[MARMAM] Reminder: International Save the Vaquita Day 2021

2021-07-09 Thread Thomas Jefferson
Dear MARMAMers,   This is a reminder that International Save the Vaquita Day will be on Saturday, 24 July.  Due to continuing pandemic concerns, it will be a virtual event, with an all-day live-stream of video content.  See https://vivavaquita.org/international-save-the-vaquita-day/ for more

[MARMAM] New paper: Modelling fine-scale cetaceans’ distributions in oceanic islands: Madeira Archipelago as a case study

2021-07-09 Thread marc fernandez
Dear colleagues, We are extremely pleased to share with you our new open-access paper focusing on the fine-scale distribution of cetaceans in the Madeira archipelago using Whale Watching data: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2021.688248/full Fernandez M, Alves F, Ferreira R,

[MARMAM] FinBase workshop announcement

2021-07-09 Thread Jason Allen
We are pleased to announce a full day, in-person workshop at the SMM 2021 conference in West Palm Beach, FL on Saturday, December 11, 2021 called “FinBase photographic-identification database user community development: Advanced data management and analysis topics”. The goal of the workshop is to

[MARMAM] New Paper: Trophic niche overlap between harbour seals and grey seals

2021-07-09 Thread Yann Planque
Dear MARMAM colleagues, We are pleased to share our new article published in /Ecology and Evolution/: Planque Y, Spitz J, Authier M, Guillou G, Vincent C, Caurant F. Trophic niche overlap between sympatric harbour seals (/Phoca vitulina/) and grey seals (/Halichoerus grypus/) at the

[MARMAM] SMM Editor’s Select Series for July 15h: Reintroductions have saved the sea otter throughout North America: why should we care?

2021-07-09 Thread Student Members-at-Large Society for Marine Mammalogy
Greetings MARMAM! Join us on *15 July 2021 at 5 PM Pacific Time (Midnight UTC)* for the next SMM Seminar Editor's Select Series: Reintroductions have saved the sea otter throughout North America: why should we care? Free to attend. Registration required. Presented online on Zoom. Register here:

[MARMAM] New publication: Climate change vulnerability of cetaceans in Macaronesia: Insights from a trait-based assessment

2021-07-09 Thread Andreia Gonçalves Sousa
Hello MARMAM community, On behalf of my coauthors, I am excited to share our latest publication: Sousa, A., Alves, F., Arranz, P., Dinis, A., Fernandez, M., González García, L., Morales, M., Lettrich, M., Encarnação Coelho, R., Costa, H., Capela Lourenço, T., Azevedo, N.M.J., Frazão Santos, C.,