[MARMAM] Shelf edge survey Ireland.

2016-07-29 Thread Patrick Lyne
Two places are available on an Irish Whale and Dolphin Group cetacean survey along the continental shelf edge from West of Ireland to Camaret, near Brest, in France and back departing Castletownbere on August 28th and returning to port in mid- September. The survey will record sightings, foragi

[MARMAM] HUMPBACK WHALE RESEARCH ON THE GREAT BARRIER REEF, AUSTRALIA – RESEARCH ASSISTANT OPPORTUNITIES – AUGUST 2016

2016-07-29 Thread Lesley Douglas
HUMPBACK WHALE RESEARCH ON THE GREAT BARRIER REEF, AUSTRALIA – RESEARCH ASSISTANT OPPORTUNITIES – AUGUST 2016 The Great Barrier Reef Whale and Dolphin Research Programme is led by Blue Planet Marine and operated in collaboration with the Cetacean Ecology and Acoustics Laboratory at the Universit

[MARMAM] Introducing the first U.S. regulatory-compliant online Protected Species Observer/Marine Mammal Observer training course.

2016-07-29 Thread PSO Training
Introducing the first U.S. regulatory-compliant online Protected Species Observer/Marine Mammal Observer training course. The course is offered for $395 and consists of 12 graded lessons, a practical species identification quiz designed to simulate real in-field detection events, and a comprehe

[MARMAM] New publication on passive acoustic monitoring of Hawaiian spinner dolphins

2016-07-29 Thread Heather Heenehan
On behalf of my coauthors I would like to announce the following paper published in JASA earlier this month. Passive acoustic monitoring of coastally associated Hawaiian spinner dolphins, Stenella longirostris, ground-truthed through visual surveys Heather L. Heenehan, Julian A. Tyne, Lars Bejder,

[MARMAM] Sound Analysis Workshop, October 2016

2016-07-29 Thread Liz D. Rowland
The Bioacoustics Research Program will be running a 5-day Sound Analysis Workshop featuring Raven Pro from Monday October 3rd to Friday October 7th, 2016 at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in Ithaca, New York, USA. The workshop is intended primarily for biologists interested in analysis, visuali

[MARMAM] video: male grey seal feeding on a juvenile harbor porpoise

2016-07-29 Thread Caroline Höschle
Dear all, two of our staff members were able to record a video of a male grey seal feeding on a juvenile harbor porpoise. The video can be found at http://bioconsult-sh.de/en/news-archive/ date: July 25, 2016 Please feel free to take look if it is of interest to you. If you have furthe

[MARMAM] New publication: Offshore and coastal bottlenose dolphins of the western South Atlantic and evidence for a new subspecies

2016-07-29 Thread Ana Costa
Dear MARMAM members, We would like to announce the following new paper recently published in Marine Mammal Science (early view): Costa, A.P.B., Rosel, P.E., Daura-Jorge, F.G., and Simoes-Lopes, P.C. Offshore and coastal common bottlenose dolphins of the western South Atlantic face-to-face: What t