[MARMAM] UKIRSC conference - How and When should we host it?

[UK Regional Student Chapter for the Society of Marine Mammals]

Dear Marmam community,

*How* and *when* should we host UKIRSC 2021?

The UK and Ireland Regional Student Chapter committee has started to plan
our next conference for students in the UK and Ireland. With understandable
uncertainty around mass gatherings during and post the COVID-19 pandemic,
we would like to hear from the UKIRSC community. This is an opportunity for
the event to be influenced by the preferences of our attendees to ensure
everyone feels included and in a safe environment.

We are asking UK and Ireland based students to vote for their preferred
option:

*Option 1 – *The UKIRSC to host their first ever virtual online conference
in January 2021

*Option 2 – *Postpone UKIRSC21 until June in the hope to arrange a
face-to-face conference hosted by the Sea Mammal Research Unit and the
University of St Andrews, Scotland.

Please follow the link to our poll *here
*
.

The poll will close on Friday 24th July.

Cheers,

Izzy, Laura P., James, Cynthia, María & Laura O.
*---*
*Committee Member*
*UK and Ireland Regional Student Chapter of the Society for Marine
Mammalogy*

*Website*: http://synergy.st-andrews.ac.uk/ukrsc/
*Facebook*: https://www.facebook.com/UKIRSC/
*Twitter*: https://twitter.com/UKIRSC_SMM
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Re: [MARMAM] Unpaid positions in marine mammal science: a response

[Eric Archer - NOAA Federal]

I appreciate Phil Clapham's well-written opinion on unpaid positions, but
in general disagree with his conclusion that they do not represent a
significant barrier to entry to the field. I can offer my own experience as
a similar, yet counter example to Phil's. I am one of those few African
Americans that Phil can count on one hand as being involved in marine
mammal science I have been in the field for about 30 years, and I do not
know another African American in the field. That is, at least two of Phil's
fingers don't know each other.

Like Phil, I also owe my entrance to the field to a volunteer position. If
it wasn't for the generosity of Jim Mead, Charley Potter, and others at the
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, who allowed me to
volunteer there for two summers during my last two undergraduate years, I
don't know where I'd be. There were many unpaid positions that I wanted to
participate in, but there was no way I could afford the travel, lodging,
and loss of income to take them. The only reason that I could volunteer at
the Smithsonian was that my parents lived in the Washington, DC area and I
was living with them during the summer. I also took on part time summer
work, but if I had to work full time, I would never have been able to
volunteer. I knew people who did have to work more hours to help pay for
school or help their families, and they thought I was extremely lucky. I
felt extremely guilty that friends and relatives did not have the same
opportunity that I did, but vowed to not waste the opportunity I'd been
given. In short, I was only a few socio-economic rungs away from not being
able to pursue my dream. Today, Phil would need fewer fingers.

My point is this: We are all a product of the current system. We all have
benefited from somebody taking a chance on us and most of us have made
sacrifices or taken advantage of opportunities to participate in work where
we had to fund ourselves. Few of us have been paid at the start to get
those critical first few experiences or make those important first
connections. We all have been lucky. The voices that we won't hear in this
debate are those that didn't have those opportunities. How many people are
we missing from this field because they had to make a choice of doing
something to pay for school, family, or just existence rather than being
able to put it into their future?

Phil makes an excellent point about the need to expose more
underrepresented people to the field. The SMM Diversity and Inclusion
Committee is pursuing several avenues to make a closer connection between
the society and minority serving institutions and make our science more
available to a wider group of young students. However, I'm absolutely
convinced that although this is an important filter to be addressed, it
doesn't mean we shouldn't pay attention other obvious barriers like the
issue of unpaid internships.

