[MARMAM] Two-year postdoctoral fellowship available

2024-06-14 Thread Lars Bejder
Dear Marmam-readers, The Marine Mammal Research Program (MMRP) at the University of Hawaii at Manoa is seeking applicants for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship to lead our space-whale project. The project seeks to establish a satellite-based, cost-effective humpback whale population monitoring app

[MARMAM] New paper: Juvenile social play predicts adult reproductive success in male bottlenose dolphins

2024-06-14 Thread Kathryn Holmes
Dear colleagues, We are pleased to share our recent paper in PNAS on the benefits of juvenile social play in male bottlenose dolphins: Holmes KG, Krützen M, Ridley AR, Allen SJ, Connor RC, Gerber L, Flaherty Stamm C, King SL. Juvenile social play predicts adult reproductive success in male bottle

[MARMAM] ONLINE COURSE – Hidden Markov Models for Movement, Acceleration and other Ecological Data – an introduction using moveHMM and momentuHMM in R (HMMM01)

2024-06-14 Thread Oliver Hooker
ONLINE COURSE – Hidden Markov Models for Movement, Acceleration and other Ecological Data – an introduction using moveHMM and momentuHMM in R (HMMM01) PR stats have a great new course for anyone studying marine mammal movement - details below! https://www.prstats.org/course/hidden-markov-models-f

[MARMAM] Marine mammal research skills course - Langebaan, South Africa (Oct 2024)

2024-06-14 Thread Simon Elwen
Dear colleagues. The Sea Search Research and Conservation team, will be running a marine mammal research tools field course this Sep and Oct in beautiful Langebaan, just 2 hours from Cape Town. Course1: 29 Sep – 13 Oct 2024 Course 2: 20 Oct-03 Nov 2024 *This TWO WEEK *course is targeted at stude

[MARMAM] New End. Sp. Res. Publication

2024-06-14 Thread Kate Indeck
G'day all, On behalf of my co-authors, I am pleased to share our new publication in Endangered Species Research, "Variation in glider-detected North Atlantic right, blue, and fin whale calls in proximity to high-traffic shipping lanes". Abstract: Passive acoustic monitoring has become an integr