and other key dates. Permit holders can request modifications to their permits via APPS. Annual, incident, and final reports may also be submitted online. Permit holders will automatically receive emails reminding them of when their reports are due and recommending when they should begin preparing a new application. If researchers are currently a NMFS permit holder they will need a temporary password to log in and view their portfolio for the first time. Contact the Office of Protected Resources, Permits Conservation, and Education Division for more information (301) 713-2289. Please note: You may still submit paper applications if you prefer. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From michael.daehne at meeresmuseum.de Wed Oct 8 09:18:29 2008 From: michael.daehne at meeresmuseum.de (=?utf-8?B?RMOkaG5lIE1pY2hhZWw=?=) Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 18:18:29 +0200 Subject: [MARMAM] Remote sensing for marine research workshop announcement, November 20/21 Message-ID: Sorry for crossposting The workshop: Remote sensing to assess the distribution and abundance of seabirds and marine mammals: Possible applications for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) will be held in Stralsund/Germany, November 20/21 2008. The assessment of distribution and abundance of marine mammals and seabirds is essential for the monitoring of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) and crucial in the course of Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs), e.g. for the construction of wind farms. The most commonly used techniques such as standard line transect surveys with ships or planes are costly, heavily influenced by weather conditions and can provide statistically sound results only for larger areas. This necessitates thinking about new methods to enable researchers and consultancies to find appropriate measures for nature protection as well as reasonable ways to incorporate species protection into marine building activities. A possible solution for these specific problems could be the increased use of remote sensing methods to reduce cost and logistic effort. While high-definition video surveys have already been used for the monitoring of larger whales and seabirds it is questionable, whether its resolution is adequate for smaller mammals and birds. In these cases, the higher resolution of still images might be preferable. The following workshop will focus on the current applications of remote sensing for marine and terrestrial research and the possibilities to employ Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for such research aims. One important issue of this workshop will be the general discussion of remote sensing technologies and their use in the research of marine mammals and avifauna. The second part of the workshop will be dedicated to UAV-technologies, their possible future use, availability to non-military users and current limitations. Advantages and disadvantages of UAVs shall be highlighted. The presentations will demonstrate the wide range of current and future applications of UAV?s for monitoring environmental issues on sea and land. The workshop is organized by the German Oceanographic Museum in Stralsund in cooperation with the Rostock University. The workshop will be held in Stralsund, Germany in the new-built facilities of the OZEANEUM from November 20th noon to November 21st noon. A detailed workshop programme will be provided to registered participants four weeks in advance. A preliminary is attached to this e-mail. The workshop fee will be 20 ? for participants. In accompany with the workshop, a special dinner will be offered in the evening of the 20th November for an additional charge of 28 ?. Best regards Michael D?hne and G?rres Grenzd?rffer German Oceanographic Museum Museum f?r Meereskunde und Fischerei ? Aquarium Stiftung des b?rgerlichen Rechts Katharinenberg 14-20 18439 Stralsund Tel.: +49 (3831) 2650-391 Fax: + 49 (3831) 2650-249 michael.daehne at meeresmuseum.de www.meeresmuseum.de Director Dr. Harald Benke Ust. 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In January two Cuvier's beaked whales were found on the south coast of the island. For more information on the pilot whale stranding please contact Dr. Steve Box (Utila Centre for Marine Ecology) at: steve at utilaecology.org From minnes at mmc.gov Thu Oct 9 13:28:54 2008 From: minnes at mmc.gov (Mina Innes) Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 16:28:54 -0400 Subject: [MARMAM] Job opportunity at U.S. Marine Mammal Commission Message-ID: <006201c92a4d$a655a990$f300fcb0$@gov> The U.S. Marine Mammal Commission is seeking qualified applicants for the Assistant Scientific Program Director position (GS 12/14). To learn more about this position, please go to USAJobs (http://www.usajobs.opm.gov/) and search for the announcement number MM-09-01 or by the control number 1357711. Applications are due no later than November 20. 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Fine-scale habitat modeling of a top marine predator: Do prey data improve predictive capacity? Ecological Applications. 18(7), 1702-1717. Abstract: Predators and prey assort themselves relative to each other, the availability of resources and refuges, and the temporal and spatial scale of their interaction. Predictive models of predator distributions often rely on these relationships by incorporating data on environmental variability and prey availability to determine predator habitat selection patterns. This approach to predictive modeling holds true in marine systems where observations of predators are logistically difficult, emphasizing the need for accurate models. In this paper, we ask whether including prey distribution data in fine-scale predictive models of bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) habitat selection in Florida Bay, Florida, USA, improves predictive capacity. Environmental characteristics are often used as predictor variables in habitat models of top marine predators with the assumption that they act as proxies of prey distribution. We examine the validity of this assumption by comparing the response of dolphin distribution and fish catch rates to the same environmental variables. Next, the predictive capacities of four models, with and without prey distribution data, are tested to determine whether dolphin habitat selection can be predicted without recourse to describing the distribution of their prey. The final analysis determines the accuracy of predictive maps of dolphin distribution produced by modeling areas of high fish catch based on significant environmental characteristics. We use spatial analysis and independent data sets to train and test the models. Our results indicate that, due to high habitat heterogeneity and the spatial variability of prey patches, fine-scale models of dolphin habitat selection in coastal habitats will be more successful if environmental variables are used as predictor variables of predator distributions rather than relying on prey data as explanatory variables. However, predictive modeling of prey distribution as the response variable based on environmental variability did produce high predictive performance of dolphin habitat selection, particularly foraging habitat. Leigh G. Torres Post-doctoral researcher National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) 301 Evans Bay Parade, Greta Point, Kilbirnie, Wellington, New Zealand. E-mail: l.torres at niwa.co.nz From isabelle.charrier at u-psud.fr Fri Oct 10 07:03:50 2008 From: isabelle.charrier at u-psud.fr (Isabelle Charrier) Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:03:50 +0200 Subject: [MARMAM] symposium announcement Message-ID: <20081010140327.522BE59ACAB@smtp2.u-psud.fr> Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to announce that our proposal for organizing a symposium of ?Acoustic communication in terrestrial and aquatic mammals? has been accepted by the Organization Committee of the 10th International Mammalogical Conference, which will be hosted in Mendoza, Argentina next year. We would like to invite all the ?bioacousticians? to submit their proposals to take part in this event. The symposium will consist of two types of presentations (please refer to the attachment for further information): a) Oral presentations: Because the symposium is planned to last 3 hours and a half, we are limited to 6-7 speakers maximum. Hence, we ask all those who are interested in participating as speakers to send us a 2-page written proposal (in English) of the topic you are studying that involves acoustic communication (aerial or underwater) in mammal species, what are your main results and how this research has contributed to the growth of a particular biological discipline in your country and in general. We would appreciate if you could also send us your contact information (work affiliation and e-mail address). Speakers will have 20 minutes and presentations should be done in English, the official language of the conference. b) Posters: Due to the amount of people we expect for this event, we asked the IMC organization committee permission to organize a satellite poster session after the symposium, so students, professors and researchers working in different aspects involving acoustic communication can gather together to exchange ideas, discuss different perspectives and learn more about vocal communication and how they serve as interesting study model in different areas of research. Those of you who are interested in participating in this poster session should send a brief description of your area of research and your contact information as well. Deadline for submission of proposals to participate in the symposium and/or the satellite poster session is July 20th. Proposals should be emailed to Ana Paula Cutrera: acutrera8 at gmail.com We hope to see you all next year in Mendoza! 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URL: From salvador.herrando-perez at adelaide.edu.au Sat Oct 11 03:27:29 2008 From: salvador.herrando-perez at adelaide.edu.au (Salvador Herrando-Perez) Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 20:57:29 +1030 Subject: [MARMAM] DENSITY DEPENDENCE - A REVIEW Message-ID: <1223720849.48f07f91132b7@webmail.adelaide.edu.au> Dear listers and colleagues, WHO: I am a PhD student reviewing the concept of density dependent (DD) in ecology, under supervision of Corey Bradshaw and Barry Brook at the University of Adelaide (South Australia). REQUEST: I am gathering an audience of respondents to a fairly simple questionnaire dealing with regulation of population size and demographic density dependent (DD) feedbacks. The results of the questionnaire will be incorporated in a manuscript in which I am reviewing the use of DD across taxa and ecosystems in the ecological literature (1980-present). AIM: Given that many authors have stated that a main cause of the regulation debate has been terminology, my goal is not to produce new definitions (which would do nothing but add more unnecessary rhetoric to the debate), but to assess the degree of consensus in the conceptualization of DD and of related terms. 

 QUESTIONNAIRE DESIGN: a list of closed questions on 4 topics. It should take you not more than 20 min. to complete. 

HOW: If you are interested in filling the questionnaire, please send me an e-mail (to me not to the list). Questionnaires will be distributed next week and would need to be completed within 1 week from reception. IMPORTANT NOTE: Please the survey is directed to people who have some empirical/theoretical experience in demographic studies and is aware of the regulation/limitation paradigms as initiated by John Nicholson versus Herbert Andrewartha in the 1930?s or followed by authors like Alan Berryman, Charles Krebs, Robert May, Anthony Sinclair or Peter Turchin in the last two decades. Looking forward to hearing from you, and many thanks for your time on this request.

Sincerely, Salva Salvador Herrando-P?rez 
School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia
Office phone: +61 8 8303 5254 / Office fax: +61 8 8303 4347 / Mobile phone: +61 406049010
 https://www.adelaide.edu.au/directory/salvador.herrando-perez / salvador.herrando-perez at adelaide.edu.au From Stecki1 at web.de Thu Oct 9 18:03:43 2008 From: Stecki1 at web.de (Andre Steckenreuter) Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 03:03:43 +0200 Subject: [MARMAM] volunteers for dolphin research in Australia 2009 Message-ID: <169028629@web.de> The Marine Mammal Research Group of the Macquarie University in Sydney is currently looking for volunteers during the winter season 2009. The boat-based surveys will be carried out in the Port Stephens-Great Lakes Marine Park, 200 km north of Sydney, from 23rd February to 23rd March 2009. Interns will participate in the field on a daily basis collecting behavioural data of Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus) in conjunction with the impact of dolphin-watching boats. The internship offers an excellent opportunity for qualified and motivated individuals to obtain field training in photo-identification methodology and analysis with experienced dolphin researchers. Ideal internship applicants are at least undergraduates of a scientifically oriented university subject. Preferably, participants should have a motor boat driving license and/or experience in marine mammal photo-ID. Accommodation and food are provided during the stay but applicants are responsible for all travelling expenses to and from the field site. Interested applicants should contact Andre Steckenreuter: astecken at gse.mq.edu.au _______________________________________________________________________ Jetzt neu! Sch?tzen Sie Ihren PC mit McAfee und WEB.DE. 30 Tage kostenlos testen. http://www.pc-sicherheit.web.de/startseite/?mc=022220 From Tom.Reinert at MyFWC.com Tue Oct 14 07:47:19 2008 From: Tom.Reinert at MyFWC.com (Reinert, Tom) Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 10:47:19 -0400 Subject: [MARMAM] Job Announcement: Florida GIS/database research scientist Message-ID: <51E0A0A486E65241A3B40B9D83019604029EB299@FWC-TLEX3.fwc.state.fl.us> ASSOCIATE RESEARCH SCIENTIST FLORIDA FISH AND WILDLIFE CONSERVATION COMMISSION FISH AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH INSTITUTE Position Number: 770071759 Closing Date: 11/07/08 Location: SAINT PETERSBURG County: Pinellas County Annual Salary : $51,045.54 Announcement Type: Open Competitive Position Description: The Fish & Wildlife Research Institute (FWRI) is seeking candidates for the position of Associate Research Scientist. Job duties include: Integrates GIS methods and analytical techniques with spatial databases resulting in applications and spatially explicit models and analyses of marine mammals including North Atlantic right whales and Florida manatees primarily to provide information to natural resource managers. Works to develop models of marine mammal movements, distributions, risk assessments, and effectiveness of proposed management strategies using empirical data on spatial distribution, habitat variables, and vessel traffic patterns. Provides statistical inference from existing spatial databases, and assists in the development of efficient sampling designs for the collection of future data. Prepares written reports regarding interpretation and analysis of GIS and biological data for manatees and right whales. Publishes data in refereed journals or peer-reviewed books and proceedings. Reviews and evaluates reports, proposals, and manuscripts pertaining to marine mammals. Participates in editorial review of scientific manuscripts written by other researchers. Works as a member of dynamic section teams as an analytical consultant. Consults with and advises government agencies in evaluation of manatee and right whale biological data collected by FWC and other agencies. Provides guidance to the FWC Imperiled Species Management on interpreting and using marine mammal data. Seeks extramural funding. Education: A master's degree and 4 yrs. of professional experience as described above; or a doctorate with 2 years of experience. Candidates with PhD may be given preference. Desired Qualifications: Knowledge of research principles and techniques for wildlife and habitats, Knowledge of marine mammals and wildlife biology. Ability to collect and manage data; plan, organize, and coordinate work assignments; communicate effectively verbally and in writing; a demonstrated ability to supervise assigned personnel in a coaching and mentoring manner and to establish and maintain effective working relationships, and to work in excess of 40 hours per week if needed. Skill in use of ArcGIS including programming (such as Python or other scripting languages) and experience with ArcGIS Model builder, statistical software, and database management. This position is a State of Florida Full Time Employee (FTE) position which provides a full benefit package. THE STATE OF FLORIDA IS AN EEO/AA EMPLOYER. PURSUANT TO CHAPTER 295 FLORIDA STATUTES VETERANS AND SPOUSES OF VETERANS MAY RECEIVE PREFERENCE IN EMPLOYMENT AND ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY. APPLY ON-LINE at: https://peoplefirst.myflorida.com/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lmaycollado at gmail.com Tue Oct 14 11:49:07 2008 From: lmaycollado at gmail.com (Laura May-Collado) Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:49:07 -0400 Subject: [MARMAM] New paper: Tursiops whistles Message-ID: The following paper is available at http://www.asmjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-toc&issn=1545-1542 Journal of Mammalogy, 89(5):1229?1240, 2008 A COMPARISON OF BOTTLENOSE DOLPHIN WHISTLES IN THE ATLANTIC OCEAN: FACTORS PROMOTING WHISTLE VARIATION LAURA J. MAY-COLLADO* AND DOUGLAS WARTZOK George Mason University, Department of Environmental Science & Policy, MSN 5F2, 4400 University Drive, Fairfax, VA 22030, USA (LJM-C) Florida International University, Department of Environmental Science, 11200 SW 8th Street, Miami, FL 33199, USA (DW) Whistles are narrowband, frequency-modulated sounds produced by many cetaceans. Whistles are extensively studied in delphinids, where several factors have been proposed to explain between- and within-species variation. We examined factors associated with geographic variation in whistles of common bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) by assessing the role of ambient noise, noise from boats, and sympatry with other dolphin species, and reviewing and comparing whistle structure across populations in the western and eastern Atlantic Ocean. Whistles of adjacent populations differed, particularly in frequency parameters. A combination of factors may contribute to microgeographic whistle variation, including differences in ambient noise levels (dolphins produced relatively higher frequency whistles in the noisiest habitat), and differences in number of boats present (when multiple boats were present, dolphins whistled with greater frequency modulation and whistles were higher in maximum frequency and longer than when a single boat was present). Whistles produced by adjacent populations were relatively similar in structure. However, for clearly separated populations, the distance between them did not relate directly to whistle structure. We propose that plasticity in bottlenose dolphin whistles facilitates adaptation to local and changing conditions of their habitat, thus promoting variation between populations at different geographic scales. Key words: ambient noise, boat traffic, Costa Rica, Panama, Sotalia, sympatry, Tursiops -- Laura J. May-Collado, Ph.D. Affiliate Assistant Professor Department of Environmental Science & Policy George Mason University Email: lmaycollado at gmail.com Personal Home Page: www.delphinids.