[MARMAM] IFAW Marine Mammal Stranding Internships - Fall 2019

[Kasper, Kira]

The International Fund for Animal Welfare is accepting applications for Fall 
2019 Marine Mammal Stranding Internships.

Fall Session (First Week of September, 2019 - Mid January, 2020)
Complete Applications due: May 20th, 2019

Program Background
IFAW is an international non-profit organization. This internship is based out 
of our International Operations Center in Yarmouth Port, Massachusetts, USA. 
IFAW's Marine Mammal Rescue and Research program is a federally authorized 
program dedicated to marine mammal stranding response on Cape Cod and 
southeastern Massachusetts. Our program strives to promote the conservation of 
marine mammal species and their habitat by improving the rescue and humane care 
of stranded marine mammals, advancing stranding science, and increasing public 
awareness through education. Cape Cod is a marine mammal stranding "hot spot," 
with an average of over 251 strandings occurring each year. These strandings 
include live and dead seals, whales, porpoises, and dolphins.

Only complete applications will be considered.  Please click on the link below 
for more information and to submit an application.

https://recruiting.ultipro.com/INT1059IFFA/JobBoard/17b588a3-808b-4bc9-aea8-c3385a35ec51/OpportunityDetail?opportunityId=ccac8f79-546c-44a8-9ea8-c8f15b11b317


Kira Kasper | Stranding Technician
Marine Mammal Rescue and Research
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[MARMAM] Whale sounds - Thank you!

[Bryony Manley]

Thank you so much to everyone who got in touch with offers of sound files
for us to use in our visitor centre. We had responses from lots of places
and have a nice collection of files now, so thank you to such a helpful
community!

I thought I would share some of the public websites that were mentioned for
reference.

William Watkins marine mammal sound database
https://cis.whoi.edu/science/B/whalesounds/index.cfm

Sea of Sound,  Cornell
http://www.birds.cornell.edu/page.aspx?pid=2230#

NOAA SWFSC
https://swfsc.noaa.gov/textblock.aspx?Division=PRD=148=5776

NOAA NEFSC
https://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/psb/acoustics/sounds.html

Thanks again,
Bryony and Jen,
Manx Whale and Dolphin Watch
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[MARMAM] New publication: Parasitism Elicits a Stress Response That Allocates Resources for Immune Function in South American Fur Seals (Arctocephalus australis)

[Geno DeRango]

Dear MARMAM,

My co-authors and I would like to share with you our recent publication:

Mauricio Seguel, Diego Perez-Venegas, Josefina Gutierrez, Daniel E. Crocker,
and Eugene J. DeRango.

Parasitism elicits a stress response that allocates resources for immune
function in South American fur seals (*Arctocephalus australis*)
Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 92, no. 3 (May/June 2019): 326-338.

The article may be reached via this link: https://doi.org/10.1086/702960
Please contact me at gdera...@gmail.com if you would like to request a PDF
copy.

Abstract:
Parasites can cause chronic stress in some animal species, and this type of
stress response has been associated with adverse consequences for the host.
In order to know whether parasitism elicited a stress response associated
with decreased host fitness, hookworm (*Uncinaria* sp.) infection was
studied in a colony of South American fur seals (*Arctocephalus australis*)
in which hookworms infect nearly all pups born in a reproductive season. A
parasite-free group was generated by treating a subset of pups with an
antiparasitic drug before they developed patent hookworm infection. Stress
and metabolic hormones, energy balance, and humoral and cellular immune
parameters were measured in this group and hookworm-infected pups.
Hookworms elicited a marked increase in plasma cortisol levels in fur seal
pups. These hookworm-infected pups were able to maintain constant glucose
levels, despite losing body mass over the course of infection potentially
because of increased protein catabolism. Infected pups were able to mount
an effective immune response against the parasite and eliminated hookworms
from the intestine, recovering partial body mass lost as a result of
hookworm infection at the end of the study period. As shown in previous
studies, adequate glucose levels are critical for proper T lymphocyte
reactivity, and it is possible that, through activation of a stress
response, energy can be readily available for immune response against the
parasite contributing to early recovery from infection. Although there are
potential fitness costs to mounting a sustained stress response, these
could also be adaptive and promote survival during critical life-history
stages.

Best regards,
Geno DeRango
PhD Student
Galapagos Sea Lion Project
Bielefeld University
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[MARMAM] New paper: Endangered rorqual whales in a highly impacted upwelling region

[Bruno Diaz Lopez]

On behalf of my co-author and myself, I am delighted to bring to your attention 
the publication of our last research published by the scientific journal 
Ecological Indicators.  

Diaz Lopez B, Methion S, (2019) Habitat drivers of endangered rorqual whales in 
a highly impacted upwelling region. Ecological Indicators 103: 610-616. 
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2019.04.038

Abstract
Recent studies show that human impacts on marine ecosystems are threatening 
marine biodiversity. A greater emphasis on predicting how predators might 
respond to changes in the marine environment is needed because the effects of 
human activities are spatially heterogeneous. Here we analyse rorqual whales 
distribution data in a highly impacted upwelling region (North-western Iberian 
coast, Spain). Using a multi-model inference approach this study assesses the 
habitat drivers of the fine-scale distribution of three endangered whale 
species (blue, fin and sei whales) as a way to better understand how rorqual 
whales might respond to human-induced changes in the coastal ecosystem. The 
unequal use of available habitat, concentrated at the edge of the continental 
slope (200m depth and strong bottom slope gradient) in areas with a 
south-easterly coastal orientation, showed that rorqual whales presented a 
fine-scale pattern of habitat selection in response to prey availability. 
Rorqual whales’ distribution is affected by the coastal upwelling regime of the 
Iberian Peninsula, which is known to be under impact of climate change. 
Therefore, responses of rorqual whales to upwelling changes might be manifested 
at the population level such as shifts in abundance and distribution. This 
information contributes to extend the scant information available about the 
presence of these species in the North-east Atlantic. Our findings provide 
management agencies with an opportunity to devise and implement adequate 
adaptation measures which may ameliorate adverse effects critical for the 
conservation of rorquals in a changing climate.

The article can be found and download in the following link: 
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1470160X19302845?via%3Dihub

Please feel free to contact me for further questions or to request a pdf at: 
br...@thebdri.com

Bruno Diaz Lopez 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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