[MARMAM] New publication

2022-08-10 Thread Todd Speakman
Hello colleagues, My coauthors and I are pleased to share our new publication, "Fine-scale social and genetic structure of common bottlenose dolphins (*Tursiops truncatu*s) in the Barataria Basin, Louisiana, USA" published in *Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems*. Speakman, T.R

[MARMAM] Project Grypus - grey seal behaviour

2022-08-10 Thread Ben Burville
"Project Grypus" is the world's largest collection of grey seal (Halichoerus grypus) underwater video recordings. Filmed mainly off the North East coast of England, Project Grypus has already recorded behaviour never previously seen and has led to some innovative collaborations (e.g. https://

[MARMAM] Fwd: ESA/MMPA Support Services Contract Position with National Marine Fisheries Service

2022-08-10 Thread BRUCE Morehead
> > > > ESA/MMPA Support Services > > Ocean Associates, Inc. (OAI) is seeking a candidate to support the > > NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) Office of Protected Resources > > (OPR) Permits and Conservation Division in Silver Spring, MD. OAI conducts > > re

[MARMAM] Last-minute opportunity for paid marine mammal observer position in Olympia, WA, USA

2022-08-10 Thread la...@oceansinitiative.org
Flexibility is key to marine mammal science! We are reposting this ad because our project has moved to Olympia WA. We are seeking an additional field technician to help us monitor seal behavior 15 August to early October. This is an ideal opportunity for a local, early career person looking for

[MARMAM] Recent papers on estimating sustainable bycatch limits and animal welfare implications of bycatch mitigation in Conservation Biology and Marine Policy

2022-08-10 Thread Simon Allen
G’day Marmamers, The recent paper “A stochastic model for estimating sustainable limits to wildlife mortality in a changing world” (https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10./cobi.13897) introduced a new method for assessing if we are “taking too many” in, amongst other things, our see

[MARMAM] JNCC MMO and PAM eLearning Training Courses

2022-08-10 Thread Alison Gill
Intelligent Ocean Ltd is pleased to offer two eLearning courses which can be started at any time. JNCC Marine Mammal Observer (MMO) eLearning Training Course (GBP 150 per person) Passive Acoustic Monitoring and PAMGUARD Software eLearning Training Course (GBP 150 per person) The Joint Nature Con

[MARMAM] The Cambodian Marine Mammal Conservation Project

2022-08-10 Thread The Cambodian Marine Mammal Conservation Project
*Irrawaddy Dolphin Research Internship – Coastal Cambodia * Marine Conservation Cambodia (MCC) is an NGO based on the island of Koh Ach Seh, in Cambodia's Kep Archipelago. The organisation has many facets, including working to stop illegal fishing practices, ecological and social science research

[MARMAM] Graduate Student Positions

2022-08-10 Thread Jenn Burns
The Burns’ lab in the Department of Biological Sciences at Texas Tech University (https://tinyurl.com/BurnsLab) is searching for three graduate students to participate in two separate, NSF-funded, multi-PI field projects on pinniped ecophysiology and behavior. The first project is focused on indivi