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

2020-07-15 Thread 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

[MARMAM] Melon-headed Whale Picture Request

2020-07-15 Thread 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

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

2020-07-15 Thread 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

[MARMAM] Post Doc opportunity - killer whale health using RNA seq

2020-07-15 Thread 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:

[MARMAM] New Online Training Courses: An Introduction To Integrating QGIS/GIS And R For Spatial Analysis - 6th to 8th May 2020

2020-07-15 Thread 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

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

2020-07-15 Thread 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.

[MARMAM] Summer Update from Aquatic Mammals journal

2020-07-15 Thread 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

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

2020-07-15 Thread 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

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

2020-07-15 Thread 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

[MARMAM] Northumberland Dolphin Dataset 2020 Release (NDD20)

2020-07-15 Thread 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