[MARMAM] Symposium on the Evolution of Marine Mammals in Tbilisi: a reminder

Dear colleagues, On behalf of the organizing committee, I am pleased to remind that the deadline for registration and abstract submission for the Symposium on the Evolution of Marine Mammals honoring Guram Mchedlidze which will be held in the Georgian National Museum on 29 September - 1 October

[MARMAM] Aquatic Mammals journal 42.2 available online

Dear MARMAM and ECS-talk subscribers, Apologies to those of you who will receive duplicate emails due to cross-posting. The following titles represent the contents of the most recent issue (Volume 42, issue 2, 2016) of Aquatic Mammals. The online issue is now available at this link:

[MARMAM] Underwater acoustics webinar series: Archived resources and final webinar Thursday, June 2, 2016, 12:00 pm (US East Coast time)

Over the last 8 months, the Discovery of Sound in the Sea (DOSITS) Team has been facilitating a free, five-part webinar series for the international regulatory community on topics related to underwater sound. Presentations have covered the topics of sound movement and

[MARMAM] CRRU Internship Programme 2016 - places available

We still have places available on the CRRU’s “Whales and dolphins of the Moray Firth” project in Scotland this summer, listed at: http://www.crru.org.uk/join_the_team.asp Our field teams are run as a formal training / educational programme, with structured lectures, seminars and presentations by

[MARMAM] New publication on high foraging rates of harbor porpoises

Dear MARMAMers, We are pleased to announce the publication of the following paper in Current Biology: Ultra-High Foraging Rates of Harbor Porpoises Make Them Vulnerable to Anthropogenic Disturbance Danuta Maria Wisniewska, Mark Johnson, Jonas Teilmann, Laia Rojano-Doñate, Jeanne Shearer,

[MARMAM] new article on common dolphin bycatch

Dear colleagues, We are glad to inform you that following article was recently accepted for publication: Small cetacean bycatch as estimated from stranding schemes: The common dolphin case in the northeast Atlantic Hélène Peltier , Matthieu Authier, Rob Deaville, Willy Dabin, Paul D. Jepson,

[MARMAM] HUMPBACK WHALE RESEARCH ON THE GREAT BARRIER REEF, AUSTRALIA (JULY-SEPT 2016) – RESEARCH ASSISTANT OPPORTUNITIES

HUMPBACK WHALE RESEARCH ON THE GREAT BARRIER REEF, AUSTRALIA (JULY-SEPT 2016) – RESEARCH ASSISTANT OPPORTUNITIES 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

[MARMAM] Marine Mammal Experience Internship- Deadline Extended

The IMMS Marine Mammal Experience Internship Program, located in Gulfport, MS, is designed as a way for students interested in a career in science education to gain valuable hands-on experience in a real-world informal educational setting. Interns will further their knowledge by working in other