While I don't agree with all of the demands of the Jacobsen et al letter, I
signed it because I strongly support the spirit of the initiative and want
to encourage the very discussion that we're having now. I think we can all
agree that we need to do everything we can to get as many voices to the
table as possible. Changing the way we think about unpaid internships is
one of them. Phil has outlined the harm that these changes would have to
research projects. I just wanted to add some words to voice the silent harm
experienced by people that we will never hear from.

Kind Regards,
Eric Archer

On Sat, Jul 11, 2020 at 8:05 AM Phil Clapham 
wrote:

> At the risk of becoming unpopular with some good folks, I have to offer a
> different perspective on unpaid positions to that given in the letter
> posted by Eiren Jacobson on 2nd July, addressed to the leadership of the
> Society for Marine Mammalogy.  The authors of the letter are of course
> correct in that unpaid positions favor those who can afford to work for
> free, and as such they exclude numerous people, including minorities.
> Maybe a few institutions do intentionally exploit younger people in this
> way.  However, for many, this situation is a simple reflection of the state
> of funding in marine mammal science.
>Many institutions - notably smaller non-profits - have a hard time
> raising enough money to pay their own staff, support basic field work, and
> keep the lights on.  If you ban advertisements of unpaid positions, you are
> depriving countless people of the only opportunity they may ever get to
> participate in marine mammal science.  I'm a good example.  When I arrived
> on Cape Cod in the fall of 1980, I volunteered at the Center for Coastal
> Studies in Provincetown.  They weren't about to pay me, a young guy with
> zero experience; no one at the institution was receiving much or any
> salary, and our research budget for the entire year was a few thousand
> dollars.  Yes, I was able to support myself (barely) for a few months.  And
> yes, that was forty years ago; but for many small 

[MARMAM] New publication on the use of drone photogrammetry to estimate elephant seal mass

[Diana Alvarado]

Dear all, 

My co-authors and I are pleased to announce the Early View of our publication 
in Marine Mammal Science:

Alvarado DC, Robinson PW, Frasson NC, Costa DP, Beltran RS. Calibration of 
aerial photogrammetry to estimate elephant seal mass. Mar Mam Sci. 2020;1-9. 
https://doi.org/10./mms.12714 


Abstract

Body mass measurements can provide important insights into the physiology and 
foraging ecology of marine mammals. Unmanned aerial system (UAS) photogrammetry 
offers a method that is safer for both animals and researchers and is 
logistically simpler than traditional weighing methods.  Our objectives were: 
1) to evaluate the accuracy of UAS photogrammetry for estimating the mass of 
adult female northern elephant seals and 2) to examine the effect of body 
position on mass estimates obtained using UAS.  We analyzed a series of UAS 
images of 22 adult female northern elephant seals (Mirounga angustirostris) of 
known mass at Año Nuevo Reserve (San Mateo County, California, USA). Complete 
body areas (hereafter, footprint areas, measured in m2) of seals in a dorsal 
(laying on ventral surface, N=45) or lateral (laying on side, N=7) body 
position were measured in ImageJ using the standard polygon area selection tool 
and compared to mass measurements. Linear regressions of measured mass against 
footprint suggest that mass is more strongly related to dorsal footprints (R2= 
0.895, N=45) than lateral footprints (R2= 0.822, N=7). Residual error ranged 
from -68.7 to +69.3 kg and seal mass was estimated with a mean error of 7.7 kg, 
or 2.4%, of total body mass. With the predictive models found, UAS 
photogrammetry will allow us to expand our knowledge of seasonal energetic 
intake and expenditure, especially in large-bodied and fully aquatic species in 
remote areas. Mass measurements can inform ecosystem-based resource management 
by providing information about the inter-annual productivity of the ocean 
environment and in turn individual, population, and ecosystem-level health in 
marine mammals.

The publication can be found at this link: http://dx.doi.org/10./mms.12714 


PDF requests can be sent to dical...@ucsc.edu 


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[MARMAM] Summer Update from Aquatic Mammals journal

[Kathleen Dudzinski]

Dear MARMAM and ECS Talk subscribers,
 
Apologies to those of you who will receive duplicate emails due to 
cross-posting.
 
