[MARMAM] African Marine Mammal Colloquium 2018

2018-04-28 Thread African Marine Mammal Colloquium 
African Marine Mammal Colloquium 2018

The 2018 African Marine Mammal Colloquium will tackling new
frontiers. For the fifth biennial, the AMMC will be moving out of
the Western Cape to another centre of African marine mammal research,
Port Elizabeth. In keeping with our theme, we are especially
encouraging marine mammal people from elsewhere in Africa to
participate. We already have keen interest from a number people
outside of South Africa. Also in keeping with our theme we are
encouraging participation from marine mammal conservationists and
educators. And finally, we are encouraging presentations on exciting new
research fields and techniques.

Theme:
New frontiers in African marine mammalogy

Venue:
Port Elizabeth Museum at Bayworld

Dates:
20th - 23rd August 2018

Workshops & Events:
If you wish to lead a workshop, please submit an abstract on the abstract
form. Please indicate who the organisers will be and suggest an ideal
number of participants. Preliminary workshops themes are given below.

- Scientific and operational aspects of strandings
- Noise and other marine pollution
- Necropsies of marine mammals (practical)



Abstracts:

Please see attached for the abstract submission form. We encourage project
leaders to give an overview of their projects.
Submissions open the 1st May

Submissions close on the 10th June
Notification of acceptance by the 30th June

Please submit abstracts to: ammc.abstra...@gmail.com



Plenary speakers:

Confirmed plenary speakers are: Professor Yves Cherel (Centre d’Etudes
Biologiques
de Chizé, France), Professor Ken Findlay (Cape Peninsula University of
Technology). Further plenary speakers will be announced.


Hosts:
Port Elizabeth Museum at Bayworld
Institute for Coastal and Marine Research, Nelson Mandela University

Enquiries:
marinemammalogy.southernafr...@gmail.com

Information on further deadlines, accommodation, programme details, etc
will be forthcoming.

Organising committee:
Greg Hofmeyr - chair (Port Elizabeth Museum)
Stephanie Plön – scientific chair (African Environmental Observer Network,
NMU)
Meredith Thornton (Mammal Research Inst, UP & Dyer Island Conservation
Trust)







The African Marine Mammal Colloquium
A platform for increased collaboration and communication between researchers
and conservationists working on marine mammals in and around Africa
Founded in 2010




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[MARMAM] New publication about harbour porpoises habitat use and interspecific competition

2018-04-28 Thread Bruno Diaz Lopez 
Dear colleagues, 

My co-author Séverine Methion and I are pleased to announce our new 
publication: 
Bruno Díaz López & Séverine Methion (2018) Does interspecific competition drive 
patterns of habitat use and relative density in harbour porpoises? Marine 
Biology (2018) 165:92. http://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-018-3345-8 

ABSTRACT 
Determining the drivers that are responsible for the fine-scale distribution of 
cetacean species is fundamental to understand better how they respond to 
changes in their environment. We utilized information theoretic approach to 
carry out a compre-hensive investigation of the key environmental and 
anthropogenic correlates of habitat use and relative density of harbour 
porpoises. In all, 273 daily boat surveys over a period of 38 months, between 
April 2014 and November 2017, were spent in the field monitoring 9417 km along 
the coastal and shelf waters of Northwest Spain. Throughout this period, there 
were 70 encounters with harbour porpoises and 712 encounters with common 
bottlenose dolphins. The observed unequal use of available habitat indicates 
that harbour porpoises present a fine-scale pattern of habitat selection along 
the study area, which is likely related to the variation in oceanographic 
variables and human disturbance mainly caused by marine traffic and fisheries. 
While differences in habitat use between harbour porpoises and bottlenose 
dolphins were observed, interspecific competition with bottlenose dolphins (as 
competitive exclusion hypotheses) did not appear to play an important role in 
the distribution and relative density of harbour porpoises. These findings 
highlight the importance of considering both environmental and anthropogenic 
variables in ecological studies, in addition to highlighting the importance of 
using a multi-species ecology approach in research and conservation management 
planning. 

A read-only version of the paper is available here: https://rdcu.be/MItq 

Please do not hesitate to ask me for any question regarding our study or to 
request a PDF copy of the article: br...@thebdri.com 

Bruno Díaz López Ph.D 
Chief biologist and Director 
The Bottlenose Dolphin Research Institute BDRI 
Avenida Beiramar 192, O Grove 36980, Pontevedra, Spain 
www.thebdri.com 
0034 684248552 


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[MARMAM] New Expert Working Group to Develop Recommendations to Estimate Bycatch for the Marine Mammal Protection Act Import Provisions

2018-04-28 Thread Tessa Francis 
To: marmam@lists.uvic.ca

From: Tessa Francis, University of Washington, Ocean Modeling Forum

Cc: Emily Knight (ekni...@lenfestocean.org)

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Hello,


The Ocean Modeling Forum and the Lenfest Ocean Program are pleased to
announce the launch of a new working group to develop scientific tools to
assess data sets and methods in order to evaluate the rates and impacts of
bycatch on marine mammal populations. The working group co-chairs are Dr.
André Punt, me (Dr. Tessa Francis), and Dr. Rob Williams. The working group
will meet four times over 2018 and 2019, with its first meeting on May 16 –
May 18 in Seattle, WA. To learn more:

   - download the new project handout here
   
;
   and
   - visit the Ocean Modeling Forum website here
   

   .

You can also visit the Lenfest website here
.
If you are interested to learn more, please contact me at te...@uw.edu, or
Emily Knight, Manager, Lenfest Ocean Program, at ekni...@lenfestocean.org.

Best,

Tessa

-- 

Tessa Francis, PhD
Managing Director, Ocean Modeling Forum
University of Washington
FSH 308D
1122 NE Boat Street, Seattle, WA 98195
http://oceanmodelingforum.org/
@oceanmodeling

Lead Ecosystem Ecologist, Puget Sound Institute
University of Washington Tacoma
326 East D Street, Tacoma, WA 98421
p: 206.427.7124   tw: @tessafrancis
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