[MARMAM] New review paper on Pacific harbor seal diet in N CCLME

Dear colleagues, I am pleased to announce the publication of a new review article in the journal Northwestern Naturalist: Steingass, Sheanna. "Dietary Composition of Four Stocks of Pacific Harbor Seal (Phoca vitulina richardii) In the Northern California Current Large Marine Ecosystem As Synth

[MARMAM] REMINDER: Summer Volunteer Opportunities with Cetus' Robson Bight Warden Program!

Summer Volunteer Opportunities with Cetus’ Robson Bight Warden Program! Cetus is a non-profit, marine conservation society, which operates in the waters around Victoria and Alert Bay, British Columbia, Canada. Since 2005 we have worked to reduce disturbances to marine mammals on the British Colum

[MARMAM] New publication: Can the Camera Lie? A Nonpermanent Nick in a Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus)

Dear all, My co-authors and I are pleased to announce the recent publication of our short note in Aquatic Mammals Nicola J. Quick, Barbara Cheney, Paul M. Thompson, and Philip S. Hammond. (2017). Can the Camera Lie? A Nonpermanent Nick in a Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus). Aquatic Mamm

[MARMAM] Open Ocean Trustee Implementation Group Welcomes Public Input

The Deepwater Horizon Natural Resource Damage Assessment Open Ocean Trustee Implementation Group

[MARMAM] Manatee Observers Needed

The upcoming Stuart Sailfish Regatta, in Stuart, Florida (USA) is looking for volunteers to serve as Marine Observers and people with boats to station observers along the race course to watch for manatees, turtles and dolphins. The dates of the regatta are May 20-12, and volunteers are also nee

[MARMAM] New Publication: Classification of underwater vocalizations of wild spotted seals (Phoca largha) in Liaodong Bay, China (Liangliang Yang, Xiaomei Xu, Peijun Zhang, Bing Li & Per Berggren)

Dear MARMAM readers, My co-authors and I would like to announce our recent publication in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, available in early view online: Liangliang Yang, Xiaomei Xu, Peijun Zhang, Bing Li & Per Berggren. 2017. Classification of underwater vocalizations of wild

[MARMAM] STILL SOME SPOTS AVAILABLE - first photo-ID course on Mediterranean Cetaceans in La Maddalena Archipelago National Park, Sardinia, Italy

STILL SOME SPOTS AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST PHOTO-ID COURSE ON MEDITERRANEAN CETACEANS IN LA MADDALENA ARCHIPELAGO NATIONAL PARK, SARDINIA, ITALY. PHOTO-ID LAB/FIELD COURSE ON MEDITERRANEAN CETACEANS IN LA MADDALENA NATIONAL PARK, ITALY -

[MARMAM] New information 2017 intermediate distance sampling workshop St Andrews

Second announcement: New information contained in this notice: - We are preparing a new version of the Distance for Windows (Distance 7.1) for use in this workshop. It will have additional features for density surface modelling and distance sampling simulation. Follow progress of the new ve

[MARMAM] Volunteer positions for Berau Cetacean Monitoring (Indonesia) 19 Sept-2 Oct 2017

The Conservation Foundation for Rare Aquatic Species of Indonesia is offering limited positions for motivated volunteers and/or students to engage in the Berau large marine vertebrates program for period 19 September-2 October. This long-term program (since 2007) aims to protect a high diversity of