The titles listed below represent the contents of the most recent issue (Volume 
46, issue 4, 2020) of Aquatic Mammals that is published online. 
 
Aquatic Mammals is the longest running peer-reviewed journal dedicated to 
research on aquatic mammals and is published quarterly with manuscripts 
available as published PDFs in real time. 
Further information about the journal can be found at: 
http://www.aquaticmammalsjournal.org/  

In other journal news:
1) At the end of July, we will resume shipping the print copies of Aquatic 
Mammals to print subscribers; issues 1 thru 4 will be sent in one packet to 
each print subscriber.

2) We have one Historical Perspectives essay in issue 46.4 and will have one in 
46.5. 
Given these challenging times, we have decided to make all HP essays (from Vic 
Scheffer’s first essay through current and forward) available for free download 
to any interested reader. You can access them in the various issues from 2008 
through present year.

3) The journal has crept into social media with a Facebook page. Thankfully, 
Dagmar Fertl, who volunteers her time, uploads posts in advance of each issue’s 
publication. Authors provide a few sentences and a photo (or 2) about their 
article as a previous to the full issue being published online. So far, 
response has been positive.

4) The index files for volumes 44 and 45 (key word and author indices) are now 
also available for free download from the journal’s index page (under the 
Issues tab).

Thank you for your continued interest in the journal and abstract postings.
With regards,
Kathleen M. Dudzinski, Ph.D.
Editor, Aquatic Mammals Journal
busin...@aquaticmammalsjournal.org 

To submit a manuscript for publication consideration, please visit: 
http://am.expressacademic.org/actions/author.php 



Volume 46, Issue 4
Claire Vergneau-Grosset, Stéphane Lair, Mario Guay, Karine Béland, Benjamin 
Lamglait, Marion Jalenques, Noémie Summa, Jean-François St-Cyr, and Hugo Joly. 
(2020). Diagnosis and Management of Goiter in an Atlantic Walrus (Odobenus 
rosmarus rosmarus).  Aquatic Mammals, 46(4), 331-336. DOI: 
https://doi.org/10.1578/AM.46.4.2020.331 

Cayetano Espinosa-Miranda, Benjamín Cáceres, Olivia Blank, Marjorie 
Fuentes-Riquelme, and Sonja Heinrich. (2020). Entanglements and Mortality of 
Endemic Chilean Dolphins (Cephalorhynchus eutropia) in Salmon Farms in Southern 
Chile.  Aquatic Mammals, 46(4), 337-343. DOI: 
https://doi.org/10.1578/AM.46.4.2020.337 

Audra E. Ames and Valeria Vergara. (2020). Trajectories of Vocal Repertoire 
Development in Beluga (Delphinapterus leucas) Calves: Insights from Studies a 
Decade Apart. Aquatic Mammals, 46(4), 344-366. DOI: 
https://doi.org/10.1578/AM.46.4.2020.344 

Jennifer L. Garten and Frank E. Fish. (2020). Comparative Histological 
Examination of the Integument of Odontocete Flukes. Aquatic Mammals, 46(4), 
367-381. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1578/AM.46.4.2020.367 

Holli C. Eskelinen, Jill L. Richardson, and Juliana K. Wendt. (2020). The 
Effects of Reproductive Status and Water Temperature on the Caloric Intake of 
Tursiops truncatus. Aquatic Mammals, 46(4), 382-394. DOI: 
https://doi.org/10.1578/AM.46.4.2020.382 

Long Vu, Michael R. McGowen, Charles W. Potter, Truong Anh Tho, Sui Hyang Kuit, 
Salma T. Abdel-Raheem, and Ellen Hines. (2020). New Records of Fraser’s Dolphin 
(Lagenodelphis hosei) from the Whale Temples and Fishing Communities of 
Vietnam. Aquatic Mammals, 46(4), 395-401. DOI: 
https://doi.org/10.1578/AM.46.4.2020.395 

