[MARMAM] Internship Opportunity - DEADLINE APPROACHING - Hawaii Marine Animal Response

2018-07-03 Thread Jon Gelman
JOIN OUR FIELD RESPONSE TEAM on the beautiful island of Oahu in the State of Hawaii.  We are accepting applications for interns for our Fall 2018 internship period.  The deadline is July 31, 2018.  Here is more detail about this opportunity. ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION: Hawaii Marine Animal

[MARMAM] International Save the Vaquita Day

2018-07-03 Thread Thomas Jefferson
Dear MARMAMers, This Saturday, July7th, is International Save the Vaquita Day!! This is an annual event similar toEarth Day, but with a specific focus on raising awareness and appreciation ofthe world’s most endangered marine mammal, the vaquita (Phocoena sinus). Events around the globe

[MARMAM] New paper on Burmeister's porpoise habitat, monitored from small-scale fisheries

2018-07-03 Thread Clay, Thomas
Greetings all, We are pleased to share with you our new paper: Clay, T.A., J. C. Mangel, J. Alfaro-Shigueto, D.J. Hodgson & B. J. Godley (2018). "Distribution and Habitat Use of a Cryptic Small Cetacean, the Burmeister’s Porpoise, Monitored From a Small-Scale Fishery Platform." Frontiers in

[MARMAM] New publication: Detection of Toxoplasma gondii in three common bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus); A first description from the Eastern Mediterranean Sea.

2018-07-03 Thread Danny Morick
Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to share our recent publication in Veterinary Parasitology: Detection of *Toxoplasma* *gondii* in three common bottlenose dolphins ( *Tursiops* *truncatus*); A first description from the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. Eyal Bigal, Danny Morick, Aviad P.Scheinin, ,

[MARMAM] New publication: A machine-learning approach to assign species to ‘unidentified’ entangled whales.

2018-07-03 Thread Jim Carretta - NOAA Federal
Dear Colleagues, I am pleased to share a new publication from Endangered Species Research: Carretta, J.V. 2018. A machine-learning approach to assign species to ‘unidentified’ entangled whales. Abstract ABSTRACT: Whale entanglements in US west coast fishing gear are largely represented by

[MARMAM] New paper: Risso's dolphin population structure in the North Hemisphere

2018-07-03 Thread Inge Chen
Dear colleagues, On behave of my colleagues I am pleased to announce our new paper on the population genetic structure for Risso’s dolphins has just been published: Chen I, Nishida S, Chou L‐S, Tajima Y, Yang W‐C, Isobe T, Yamada T K, Hartman K, & Hoelzel A. R. (2018) Concordance between