[MARMAM] Call for Submissions: Areas of Interest to inform the regional identification of Important Marine Mammal Areas (IMMAs) in the “Black Sea, Turkish Straits System, and Caspian Sea” Regions

2021-01-20 Thread simo . pani
**Deadline for Proposals – February 7th 2021** The IUCN Joint SSC/WCPA Marine Mammal Protected Areas Task Force (MMPATF) would like to remind those interested of the final opportunity to submit Areas of Interest to inform the future identification of IMMAs in the “Black Sea, Turkish Straits

[MARMAM] Job Opportunity: President & Executive Director, National Marine Life Center, Massachusetts, USA

2021-01-20 Thread Kathy Zagzebski
PRESIDENT & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (full-time): The National Marine Life Center, a non-profit marine animal hospital and science and education center in Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts, seeks a mission-driven and experienced nonprofit business leader skilled in successfully executing strategic plans

[MARMAM] New article: "Using claws to compare reproduction, stress and diet of female bearded and ringed seals in the Bering and Chukchi seas, Alaska, between 1953–1968 and 1998–2014."

2021-01-20 Thread Dani Crain
My co-authors and I would like to announce our recent publication in Conservation Physiology, "Using claws to compare reproduction, stress and diet of female bearded and ringed seals in the Bering and Chukchi seas, Alaska, between 1953–1968 and 1998–2014." *This article is open access and

[MARMAM] The Animal Audiogram Database, a ressource for marine mammal specialists - Open Workshop

2021-01-20 Thread Dähne Michael Dr .
Dear MARMAM community and marine mammal noise experts, we have developed a web based, interactive database to make audiogram data, especially of marine mammals and seabirds, more accessible to the public, but especially to serve as a tool and data repository for further research. Currently

[MARMAM] M.Sc. position at UBC - pinniped navigation

2021-01-20 Thread David Rosen
Dr. David Rosen is seeking a M.Sc. student to join The Marine Mammal Energetics and Nutrition Lab, part of the Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries (IOF) at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada). The student will be working on aspects of pinniped navigation and at-sea

[MARMAM] New publication: Current Knowledge Already Justifies Underwater Noise Reduction

2021-01-20 Thread Denise Risch
Dear Colleagues, On behalf of my co-authors I would like to share the recent publication of the following letter: Denise Risch, Susannah Calderan, Russell Leaper, Lindy Weilgart, Stefanie Werner, "Current Knowledge Already Justifies Underwater Noise Reduction", in which we discuss management of

[MARMAM] Recommendations and mitigation of anthropogenic underwater noise – implications for marine mammal conservation

2021-01-20 Thread Chou, Emily
On behalf of my co-authors, I’m pleased to announce the publication of our article in Ocean & Coastal Management on international efforts to address anthropogenic underwater noise, including recommended policies, actions and mitigation measures for marine mammals: Chou E, Southall BL, Robards

[MARMAM] New paper on airway microbiota in dolphins

2021-01-20 Thread Catharina Vendl
Dear colleagues, I would like to announce the publication of our new open access paper in BMC microbiology: Highly abundant core taxa in the blow within and across captive bottlenose dolphins provide evidence for a temporally stable airway microbiota https://rdcu.be/cdkfW Check out the UNSW