[MARMAM] Two PhD positions available on marine mammals and noise

iology, Zoophysiology, Build. 1131, CF Møllers Alle 3, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark. Contacts: Applicants seeking further information for this project are invited to contact: Professor Peter Teglberg Madsen, peter.mad...@bio.au.dk<mailto:peter.mad...@bio.au.dk> or Professor Jakob Tougaard, j...@ecos.au

[MARMAM] New paper: How whales dive, feast and fast

Dear All, This recent review in Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics may be of interest to some of you: How Whales Dive, Feast, and Fast: The Ecophysiological Drivers and Limits of Foraging in the Evolution of Cetaceans Abstract Whales are an extraordinary study group for

[MARMAM] sperm whale slow clicks

Dear All, We are working on a project concerning sperm whale slow clicks (also called clangs), and we are therefore interested in good PAM recordings of these sounds. If any of you have such data and are interested in a collaboration please reach out to:

[MARMAM] Diving porpoises conserve more oxygen when they can’t see

Dear All, In a recent paper we show that porpoises conserve more oxygen when they can’t see. The dive response of marine mammals allow them to undertake long breath-hold dives to access rich marine prey resources. It consists of a mixture of peripheral vasoconstriction and a lowering of heart

[MARMAM] Toothed whale sound production

Dear All, Our recent paper on toothed whale sound production may be of interest to some of you. We have sought to address the fundamental questions of 1) how echolocating toothed whales can make 500 clicks per second with air at a 1000 meters depth where air volumes are compressed to less than

[MARMAM] Call for applications for the graduate summer school “Acoustic Communication”, August 6-19, 2022 in Denmark

of Biology, University of Southern Denmark. The stations are located in the town of Kerteminde (marine) on the east coast of Funen and in the south of the island Funen (terrestrial), respectively. Teachers: Resident experts and invited experts from abroad. Resident experts: Peter Teglberg Madsen

[MARMAM] post doctoral position available to study the effects of vessel noise on marine mammals using Dtags

Dear All, The Marine bioacoustics lab at Aarhus university has a post-doctoral position available to study the effects of vessel noise on marine mammals using Dtags. Please find the details here:

[MARMAM] Graphical reviews of marine mammal physiology

Dear All, To celebrate the centennial of August Kroghs Nobel Prize in physiology, a special volume of Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry has been put together with a series of graphical reviews on animal physiology, including several om marine mammals that may be of interest to some of

[MARMAM] Why are whales so big?

Jeremy and I have given that question some thought in the paper below that may be of interest. Pdf can be downloaded from link or by writing one of us an email. best Jeremy and Peter jerg...@stanford.edu / peter.mad...@bios.au.dk

[MARMAM] Toothed whale biosonar beams: from flashlight to floodlight

Dear All, For those of you interested in echolocation, we have two recent papers out showing that toothed whales can change the width of their biosonar beams adaptively to the sonar task at hand. At close range they broaden their acoustic field of view likely to minimize the risk that prey

[MARMAM] mini-review on beaked whales

Dear All, For those interested, we have compiled information from the last decade of beaked whale field work in a mini-review of these elusive deep divers. The paper can be found here: http://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822(14)00757-X Alternatively, pdfs can be

[MARMAM] Paper on dolphin sound production

Dear All, For those of you intrigued by how the nose of dolphins produce sound this paper may be interest to you: Nasal sound production in echolocating delphinids (Tursiops truncatus and Pseudorca crassidens) is dynamic, but unilateral: clicking on the right side and whistling on the left

[MARMAM] Clicking in killer country

Dear Marmam, Please post this. Best and thanks Peter Dear All, On behalf of Line Kyhn and coauthors, I hereby wish to draw the attention of interested readers to this recent paper in Plos One on echolocation of porpoises in a killer whale habitat: Clicking in a Killer Whale Habitat:

[MARMAM] phd course in bioacoustics

Dear All, The graduate school SNAK in Denmark is now again offering its international ph.d. course Animal communication august 10-20 2009. The 10 day course has special focus on how to design bioacoustic experiments, and on methodology and analysis. Topics covered include hydrophonemicrophone