Jodi G. Frediani, Nancy A. Black, and Fred Sharpe. (2020). Postmortem 
Attractions: Humpback Whales Investigate the Carcass of a Killer 
Whale-Depredated Gray Whale Calf. Aquatic Mammals, 46(4), 402-410. DOI: 
https://doi.org/10.1578/AM.46.4.2020.402 

Juan P. Gallo-Reynoso, Ana L. Figueroa-Carranza, Isai D. Barba-Acuña, Donaxi 
Borjes-Flores, and Itzel J. Pérez-Cossío. (2020). Steller Sea Lions (Eumetopias 
jubatus) Along the Western Coast of Mexico. Aquatic Mammals, 46(4), 411-416. 
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1578/AM.46.4.2020.411 

Historical Perspectives:

Jay Sweeney. (2020). Genesis and Benefits of Human/Dolphin Interactions Leading 
to Dolphin Interaction Programs: Personal Observations from 1969 to 2020. 
Aquatic Mammals, 46(4), 417-428. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1578/AM.46.4.2020.417 

Erratum:

Divya Panicker, Dipani Sutaria, 

[MARMAM] Northumberland Dolphin Dataset 2020 Release (NDD20)

[Cameron Trotter (PGR)]

Dear Colleagues,

We are very happy to share our new dataset, the Northumberland Dolphin Dataset 
2020 (NDD20). This dataset would be of particular interest to those wishing to 
utilise machine learning models for mammal re-identification or the development 
of automatic photo-id systems, such as Siamese Neural Networks or more 
conventional Convolutional Neural Networks.

Please see below for details:

We introduce the Northumberland Dolphin Dataset 2020 (NDD20), a challenging 
image dataset annotated for both coarse and fine-grained instance segmentation 
and categorisation. This dataset, the first release of the NDD, was created in 
response to the rapid expansion of computer vision into conservation research 
and the production of field-deployable systems suited to extreme environmental 
conditions - an area with few open source datasets.

NDD20 contains a large collection of above and below water images of two 
different dolphin species for traditional coarse and fine-grained segmentation. 
All data contained in NDD20 was obtained via manual collection in the North Sea 
around the Northumberland coastline, UK.

NDD20 was released at this year’s FGVC7 Workshop as a part of CVPR2020. Our 
accompanying paper can be accessed at https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.13359.pdf, 
with the dataset itself available at 
https://doi.org/10.25405/data.ncl.c.4982342.

On behalf of all coauthors,

Cameron Trotter
c.trott...@ncl.ac.uk
Cloud Computing CDT & Marine MEGAfauna Lab, Newcastle University, UK
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[MARMAM] Post Doc opportunity - killer whale health using RNA seq

[Marie Noel]

Ocean Wise is seeking to hire a post doc to work on a two year project looking 
at health effects related to contaminants in killer whales using RNA sequencing.

Details on the position can be found in the link below:
https://recruiting.ultipro.ca/VAN5001VAMSC/JobBoard/3cc32760-97d8-475c-b01d-1031a9a9fe3a/OpportunityDetail?opportunityId=1f843cd6-f927-4ed5-b70c-6be84f351129

Feel free to contact me if you have any questions
Thanks
Marie


Marie Noel, PhD
Research Manager

marie.n...@ocean.org


Our vision is a world in which oceans
are healthy and flourishing. | ocean.org
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[MARMAM] New Online Training Courses: An Introduction To Integrating QGIS/GIS And R For Spatial Analysis - 6th to 8th May 2020

[cdmacleod]

_GIS In Ecology_ will be holding a new online training course on using
GIS in biological research between the 17th and 20th of August 2020. GIS
has become a critical skill for many marine mammalogists regardless of
whether they are working on academic research, conservation, management
or environmental impact assessment, and this course provides the perfect
introduction for those who wish to learn how to use GIS for any of these
purposes. While aimed at biologists in general, it in includes a number
of practical exercises that use marine mammal data (including
calculating abundance per unit survey effort based on data on dolphins
from Scotland, and calculating grids of species richness using data on
beaked whales from the North Atlantic). In addition, the course will
primarily be taught using QGIS, a free, open-source GIS software
package, meaning that the skills learned on this course can be used by
anyone working with marine mammals, regardless of their budgets and
funding. 