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jan.herrmann at cetacea.de Wed Oct 15 08:30:32 2008 From: jan.herrmann at cetacea.de (Jan Herrmann) Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:30:32 +0200 Subject: [MARMAM] New publications week 32 Message-ID: Dear all, here are some new publications of week 32/ 2008, which haven't been announced on MARMAM earlier AFAIK. By clicking the following link you are guided to a website, where the following references are linked to their according journal homepages. There you can find abstracts and contact information: Please do not contact MARMAM, the MARMAM editors or me for reprints. Thank you. Thanks to all of you who sent in reprints to be included in the weekly announcements. Kindest Regards, Jan Herrmann CETACEA Brown, S. et al. (2008): British Arctic whaling logbooks and journals: a provisional listing. Polar Record 44(4): 311-320. Glackin, S.N. (2008): Dolphin natures, human virtues: MacIntyre and ethical naturalism. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 39(3): 292-297.Epub. Harms, C. et al. (2008): Bartonella species detection in captive, stranded and free-ranging cetaceans. Veterinary Research 39(6): 59. Lambert, O., G. Bianucci, and C. De Muizon (2008): A new stem-sperm whale (Cetacea, Odontoceti, Physeteroidea) from the latest Miocene of Peru. Comptes Rendus Palevol 7(6): 361-369. Laran, S. and A. Gannier (2008): Spatial and temporal prediction of fin whale distribution in the northwestern Mediterranean Sea. ICES Journal of Marine Science 65(7): 1260-1269. Martin, A.R., V.M.F. da Silva, and P. Rothery (2008): Object carrying as socio-sexual display in an aquatic mammal. Biology Letters 4(3): 243-245. Cruwys, L. (2008): A COMPLETE GUIDE TO ANTARCTIC WILDLIFE: THE BIRDS AND MARINE MAMMALS OF THE ANTARCTIC CONTINENT AND THE SOUTHERN OCEAN. Second edition. Hadoram Shirihai. 2007. London: A&C Black. 544 p, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 978-0-7136-6406-5. ?35.00. Polar Record 44(4): 380-381. PINNIPEDIA Burton, R. (2008): SEAL FISHERIES OF THE FALKLAND ISLANDS AND DEPENDENCIES: AN HISTORICAL OVERVIEW. A.B. Dickinson. 2007. St John's, Newfoundland: International Maritime Economic History Association (Research in Maritime History 34). viii + 202 p, illustrated, soft cover. ISBN 978-0-9738934-4-1. Polar Record 44(4): 371-372. Ducatez, S. et al. (2008): Stable isotopes document winter trophic ecology and maternal investment of adult female southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) breeding at the Kerguelen Islands. Marine Biology 155(4): 413-420. Mauck, B. et al. (2008): Harbour seals (Phoca vitulina) can steer by the stars. Animal Cognition 11(4): 715-718. Pearson, M. et al. (2008): Sealer's sledge excavated on Livingston Island, South Shetland Islands. Polar Record 44(4): 362-364. OTHER MARINE MAMMALS Anonymous (2008): Alaska's polar bears trigger lawsuit from industry. Nature 455(7209): 13. Krause, J. et al. (2008): Mitochondrial genomes reveal an explosive radiation of extinct and extant bears near the Miocene-Pliocene boundary. BMC Evolutionary Biology 8(): 220. Tripp, K.M. et al. (2008): Validation of a serum immunoassay to measure progesterone and diagnose pregnancy in the West Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus). Theriogenology 70(7): 1030-1040. -- --> jan.herrmann -at - cetacea.de From matthew.curnock at jcu.edu.au Tue Oct 14 23:36:17 2008 From: matthew.curnock at jcu.edu.au (Matthew Curnock) Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:36:17 +1000 (EST) Subject: [MARMAM] MARMAM submission - two topics on dwarf minke whales Message-ID: <20081015163617.BVG31792@mirapoint-ms1.jcu.edu.au> Dear Sir/Madam, On behalf of the Minke Whale Project research team (James Cook University, Townsville, Australia), please accept the following submission (two notices) for posting to the MARMAM list: -------------------------------------------------- 1. Updated Code of Practice for swimming-with-dwarf minke whales in the GBRWHA now available online. ----- The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA) recently published an updated Code of Practice for dwarf minke whale interactions in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area. This Code of Practice has been developed collaboratively, based on the best available scientific information, with input from key stakeholders including swimming-with-whales endorsed tourism operators, Minke Whale Project researchers from James Cook University of North Queensland (Australia), staff from the GBRMPA and the Queensland Environmental Protection Agency, and key national and international NGOs. Citation: Birtles, A., Arnold, P., Curnock, M., Salmon, S., Mangott, A., Sobtzick, S., Valentine, P., Caillaud, A. & Rumney, J. (2008). Code of Practice for dwarf minke whale interactions in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area. Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, Townsville, Australia. The Code of Practice is available in PDF format from the GBRMPA website: http://www.gbrmpa.gov.au/corp_site/key_issues/conservation/natural_values/whales_dolphins/dwarf_minke_whales For more information about the Code of Practice or the Minke Whale Project (MWP), please contact: Dr Alastair Birtles (MWP Research Team Leader): Alastair.Birtles at jcu.edu.au OR Matt Curnock (PhD Candidate): Matthew.Curnock at jcu.edu.au -------------------------------------------------- 2. New paper on the 'Use of videogrammetry to estimate length to provide population demographics of dwarf minke whales in the northern Great Barrier Reef'. ----- The following paper was published recently in the Journal of Cetacean Research and Management: Dunstan, A., Sobtzick, S., Birtles, A. & Arnold, P. (2007). Use of videogrammetry to estimate length to provide population demographics of dwarf minke whales in the northern Great Barrier Reef. J. Cetacean Res. Manage. 9(3): 215-223. ABSTRACT Commercial swim-with-whale programmes, based on the dwarf minke whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata), have been conducted in Great Barrier Reef waters since 1996 and under permit since 2003. Evaluating the effectiveness of management requires information on the biology of the whales, including possible impacts on their critical life stages, such as mating or calving. In this study, length measurements have been used as the best available proxy for age and thus state of sexual maturity. Underwater videogrammetry was used to estimate the lengths of dwarf minke whales interacting with boats and swimmers during June/July 2003 and 2004. The calibrations used to correct systematic biases in distance and length estimates are presented and other sources of error associated with the methodology and the behaviour of the whales are discussed. Mean lengths (from replicate measurements of individually identified whales) ranged 4.82-6.61m in 2003 (n=23, from five encounters) and 4.48-7.18m in 2004 (n=56, from 29 encounters). The overall mean length (2003: 5.90m, 2004: 5.73m) did not differ significantly between years. In both years, the mean lengths of the majority of whales (2003: 57%; 2004: 59%) were less than 6m, which is regarded as sexually immature based on available life history data. The size ranges within a single encounter were broad; no encounter was dominated by one size class. Segregation by size was not observed. This paper presents the first field measurements of dwarf minke whales on their tropical wintering grounds. While most whales interacting with vessels or swimmers were immature, adult whales, including cow-calf pairs, also were! involved. More information, especially on cumulative effects, is needed to assess the impact of these swim-with programmes. PDF copies are available on request: Susan.Sobtzick at jcu.edu.au -------------------------------------------------- Yours sincerely, Matt Curnock. -- Matt Curnock Research Officer & PhD Candidate Tourism & Environmental Sciences c/- School of Business, James Cook University Townsville, QLD 4811, Australia Tel: +61 7 4781 5428, Fax: +61 7 4781 4019 Email: Matthew.Curnock at jcu.edu.au http://www.minkewhaleproject.org http://www.dugongturtletourism.org -- Latest MWP 2008 Research Newsletter now available online: http://www.minkewhaleproject.org/MWP_2008ResearchNewsletter10.pdf -- From christophe.johnson at mac.com Tue Oct 14 11:45:54 2008 From: christophe.johnson at mac.com (Christopher Johnson) Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:45:54 -0700 Subject: [MARMAM] New Education Programs and Online Videos - WHALE TRACKERS Message-ID: <64EDA86C-5E2C-4370-85FD-A20D8F33E080@mac.com> Dear Marmam Readers, I am pleased to announce two new educational media programs produced by earthOCEAN. We recently launched a new website dedicated to sharing stories of the science of whales, dolphins and porpoises around the world and highlight the people studying these animals in the wild ? Whale Trackers. http://www.whaletrackers.com The programs include - 1.) ?The Search for the Desert Porpoise? - An online documentary film and behind the scenes blog from the field documenting the Vaquita. In October and November 2008, we follow international scientists on expedition in the northern Gulf of California, Mexico in their search to study the Vaquita ? the desert porpoise. We follow this unique collaborative effort between the Instituto Nacional de Ecologia in Ensenada, Mexico (INE) and NOAA Fisheries - Southwest Fisheries Science Center in La Jolla, CA to implement long-term strategies to help save this population of 150 animals from extinction. We will meet the people living and working in local communities while discovering more about the planned conservation efforts for the region by the Mexican government. In early December, we will post a special 30 minute online documentary program in English and Spanish with educational materials for teachers. During the expedition, read the latest updates from the field and watch behind the scenes videos. Today, we posted interviews with research scientists Jonathan Gordon of the Sea Mammal Research Unit in Scotland and Jay Barlow of NOAA Fisheries - Southwest Fisheries Science Center. http://www.whaletrackers.com/blogs/expedition-vaquita/listening-for-vaquita.html 2.) The five-part documentary film series ?Whales of the Mediterranean Sea? is now available with subtitles in 6 additional languages. "Whales of the Mediterranean Sea" highlights the latest research into whales and dolphins as well as the heroic efforts to conserve them and their habitat in the Mediterranean. In addition to English, the films are now available with subtitles in French, Spanish, Arabic, Italian, German and Greek. The project to translate and implement the language versions was sponsored by WDCS - the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society, and OceanCare, with the help of the other NGOs featured in the films including Oceana, Tethys Research Institute, Alnitak, Pelagos Research Institute and WWF. We welcome the efforts of schools, local communities, scientists and NGOs interested in showing the videos to raise awareness about cetaceans in the Mediterranean. Groups can link to, and use the multi- lingual online materials or download high-resolution versions via iTunes (e.g., for use in classrooms). http://www.whaletrackers.com/whales-mediterranean-sea/ cheers, Chris CHRIS JOHNSON Director - earthOCEAN media A production company uncovering stories of our natural world through exploration and education. www.earthOCEAN.tv Filmmaker / Cinematographer - "Whale Trackers" A series exploring whales,dolphins and porpoises around the world. www.whaletrackers.com Board of Directors - Filmmakers for Conservation www.filmmakersforconservation.org email: christophe.johnson at mac.com chris.johnson at whaletrackers.com cj at earthocean.tv cell: +61 409-695-943 (australia) skype: chris.earthocean From Spencer.Fire at noaa.gov Wed Oct 15 12:45:50 2008 From: Spencer.Fire at noaa.gov (Spencer Fire) Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:45:50 -0400 Subject: [MARMAM] New paper: Brevetoxins in dolphin prey fish Message-ID: <664F6EF9C99B40FC83DEFE601D78A41B@nos.noaa> Dear Colleagues: The following paper is now available at http://www.int-res.com/abstracts/meps/v368/ Fire SE, Flewelling LJ, Naar J, Twiner MJ, Henry MS, Pierce RH, Gannon DP, Wang Z, Davidson L, Wells RS (2008). PREVALENCE OF BREVETOXINS IN PREY FISH OF BOTTLENOSE DOLPHINS IN SARASOTA BAY, FLORIDA. Marine Ecology Progress Series 368:283-294. ABSTRACT: Blooms of the brevetoxin-producing dinoflagellate Karenia brevis have been linked to high mortality of bottlenose dolphins Tursiops truncatus on Florida's Gulf of Mexico coast. A clear understanding of trophic transfer of brevetoxin from its algal source up the food web to top predators is needed to assess exposure of affected dolphin populations. Prey fish constitute a means of accumulating and transferring brevetoxins and are potential vectors of brevetoxin to dolphins frequently exposed to K. brevis blooms. Here we report results of brevetoxin analyses of the primary fish species consumed by long-term resident bottlenose dolphins inhabiting Sarasota Bay, Florida. Fish collected during K. brevis blooms in 2003 to 2006 were analyzed by competitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and had brevetoxin concentrations ranging from 4 to 10 844 ng PbTx-3 eq g-1 tissue. Receptor binding assay (RBA) and liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) analysis confirmed toxicity and the presence of parent brevetoxins and known metabolites. Fish collected in the absence of K. brevis blooms tested positive for brevetoxin by ELISA and RBA, with concentrations up to 1500 ng PbTx-3 eq g-1 tissue. These findings implicate prey fish exposed to K. brevis blooms as brevetoxin vectors for their dolphin predators and provide a critical analysis of persistent brevetoxin loads in the food web of dolphins repeatedly exposed to Florida red tides. For more information, please contact me at spencer.fire at noaa.gov Sincerely, Spencer E. Fire, Ph.D. Marine Biotoxins Program Center for Coastal Environmental Health and Biomolecular Research NOAA/National Ocean Service 219 Fort Johnson Road Charleston, SC 29412 Tel: 843.762.8574 Fax: 843.762.8700 Email: spencer.fire at noaa.gov From giovanni.bearzi at gmail.com Wed Oct 15 22:57:26 2008 From: giovanni.bearzi at gmail.com (Giovanni Bearzi) Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 07:57:26 +0200 Subject: [MARMAM] Ecology and conservation of common bottlenose dolphins Tursiops truncatus in the Mediterranean Sea Message-ID: Dear list members the paper below has just become available online on Mammal Review: Bearzi G., Fortuna C.M., Reeves R.R. 2008. Ecology and conservation of common bottlenose dolphins Tursiops truncatus in the Mediterranean Sea. Mammal Review. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2907.2008.00133.x Pdf copies can be downloaded from the link below: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/121452149/PDFSTART Best regards, Giovanni Bearzi --- Ecology and conservation of common bottlenose dolphins Tursiops truncatus in the Mediterranean Sea GIOVANNI BEARZI, CATERINA MARIA FORTUNA and RANDALL R. REEVES Copyright ? 2008 Mammal Society/Blackwell Publishing ABSTRACT 1. Bottlenose dolphins Tursiops truncatus are amongst the best-known cetaceans. In the Mediterranean Sea, however, modern field studies of cetaceans did not start until the late 1980s. Bottlenose dolphins have been studied only in relatively small portions of the basin, and wide areas remain largely unexplored. 2. This paper reviews the ecology, behaviour, interactions with fisheries and conservation status of Mediterranean bottlenose dolphins, and identifies threats likely to have affected them in historical and recent times. 3. Whilst intentional killing was probably the most important cause of mortality until the 1960s, important ongoing threats include incidental mortality in fishing gear and the reduced availability of key prey caused by overfishing and environmental degradation throughout the region. Additional potential or likely threats include the toxic effects of xenobiotic chemicals, epizootic outbreaks, direct disturbance from boating and shipping, noise, and the consequences of climate change. 4. The flexible social organization and opportunistic diet and behaviour of bottlenose dolphins may allow them to withstand at least some of the effects of overfishing and habitat degradation. However, dolphin abundance is thought to have declined considerably in the region and management measures are needed to prevent further decline. 