[MARMAM] Request: reticle binocular recommendations for cetacean surveys

Hi everyone, Looking to replace a well-used pair of reticle binoculars (old Bushnells) we use for whale surveys at the Farallon Islands, California. Hoping some cetacean researchers could provide guidance regarding current approaches for achieving reticle readings during land-based surveys, and

[MARMAM] Organization of an international multi-annotator annotation campaign within the bioDCASE workshop

Dear colleague, To save you some reading time, we will go straight to the point : we are currently organizing a task on the detection of blue and fin whale species from Antarctica for the upcoming bioDCASE data challenge. Regarding annotated datasets, this first ed

[MARMAM] New publication: Harbour porpoise social communication

Dear colleagues, My co-authors and I are please to announce the recent publication of our manuscript titled: Reading between the lines: Novel insights on wild Pacific harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena vomerina) social communication through narrow-band high frequency click trains. https://doi.

[MARMAM] DOLPHIN RESEARCH INTERNSHIPS - SARDINIA ISLAND (ITALY)

MareTerra ERC is offering internships ( https://www.mareterra-erc.org/en/internship) to join research projects on the conservation of the bottlenose dolphins and marine environment between May and October 2025 in Sardinia Island (Italy), a hotspot of biodiversity of the Mediterranean Sea. Since its

[MARMAM] New paper on beaked whales

Greetings fellow Marmamers On behalf of my coauthors, I'm delighted to announce a new paper, just published. DeAngelis et al. 2025 Habitat utilization by beaked whales in the western North Atlantic Ocean using passive acoustics. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 754:137-153. The paper is Open Access and freely a