The course will be held using the Zoom video-conferencing platform, and
will consist of four three-hour sessions. One session will need to be
completed each day. However, you will have a choice of completing it
between 10:00 and 13:00 British Summer (primarily for those living in
Europe, Asia and Africa) or 18:00 to 21:00 British Summer Time
(primarily for those living in North and South America). This choice of
time slots for each session allows participants from as wide a range of
time zones to participate in the course. 


Attendance will be limited to a maximum of 20 people. The fees for this
course are GBP 250 per person (with a discounted rate of GBP 195 for
students, the unwaged and those working for registered charities). To
book a place on it, or for more information, visit  the course's
dedicated webpage at
http://gisinecology.com/online-course-an-introduction-to-using-gis-qgis-in-biological-research/,
Alternatively, you can email i...@gisinecology.com with the subject
line Introductory Online GIS Course August 2020. 


This course will be taught by Dr Colin D. MacLeod, the author of _ GIS
For Biologists: A Practical Introduction For Undergraduates_ [1]
(Pictish Beast Publications), and will provide an introduction to using
GIS in a wide variety of biological research situations ranging from the
basics of making maps through to studying the spread of diseases and
creating maps of species biodiversity. It will consist of a series of
background sessions on using GIS mixed in with practical sessions where
you will work directly with GIS software to complete various tasks which
biological researchers commonly need to be able to do. 


Each three-hour session will consist of a background talk covering a
specific topic, followed by practical exercises based on instructions
from one of our workbooks. While you are encouraged to remain online
during the practical sessions, you can choose to go off-line as you work
though the exercises (or if you need to take a break). However, if you
have any questions, the course instructor will be available for you to
ask any questions you wish at any point. 


This course will primarily be based around QGIS (also known as Quantum
GIS), which provides a user-friendly, open-source, free alternative to
commercial GIS software packages, and it is becoming increasingly widely
used in both academic and commercial organisations As a result, it is
aimed at both those with no GIS experience, but wish to learn how to to
do GIS with QGIS, and also those who are familiar with using commercial
GIS software, such as ArcGIS, but who wish to learn how to use QGIS as
an alternative. However, this course is taught using
software-independent approach, and it is also open to those who wish to
learn how to use ArcGIS to do biological GIS. 


When you attend this course you will receive a free copy of _GIS For
Biologists: A Practical Introduction for Undergraduates [1] _as the
practical exercises in that course are based on the ones contained in
that book. 


At the end of the course, all attendees will receive a certificate of
attendance and completion. Each certificate is embossed with the GIS In
Ecology official stamp to prevent its fraudulent reproduction. In
addition, each certificate has its own unique identification number that
we will record, along with your name, meaning that we can verify the
authenticity of the certificates we issue (and the course you have
completed) on request. 


To attend this course, you must have your own laptop computer with an
appropriate GIS software package installed on it. Our recommended GIS
software for this course is the freely available QGIS software. For
those wishing to use QGIS, you will need to download and install QGIS
2.8.3 (for those using Windows computers) or 2.8.4 (for those using
Macs) rather than the latest version. The best way to download the
correct version of QGIS for this course is to use the links on our GIS
For Biologists webpage, which can be found 

[MARMAM] publication option for wild marine mammals’ health related articles

[Danny Morick]

Subject: publication option for wild marine mammals’ health related
articles: *Animals* Special Issue - Infectious Diseases and Zoonoses of
Wild Marine Animals



Dear MARMAM subscribers,

*Animals* Special Issue - Infectious Diseases and Zoonoses of Wild Marine
Animals ((IF=2.323, Q1, Veterinary Sciences) is accepting articles related
to marine animals' diseases and, hopefully, will have a special chapter for
marine mammal Infectious Diseases and Zoonoses. Researchers in this field
are welcome to submit articles for peer review and contribute to marine
mammal research and conservation.