5. Management strategies that could benefit bottlenose dolphins, such as sustainable fishing, curbing marine pollution and protecting biodiversity, are already embedded in legislation and treaties. Compliance with those existing commitments and obligations should be given high priority. _______________________________________ Giovanni Bearzi, Ph.D. President, Tethys Research Institute Viale G.B Gadio 2, 20121 Milano, Italy http://www.tethys.org/giovanni_bearzi.htm http://www.tethys.org/ http://www.cetaceanalliance.org/ _______________________________________ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jerome.spitz at univ-lr.fr Fri Oct 17 07:10:42 2008 From: jerome.spitz at univ-lr.fr (jspitz) Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 16:10:42 +0200 Subject: [MARMAM] Symposium on Monitoring Strategies for Marine Mammal Populations - last announcement Message-ID: <48F89CE2.90101@univ-lr.fr> LAST ANNOUNCEMENT : REGISTRATION *Symposium on Monitoring Strategies for Marine Mammal Populations, La Rochelle, France, November 21-23, 2008* Hosted by the *University of La Rochelle *(LIENSs / CRMM) http://marinemammal.univ-lr.fr/colloque2008En.html *Scientific invited speakers*: Aleta Hohn (USA) / Peter Evans (UK) / Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara (Italy) / Graham Pierce (UK/Spain) / Mark Tasker (UK) / Vincent Ridoux (France) Online registration are open until October 30th on the symposium website at: http://marinemammal.univ-lr.fr/colloque2008En.html Please, read the notice on the registration/submission home web page. For more information do not hesitate to contact us at: conference2008 at univ-lr.fr *Theme:* Marine mammals are important actors in marine ecosystems. Their position of top predators confers them a general value of indicators of marine ecosystem conservation state and exposes them to several types of pressures related to human activities at sea, including accumulation of contaminants along food webs and interactions with fisheries. Other sources of pressures and threats, independent of their role of top predators, include /inter alia/ disturbance, collisions with ships and acoustic pollution. In most European countries, marine mammals are protected by national, EU and international texts, which clarify the responsibility of governments in monitoring and conservation of these populations (Marine Protected Areas, national regulation on protected species, Habitat Directive, Common Fishery Policy, regional agreements ASCOBANS and ACCOBAMS, ?). However indicators proposed to estimate the status of marine mammal populations are only defined in very general terms, with mainly two criteria that are fairly easy to express but difficult to document: abundance and distribution. Other approaches are empirically used but their value as monitoring tools has not been really assessed; they notably include acoustic monitoring, stranding schemes, coastal watch and at-sea sightings from platforms of opportunity. As a consequence, to elaborate properly a strategy for monitoring the conservation status of marine mammal populations in Europe, it is necessary to compare available methods and estimate the performance of potential indicators, in terms of their capacity to detect changes in wild populations and of their cost-effectiveness. The objectives of the meeting will thus encompass the following topics: **1. Expressing the societal demand in monitoring marine mammal populations *2. Converting the societal demand into measurable parameters *3. Existing practices of monitoring *4. Marine mammal population indicators and their performance *5. Examples of integrated monitoring strategies* Expected participants would include people in charge of public environmental policies, in particular as to the monitoring and conservation of marine mammal populations and habitats at national, EU and international levels, research groups in marine mammal biology and conservation and field correspondents or operators who collect and synthesize data relative to the state of conservation of marine mammal populations. It will thus be a unique opportunity to gather actors involved at all levels in monitoring marine mammal populations, from policy makers to data collectors. *The organizing committee:* The Ecology and Conservation of Marine Mammal research group of the University of La Rochelle (constituted of /Centre de Recherche sur les Mammif?res Marins/ CRMM and /Littoral Environnement et Soci?t?s/ LIENSs, Joint Research Unit 6250 CNRS/ULR) will host an international symposium on strategies for monitoring marine mammal populations, from 21-23 November 2008 in La Rochelle, France. The symposium is hosted by: University of La Rochelle, France sponsored by: French Agency of the Marine Protected Areas, French Ministry of Environment, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Regional Council of Poitou-Charentes and supported by: ACCOBAMS, ASCOBANS For the organizing committee, Pr Vincent Ridoux, University of La Rochelle. From GSchorr at cascadiaresearch.org Wed Oct 15 21:00:32 2008 From: GSchorr at cascadiaresearch.org (Greg Schorr) Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:00:32 -0700 Subject: [MARMAM] Contract report available on satellite tagging of beaked whales Message-ID: <21701FB12DB4B648921199BC4614914C21CBC6@server1.cascadia.local> A contract report regarding satellite tagging of beaked whales (citation and abstract below) is now available on Cascadia Research Collective?s Website . The report can be found at: http://www.cascadiaresearch.org/robin/hawaii.htm Additional information on satellite tagging can be found at: http://www.cascadiaresearch.org/robin/satellite.htm Schorr, Gregory S., Robin W. Baird, M. Bradley Hanson, Daniel L. Webster, Daniel J. McSweeney, and Russel D. Andrews, 2008. MOVEMENTS OF THE FIRST SATELLITE-TAGGED CUVIER?S AND BLAINVILLE?S BEAKED WHALES IN HAWAI?I. Report prepared under Contract No. AB133F-07-SE-3706 to Cascadia Research Collective, Olympia, WA from Southwest Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, La Jolla, CA 92037 USA Abstract: Studies on the movement patterns and habitat use of cetaceans are often constrained by numerous factors including ship time, logistics, and the ability to track individuals over time. Obtaining information on beaked whales is especially difficult both due to their habits and their low population densities. To better understand movements of beaked whales in Hawai?i, Argos-linked satellite tags were remotely applied to the dorsal fins of three Blainville?s beaked whales (Mesoplodon densirostris) and three Cuvier?s beaked whales (Ziphius cavirostris) in 2006 and 2008, representing the first time that beaked whales have been tracked by satellite. Transmissions for Blainville?s were received for 15, 16 and 23 days and for Cuvier?s for 2, 13 and 24 days. All six individuals were tagged west of the island of Hawai?i. Five of the six individuals moved out of the study area but continued to remain associated with the island. All of the Blainville?s and one of the Cuvier?s moved into the Alenuihaha Channel, a site of naval anti-submarine warfare exercises that is difficult to survey due to unfavorable sea conditions. Movement patterns of tagged animals support the results of photo-identification studies which suggest the populations of both species are island-associated and that individuals exhibit strong site fidelity, both of which potentially increases the susceptibility of these small populations to anthropogenic impacts. Regards, Greg _________________ Greg Schorr Cascadia Research Collective 218 1/2 W. 4th Avenue Olympia, WA 98501 360.943.7325 Office 206.931.4638 Cell gschorr at cascadiaresearch.org www.cascadiaresearch.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Bryan.E.Wright at state.or.us Fri Oct 17 10:08:33 2008 From: Bryan.E.Wright at state.or.us (Bryan Wright) Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 10:08:33 -0700 Subject: [MARMAM] GIS shapefile available for pinniped haulouts in Oregon, USA Message-ID: Dear colleagues, As part of a marine reserve site selection process in Oregon, a number of coastal Oregon GIS layers are now publicly available at http://www.oregonmarinereserves.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=ca tegory§ionid=9&id=42&Itemid=84 including a pinniped haul-out layer that we recently created http://www.oregonmarinereserves.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=vi ew&id=126&Itemid=84 We hope the availability of this layer may be of use to those studying pinniped haul-out site selection (e.g., Ban and Trites 2007 "Quantification of terrestrial haul-out and rookery characteristics of Steller sea lions") and related subjects. Please contact me (AFTER reading the metadata) if you have any questions about this layer. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Bryan Wright, Biometrician Marine Mammal Research Program Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife 7118 NE Vandenberg Ave. Corvallis, OR 97330, USA (541) 757-4186 x225 (541) 757-4252 (fax) bryan.e.wright at state.or.us ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From giovanni.bearzi at gmail.com Thu Oct 16 22:20:46 2008 From: giovanni.bearzi at gmail.com (Giovanni Bearzi) Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 07:20:46 +0200 Subject: [MARMAM] Ecology and conservation of common bottlenose dolphins Tursiops truncatus in the Mediterranean Sea In-Reply-To: Message-ID: With reference to my previous posting, it appears that while the provided link gives direct access to the pdf document to some users (who did not subscribe to the journal), it leads other users to a login page. This is something I did not expect. The article can be directly downloaded in the Publications section of the page below: http://www.tethys.org/giovanni_bearzi.htm > Bearzi G., Fortuna C.M., Reeves R.R. 2008. Ecology and conservation of common > bottlenose dolphins Tursiops truncatus in the Mediterranean Sea. Mammal > Review. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2907.2008.00133.x List members may be also interested in a similar review on short-beaked common dolphins, published some years ago: > Bearzi G., Reeves R.R., Notarbartolo di Sciara G., Politi E., Canadas A., > Frantzis A., Mussi B. 2003. Ecology, status and conservation of short-beaked > common dolphins (Delphinus delphis) in the Mediterranean Sea. Mammal Review > 33(3):224-252. This and other work on Mediterranean bottlenose dolphins and common dolphins can also be downloaded from my web page. Should you have any trouble downloading the files, please let me know and I will send any of them by email. Best regards, giovanni Da: Giovanni Bearzi Data: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 07:57:26 +0200 A: , Conversazione: Ecology and conservation of common bottlenose dolphins Tursiops truncatus in the Mediterranean Sea Oggetto: Ecology and conservation of common bottlenose dolphins Tursiops truncatus in the Mediterranean Sea Dear list members the paper below has just become available online on Mammal Review: Bearzi G., Fortuna C.M., Reeves R.R. 2008. Ecology and conservation of common bottlenose dolphins Tursiops truncatus in the Mediterranean Sea. Mammal Review. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2907.2008.00133.x Pdf copies can be downloaded from the link below: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/121452149/PDFSTART Best regards, Giovanni Bearzi _______________________________________ Giovanni Bearzi, Ph.D. President, Tethys Research Institute Viale G.B Gadio 2, 20121 Milano, Italy http://www.tethys.org/giovanni_bearzi.htm http://www.tethys.org/ http://www.cetaceanalliance.org/ _______________________________________ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From katharine.savage at noaa.gov Fri Oct 17 08:31:02 2008 From: katharine.savage at noaa.gov (Katharine Savage) Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 07:31:02 -0800 Subject: [MARMAM] Request for literature/information on Marine Mammal interaction with submarine cables/electromagnetic fields Message-ID: <48F8AFB6.5060201@noaa.gov> Greetings, With the current need for alternative energy sources, we are starting to assess a number of pilot projects dealing with hydrokinetic/tidal energy. These projects involve either buried or free submarine cables and I am finding there's a dearth of information regarding marine mammal interactions with cable systems, e.g. entanglements, or potential effects of electromagnetic fields. I do have a document by Norman and Lopez (2002) and various articles on wind farm issues, but was wondering if anyone is aware of further information. I have accessed the various databases in NOAA's Seattle library, and, of course,Google Scholar without much success. If anyone can recommend other specific sources to check, that would be great as well. Thank you, Kate Savage katharine.savage at noaa.gov -- Katharine Savage, Marine Mammal Specialist Protected Resources Division NOAA Fisheries, Alaska Region Ph: 907-586-7312 Fax: 907-586-7012 From Jennifer.Johnson at MyFWC.com Fri Oct 17 11:09:57 2008 From: Jennifer.Johnson at MyFWC.com (Johnson, Jennifer) Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:09:57 -0400 Subject: [MARMAM] Florida Manatee Photo-identification Internships Message-ID: Manatee Photo-identification Internships The manatee photo-identification program is based in St. Petersburg, Florida at the Fish and Wildlife Research Institute (FWRI). FWRI is the research arm of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC), a state agency of Florida. For more information about FWRI, please visit: http://Research.MyFWC.com. FWRI's manatee photo-identification research focuses on the long-term monitoring of Florida manatees in southwest Florida. The primary goal of our program is to document individual manatees. These capture histories are used to estimate annual adult survival rates and to model population dynamics for state and federal assessments of Florida manatee status and recovery. Photo-identification data also provide insight regarding manatee movements, site fidelity, habitat use, behavior, intra- and inter- specific associations, and reproductive parameters such as calving intervals and length of calf dependency. Interns will primarily assist staff members with photographing manatees and collecting behavioral and environmental data at sites around Tampa Bay. Interns will also be responsible for a number of lab-based photo-identification tasks, such as downloading images, database entry, and matching images to known animals. Interns often collect data independently in the field, thus responsible, detail oriented applicants are encouraged to apply. Most field work is land-based, however during the winter session opportunities are available to assist with boat-based manatee photo-identification. Other responsibilities may include, but are not limited to, data entry, special projects, and outreach activities. This internship provides a great opportunity to gain valuable field and lab experience at a government agency. Five positions are available each year: two positions in the winter (December-March), one position in the spring (March-May), one position in the summer (June-August), and one position in the fall (September-November). Start and end dates are flexible. There is no compensation for these internship positions and successful applicants will be responsible for their own housing and transportation to and from the Institute. Positions are open until filled. Qualifications: * Basic computer proficiency; Microsoft Access literacy preferred; * Working knowledge of SLR digital cameras, filters, and lenses preferred, but not required; * The ability to lift approximately 50 pounds of equipment; * A valid U.S. Driver's License; * Enthusiasm and willingness to learn field and lab based research methods; * A willingness to spend a minimum of three months working four days per week with our program. Application process: Please submit your cover letter, resume, college transcripts (unofficial are sufficient), and the contact information for three references via hardcopy to FWRI's Intern Coordinator, Dr. William Arnold, at the address listed below. Alternatively, application materials may be submitted via email to ManateeInterns at MyFWC.com. Please indicate in your cover letter the position for which you are applying and the dates you are available. Dr. William S. Arnold - Internship Coordinator Fish and Wildlife Research Institute 100 8th Avenue SE St. Petersburg, FL 33701 Applicants may contact FWRI's Manatee Photo-identification Project Manager, Kari Rood, (Kari.Rood at MyFWC.com, 727-896-8626 x1912) with questions regarding the internship. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From wwa2 at yahoo.com Sun Oct 19 02:58:39 2008 From: wwa2 at yahoo.com (Lisa Steiner) Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 02:58:39 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [MARMAM] AZORES-NORWAY SPERM WHALE PHOTO-ID MATCHES Message-ID: <726250.13689.qm@web52902.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Sperm whale photo-id matches have just been discovered between the Azores and Norway. Photo-id began in the Azores in 1987, with the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) and in Norway in 1989. Matching photos has been attempted between the two locales since 1990 without success until now. Lisa Steiner, marine biologist for Whale Watch Azores, has teamed up with Luca Lamoni and Marta Acosta Plata, biologists working with Arctic Sea Cruises to match photos taken in Norway during the 2007 and 2008 seasons (thanks to Lena Petterson for making the introductions). One whale was observed in the Azores in 1999 and re-sighted in Norway in 2007. And two other matches were found to the 2008 Norway catalogue, one whale observed in the Azores in 1993 and the other in 2003. The matches were made using the Europhlukes Software, Phlex and Match. Photos taken in the Azores are routinely matched to photos taken elsewhere in the Atlantic and Mediterranean. When observed in the Azores the whales were classed as males; by their size (males reach up to 18m while females only reach 12-13m) and these matches to Norway confirm that classification. Female sperm whales are not thought to migrate to high latitudes. We do not know where these whales have been in the intervening years. ?Teenage? male sperm whales usually form bachelor groups, after leaving the maternal group, until they reach breeding age when they usually occur singly or in pairs. Prior to these matches, the only other confirmed long-range photo-id match for Azorean sperm whales was a female observed in the Azores in 1990 and re-sighted in the Canaries in 1993 from ?Song of the Whale? IFAW?s research boat. This finding shows how useful whale watching platforms can be for collecting photo-id data when operators collaborate together. We hope to publish these data in 2009. Anyone with photo-id pictures of sperm whales is encouraged to submit them to a database such as NAMSC (run by IFAW) to further this type of work. Potential contributors can contact me at wwa2 at yahoo.com. Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com From jan.herrmann at cetacea.de Sun Oct 19 08:17:37 2008 From: jan.herrmann at cetacea.de (Jan Herrmann) Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 17:17:37 +0200 Subject: [MARMAM] New publications week 33 Message-ID: Dear all, here are some new publications of week 33/ 2008, which haven't been announced on MARMAM earlier AFAIK. By clicking the following link you are guided to a website, where the following references are linked to their according journal homepages. There you can find abstracts and contact information: Please do not contact MARMAM, the MARMAM editors or me for reprints. Thank you. Thanks to all of you who sent in reprints to be included in the weekly announcements. Kindest Regards, Jan Herrmann CETACEA Bearzi, M. and C.B. Stanford (2008): Beautiful minds--the parallel lives of great apes and dolphins. ISBN 978-0674027817. Harvard University Press, Cambridge (MA). Degrati, M. et al. (2008): Diurnal Behavior of Dusky Dolphins, Lagenorhynchus obscurus, in Golfo Nuevo, Argentina. Journal of Mammalogy 89(5): 1241-1247. Etnier, S.A. et al. (2008): Ontogenetic changes in the structural stiffness of the tailstock of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus). Journal of Experimental Biology 211(20): 3205-3213. Jayasankar, P. et al. (2008): Erratum ( JAYASANKAR, P. et al. (2008) Molecular Identification of Delphinids and Finless Porpoise (Cetacea) from the Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal. Zootaxa, 1853, 57-67.). Zootaxa 1861(): 68. Kastelein, R.A. et al. (2008): The influence of 70 and 120kHz tonal signals on the behavior of harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) in a floating pen. Marine Environmental Research 66(3): 319-326. Kr?tzen, M. (2008): Beautiful minds--the parallel lives of great apes and dolphins. Maddalena Bearzi and Craig B. Stanford. Integrative and Comparative Biology 48(4): 546. Marino, L. (2008): Beautiful Minds-For How Long? PLoS Biology 6(7): e189. Quick, N.J. and V.M. Janik (2008): Whistle rates of wild bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus): Influences of group size and behavior. Journal of Comparative Psychology 122(3): 305-311. Yeates, L.C. and D.S. Houser (2008): Thermal tolerance in bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus). Journal of Experimental Biology 211(20): 3249-3257. Nollens, H.H. et al. (2008): Cross-reactivity of immunoglobulin G of whales and dolphins correlates with evolutionary distance. Clinical and Vaccine Immunology 15(10): 1547-1554. PINNIPEDIA Hanke, F.D. et al. (2008): Multifocal lenses in a monochromat: the harbour seal. Journal of Experimental Biology 211(20): 3315-3322. Ponganis, P.J. et al. (2008): Blood flow and metabolic regulation in seal muscle during apnea. Journal of Experimental Biology 211(20): 3323-3332. Voinov, V.B. et al. (2008): Behavioral and physiological adaptations of gray and Greenland seals to diving. Doklady Biological Sciences 420(1): 172-175. OTHER MARINE MAMMALS none -- --> jan.herrmann -at - cetacea.de From ekane44 at yahoo.com Mon Oct 20 07:37:46 2008 From: ekane44 at yahoo.com (Emily Kane) Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 07:37:46 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [MARMAM] new paper: Xenobalanus prevalence in the ETP Message-ID: <785812.90938.qm@web37003.