[MARMAM] Follow up to letter to the SMM re. unpaid work

Dear Colleagues, Thank you for your support of our petition asking the Society for Marine Mammalogy to take a leadership role in eliminating the reliance on unpaid labor in our field. You can find the finalized petition here: https://bit.ly/2OG9Mad and a cover letter here:

[MARMAM] DOSITS Underwater Acoustics Webinar: NMFS Regulatory Approach to Underwater Sound

***apologies for cross-postings*** The next webinar in the 2020 *Discovery of Sound in the Sea (DOSITS) * Webinar Series will take place this *Thursday, July 23, 2020, at 12pm ET*. Jolie Harrison Division Chief, Permits and Conservation Division, National Marine Fisheries

Re: [MARMAM] Unpaid positions in marine mammal science

This has been an enormously helpful dialogue, and my thanks to everyone who has contributed, and especially to Eiren for initiating. I am in the camp that believes that unpaid internships are more hurtful than helpful, in the ways that Eiren and her colleagues’ letter explains. I have spent

Re: [MARMAM] Unpaid positions in marine mammal science

Scripps Institution of Oceanography (where Paul Dayton has been based and done his groundbreaking work in the field) was established in 1903. It became part of the University of California, San Diego in 1912. I, an African American, entered the Marine Biology program in 1990 and defended my Ph.D.

[MARMAM] Unpaid positions in marine mammal science: a response

Dear MARMAM community - We are glad that a long overdue discussion has been initiated about the prevalence and effect of unpaid positions in marine mammal science. Clearly, this is a complex and challenging issue that will require input from people from a variety of backgrounds and career stages

[MARMAM] Canadian Wildlife Federation Chair in Large Whale Conservation (Assistant Professor) at Dalhousie University

The Canadian Wildlife Federation will fund a Chair in Large Whale Conservation (Assistant Professor; tenure track) at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada. We are seeking candidates who will conduct research on the quantification of the impacts of environmental variability, including climate