Over the past few decades, there has been a global increase in the
reporting of diseases affecting marine mammals. Climate change is
additional pressure on marine ecosystems that are already subject to many
anthropogenic disturbances, such as overfishing, pollution, and habitat
destruction. Environmental conditions play a crucial role not only in
pathogen transmission between marine mammals but also as risk factors for
clinical disease occurrence.

Dolphins, seals, sea lions, and other marine mammals are all susceptible to
infectious diseases and some of these pathogens can transmit diseases to
humans. Marine zoonoses represent a public health problem, which is an
understatement considering the status of the world's citizenry and
socio-economic fallout. Numerous pathogens and many different transmission
modes are involved, and many factors influence the epidemiology of disease
transmission. Surveillance, laboratory diagnostics, research, training, and
education are key elements in combating the upsurge of infectious agents
and zoonoses in and from the sea.

 For further details, please contact:

Dr. Danny Morick, DVM, Ph.D., CertAqV

Email: dmor...@univ.haifa.ac.il

*Guest Editor  *
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[MARMAM] Melon-headed Whale Picture Request

[Peter Evans]

Please could anyone help us. We are looking to be able to include one or two 
good images of melon-headed whale that shows its identification features for a 
fact sheet on the species to be included on our charity's website and within a 
free public recording app.

Hoping someone can help.

kind rregards,
Peter

Dr Peter GH Evans
Sea Watch Foundation
Email: peter.ev...@bangor.ac.uk





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[MARMAM] New publication on juvenile social development in bottlenose dolphins

[Ali G]

My co-authors and I are pleased to announce the publication of our new
article in Behavioral Ecology:

*Juvenile social dynamics reflect adult reproductive strategies in
bottlenose dolphins*
Allison A Galezo, Vivienne Foroughirad, Ewa Krzyszczyk, Céline H Frère,
Janet Mann

ABSTRACT
The juvenile period is a challenging life-history stage, especially in
species with a high degree of fission–fusion dynamics, such as bottlenose
dolphins, where maternal protection is virtually absent. Here, we examined
how juvenile male and female bottlenose dolphins navigate this vulnerable
period. Specifically, we examined their grouping patterns, activity budget,
network dynamics, and social associations in the absence of adults. We
found that juveniles live in highly dynamic groups, with group composition
changing every 10 min on average. Groups were generally segregated by sex,
and segregation was driven by same-sex preference rather than opposite-sex
avoidance. Juveniles formed strong associations with select individuals,
especially kin and same-sex partners, and both sexes formed cliques with
their preferred partners. Sex-specific strategies in the juvenile period
reflected adult reproductive strategies, in which the exploration of
potential social partners may be more important for males (which form
long-term alliances in adulthood) than females (which preferentially
associate with kin in adulthood). Females spent more time alone and were
more focused on foraging than males, but still formed close same-sex
associations, especially with kin. Males cast a wider social net than
females, with strong same-sex associations and many male associates. Males
engaged in more affiliative behavior than females. These results are
consistent with the social bonds and skills hypothesis and suggest that
delayed sexual maturity in species with relational social complexity may
allow individuals to assess potential associates and explore a complex
social landscape without the risks associated with sexual maturity (e.g.,
adult reproductive competition; inbreeding).

The full article is available online at
https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/araa068.


Feel free to email me at aligal...@gmail.com for a PDF of the article.

Cheers,

Allison Galezo
PhD Candidate, Duke University, Alberts Lab
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