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Dear Colleagues: The following paper is now available at http://fishbull.noaa.gov/1064/1064toc.htm Kane EA, PA Olson, T Gerrodette, and PC Fiedler (2008).? Prevalence of the commensal barnacle Xenobalanus globicipitis on cetacean species in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean, and a review of global occurrence.? Fishery Bulletin 106(4):395-404. ABSTRACT: Distribution and prevalence of the phoretic barnacle Xenobalanus on cetacean species are reported for 22 cetaceans in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean (21 million km2). Four cetacean species are newly reported hosts for Xenobalanus: Bryde?s whale (Balaenoptera edeni), long-beaked common dolphin (Delphinus capensis), humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae), and spinner dolphin (Stenella longirostris). Sightings of Xenobalanus in pelagic waters are reported for the first time, and concentrations were located within three productive zones: near the Baja California peninsula, the Costa Rica Dome and waters extending west along the 10?N Thermocline Ridge, and near Peru and the Galapagos Archipelago.? Greatest prevalence was observed on blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus) indicating that slow swim speeds are not necessary for effective barnacle settlement. Overall, prevalence and prevalence per sighting were generally lower than previously reported.? The number of barnacles present on an individual whale was greatest for killer whales, indicating that Xenobalanus larvae may be patchily distributed. The broad geographic distribution and large number of cetacean hosts, indicate an extremely cosmopolitan distribution. A better understanding of the biology of Xenobalanus is needed before this species can be used as a biological tag. For more information, please contact me at ekane at tamu.edu Emily Kane Texas A&M University at Galveston 5007 Avenue U Galveston, TX 77551 Phone: (409) 741-4318 Fax: (409) 740-5002 http://www.marinebiology.edu/Marshall/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From a.karamanlidis at mom.gr Mon Oct 20 01:15:21 2008 From: a.karamanlidis at mom.gr (a.karamanlidis@mom) Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 11:15:21 +0300 Subject: [MARMAM] Important discovery of a new Mediterranean monk seal breeding colony in the Aegean Sea - Greece Message-ID: <55A3CBBB590A436CBC6BE1FC4034FE7E@GISpc> Dear colleagues, I would like to draw your attention to the important discovery of a new Mediterranean monk seal (Monachus monachus) breeding colony in the Aegean Sea - Greece. A report of this discovery has just been published: Dendrinos, D., A.A. Karamanlidis, S. Kotomatas, V. Paravas, S. Adamantopoulou. 2008. Report of a New Mediterranean Monk Seal (Monachus monachus) Breeding Colony in the Aegean Sea, Greece. Aquatic Mammals 34(3): 355-361 Abstract: Identifying and effectively protecting the last remaining Mediterranean monk seal (Monachus monachus) populations and their habitats is a key priority for the survival of this critically endangered species. Following the opening of a restricted naval area at the island of Gyaros in the central Aegean Sea, Greece, the authors initiated efforts to verify the existence and assess the status of the species in the area. Using established monk seal habitat suitability criteria and survey techniques, the authors aimed to identify suitable habitat and document possible pup production of the species in this new area. Throughout the coastline of the island eight coastal caves were located, three of which were considered suitable for resting and pupping, while the remaining five were considered suitable for only resting. Pup production was recorded during the 2004, 2005 and 2007 pupping seasons and a minimum of ten, four and seven pups were identified respectively. In addition, mother - pup associations and interactions on three open beaches, a behavior that has not been observed in this species in the Mediterranean Sea recently, were recorded. This newly discovered colony, with relatively high natality compared to other breeding sites in the Mediterranean Sea and the rare use of open beaches, is of outstanding conservation value and is in urgent need of effective protection. Please send reprint request to the following address: Alexandros A. Karamanlidis, PhD Email: a.karamanlidis at mom.gr MOm, HELLENIC SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY AND PROTECTION OF THE MONK SEAL 18 Solomou Str. GR-10682 Athens Greece. Tel.:+30.210.5222888, Fax: +30.210.5222450, web-site: www.mom.gr -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. We are a community of 5.5 million users fighting spam. SPAMfighter has removed 2845 of my spam emails to date. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len The Professional version does not have this message -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ruleeney at yahoo.co.uk Mon Oct 20 11:20:38 2008 From: ruleeney at yahoo.co.uk (ruth leeney) Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:20:38 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [MARMAM] Right Whale Internship, Cape Cod Message-ID: <584859.30334.qm@web24506.mail.ird.yahoo.com> Right whale Internship posting: Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies ? The Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies is seeking an intern for the upcoming 2009 right whale survey season. This person will work with both the aerial survey and habitat survey teams, who operate between January and May every year, documenting the abundance, distribution and behavior of North Atlantic right whales in Cape Cod Bay. The intern will primarily assist staff members with photographing right whales and collecting behavioral and environmental data at sites in Cape Cod Bay.?The successful applicant will also be responsible for a number of lab-based photo-identification tasks, such as downloading images, database entry, and matching images to known animals using an online catalog.? He/ she will be required to work a minimum of four full days per week. The intern will often collect data independently in the field, thus responsible, detail-oriented applicants are encouraged to apply.?Fieldwork will likely involve one to two surveys per week, between January 2 and May 15. Applicants must be available for the full field season. ? Requirements: A degree, preferably in biological/ environmental sciences.Experience with digital SLR cameras.Experience in photo-identification of marine mammals, and matching of photographs.Data entry; basic computer skills in programs such as Excel and Word. Experience of working on boats. Must not suffer from seasickness.Must work well in a team. Field hours can be long and the winter fieldwork conditions are cold. Enthusiasm and willingness to learn field and lab based research methods.A valid US drivers license would be beneficial but is not essential. ? Housing will be provided. There is no remuneration for this position. This is an excellent opportunity for anyone wishing to expand their skills in marine mammal survey techniques, and will offer the successful applicant the unique chance to work with one of the world?s most endangered cetacean species, the North Atlantic right whale. ? PCCS has a long history of conservation and research work with the North Atlantic right whale. This internship will afford the successful applicant an invaluable opportunity to work within a well-established institution, with highly-qualified scientists, and to gain experience in photo-identification, matching, data entry and analysis. Some experience in plankton sampling may also be gained. Details of our work can be found at the following links: Habitat program: http://www.coastalstudies.org/what-we-do/right-whales/vbhabstudies.htm Aerial program: http://www.coastalstudies.org/what-we-do/right-whales/aerialsur.htm Application process: Please submit your cover letter, resume, college transcripts (unofficial are sufficient), and the contact information for three references via email to scrockett at coastalstudies.org . The closing date for applications is November 20, 2008. Ruth H. Leeney Interim Director, Right Whale Aerial Survey Program Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies 5 Holway Avenue MA 02657, USA T: (+1)-808-205-5638 / (+1)-508-487-3623 ext. 109 E: rleeney at coastalstudies.org W: www.namibiandolphinproject.blogspot.com ? Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From disciara at gmail.com Tue Oct 21 08:48:42 2008 From: disciara at gmail.com (Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara) Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:48:42 +0200 Subject: [MARMAM] new paper on spinner dolphins in the Red Sea Message-ID: <48fdf9e1.0d135e0a.6e31.451c@mx.google.com> Dear List, I am pleased to announce that the following paper *Notarbartolo di Sciara G., Hanafy M.H., Fouda M.M., Afifi A., Costa M. 2008. Spinner dolphin (/Stenella longirostris/) resting habitat in Samadai Reef (Egypt, Red Sea) protected through tourism management. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 6 p. doi:10.1017/S0025315408002221*_ _has appeared on the Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the UK, and can be viewed in the "early view" section of the journal's website at: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?iid=1811216 *Abstract:* The daily presence of spinner dolphins, Stenella longirostris, inside a small reef offshore the Red Sea coast of southern Egypt was monitored from January 2004 to January 2006. Observations indicated marked seasonal and daily variations in the use of the reef as a resting and socializing area by the dolphins, consistent during the two years of monitoring. Overall, the mean number of dolphins present in the reef at any day was 39.2 (SD = 39.34, range 0?210), with the lowest presence in February to April and the highest in June. Similar to other populations of this species in other oceans, dolphins entered the reef between daybreak and mid-morning, and started exiting during the afternoon hours. Although calves were seen in all seasons, a sharp peak was observed in June. Monitoring data provided indications relevant to governmental management efforts, which were implemented in 2004 to ensure that the dolphins could continue using the reef for their resting needs while a sustainable, respectful tourist activity is allowed in a designated zone of the reef adjacent to the dolphins? core habitat. -- Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara giuseppe at disciara.net http://www.disciara.net From info at marinemammalcare.org Tue Oct 21 14:23:25 2008 From: info at marinemammalcare.org (MAR3INE) Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:23:25 -0800 (GMT-08:00) Subject: [MARMAM] Veterinary Assistant position, Marine Mammal Care Center at Fort MacArthur Message-ID: <11972507.1224624206015.JavaMail.root@whwamui-ascend.pas.sa.earthlink.net> The Marine Mammal Care Center at Fort MacArthur is seeking a temporary veterinary assistant to help the veterinary and operations staff. This person will work under the guidance of full-time staff and consulting veterinarians to assist in the areas of response, treatment and data collection from stranded marine mammals. They will also help oversee volunteers in all aspects of Center operations. Responsibilities: The Veterinary Assistant will directly assist staff in all areas of veterinary and husbandry care. This person will help with the day-to-day management of the Care Center under the supervision of the operations director and veterinarians. He/she will carry out the husbandry and rehabilitation of the animals as well as the associated record keeping, teach policy and procedures, guide the volunteer personnel and help to maintain the water filtration system. Qualifications: The ideal candidate for the position will have at least two years of marine mammal care/veterinary experience, be a Registered Veterinary Technician (RVT), have demonstrated exemplary technical expertise, be proficient with computers and databases, be physically fit, be able to communicate effectively, show an ability and willingness to assist with/perform necropsies, and be able to effectively supervise volunteers. Position is a grant-funded, full-time, salaried position for an 18-month period. Send CV and letter of recommendation to: David Bard, Operations Director Marine Mammal Care Center at Fort MacArthur 3601 S. Gaffey St. San Pedro, CA 90731 For general information on the facility, please visit our website at www.marinemammalcare.org. NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE. The candidate search will close when the appropriate candidate is found. This position scheduled to receive funding in early 2009, with the interview process starting in January. The Marine Mammal Care Center at Fort MacArthur provides equal employment opportunities to all of our employees and applicants for employment regardless of race, gender, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, or veteran status. If you require special accommodation to complete the recruitment process, please let us know. From janiger at almaak-01.usc.edu Tue Oct 21 20:47:26 2008 From: janiger at almaak-01.usc.edu (David S. Janiger) Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:47:26 -0700 Subject: [MARMAM] New Articles Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20081021204726.010ecea8@email.usc.edu> Hi, All Here's the latest posting of new PDF's that are available. Abstracts for the papers below are available on request. Please don't hit the reply button. Make all requests to: janiger at bcf.usc.edu Cheers! David Janiger - Curatorial Assistant (Mammals) Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 900 Exposition Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90007 (213) 763-3369 janiger at bcf.usc.edu janiger at cox.net djaniger at nhm.org Janiger Journals ADAMS, CHARLES F.; ROBERT J. FOY; DEVIN S. JOHNSON and KENNETH O. COYLE. FISHERIES RESEARCH (AMSTERDAM) 93(1-2):179-185. 2008. Seasonal changes in pelagic fish biomass around the Chiswell Island Steller sea lion rookery in 2003. 0.419 MB AGNARSSON, INGI and LAURA J. MAY-COLLADO. MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION 48(3):964-985. 2008. The phylogeny of Cetartiodactyla: The importance of dense taxon sampling, missing data, and the remarkable promise of cytochrome b to provide reliable species-level phylogenies. 1.770 MB AKAMATSU, TOMONARI; IZUMI NAKAZAWA; TAKASHI TSUCHIYAMA and NAOKO KIMURA. FISHERIES SCIENCE (TOKYO) 74(5):970-975. 2008. Evidence of nighttime movement of finless porpoises through Kanmon Strait monitored using a stationary acoustic recording device. 0.242 MB ANONMYOUS. NATURE (LONDON) 455(7209):13. 2008. Alaska's polar bears trigger lawsuit from industry. 0.179 MB BAKER, C. SCOTT. MOLECULAR ECOLOGY 17(18):3985-3998. 2008. A truer measure of the market: The molecular ecology of fisheries and wildlife trade. 0.233 MB BERON-VERA, BARBARA; ENRIQUE A. CRESPO and JUAN A. RAGA. JOURNAL OF PARASITOLOGY 94(4):946-948. 2008. Parasites in stranded cetaceans of Patagonia. 0.063 MB BOEHME, L.; M. P. MEREDITH; S. E. THORPE; M. BIUW and M. FEDAK. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-OCEANS 113(C09012). 19pp. 2008. Antarctic Circumpolar Current frontal system in the South Atlantic: Monitoring using merged Argo and animal-borne sensor data. 4.609 MB BROWN, SIDNEY; ARTHUR CREDLAND; ANN SAVOURS and BERNARD STONEHOUSE. POLAR RECORD 44(4):311-320. 2008. British Arctic whaling logbooks and journals: A provisional listing. 0.419 MB BURTON, ROBERT. POLAR RECORD 44(4):371-372. 2008. Book review Book review: Seal Fisheries of the Falkland Islands and Dependencies: An Historical Overview. A. B. Dickinson. International Maritime Economic History Association (Research in Maritime History 34). St John's, NF. 202pp. ISBN 978-0-973893-4-1. 2007. 0.050 MB CALLE, PAUL P.; DANA J. SEAGARS; CATHERINE MCCLAVE; DENNIS SENNE; CAROL HOUSE and JAMES A. HOUSE. DISEASES OF AQUATIC ORGANISMS 81(1):77-80. 2008. Viral and bacterial serology of six free-ranging bearded seals Erignathus barbatus. 0.178 MB E (View with Acrobat 6.0>) CRAMER, KATIE L.; WAYNE L. PERRYMAN and TIM GERRODETTE. MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES 369:273-285. 2008. Declines in reproductive output in two dolphin populations depleted by the yellowfin tuna purse-seine fishery. 0.564 MB (View with Acrobat 5.0>) CRUWYS, LIZ. POLAR RECORD 44(4):380-381. 2008. Book review Book review: A Complete Guide to Antarctic Wildlife: The Birds and Marine Mammals of the Antarctic Continent and the Southern Ocean. Hadoram Shirihai. A&C Black. London. 544pp. ISBN 978-0-7136-6406-5. 2007. 0.050 MB DALEY, BEN; PETER GRIGGS and HELENE MARSH. AUSTRALIAN ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW 48(3):227-265. 2008. Exploiting marine wildlife in Queensland: The commercial dugong and marine turtle fisheries, 1847-1969. 0.970 MB DANS, SILVANA L.; ENRIQUE A. CRESPO; SUSANA N. PEDRAZA; MARIANA DEGRATI and GRISELDA V. GARAFFO. MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES 369:287-296. 2008. Dusky dolphin and tourist interaction: Effect on diurnal feeding behavior. 0.313 MB (View with Acrobat 5.0>) DE STEPHANIS, R.; P. VERBORGH; S. PEREZ; R. ESTEBAN; L. MINVIELLE-SEBASTIA and C. GUINET. ACTA ETHOLOGICA 11(2):81-94. 2008. Long-term social structure of long-finned pilot whales (Globicephala melas) in the Strait of Gibraltar. 