Dear MARMAM list members, The following workshop entitled "Bottlenose dolphin’s conservation: what can we learn from different resident populations?", will be held at the upcoming Annual Conference of the European Cetacean Society on Saturday, 6th April. The workshop will start at 09:30 and finish at 18.00. More information on http://www.escolademar.pt/ecs2013/workshops/.
If you would like to participate and have not yet registered, please contact carvalho.in...@gmail.com. *Programme*: *9.15-9.40h – Registration* * * *9.40-10.00h - An Action Plan for the protection and monitoring of the resident population of bottlenose dolphins from the Sado * *Estuary (Portugal) – Marina Sequeira - Institute for Nature Conservation and Forestry (ICNF)* * * *10.00-10.20h - A short story of a very small resident population – Raquel Gaspar – Associação Viver a Ciência* ** *10.20-10.40h - Social structure, abundance and conservation of a population of bottlenose dolphins, Tursiops truncatus, in the English Channel – Marie Louis - Centre d’Etudes Biologiques de Chizé (CEBC)* * * *10.40-11.00h - Diet and life history of bottlenose dolphins – Graham Pierce - Aberdeen University and Aveiro University* ** *11.00-11.30h – COFFEE BREAK* ** *11.30-11.50h - The bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus (Montagu, 1821) in Galicia and Norte Peninsular – Alfredo Lopez - * *CEMMA (presented by Graham **Pierce - Aberdeen University and Aveiro University)* ** *11.50-12.10h - Movements, abundance, and population structure of the bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) in the Pelagos * *Sanctuary (north‐west Mediterranean Sea) – Guido Gnone - Acquario di Genova* * * *12.10-12.30h - An integrative approach to population structureand social kin associations of sympatric coastal bottlenose * *dolphins (Portugal) with implications for their conservation – Inês Carvalho – Associação para as Ciências do Mar and Instituto Gulbenkian Ciência * ** *12.30-12.50h - Evaluation of the use of the Sado estuary (Setúbal, Portugal) by the resident bottlenose dolphin population. **Results from a new goniometric method - Inês Brito - Centro de Oceanografia – Laboratório Marítimo da Guia, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa* ** *12.50-14.00h – LUNCH BREAK* * * *14.10-14.30h – Monitoring bottlenose dolphins in SACs - the c ase of the Shannon estuary, Ireland – Emer Rogan – University * *College Cork*** * * *14.30-14.50h - Slovenian dolphin project: research and conservation of common bottlenose dolphins in Slovenia – Tilen Genov - Morigenos – Slovenian Marine Mammal Society * ** *14.50-15.10h - Potential impacts of artisanal fisheries on the bottlenose dolphin population of the Sado estuary, Portugal – * *Marina Laborde – Centro de Oceanografia, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa* ** *15.10-15.30h - Common bottlenose dolphins and marine fin-fish farms: co-existence or conflict? – Bruno Diaz Lopez - * *Bottlenose Dolphin Research Institute BDRI* ** *15.30 – 16.00h – COFFEE BREAK* * * *16.00-16.20h - Disappearing killer whales (Orcinus orca) and coastal bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops **truncatus) in Europe: What’s causing the declines? – Paul Jepson – Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London* ** *16.20-16.40h- Coastal bottlenose dolphins off the Arrábida and Tróia shores: Who are they? How many are there? – Francisco * *Martinho – Escola de Mar* ** *16.40-17.00h - Developing acoustic monitoring techniques using C-PODs for monitoring Annex II species in Special Areas of * *Conservation – Joanne O’Brien - Marine Biodiversity Research Group Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology* * * *17.00-18.00h – Discussion and Concluding Remarks * Thanks, Inês Carvalho Associação para as Ciências do Mar Edif. ICAT - Campus da FCUL Campo Grande 1749-016 Lisboa Portugal Population and Conservation Genetics Group Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia Rua da Quinta Grande, 6 2780-156 Oeiras Portugal
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