[MARMAM] Online Course - An Introduction to Basic Statistics for Biologists using R - 30th January to 2nd February 2023

2022-12-16 Thread cdmacleod
Data preparation and analysis is a key skill for all those working with marine mammals, and of the available software packages, R has rapidly become the most widely used. This means that a knowledge of how to prepare and analyse data in R is essential skill for marine mammalogists. We will

[MARMAM] New publication on Distribution of Southern Hemisphere fin whales in the Southern Ocean

2022-12-16 Thread Sacha Viquerat
Dear MARMAM community! We are very happy to announce our latest publication in Frontiers in Marine Science: Viquerat, S., et al. (2022). "Identifying seasonal distribution patterns of fin whales across the Scotia Sea and the Antarctic Peninsula region using a novel approach combining habitat

[MARMAM] new paper on the role of whales in the carbon cycle

2022-12-16 Thread Heidi Pearson
Dear colleagues, On behalf of my co-authors, I am pleased to share our new article with you, "Whales in the carbon cycle: can recovery remove carbon dioxide?", published in *Trends in Ecology and Evolution.* It is open-access

[MARMAM] Dedicated app for the study of cetacean behaviour: PADOC now also available in Italian and with a survey logbook!

2022-12-16 Thread Adrien Gannier
Dear MARMAMers, We are happy to share that /PADOC/, an Android mobile application dedicated to the real-time study of wild cetaceans behaviour, is now also entirely available in *Italian*. The app, as some of you already know, is designed to enable cetacean researchers to *study and record