0.444 MB DEGRATI, MARIANA; SILVANA L. DANS; SUSANA N. PEDRAZA; ENRIQUE A. CRESPO and GRISELDA V. GARAFFO. JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY 89(5):1241-1247. 2008. Diurnal behavior of dusky dolphins, Lagenorhynchus obscurus, in Golfo Nuevo, Argentina. 0.313 MB DOWSLEY, MARTHA. RESEARCH AND PRACTICE IN SOCIAL SCIENCES 2(2):53-74. 2007. Inuit perspectives on polar bears (Ursus maritimus) and climate change in Baffin Bay, Nunavut, Canada. 0.428 MB DUBEY, J. P.; P. A. FAIR; N. SUNDAR; G. VELMURUGAN; O. C. H. KWOK; W. E. MCFEE; D. MAJUMDAR and C. SU. JOURNAL OF PARASITOLOGY 94(4):821-823. 2008. Isolation of Toxoplasma gondii from bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus). 0.064 MB DUCATEZ, SIMON; SEBASTIEN DALLOYAU; PIERRE RICHARD; CHRISTOPHE GUINET and YVES CHEREL. MARINE BIOLOGY (BERLIN) 155(4):413-420. 2008. Stable isotopes document winter trophic ecology and maternal investment of adult female southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) breeding at the Kerguelen Islands. 0.460 MB ENGEL, MARCIA H.; NELSON J. R. FAGUNDES; HOWARD C. ROSENBAUM; MATTHEW S. LESLIE; PAULO H. OTT; RENATA SCHMITT; EDUARDO SECCHI; LUCIANO DALLA ROSA and SANDRO LUIS BONATTO. CONSERVATION GENETICS 9(5):1253-1262. 2008. Mitochondrial DNA diversity of the southwestern Atlantic humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) breeding area off Brazil, and the potential connections to Antarctic feeding areas. 0.371 MB ESPERON, F.; A. FERNANDEZ and J. M. SANCHEZ-VIZCAINO. DISEASES OF AQUATIC ORGANISMS 81(1):73-76. 2008. Herpes simplex-like infection in a bottlenose dolphin stranded in the Canary Islands. 0.228 MB E (View with Acrobat 6.0>) ETNIER, S. A.; W. A. MCLELLAN; J. BLUM and D. A. PABST. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY 211(20):3205-3213. 2008. Ontogenetic changes in the structural stiffness of the tailstock of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus). 0.653 MB FARRO, A. P. C.; M. M. ROLLO, JR.; J. M. SILVA, JR. and C. L. MARINO. CONSERVATION GENETICS 9(5):1319-1321. 2008. Isolation and characterization of microsatellite DNA markers for spinner dolphin (Stenella longirostris). 0.200 MB FIRE, SPENCER E.; LEANNE J. FLEWELLING; JEROME NAAR; MICHAEL J. TWINER; MICHAEL S. HENRY; RICHARD H. PIERCE; DAMON P. GANNON; ZHIHONG WANG; LEIGH DAVIDSON and RANDALL S. WELLS. MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES 368:283-294. 2008. Prevalence of brevetoxins in prey fish of bottlenose dolphins in Sarasota Bay, Florida. 0.218 MB (View with Acrobat 5.0>) GLACKIN, SHANE NICHOLAS. STUDIES IN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE PART C: STUDIES IN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF BIOLOGICALL AND BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES 39(3):292-297. 2008. Dolphin natures, human virtues: MacIntyre and ethical naturalism. 0.166 MB GOTO, MASAKAZU; ASAKO WATANABE; SHUICHI KARITA; NORIO TOKITA; YASUNARI YAMAMOTO; YOSHIHITO WAKAKI; SHIRO ASANO; YUKARI OKA and MASAMI FURUTA. MARINE AND FRESHWATER BEHAVIOUR AND PHYSIOLOGY 41(3):169-177. 2008. Nutrient and energy consumption of captive mature dugong (Dugong dugon) consuming eelgrass at the Toba Aquarium. 0.223 MB (View with Acrobat 6.0>) GRANDI, M. FLORENCIA; SILVANA L. DANS and ENRIQUE A. CRESPO. JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY 89(5):1218-1228. 2008. Social composition and spatial distribution of colonies in an expanding population of South American sea lions. 0.349 MB HANKE, FREDERIKE D.; RONALD H. H. KROGER; URSULA SIEBERT and GUIDO DEHNHARDT. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY 211(20):3315-3322. 2008. Multifocal lenses in a monochromat: The harbour seal. 0.964 MB HASTINGS, KELLY K.; LEX A. HIBY and ROBERT J. SMALL. JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY 89(5):1201-1211. 2008. Evaluation of a computer-assisted photograph-matching system to monitor naturally marked harbor seals at Tugidak Island, Alaska. 4.465 MB HEASLIP, SUSAN G. and SASCHA K. HOOKER. DEEP SEA RESEARCH PART I: OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH PAPERS 55(9):1179-1192. 2008. Effect of animal-borne camera and flash on the diving behaviour of the female Antarctic fur seal (Arctocephalus gazella). 0.933 MB HUNT, TANIA D.; MICHAEL H. ZICCARDI; FRANCES M. D. GULLAND; PAMELA K. YOCHEM; DAVID W. HIRD; TERESA ROWLES and JONNA A. K. MAZET. DISEASES OF AQUATIC ORGANISMS 81(1):81-92. 2008. Health risks for marine mammal workers. 0.360 MB (View with Acrobat 6.0>) IONITA, M.; M. G. VARELA; E. T. LYONS; T. R. SPRAKER and S. C. TOLLIVER. PARASITOLOGY RESEARCH 103(5):1025-1029. 2008. Hookworms (Uncinaria lucasi) and acanthocephalans (Corynosoma spp. and Bolbosoma spp.) found in dead northern fur seals (Callorhinus ursinus) on St. Paul Island, Alaska in 2007. 0.151 MB JABOUR, JULIA. JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL WILDLIFE LAW AND POLICY 11(1):1-29. 2008. Successful conservation - then what? The de-listing of Arctocephalus fur seal species in Antarctica. 2.184 MB (View with Acrobat 6.0>) JACOBS, DAVID F.; CLAUDIA J. HERNANDEZ-CAMACHO; JULIE K. YOUNG and LEAH R. GERBER. JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY 89(5):1212-1217. 2008. Determinants of outcomes of agonistic interactions among male California sea lions (Zalophus californianus). 0.214 MB KIRKWOOD, ROGER; FIONA HUME and MARK HINDELL. MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES 369:297-309. 2008. Sea temperature variations mediate annual changes in the diet of Australian fur seals in Bass Strait. 0.281 MB (View with Acrobat 5.0>) KRUTZEN, MICHAEL. INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY 48(4):546. 2007. Book review Book review: Beautiful Minds - The Parallel Lives of Great Apes and Dolphins. Maddalena Bearzi & Craig B. Stanford. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA. 351pp. ISBN 978-0-674-02781-7. $24.95 (HB). 2008. 0.045 MB LAMBERT, OLIVIER. JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY 28(3):863-872. 2008. A new porpoise (Cetacea, Odontoceti, Phocoenidae) from the Pliocene of the North Sea. 1.806 MB LAMBERT, OLIVIER; GIOVANNI BIANUCCI and CHRISTIAN DE MUIZON.. COMPTES RENDUS PALEVOL 7(6):361-369. 2008. A new stem-sperm whale (Cetacea, Odontoceti, Physeteroidea) from the Latest Miocene of Peru. 1.031 MB LARAN, SOPHIE and ALEXANDRE GANNIER. ICES (INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL FOR THE EXPLORATION OF THE SEAS) JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE 65(7):1260-1269. 2008. Spatial and temporal prediction of fin whale distribution in the northwestern Mediterranean Sea. 3.514 MB MARINO, LORI. PLOS BIOLOGY 6(7):e189 p.1377-1378. 2008. Book review Beautiful minds-for how long? Book review: Beautiful Minds - The Parallel Lives of Great Apes and Dolphins. Maddalena Bearzi & Craig B. Stanford. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA. 351pp. ISBN 978-0-674-02781-7. $24.95 (HB). 2008. 1.385 MB MAUCK, BJORN; NELE GLAESER; WOLFHARD SCHLOSSER and GUIDO DEHNHARDT. ANIMAL COGNITION 11(4):715-718. 2008. Harbour seals (Phoca vitulina) can steer by the stars. 2.119 MB MAY-COLLADO, LAURA J. and DOUGLAS WARTZOK. JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY 89(5):1229-1240. 2008. A comparison of bottlenose dolphin whistles in the Atlantic Ocean: Factors promoting whistle variation. 0.520 MB MILLER, M. A.; W. A. MILLER; P. A. CONRAD; E. R. JAMES; A. C. MELLI; C. M. LEUTENEGGER; H. A. DABRITZ; A. E. PACKHAM; D. PARADIES; M. HARRIS; J. AMES; D. A. JESSUP; K. WORCESTER and M. E. GRIGG. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR PARASITOLOGY 38(11):1319-1328. 2008. Type X Toxoplasma gondii in a wild mussel and terrestrial carnivores from coastal California: New linkages between terrestrial mammals, runoff and toxoplasmosis of sea otters. 0.483 MB MURPHY, GREGORY. EXECUTIVE INTELLIGENCE REVIEW 34(35):47-49. 2007. Polar bears are smarter than Al Gore. 0.215 MB NIELSEN, OLE; GREG SMITH; HANA WEINGARTL; STEPHANE LAIR and LENA MEASURES. JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE DISEASES 44(3):608-611. 2008. Use of a slam transfected vero cell line to isolate and characterize marine mammal morbilliviruses using an experimental ferret model. 1.416 MB NOLLENS, HENDRIK H.; CAROLINA RUIZ; MICHAEL T. WALSH; FRANCES M. D. GULLAND; GREGORY BOSSART; ERIC D. JENSEN; JAMES F. MCBAIN and JAMES F. X. WELLEHAN. CLINICAL AND VACCINE IMMUNOLOGY 15(10):1547-1554. 2008. Cross-reactivity between immunoglobulin G antibodies of whales and dolphins correlates with evolutionary distance. 0.928 MB PEARSON, MICHAEL; RUBEN STEHBERG; ANDRES ZARANKIN; MARIA XIMENA SENATORE and CAROLINA GATICA. POLAR RECORD 44(4):362-364. 2008. Sealer's sledge excavated on Livingston Island, South Shetland Islands. 0.638 MB PONGANIS, PAUL J.; ULRIKE KREUTZER; TORRE K. STOCKARD; PING-CHANG LIN; NAPAPON SAILASUTA; TUAN-KHAN TRAN; RALPH HURD and THOMAS JUE. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY 211(20):3323-3332. 2008. Blood flow and metabolic regulation in seal muscle during apnea. 0.912 MB PRENGER-BERNINGHOFF, E.; U. SIEBERT; M. STEDE; A. KONIG; R. WEIB and G. BALJER. DISEASES OF AQUATIC ORGANISMS 81(1):65-71. 2008. Incidence of Brucella species in marine mammals of the German North Sea. 1.198 MB (View with Acrobat 6.0>) QUICK, NICOLA J. and VINCENT M. JANIK. JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY 122(3):305-311. 2008. Whistle rates of wild bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus): Influences of group size and behavior. 0.250 MB RICHMOND, JULIE P.; JOHN SKINNER; JAMES GILBERT; LISA M. MAZZARO and STEVEN A. ZINN. JOURNAL OF ZOO AND WILDLIFE MEDICINE 39(3):342-348. 2008. Comparison of the somatotropic axis in free-ranging and rehabilitated harbor seal pups (Phoca vitulina). 0.183 MB ROGACHEV, KONSTANTIN A.; EDDY C. CARMACK and MICHAEL G. G. FOREMAN. CONTINENTAL SHELF RESEARCH 28(14):1811-1826. 2008. Bowhead whales feed on plankton concentrated by estuarine and tidal currents in Academy Bay, Sea of Okhotsk. 2.601 MB SCHIPPER, JAN; JANICE S. CHANSON; FEDERICA CHIOZZA; NEIL A. COX; MICHAEL HOFFMANN; VINEET KATARIYA; JOHN LAMOREUX; ANA S. L. RODRIGUES; SIMON N. STUART; HELEN J. TEMPLE; JONATHAN BAILLIE; LUIGI BOITANI; THOMAS E. LACHER, JR.; RUSSELL A. MITTERMEIER; ANDREW T. SMITH; DANIEL ABSOLON; JOHN M. AGUIAR; GIOVANNI AMORI; NOURA BAKKOUR; RICARDO BALDI; RICHARD J. BERRIDGE; JON BIELBY; PATRICIA ANN BLACK; J. JULIAN BLANC; THOMAS M. BROOKS; JAMES A. BUTON; THOMAS M. BUTYNSKI; GIANLUCA CATULLO; ROSELLE CHAPMAN; ZOE COKELISS; BEN COLLEN; JIM CONROY; JUSTIN G. COOKE; GUSTAVO A. B. DA FONSECA; ANDREW E. DEROCHER; HOLLY T. DUBLIN; J. W. DUCKWORTH; LOUISE EMMONS; RICHARD H. EMSLIE; MARCO FESTA-BIANCHET; MATT FOSTER; SABRINA FOSTER; DAVID L. GARSHELIS; CORMACK GATES; MARIANO GIMENEZ-DIXON; SUSANA GONZALEZ; JOSE FERNANDO GONZALEZ-MAYA; TATJANA C. GOOD; GEOFFREY HAMMERSON; PHILIP S. HAMMOND; DAVID HAPPOLD; MEREDITH HAPPOLD; JOHN HARE; RICHARD B. HARRIS; CLARE E. HAWKINS; MANDY HAYWOOD; LAWRENCE R. HEANEY; SIMON HEDGES; KRISTOFER M. HELGEN; CRAIG HILTON-TAYLOR; SYED AINUL HUSSAIN; NOBUO ISHII; THOMAS A. JEFFERSON; RICHARD K. B. JENKINS; CHARLOTTE H. JOHNSTON; MARK KEITH; JONATHAN KINGDON; DAVID H. KNOX; KIT M. KOVACS; PENNY LANGHAMMER; KRISTIN LEUS; REBECCA LEWISON; GABRIELA LICHTENSTEIN; LLOYD F. LOWRY; ZOE MACAVOY; GEORGINA M. MACE; DAVID P. MALLON; MONICA MASI; MEGHAN W. MCKNIGHT; RODRIGO A. MEDELLIN; PATRICIA MEDICI; GUS MILLS; PATRICIA D. MOEHLMAN; SANJAY MOLUR; ARTURO MORA; KRISTIN NOWELL; JOHN F. OATES; WANDA OLECH; WILLIAM R. L. OLIVER; MONIK OPREA; BRUCE D. PATTERSON; WILLIAM F. PERRIN; BETH A. POLIDORO; CAROLINE POLLOCK; ABIGAIL POWEL; YELIZAVETA PROTAS; PAUL RACEY; JIM RAGLE; PAVITHRA RAMANI; GALEN RATHBUN; RANDALL R. REEVES; STEPHEN B. REILLY; JOHN E. REYNOLDS, III; CARLO RONDININI; RUTH GRACE ROSELL-AMBAL; MONICA RULLI; ANTHONY B. RYLANDS; SIMONA SAVINI; CODY J. SCHANK; WES SECHREST; CARYN SELF-SULLIVAN; ALAN SHOEMAKE; CLAUDIO SILLERO-ZUBIRI; NAAMAL DE SILVA; DAVID E. SMITH; CHELMALA SRINIVASULU; PETER J. STEPHENSON; NICO VAN STRIEN; BIBHAB KUMAR TALUKDAR; BARBARA L. TAYLOR; ROB TIMMINS; DIEGO G. TIRIRA; MARCELO F. TOGNELLI; KATERINA TSYTSULINA; LIZA M. VEIGA; JEAN-CHRISTOPHE VIE; ELIZABETH A. WILLIAMSON; SARAH A. WYATT; YAN XIE and BRUCE E. YOUNG. SCIENCE (WASHINGTON D. C.) 322(5899):225-230. 2008. The status of the world's land and marine mammals: Diversity, threat, and knowledge. 4.282 MB SCHMOLCKE, ULRICH. MAMMAL REVIEW 38(4):231-246. 2008. Holocene environmental changes and the seal (Phocidae) fauna of the Baltic Sea: Coming, going and staying. 0.323 MB SHIRAKIHARA, MIKI; KENJI SEKI; AKIRA TAKEMURA; KUNIO SHIRAKIHARA; HIDEYOSHI YOSHIDA and TAKESHI YAMAZAKI. JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY 89(5):1248-1256. 2008. Food habits of finless porpoises Neophocaena phocaenoides in western Kyushu, Japan. 0.460 MB SMITH, HOLLY; AMY SAMUELS and STUART BRADLEY. TOURISM MANAGEMENT 29(5):994-1001. 2008 Reducing risky interactions between tourists and free-ranging dolphins (Tursiops sp.) in an artificial feeding program at Monkey Mia, Western Australia. 0.274 MB THUMS, MICHELE; COREY J. A. BRADSHAW and MARK A. 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Structure and origin of the natural halogenated monoterpene MHC-1 and its concentrations in marine mammals and fish. 0.369 MB VOINOV, V. B.; N. N. KAVTSEVICH; A. L. MIKHAILYUK and A. S. ZOTOV. DOKLADY BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES 420(1):172-175. 2008. (Translated from Doklady Akademii Nauk 420(2):271-274. 2008. Behavioral and physiological adaptations of gray and Greenland seals to diving. 0.179 MB WHEATLEY, KATHRYN E.; PETER D. NICHOLS; MARK A. HINDELL; ROBERT G. HARCOURT and COREY J. A. BRADSHAW. PHYSIOLOGICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL ZOOLOGY 81(5):651-662. 2008. Differential mobilization of blubber fatty acids in lactating Weddell seals: Evidence for selective use. 0.318 MB WHITEHEAD, HAL; BRIAN MCGILL and BORIS WORM. ECOLOGY LETTERS 11(11):1198-1207. 2008. Diversity of deep-water cetaceans in relation to temperature: Implications for ocean warming. 0.384 MB WHITEMAN, NOAH K. MOLECULAR ECOLOGY 17(20):4395-4397. 2008. Between a whale bone and the deep blue sea: The provenance of dwarf males in whale bone-eating tubeworms. 0.099 MB WUNSCHMANN, ARNO; ANIBAL ARMIEN; N. BETH HARRIS; BARBARA A. BROWN-ELLIOTT; RICHARD J. WALLACE, JR.; JAMES RASMUSSEN; MICHELLE WILLETTE and TIFFANY WOLF. JOURNAL OF ZOO AND WILDLIFE MEDICINE 39(3):412-420. 2008. Disseminated panniculitis in a bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) due to Mycobacterium chelonae infection. 0.366 MB YAMAZAKI, TAKESHI; SEN-ICHI ODA and MIKI SHIRAKIHARA. FISHERIES SCIENCE (TOKYO) 74(5):1195-1197. 2008. Stomach contents of an Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin stranded in Amakusa, western Kyushu, Japan. 0.086 MB YEATES, LAURA C. and DORIAN S. HOUSER. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY 211(20):3249-3257. 2008. Thermal tolerance in bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus). 0.339 MB From hwhitehe at dal.ca Thu Oct 23 12:30:35 2008 From: hwhitehe at dal.ca (hwhitehe at dal.ca) Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:30:35 -0300 Subject: [MARMAM] Abstract: Diversity of deep-water cetaceans and global warming Message-ID: <4900A6AB.17805.14523C7@localhost> The following paper has recently been published: Whitehead, H., B. McGill and B. Worm. 2008. Diversity of deep- water cetaceans in relation to temperature: implications for ocean warming. Ecology Letters 11: 1198-1207. Abstract: Understanding the effects of natural environmental variation on biodiversity can help predict response to future anthropogenic change. Here we analyse a large, long-term data set of sightings of deep-water cetaceans from the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Seasonal and geographic changes in the diversity of these genera are well predicted by a convex function of sea- surface temperature peaking at c. 21 oC. Thus, diversity is highest at intermediate latitudes ? an emerging general pattern for the pelagic ocean. When applied to a range of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change global change scenarios, the predicted response is a decline of cetacean diversity across the tropics and increases at higher latitudes. This suggests that deep-water oceanic communities that dominate > 60% of the planet's surface may reorganize in response to ocean warming, with low-latitude losses of diversity and resilience. There is a .pdf at http://whitelab.biology.dal.ca/labpub.htm. Hal Whitehead Department of Biology Dalhousie University From Peter.Dobbins at sea.co.uk Thu Oct 23 06:42:02 2008 From: Peter.Dobbins at sea.co.uk (Peter Dobbins) Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:42:02 +0100 Subject: [MARMAM] Fifth International Conference on Bio-Acoustics Message-ID: Fifth International Conference on Bio-Acoustics 31 March -2 April 2009, Loughborough University, UK We will shortly be closing abstract submission for this meeting, which will be the fifth in a series organised by the Institute of Acoustics covering all aspects of bio-acoustics and bio-sonar. If you have not yet submitted, we would encourage you to do so. The purpose of the conference will be to review the present state of this rapidly evolving subject area, to report on new developments and to examine future trends. Equal emphasis will be given to papers dealing with underwater, land-based and airborne studies, covering work on the bio-acoustics of birds, bats, insects, and marine and terrestrial mammals. Particular themes of this conference will embrace, but are not restricted to: - Biological sound production and reception mechanisms - Performance evaluation of biological active and passive sonar systems - Biological acoustic countermeasures and predator evasion techniques - Physiological and behavioural impacts of anthropogenic sound - Acoustic methods to reduce contention between animals and man - Measurement and instrumentation systems used to study biological sounds - Classification and analysis techniques for biological sounds - Bio-inspiration and bio-mimetics - applying nature's solutions to man-made systems - Fisheries acoustics and other industrial applications related to bio-acoustics. This conference will include a large area for posters, exhibits and stands. The aim of the poster area is to allow the informal exchange of scientific ideas, views and information. Presenting authors will be encouraged to make use of the poster area to further explore their topic. Space will be available if they wish to demonstrate working equipment. Prospective authors should submit a title and abstract (up to 1000 words) using the web site http://bioacoustics2009.lboro.ac.uk not later than 29 October 2008, indicating whether they prefer poster or oral presentation. Accepted abstracts will be listed on the website. Lead authors will be notified by email before 5 November 2008 and will be given the option of submitting an extended abstract or a full paper by 24 February 2009 for inclusion in the conference proceedings. Papers will be refereed, may be