[MARMAM] New opinion letter on harbour porpoise foraging strategy

Dear colleagues, I am delighted to share with you our recent opinion letter just published in Marine Mammal Science about the foraging strategy of harbour porpoises. Resilience of harbor porpoises to anthropogenic disturbance: Must they really feed continuously? Hoekendijk JPA, Spitz

[MARMAM] New publication on drones and humpback whales

Dear MARMAM colleagues, My co-authors and I are pleased to announce the publication of the following manuscript now available online: An economical custom-built drone for assessing whale health. Vanessa Pirotta, Alastair Smith, Martin Ostrowski, Dylan Russell, Ian D. Jonsen, Alana Grech and

[MARMAM] SEAMAMMS 2018

SEAMAMMS: Southeast and Mid-Atlantic Marine Mammal Symposium Coastal Carolina University, Conway, South Carolina March 23-25, 2018 The Southeast and Mid-Atlantic Marine Mammal Symposium will be held at Coastal Carolina University from Friday, March 23 to Sunday, March 25, 2018. SEAMAMMS is

[MARMAM] PAM and Visual Observer Position on Large Vessel in the Atlantic

Job Category: Paid Staff Position Smultea Sciences is looking for certified PAM operators and PSOs for a large vessel-based project in the Atlantic. This is a W2 position, so you'll need to provide a US Passport or social security card and driver's license during the hiring process.

[MARMAM] Humpback Whale Thermal/IR Imaging Article

Hello MARMAM, Following on Phil Clapham's kind circulation of our very recently published, "Route Fidelity during Marine Megafauna Migration," article, I'd also like to share the below link to our separate article, "Thermal Imaging and Biometrical Thermography of Humpback Whales," that was

[MARMAM] New paper on megafauna migration

The following was just published: Horton, T.W., Hauser, N. Zerbini, A.N., Francis, M.P., Domeier, M.L., Andriolo, A., Costa, D.P., Robinson, P.W., Duffy, C.A.J., Nasby-Lucas, N., Holdaway, R.N. & Clapham, P.J. 2018. Route fidelity during marine megafauna migration. Frontiers in Marine Science

[MARMAM] IFAW Summer internship opportunity

IFAW Marine Mammal Stranding Internship Summer / Spring session 2018 (May - Sept) Complete applications due by: February 16, 2018 The International Fund for Animal Welfare’s (IFAW) Marine Mammal Rescue and Research Program is currently accepting applications for its Marine Mammal

[MARMAM] Strandings Coordinator (Employment or secondment opportunity)

The IWC is seeking a dynamic and experienced individual to coordinate the strategic development and implementation of the IWC Strandings Initiative, which seeks to build strandings response capacity amongst IWC contracting members and strandings networks and to assist governments, on request,