up to eight pages long, including diagrams, and must be prepared in the correct electronic format. Following the conference, authors of appropriate papers will be invited to prepare a fuller version for inclusion in a special issue of Bioinspiration and Biomimetics. Authors who wish to be considered for this publication should limit their conference papers to four pages. Further details of the conference, such as registration and timetable will appear on the web site when details have been finalised. Organising committee: Peter Dobbins (peter.dobbins at sea.co.uk), Paul Lepper (p.a.lepper at lboro.ac.uk), James Flint (j.a.flint at lboro.ac.uk), Simon Dible (s.a.dibble at lboro.ac.uk, Ed Harland (ejharland at chesilbeach.org), Chris Capus (c.capus at hw.ac.uk), Steve Robinson (stephen.robinson at npl.co.uk) and Linda Canty (linda.canty at ioa.org.uk) This email has been scanned for all known viruses by the MessageLabs Email Security System. Systems Engineering & Assessment Ltd - Beckington Castle, 17 Castle Corner, Beckington, Frome, Somerset, BA11 6TA, UK is registered in England and Wales with the company number 2430846. The contents of this email (including any attachments) are confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient of this email any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of its contents is strictly prohibited. You should notify the sender immediately and then delete it (including any attachments) from your system. Please help out the environment by only printing this e-mail if absolutely necessary - Thank You. From dianealps at acsonline.org Thu Oct 23 07:06:43 2008 From: dianealps at acsonline.org (Diane Alps (ACS)) Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 07:06:43 -0700 Subject: [MARMAM] ACS Conference - Extended Early Bird Registration Message-ID: <023901c93518$94f12a50$bed37ef0$@org> Whales in a Changing World American Cetacean Society's 11th International Conference November 13-16, 2008 Monterey Bay, CA **With a Gray Whale and Climate Change Symposium following on Monday, November 17** . Early Bird Deadline has been extended to October 31st! There's still time to register and save! . We've also just added special One-Day and Half-Day rates! . Last call for Photo Contest Entries! Deadline is October 31st (See details below) Tell your friends, co-workers, fellow students and anyone who has a passion for whales! We're pleased to announce that the 11th International ACS Conference will be held November 13-17, 2008, in Monterey Bay, California. American Cetacean Society conferences have a long tradition of presenting the latest findings and news about whales and other marine life. We also work to promote discussion and thought about the role and conservation of whales in an ever-changing world, and leave attendees motivated to work together for the good of the whales. American Cetacean Society conferences are open to everyone -so come, be informed and inspired, and immerse yourself in the world of "Whales in a Changing World". For more information, and to register online, visit the ACS website at >. Conference Venue Embassy Suites - Special rate of just $169/night for a suite! Please note that all reservations made at the Embassy Suites help keep our costs, and therefore, YOUR registration costs, down! Please make your overnight accommodations at the Embassy Suites - be sure to mention ACS to get the great rate of just $169 night! You must make your reservation before the October 31st deadline. The Program Whales in a Changing World will look at how whales, dolphins, and porpoises are currently adapting to rapid environmental changes and altered ecosystems. Human uses of the ocean have irrevocably changed the ecosystem where whales have thrived, including the overfishing of whales and many other marine species. As roads become more crowded, we look to the ocean for increased levels of transport of both people and goods. As energy gets more scarce, we look to the ocean as a source of power (from such things as wind energy and the potentially disastrous return to offshore oil drilling); and to build shipping terminals that had previously been associated with ports of call (e.g. offshore LNG terminals). Further, the changes that we have brought to the global climate will also likely affect oceans and their ecosystem, potentially in serious ways. Join us as we take a look at the Whales in a Changing World from a wide range of views: Orcas in a Changing World Orcas off Monterey by Nancy Black of Monterey Bay Whale Watch SPLASH: Structure of Populations, Levels of Abundance, and Status of Humpbacks Program overview & results from photo ID by John Calambokidis Assessing health and human impacts by David Mattila of Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary geneSPLASH, the influence of maternal fidelity on migratory destinations in North Pacific humpback whales by Scott Baker of Oregon State University Whaling in a Changing World The U.S. effort to stop whaling by D.J. Schubert of "Whales Need Us"/PEW Whaling in the 21st Century...the Writing is on the Wall...and it's in Japanese....and It's Not Good by Jonathon Stern of San Francisco State University and ACS National Conservation Chair Whale Conservation in a Changing World Witness to Extinction: How We Failed to Save the Chinese River Dolphin by Sam Turvey of the London Zoo Western Pacific Gray Whales by Dave Weller of NOAA/NMFS What Went Wrong for the Right Whales? by Sharon Young of the Humane Society of the United States Whales in a Changing World Marine Mammals and Climate Change by Sue Moore of Alaska Fisheries Science Center Cetaceans and Climate Change: What can they tell us about the marine environment? by Steven Swartz of NOAA Polar Bears and climate change by Bob Wilson of Polar Bears Alive With Ian Stirling (Canada) & Steve Amstrup (USGS) via teleconference The environment and the current political climate by Kieran Suckling of the Center for Biological Diversity We're also holding 2 very special morning sessions: The history of studying whales by Graham Burnett of Princeton University, and Fat and Wet: Being A Brief And Most Peculiar History Of Marine Mammal Science by Phil Clapham, National Marine Mammal Lab, Seattle Join us for an evening with Ken Balcomb, celebrating a lifetime of studying cetaceans at Saturday evening's Banquet at the Monterey Beach Resort. Gray Whales and Climate Change: Sentinels of the North Pacific/Arctic Ecosystems You are invited to a workshop on gray whales and their apparent responses to changes in their environment on Monday 17 November 2008. The workshop will bring together a group of marine scientists with broad research interests to review and discuss gray whale population dynamics and behavior change in the context of environmental changes that are being observed throughout the gray whales' North Pacific and Arctic range. Specific topics will include observed changes in physical, chemical, and biological oceanography of the North Pacific and Arctic and the time scales of those changes, and the history and current status of the gray whale population including shifts in distribution, phenology, population dynamics, and behavior throughout their range. All of this information will be discussed in the context of how well gray whales serve as indicators of environmental change, and how they serve as "sentinels of the North Pacific/Arctic ecosystems". This workshop will contribute to the development of a qualitative framework for integrating gray whales and other marine mammals into ecosystem and climate change studies. This workshop will follow the Biennial Conference of the American Cetacean Society's Biennial Conference in Monterey, California 15-16 November 2008. The gray whale workshop will be from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM on Monday 17 November 2008 at the same venue as the American Cetacean Society Biennial, and is sponsored by the Pacific Life Foundation. Fantastic Field Trips Join fellow whale lovers aboard the "Sea Wolf II" for a natural history trip in world-famous Monterey Bay. Blue whales often linger into November and humpback whales are still a good possibility. The first gray whales can be expected on their southward migration. Many species of dolphins are regular in the bay, including Pacific white-sided, Northern right whale, long-beaked and short-beaked common, Risso's and bottlenose as well as harbor porpoise. We did have killer whales on the conference field trip in 2000, and they are spotted regularly in Monterey Bay. Many other species are possible. Enter the Photo Contest We invite amateur photographers to participate in the "Whales in a Changing World" photo contest. The winning entries will be displayed during the conference Monterey Bay, CA, on November 13 - 16, 2008. Entries must be received by October 31, 2008. For entry form and guidelines, please visit www.acsonline.org We look forward to seeing you there. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Diane Alps ACS Conference Co-Chair and Event Coordinator dianealps at acsonline.org (310) 500-8485 Sign up now! The ACS Conference is Nov. 13-17 in Monterey Bay. 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URL: From RWBaird at cascadiaresearch.org Sat Oct 25 12:25:02 2008 From: RWBaird at cascadiaresearch.org (Robin W Baird) Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 12:25:02 -0700 Subject: [MARMAM] Abstract: population structure of island-associated bottlenose dolphins Message-ID: <21701FB12DB4B648921199BC4614914C509F43@server1.cascadia.local> A new paper was just published on-line in Marine Mammal Science. Subscribers can download a copy at http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/119881066/issue A pdf and more information on this research can also be found at www.cascadiaresearch.org/robin/hawaii.htm Baird, R.W., A.M. Gorgone, D.J. McSweeney, A.D. Ligon, M.H. Deakos, D.L. Webster, G.S. Schorr, K.K. Martien, D.R. Salden, and S.D. Mahaffy. Population structure of island-associated dolphins: evidence from photo-identification of common bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in the main Hawaiian Islands. Marine Mammal Science. DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-7692.2008.00257.x Abstract Management agencies often use geopolitical boundaries as proxies for biological boundaries. In Hawaiian waters a single stock is recognized of common bottlenose dolphins, Tursiops truncatus, a species that is found both in open water and near-shore among the main Hawaiian Islands. To assess population structure, we photo-identified 336 distinctive individuals from the main Hawaiian Islands, from 2000-2006. Their generally shallow-water distribution, and numerous within-year and between-year re-sightings within island-areas suggest that individuals are resident to the islands, rather than part of an offshore population moving through the area. Comparisons of identifications obtained from Kaua'i/Ni'ihau, O'ahu, the "4-island area", and the island of Hawai'i showed no evidence of movements among these island groups, although movements from Kaua'i to Ni'ihau and among the "4-islands" were documented. A Bayesian analysis examining the probability of missing movements among island groups, given our sample sizes for different areas, indicates that inter-island movement rates are less than 1% per year with 95% probability. Our results suggest the existence of multiple demographically-independent populations of island-associated common bottlenose dolphins around the main Hawaiian islands. Robin ======================================================== Robin W. Baird, Ph.D. Research Biologist Cascadia Research Collective 218 1/2 W. 4th Avenue Olympia, WA 98501 USA Phone 1-360-943-7325 Fax 1-360-943-7026 e-mail: rwbaird at cascadiaresearch.org www.cascadiaresearch.org/robin/robin.htm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From rie.hagihara at jcu.edu.au Sun Oct 26 17:05:34 2008 From: rie.hagihara at jcu.edu.au (Rie Hagihara) Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 10:05:34 +1000 (EST) Subject: [MARMAM] Looking for a software to analyse shallow dive recordings from TDRs Message-ID: <20081027100534.AOT06745@mirapoint-ms2.jcu.edu.au> To whom it may concern, I have just started working on dugong diving behaviour at James Cook University, Australia and am looking for a software which can produce dive profiles based on dive recordings from the time depth recorders Mk8 (Wildlife Computers). We are thinking to use Multitrace (Jansen Software Systems) but also trying to find alternative software to analyse dive data. As dugongs are frequent in shallow intertidal and subtidal waters, we have an issue of having numerous spikes on the profiles. It would be wonderful if someone could suggest a software that might work for shallow dive recordings. I am looking forward to hearing from your suggestions. Best regards, Rie Hagihara Master of Applied Science School of Earth and Environmental Science James Cook University, Australia 4811 +61 7 4781 6940 rie.hagihara at jcu.edu.au From jan.herrmann at cetacea.de Sun Oct 26 11:47:08 2008 From: jan.herrmann at cetacea.de (Jan Herrmann) Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 20:47:08 +0200 Subject: [MARMAM] New publications week 34 Message-ID: Dear all, here are some new publications of week 34/ 2008, which haven't been announced on MARMAM earlier AFAIK. By clicking the following link you are guided to a website, where the following references are linked to their according journal homepages. There you can find abstracts and contact information: Please do not contact MARMAM, the MARMAM editors or me for reprints. Thank you. Thanks to all of you who sent in reprints to be included in the weekly announcements. Kindest Regards, Jan Herrmann CETACEA Christensen, J.T. and K. Richardson (2008): Stable isotope evidence of long-term changes in the North Sea food web structure. Marine Ecology Progress Series 368(): 1-8. DeRuiter, S.L. and A.R. Solow (2008): A rotation test for behavioural point-process data. Animal Behaviour 76(4): 1429-1434. Erbe, C. (2008): Critical ratios of beluga whales (Delphinapterus leucas) and masked signal duration. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 124(4): 2216-2223. Kraus, S.D. and R.M. Rolland (2007): The Urban Whale. North Atlantic Right Whales at the Crossroads. ISBN 0674023277. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA. Magalh?es, F.A. et al. (2008): Cetacean diversity on the Parnaiba Delta, Maranh?o state, northeastern Brazil. Brazilian Journal of Biology 68(3): 545-551. Miksis-Olds, J.L. et al. (2008): Information theory analysis of Australian humpback whale song. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 124(4): 2385-2393. O'Brien, J.K. et al. (2008): Semen collection, characterisation and artificial insemination in the beluga (Delphinapterus leucas) using liquid-stored spermatozoa. Reproduction, Fertility and Development 20(7): 770-783. O'Shea, T.J. (2008): The Urban Whale: North Atlantic Right Whales at the Crossroads, by S. D. Kraus and R. M. Rolland (eds.). Journal of Mammalogy 89(5): 1328. Stringer, C.B. et al. (2008): >From the Cover: Neanderthal exploitation of marine mammals in Gibraltar. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 105(38): 14319-14324. PINNIPEDIA Boehme, L. et al. (2008): Monitoring Drake Passage with elephant seals: Frontal structures and snapshots of transport. Limnology and Oceanography 53(5, part 2): 2350-2360. OTHER MARINE MAMMALS Tinker, M.T., D.F. Doak, and J.A. Estes (2008): Using demography and movement behavior to predict range expansion of the southern sea otter. Ecological Applications 18(7): 1781-1794. -- --> jan.herrmann -at - cetacea.de From edita at utilaecology.org Mon Oct 27 02:47:04 2008 From: edita at utilaecology.org (Edita Magileviciute) Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 05:47:04 -0400 Subject: [MARMAM] Update on stranding of pilot whales in Utila, Honduras Message-ID: Details of Short-Finned Pilot Whales found beached at New Airport Beach, Utila ? 6 October 2008 The following information was collated by staff and volunteers of the Utila Centre for Marine Ecology. In the early hours of October 6th, 5 pilot whales were found stranded on the shores of Utila, near the new airport. All of the whales were dead when found. It is not known why pods of whales do this, but pilot whales are known to strand more often than most others. The whales were all facing the ocean and appeared to have regurgitated large chunks of squid which could be found in abundance around the area where the whales were. Of the five, only the largest was male and it was he who appeared to show any outward sign of illness or disease. His body was covered in white lesions that looked like they could have been some kind of skin infection, virus or disease. Scientists and volunteers from the Utila Centre for Marine Ecology took photos of the abrasions and have since sent them off to some of Europe?s leading Marine Mammal pathologists and posted them on various on line forums in hopes that someone will be able to identify the illness in question. DNA and blubber samples were taken by the Utila Whale Shark Research Project and those samples will be taken to be tested in the states. The day after the stranding, staff from the Iguana Station, the Whale Shark Oceanic Research Centre and the Environmental Officer of the Municipality attempted to cut open one of the whales to identify if there had been any plausible cause of death visible from the stomach contents. They found squid and a small piece of plastic. Because the corpses had already been on the beach over 24 hours when they cut the animal open, they did not take any samples and just made observations. The team stripped the carcass of as much flesh as possible and buried the bones on the one animal. A larger lesson and an urgent need for a coordinated response. With no current protocol nor legislation in place for such events the Utila Centre for Marine Ecology had no authority to prevent the following chain of events from happening and as an organization is frustrated both by the lack of respect for these animals and for any relevant response at a local or national level. There is an urgent need for a central organization to coordinate stranding events and for a chain of data collection, use and dissemination to be clearly thought out. Below are examples of events that followed the stranding that UCME was powerless to intercede with: As there was no one directly in control of the stranding, people were free to do as they wished many people came out to the beach to see the whales and some individuals were seen cutting the teeth out from the whales? mouths.; touching, mounting and even carving their names into the whales. An additional whale was cut open by a resident who wanted to collect the skull of the animal. He found an almost intact squid that was about 2 feet in length and barely chewed at all in the mouth of the animal and more squid in the stomach. He cut off the head and now has it submerged at his dock until the decomposition is complete after which point he will add it to his personal collection of skulls. The rest of the open carcass was left on the beach. Of the 3 remaining whales, 2 were towed out to sea by one of the local dive shops and tied to a mooring buoy. The idea was that one would be picked up by Anthony?s Key Resort on the neighbouring island of Roat?n and the other would be sunk a local dive site as an attraction for divers. Efforts were made by the Municipality?s Environmental Officer to have one of the whales picked up by the staff of Anthony?s Key Resort to be examined and eventually to have the skeleton put on display at their Roatan Institute of Marine Science, but they were not able to get a boat over to pick one up. The whale that was to be sunk was weighted down with cinder blocks but the whale?s body would not sink. Staff from a local dive shop thinking it could be due to decomposition gases decided to shoot the carcass in an attempt to release the gases but to no avail. Eventually, the corpse did sink to the bottom and shortly there after efforts were made to remove the cinder blocks and lay the whale out in a sandy patch where it would continue to decompose until there was only a skeleton left. Finally, the remaining carcasses; one whole, one decapitated were cleaned of their flesh by a team of experts from the Museum of Natural History in Tegucigalpa. The skeletons of some of the whales will hopefully be preserved so that they can be put on display in Utila and Tegucigalpa. A decree was released by the Municipality Environmental Officer proclaiming that the buried carcasses were the property of the Municipality and that they would be in the control of The Iguana Station until they are ready to be reassembled. Due to the lack of communication, collaboration and protocol throughout this event, it has been suggested by all of the organizations involved that a proper protocol and procedure be laid out for the future clearly stating who will be in charge of handling further strandings in Utila and what should be done in that case. Utila Centre for marine Ecology currently collects cetacean distribution and behavioral data from direct observation and through sightings reported by fishermen and dive shops. There is an urgent need for a Honduran Cetacean Unit which UCME is happy to spearhead in support of the local authorities, but currently lacks the funding for such an initiative. Island wide cetacean education is also a high priority. From panigada at inwind.it Mon Oct 27 03:34:49 2008 From: panigada at inwind.it (Simone Panigada) Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 11:34:49 +0100 Subject: [MARMAM] ECS web page Message-ID: Dear colleagues, I am proud to announce that the new European Cetacean Society web page is now on-line after some major revisions at: www.EuropeanCetaceanSociety.EU. The new template was presented last your during the 2008 Annual meeting of the ECS and amongst the new facilities there is now an on-line interface to register for the annual Conference, to renew the annual membership and to submit abstracts. We are also implementing on-line abstract review, which will be operative soon. The site has been designed and implemented by Luke Verburgt, who I wish to thank for all his work and help during this process. On behalf of the whole ECS Council, I would also like to take this opportunity for publicly warmly thanking Jan Willem Broekema for all his work, dedication and commitment within the ECS web page and all computer-related issues since its birth in 1987. The following text comes from the ECS web page and briefly explains some of the tasks that Jan Willem has covered throughout the years. From 1987 until 1993, the European Cetacean Society had a working group, chaired by Jan Willem Broekema, on computer-related issues associated with the exchange of strandings and sightings data. This Computer Working Group may seem superfluous today but it wasn't at the time. The ECS was introduced to internet by the European Union in the pre-web days of 1992, shortly before the web (HTML) concept and the browser (Mosaic) were invented in 1993. At the time the European Cetacean Society was a Special Interest Group (SIG) within a major EUreka project, introducing international scholars to internet usage. Our ECS mailing lists have existed ever since those days. The working group was dissolved and the role of web editor was introduced in 1993, when the first ECS pages were set up. The original site was designed to be very fast and light and available to any browser anywhere, and easy to maintain. Frames were introduced in 2003 and a major overhaul created a new set of mailing lists, of which ECS-Talk is the most prominent. In 2003 Jan Willem shortened the site's address to www.broekemaweb.nl/ecs and in 2006 introduced and registered the domain name www.EuropeanCetaceanSociety.EU. I look forward to seeing many of you at the next annual meeting of the ECS in Istanbul, Turkey, on March 2-4 2009 (http://www.tudav.org/ecs2009/). With my best regards, Simone Panigada ECS, Chair -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From amy.burt at navy.mil Tue Oct 28 08:36:48 2008 From: amy.burt at navy.mil (Burt, Amy E CIV NAVFAC NW, EV1) Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 08:36:48 -0700 Subject: [MARMAM] Message for Posting: NAVFAC NW Natural Resources Vacancy Announcement (2 positions) Message-ID: <607568A0C624C34997B949C0B98938230517E565@nawebremez04.nadsuswe.nads.navy.mil> A recruitment announcement for two GS-12 Natural Resources Specialist vacancies at Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Northwest in Silverdale, Washington is opening today (GS-0401-12 or GS-1301-12.) If you are interested in a position here, recommend you follow and apply directly via the below link for this announcement. Job Announcement Number: NW8-XXXX-12-QK077628-DE Job Announcement Title: https://chart.donhr.navy.mil/jobsearch/jobdetailE.asp?vid=86644 Please ensure your resume includes sufficient information to demonstrates your experience, knowledge, skills, training, and/or education in the following: 1. Knowledge of environmental/natural resource legislation such as the Federal Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), Clean Water Act, Endangered Species Act, or Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA). (Describe your experience researching, providing guidance, or interpreting environmental or natural resource legislation for project planning studies, documents or reports, or customers.) 2. Ability to write environmental planning or natural resource documents. (Describe your experience writing or preparing documents such as Environmental Impact Statements (EISs), natural resources management plans, or Biological Evaluations.) 3. Knowledge of facilities' construction and planning requirements. (Describe your experience with facilities, industrial, or community planning construction projects evaluating planning criteria, siting studies, or statements of work to assess environmental impact and/or compliance with environmental or natural resource legislation and regulations.) We are looking for applicants with a variety of experience and knowledge to fill these positions. The new hires will work on various types of projects throughout the Northwest region. These vacancies are open to the public, applicants DO NOT have to be current federal employees. Generally, for our vacancies, a longer resume that fully addresses all specialized experience elements is highly recommended over a short resume. Any questions, please contact Amy Burt, NAVFAC NW Environmental Planner, at amy.burt at navy.mil. From ler4 at st-andrews.ac.uk Tue Oct 28 03:20:54 2008 From: ler4 at st-andrews.ac.uk (Luke Rendell) Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 10:20:54 -0000 Subject: [MARMAM] Abstract - Overlapping and matching in sperm whale codas Message-ID: <4906E786.20168.29AE51AF@localhost> Folks, The following paper is now available online at Animal Behaviour; full text is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.07.032, or by emailing me (ler4 at st-andrews.ac.uk): Overlapping and matching of codas in vocal interactions between sperm whales: insights into communication function Tyler M. Schulz, Hal Whitehead, Shane Gero & Luke Rendell Abstract: Many animals engage in dyadic vocal exchanges. Studying the patterns of vocal output and spatial arrangement of individuals in these interactions can often reveal information concerning their function. Sperm whales, Physeter macrocephalus, frequently exchange short sequences of clicks, termed codas, in social contexts. We analysed the coda vocalizations of sperm whale social units encountered in two different oceans to test hypotheses about how coda exchanges are organized. We also used a dynamic recording array to estimate the spatial scale of these vocal interactions. Coda production was influenced by the timing and types of codas produced by other unit members, resulting in the production of duet-like sequences of coda exchanges between pairs of whales. Codas were more likely to be made within 2 s of another coda than expected by chance, and whales were more likely to match previously produced codas than expected by chance, although matching appeared to be largely a result of the matching of one particular coda type within each social unit. Patterns of overlapping and matching exchanges did not seem to be correlated with relatedness or social affiliation. These exchanges occurred over a range of spatial scales, and are thus likely to be functional both between whales that are near and between those that are comparatively far from one another. The context of these exchanges, reciprocity in coda overlapping, and the sequencing of exchanges into duet-like chains all suggest that coda overlapping and matching function to reinforce social bonds between whales. -- Dr. Luke Rendell Post-Doctoral Research Fellow Tel: (44)(0)1334 463499 E-mail: ler4 at st-andrews.ac.uk WWW: http://bio.st-andrews.ac.uk/staff/ler4.htm School of Biology, University of St. Andrews Bute Medical Building, Queen's Terrace St. Andrews, Fife KY16 9TS U.K. Social Learning Strategies Tournament - 10,000 Euro prize: http://www.intercult.su.se/cultaptation/tournament.php The University of St Andrews is a charity registered in Scotland : No SC013532 From nbarros at mote.org Tue Oct 28 06:16:36 2008 From: nbarros at mote.org (Nelio Barros) Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 06:16:36 -0700 Subject: [MARMAM] marine mammal and sea turtle stranding position Message-ID: <004a01c938ff$681bfb50$3853f1f0$@org> MOTE MARINE LABORATORY CENTER FOR MARINE MAMMAL AND SEA TURTLE RESEARCH STRANDING INVESTIGATIONS PROGRAM STAFF SCIENTIST Qualifications: An M.Sc./Ph.D. or equivalent degree in natural science or other field relevant to marine science (e.g., D.Sc., D.V.M., D.Eng., and M.D). Expertise in marine mammal and/or sea turtle biology is required; preferred scientific disciplines include life history (age determination and/or reproductive biology), natural history (e.g., feeding ecology), pathology, functional anatomy, or physiology. At least five-years experience with strandings and necropsies of either group of animals is desired. Applicants must demonstrate the ability to produce peer-reviewed scientific publications and to acquire extramural funding. Duties and Responsibilities: The successful candidate will (a) conceive of sound basic and applied research questions, and (b) design and execute all phases of research including proposal preparation, data collection, analysis, and interpretation. The candidate is expected to produce significant peer-reviewed professional publications (at least two each year); participate in professional organizations and meetings; and interact with other scientists and research programs at MML and elsewhere. He/she will seek grants, contracts, and other extramural funds in support of his/her salary and the research and staff expenses for the program, including indirect costs, with the expectation of securing full funding for the program within two years. The candidate must have a working knowledge of funding sources and programs, and a record of successful proposals. Demonstrated experience in managing other research personnel is expected, including interviewing and hiring; training of staff for work-place safety, quality assurance, and other institutional policies and programs; technical training of staff; daily supervision; delegation of field or laboratory duties; evaluation of staff performance; and resolution of personnel problems. The successful candidate may also be responsible for overseeing work of visiting scientists, postdoctoral scientists, student interns, or volunteers. Partial coverage of a 24/7 stranding pager is expected. The successful candidate will oversee a recently refurbished necropsy laboratory, and the maintenance of response equipment (4x4 truck, two personal watercrafts and one all-terrain vehicle). An extensive marine mammal osteological collection, a wide range of archived tissues and a multi-decadal database are also available. Applicants should have excellent communication skills and have working knowledge of computer databases. Familiarity with Access and GIS is encouraged. The position involves physical activity such as lifting and moving heavy animals under challenging environmental conditions. Boating experience and the ability to swim are required. U.S. citizenship or foreign citizen?s U.S. work permit appropriate for the work is required. All employees must comply with the requirements outlined in the MML Employee Policy Manual. Salary: $45,000-$55,000/yr, with full fringe benefits Application: The Search Committee will accept applications up to mid November 2008, or until the position is filled. MML would like to have the successful applicant start work as soon as possible. Applications should include a letter of intent, curriculum vitae and three letters of reference. Please submit application materials to Dr. N?lio Barros (nbarros at mote.org). NO PHONE CALLS, PLEASE. Mote Marine Laboratory is an equal opportunity employer. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From b_d_r_i at yahoo.com Wed Oct 29 00:22:09 2008 From: b_d_r_i at yahoo.com (Bruno Diaz) Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:22:09 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [MARMAM] Mediterranean Bottlenose Dolphin Internships/Thesis - Winter 2009 Message-ID: <341195.84166.qm@web54301.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Hi everyone, ? on behalf of the Bottlenose Dolphin Research Institute BDRI (www.thebdri.com), I am pleased to announce that we are seeking 4 Bottlenose Dolphin Internships for our 2009 Winter season (a minimum of 7 weeks of participation between January - April) in Sardinia Island, Italy. ? BDRI is a marine mammal science and education center located at Golfo Aranci in Sardinia Island, Italy.? Sardinia Island is a marine biologist's paradise and the dolphin behaviour you will witness is unsurpassed. BDRI's researchers are engaged in the conduction of a long term study about the ecology and behaviour of wild bottlenose dolphins and the potential effects of human activities (fisheries, aquaculture and tourism) in their distribution and behaviour. ? An internship period with the BDRI offers an invaluable exposure to boat based field work, marine mammals research, intensive training and mentoring in marine ecology, and encouragement to work hard, have fun, and learn from the dolphins and each other. ? Undergraduate and postgraduate students can present their BDRI's personal research project as their Thesis. Internships can be used for academic or vocational purposes, but students are solely responsible for making all arrangements for receiving relevant credit(s) as a result of completing the internship. ? Interns can expect to participate in and learn a variety of facets of marine mammal research as research assistants in three diverse research projects: ? 1. Mediterranean bottlenose dolphins societies project: We will take and analyse identification photos, study group structure and composition to refine details of dolphin societies and responses to human activities at sea. Volunteers assist with data collection onboard helping to locate, photograph and keep track of bottlenose dolphin groups. Back at the lab volunteers restock field supplies, analyse photos and transcribe data collected. ? 2. Mediterranean bottlenose dolphin communication project: We will record and monitor vocalizations to refine details of dolphins acoustic behaviour and responses to human activities at sea. Students will actively participate in data collection onboard and monitor dolphins vocalizations. Back at the lab volunteers restock field supplies, analyse and transcribe acoustical data collected. ? 3. Trial of acoustic deterrents for prevention of bottlenose dolphin bycatch: We will test a new type of acoustic deterrent devices and study the interactions between bottlenose dolphins and aquaculture. Students will actively participate in acoustical and behavioural data collection onboard. Back at the lab volunteers restock field supplies, analyse and transcribe data collected. ? Internships will stay in an apartment on Golfo Aranci. There is an internships cost of 25?/day and BDRI will provide housing and all associated field costs during the internships period (training, use of materials, electricity, gas, boat trips, etc). The apartment has a full kitchen and a full set of cooking utensils. Foods of all kinds are available at the local supermarkets within walking distance at your own expense. ?? There is no compensation for these internship positions and successful applicants will be responsible for their own transportation expenses to and from the research camp on Golfo Aranci (Sardinia, Italy). There is no deadline to apply. However, approved applications are accepted on a first-come, first serve basis. Apply early! Start and end dates are flexible. Positions are open until filled. ? Send cover letter or inquiries by email to the Research Chief, Bruno Diaz Lopez, at info at thebdri.com. Please indicate in your cover letter the dates you are available. ? Recent selected scientific publications by BDRI: 1. Diaz Lopez B. and Shirai, J.A., 2008. Marine aquaculture and bottlenose dolphins social structure. Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology 62(6):887-894. 2. Diaz Lopez B., Bunke, M. and Shirai, J.A., 2008. Marine aquaculture off Sardinia Island (Italy): ecosystem effects evaluated through a trophic mass-balance model. Ecological Modelling 212:292-303. 3. Diaz Lopez B., Shirai, J.A.; Bilbao Prieto, A. & M?ndez Fern?ndez, P., 2008. Diving activity of a solitary wild free ranging bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus). Journal of Marine Biological Association U.K 88(6):1153-1157. 4. Diaz Lopez B. and Shirai, J.A., 2007. "Bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) presence and incidental capture in a marine fish farm on the noth-eastern coast of Sardinia (Italy)" Journal of Marine Biological Association U.K, 87, 113-117. 5. D?az L?pez, B., 2006. "Bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) Predation on a Marine Fin Fish Farm: Some Underwater Observations". Aquatic Mammals 32(3): 305 - 310 pp. 6. D?az L?pez, B., 2006. "Interactions between Mediterranean bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) and gillnets off Sardinia". ICES Journal of Marine Science 63: 944-951 pp. Bruno Diaz Lopez Research Biologist / Marine Zoologist Chief Researcher The Bottlenose Dolphin Research Institute BDRI V.Armando Diaz N?4 07020 Golfo Aranci (SS) Italy http://www.thebdri.com info at thebdri.com Tel: + (39) 346 0815414 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From disciara at gmail.com Wed Oct 29 03:12:15 2008 From: disciara at gmail.com (Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara) Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:12:15 +0100 Subject: [MARMAM] Call for the conservation of one of the last strongholds of the endangered Mediterranean common dolphin Message-ID: <49083702.1438560a.2e51.14ff@mx.google.com> Short beaked common dolphins /Delphinus delphis/ in the Mediterranean Sea are listed as Endangered in the IUCN Red List. Intensive research conducted in one of their few remaining strongholds in the Mediterranean - an EU Natura 2000 area in the eastern Ionian Sea - documented ecosystem damage caused by overfishing, which also resulted in the dramatic decline of formerly abundant common dolphins. Thirteen local, regional and international NGOs have joined forces to advocate fisheries management action to protect biodiversity and preserve fish stocks, which would allow for the long-term survival of artisanal fisheries and common dolphins. An urgent CALL FOR ACTION was recently issued, where the necessary management actions are identified: http://www.cetaceanalliance.org/call/ We would be grateful if list members can disseminate this Call and contribute to the ongoing efforts to ensure the recovery of one of the last common dolphin communities living in the Mediterranean. -- Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara giuseppe at disciara.net http://www.disciara.net From sea_vida at yahoo.es Thu Oct 30 07:10:15 2008 From: sea_vida at yahoo.es (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Sociedad_Ecol=F3gica_SEA_VIDA?=) Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:10:15 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [MARMAM] New publications Cetaceans in the Venezuelan Red Data Book 3rd ed Message-ID: <290677.14764.qm@web25108.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Dear Marmamers: I am glad to let you know that Provita and Shell Venezuela have just published the 3rd edition of the "Venezuelan Wildlife Red Data Book". This edition includes only species considered under some level of threat/danger according to IUCN criteria. PDFs of the next entries are available upon request. Please forward your request to: megapterax at yahoo.com Bola?os-Jim?nez, J. & A. J. Villarroel-Mar?n. 2008. Rorcual del norte Balaenoptera borealis Lesson 1828. pp. 109 En: Rodr?guez, J. P. & F. Rojas-Su?rez (eds.). Libro Rojo de la Fauna Venezolana. Provita y Shell Venezuela S.A., Caracas, Venezuela, 332 pp. Bola?os-Jim?nez, J. & A. J. Villarroel-Mar?n. 2008. Rorcual com?n Balaenoptera physalus Linnaeus 1758. pp. 110 En: Rodr?guez, J. P. & F. Rojas-Su?rez (eds.). Libro Rojo de la Fauna Venezolana. Provita y Shell Venezuela S.A., Caracas, Venezuela, 332 pp. Bola?os-Jim?nez, J., D. Pirela, J. Rojas & T. Le?n. 2008. Bufeo negro Sotalia guianensis van B?n?den 1864. pp. 112 En: Rodr?guez, J. P. & F. Rojas-Su?rez (eds.). Libro Rojo de la Fauna Venezolana. Provita y Shell Venezuela S.A., Caracas, Venezuela, 332 pp. Bola?os-Jim?nez, J., O.J. Linares, M. Portocarrero & F. Trujillo. 2008. Tonina del Orinoco Inia geoffrensis Blainville 1817. pp. 113 En: Rodr?guez, J. P. & F. Rojas-Su?rez (eds.). Libro Rojo de la Fauna Venezolana. Provita y Shell Venezuela S.A., Caracas, Venezuela, 332 pp. Bola?os-Jim?nez, J. & A. Villarroel-Mar?n. 2008. Cachalote Physeter macrocephalus Linnaeus 1758. pp. 114 En: Rodr?guez, J. P. & F. Rojas-Su?rez (eds.). Libro Rojo de la Fauna Venezolana. Provita y Shell Venezuela S.A., Caracas, Venezuela, 332 pp. With warm regards, Jaime -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From g_tgisburne at umassd.edu Thu Oct 30 10:01:53 2008 From: g_tgisburne at umassd.edu (g_tgisburne at umassd.edu) Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:01:53 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [MARMAM] Field assistant opportunity in dolphin feeding behavior Message-ID: <4940.134.88.48.233.1225386113.umassdartmouth@134.88.48.233> Job Description: 3 field assistants are needed for a project in bottlenose dolphin strand-feeding behavior in Bull Creek, South Carolina. Bull Creek is a Spartina marsh system, part of Calibogue Sound estuary located west of Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. Successful applicants will help with data collection and entry and photo-identification. The field season will run approximately 6 months, from March through the end of August. Priority will be given to applicants who can stay for the entire season, but it may be possible to accept applicants who can only participate in part of the field season. A minimum commitment of two months is required. Housing will be provided near study site with PI. Qualifications: Assistants will be expected to work on a boat 6 to 7 days per week, for up to 6 hours at a time. Assistants should be hardworking, flexible, easy-going, work well in a team, and willing to work early morning. Preference will be given to assistants who have prior experience working on dolphins, photo-identification, or boating. To apply please send the following: (1) cover letter describing your interest in the position, (2) CV or resume and (3) contact information for 2 references to Teresa Gisburne at g_tgisburne at umassd.edu. Teresa Gisburne Masters Graduate Student Department of Biology University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth 285 Old Westport Rd. North Dartmouth, MA 02747 From giovanni.bearzi at gmail.com Tue Oct 28 10:46:47 2008 From: giovanni.bearzi at gmail.com (Giovanni Bearzi) Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:46:47 +0100 Subject: [MARMAM] When swordfish conservation biologists eat swordfish Message-ID: Dear list members the editorial below is scheduled to appear in Conservation Biology. While it does not deal with cetaceans in particular, I would like to share it ahead of print with the marine mammal science community to which I belong. When swordfish conservation biologists eat swordfish Conservation Biology, in press http://www.tethys.org/download/pdf/Bearzi_ConsBiol_InPress.pdf (84 Kb) (...) As conservation biologists, we often expect others to modify their behaviors or quit a job based on evidence that it has negative impacts on the environment. Nevertheless, we are rarely willing to change our own habits, even when we are fully aware of the detrimental effects of our actions. (...) _______________________________________ Giovanni Bearzi, Ph.D. President, Tethys Research Institute Viale G.B Gadio 2, 20121 Milano, Italy http://www.tethys.org/giovanni_bearzi.htm http://www.tethys.org/ http://www.cetaceanalliance.org/ _______________________________________ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rossiter at csiwhalesalive.org Fri Oct 31 07:46:06 2008 From: rossiter at csiwhalesalive.org (William Rossiter) Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 10:46:06 -0400 Subject: [MARMAM] Iran stranding net help request Message-ID: <490B1A2E.6090904@csiwhalesalive.org> Please forward to appropriate stranding response managers, and reply directly to . Thank you, Bill Rossiter Cetacean Society International -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Iran stranding net Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:19:38 +0330 From: To: CC: Dear Sir/Madam, Plan4land is an environmental NGO in Iran (www.plan4land.org). This NGO is conducting different projects on ecotourism, wildlife conservation and environmental education programs for children in Iran. UNDP is one of the main fund providers of this NGO. Since one month ago, plan4land is planning for making a local stranding network in southern coastal areas of Iran. During the autumn of 2007, two dolphin mass mortality events involving at least 152 small cetaceans were reported from southern Iran. IUCN-Cetacean Specialist Group provides assistance in investigating the causes of these events. The investigation team consisted of two CSG members - cetacean biologist G.T. Braulik and veterinary pathologist A. Fernandez. The team visited Iran from 21-25 November 2007. According to the report which provided by mentioned specialists making a National Stranding Network is necessary for the region. Almost nothing is known about the marine mammal species that inhabit the coastal waters of Iran other than a handful of published records in local journals, and the Iranian coastline is among the least studied marine areas in the world (Price et al., 1994). Stranding network will help in gathering information about marine mammals of Persian Gulf and provide educational programs for local environmentalist and people to conserve marine mammals. In the case of two dolphin mass mortality events in Iran it seems that at least for one of them, local nets were the reason behind the mass mortality of dolphins. Plan4land wants to start first steps for making this network by helping local people in south of Iran to make a local network to respond beaching of marine mammals and gather data about the number of beached animals, recognition of aquatic mammals in Persian Gulf and education of local people about the adverse impacts of their nets on marine mammals. To do this educational program plan4land is looking for consultation of organizations which have started similar projects before and take advantage of their experiences. Also we are looking for any amount of fund to run this project as soon as possible. Would you please inform us about your suggestions and experiences in this regard and let us know if it is possible for your organization to help us financially to run this project officially. 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The Sirenia Specialist Group is focused on the conservation of manatee and dugong populations around the world. Thanks for your interest - Cynthia Taylor Wildlife Trust 941-232-4587 HYPERLINK "mailto:taylor at wildlifetrust.org"taylor at wildlifetrust.org HYPERLINK "http://www.wildlifetrust.org/"www.wildlifetrust.org No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.549 / Virus Database: 270.8.5/1757 - Release Date: 10/30/2008 2:35 PM -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From g.j.pierce at abdn.ac.uk Fri Oct 31 12:06:57 2008 From: g.j.pierce at abdn.ac.uk (Pierce, Dr Graham J. (School of Biological Sciences)) Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 19:06:57 +0000 Subject: [MARMAM] Abstract deadline for ECS conference 2009 Message-ID: Dear all, ABSTRACT DEADLINE FOR EUROPEAN CETACEAN CONFERENCE 2009 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Due to popular demand we will continue to accept abstracts for the forthcoming ECS conference for a further week (until Monday 10th November). However, if you are able to do so, please let us have abstracts by the original deadline (Monday 3rd November) as we will start the refereeing process then. To submit an abstract, first go to the ECS website and log-in: https://www.europeancetaceansociety.eu/login.php Regards Graham Pierce P.S. The online conference registration form is presently being debugged and will go live shortly. We already have online abstract submission and on-line membership renewal available on the website at www.europeancetaceansociety.eu. 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Please visit our conference webpage for more details www.tudav.org/ecs2009. Regards, Ayaka Amaha Ozturk Organizing Committee ECS 2009 Istanbul ________________________________ De: Pierce, Dr Graham J. (School of Biological Sciences) Enviado el: 31 October 2008 20:07 Para: 'ecs-all at jiscmail.ac.uk' CC: 'sbrando at animalconcepts.eu'; 'marmam at lists.uvic.ca' Asunto: Abstract deadline for ECS conference 2009 Dear all, ABSTRACT DEADLINE FOR EUROPEAN CETACEAN CONFERENCE 2009 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Due to popular demand we will continue to accept abstracts for the forthcoming ECS conference for a further week (until Monday 10th November). However, if you are able to do so, please let us have abstracts by the original deadline (Monday 3rd November) as we will start the refereeing process then. To submit an abstract, first go to the ECS website and log-in: https://www.europeancetaceansociety.eu/login.php Regards Graham Pierce P.S. The online conference registration form is presently being debugged and will go live shortly. We already have online abstract submission and on-line membership renewal available on the website at www.europeancetaceansociety.eu. Additional information about the 2009 conference is available on the conference website at http://www.tudav.org/ecs2009. The University of Aberdeen is a charity registered in Scotland, No SC013683. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From isabelle.charrier at u-psud.fr Thu Oct 23 01:36:58 2008 From: isabelle.charrier at u-psud.fr (Isabelle Charrier) Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 10:36:58 +0200 Subject: [MARMAM] ERRATUM_IMC-10 symposium announcement Message-ID: <20081023083612.8D55F599F1F@smtp2.u-psud.fr> Sorry for this new posting, but some information were corrected (see bold black text) Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to announce that our proposal for organizing a symposium of ?Acoustic communication in terrestrial and aquatic mammals? has been accepted by the Organization Committee of the 10th International Mammalogical Conference, which will be hosted in Mendoza, Argentina, Argentina, 9-14 August, 2009. Further information can be found in the conference website http://www.cricyt.edu.ar/imc10/index.html We would like to invite all the ?bioacousticians? to submit their proposals to take part in this event. The symposium will consist of two types of presentations (please refer to the attachment for further information): a) Oral presentations: Because the symposium is planned to last 3 hours and a half, we are limited to 6-7 speakers maximum. Hence, we ask all those who are interested in participating as speakers to send us a 2-page written proposal (in English) of the topic you are studying that involves acoustic communication (aerial or underwater) in mammal species, what are your main results and how this research has contributed to the growth of a particular biological discipline in your country and in general. We would appreciate if you could also send us your contact information (work affiliation and e-mail address). Speakers will have 20 minutes and presentations should be done in English, the official language of the conference. b) Posters: Due to the amount of people we expect for this event, we asked the IMC organization committee permission to organize a satellite poster session after the symposium, so students, professors and researchers working in different aspects involving acoustic communication can gather together to exchange ideas, discuss different perspectives and learn more about vocal communication and how they serve as interesting study model in different areas of research. Those of you who are interested in participating in this poster session should send a brief description of your area of research and your contact information as well. Deadline for submission of proposals to participate in the symposium and/or the satellite poster session is April 30, 2009 (Authors must be registered by for the congress online before abstracts can be submitted). Proposals should be emailed to Isabelle CHARRIER, isabelle.charrier at u-psud.fr We hope to see you all next year in Mendoza! Kind regards, Isabelle Charrier ************************************************************************ Isabelle CHARRIER Equipe Communications Acoustiques, NAMC-CNRS UMR 8620 Universit? Paris Sud, Bat.446, 91405 Orsay, FRANCE Tel:(33-1).69.15.68.26 Fax:(33-1).69.15.77.26 Email: isabelle.charrier at u-psud.fr Isabelle's website: http://pinniped.free.fr/ Bioacoustics Team website: http://www.cb.u-psud.fr/ ************************************************************************ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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For the middle section, they are looking for photos of the following species: - Long finned pilot whales -Sei whales -Blue whales -Fin whales -Ross seals Contributors will be given full photographic credit below the photograph, a mention in the photographic credits, and a copy of the publication in either English or Spanish. Please contact Sebastian Arrebola at ernenek2002 at yahoo.com Cheers, ???????????????????????????? Christoph Richter, Ph.D. Adjunct Associate Professor Dep. of Biology Queen's University Kingston, Ontario, K7L 3N6 Canada T.: 613-533-6000 ext. 77266 ???????????????????????????? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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They gain experience in different areas, such as boat-based wild dolphin research and assisting with data analysis in our research laboratory. ? Interns gain hands-on experience during boat surveys studying the Mississippi Gulf Coast bottlenose dolphin population as a part of USM?s Wild Dolphin Project. Interns assist in the collection of environmental and behavioral data, using a variety of scientific tools and methods. Interns may also have an opportunity to help in the analysis of such data. In the research laboratory, at the USM Hattiesburg campus, interns have the opportunity to learn about behavioral analysis as well as acoustical analysis. Interns are required to complete a small project on an assigned relevant topic. For more information on our research, please visit our website:? http://www.usm.edu/psy-kuczaj/ ? The internship is a full time voluntary position, and students are responsible for their own transportation and housing arrangements. ? Students interested in the Marine Mammal Behavior and Cognition internship are required to send: a resume a letter of intent including career goals and reasons for wanting the internship (what you expect to contribute and gain from the internship) an unofficial or official copy of your transcripts at least two letters of recommendation (preferably from college professors who know you personally) All materials should be sent to: ? Internship Coordinator Department of Psychology The University of Southern Mississippi 118 College Drive, # 5025 Hattiesburg, MS 39406-5025 ? Materials may arrive separately or together, but the complete application must be postmarked by December 1st. For more information, you can email the internship coordinator at kuczaj_laboratory at yahoo.com. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: