February 2011 - MARMAM - devlists.uvic.ca

Marine Mammal Behavioural Ecology Studies in New Zealand
by Bernd Wuersig 02 Feb '11

02 Feb '11

Dear MARMAM Colleagues, A new course in Marine Mammal Behavioural Ecology, with special emphasis on dusky dolphin foraging and social strategies will be held in Kaikoura, New Zealand, 17-28 May, 2011. PERSONNEL: This course is team taught by a cadre of international experts, and is limited to 10 participants, preferably of undergraduate or graduate student status. While you do not need to be enrolled in university during the course, we prefer general student status, or working towards it. DATES: Course dates are 17-28 May, with arrival needed by 16 May (if coming from North America or Europe, add one day due to the dateline, i.e. you need to leave home by 14 May). CREDIT: Course credit in the US system is 4 units (equal to a one-semester lecture course with lab). Please coordinate with your respective university if you wish credit, and the course leaders will give you a grade on performance, and a full evaluation as per your school’s requisites. COURSE STRUCTURE: This course will consist of 1) lectures and in situ immersion in the world of dusky dolphins; 2) practical field experience in photographic identification, theodolite tracking from a shore station, and learning details of behavioral descriptions; 3) assessment of dolphin activities from a dolphin watching vessel, for close-up interactional information; and 4) a local indigenous Maori appreciation of nature and natural resources, with a special Maori-led tour through the native forest. Participants have the chance to conduct their own directed studies during these two weeks, and to use these for student accreditation for their respective universities. We will help supply ideas for the actual topic once in the field. COST: Course cost is $3,000 US. You are expected to find your own financial way to Kaikoura (with our logistic advice), but once you are there, we take care of other course expenses: Living in a beautiful house overlooking the sea; evening meals by an acclaimed local cook, and all other food costs; costs of boats and vans/cars/trucks. INTERESTED? Contact the course coordinator, Bernd Würsig, by Friday Feb. 11 with your CV and a short cover letter explaining why you would like to participate in this course, at wuersig(a)sbcglobal.net. If selected, a 50% deposit is due by Friday March 4; 100% by Friday April 25, 2011. You will need international health insurance.

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AESS 2011 Call for Abstracts Now Open!!
by Wallace, Richard 01 Feb '11

01 Feb '11

Dear Marmam folks, I would like to invite you to consider presenting at the upcoming conference of the Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences. The call for abstracts is now open, and more information is given below. Initial program information (accepted workshops, symposia, panels, and roundtable discussions) will be posted soon. There is already accepted marine mammal content in the program, with more expected, and we would be delighted to foster greater involvement of the marine mammal science and conservation community. Please let me know if you have any questions and apologies for cross-postings. Sincerely, Rich Wallace Program Chair, AESS and Associate Professor of Environmental Studies Ursinus College Collegeville, PA ******************************************************** Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences 2011 Conference "Confronting Complexity" June 23-26, 2011, Burlington, Vermont Hosted by the University of Vermont [cid:image001.jpg@01CBC22D.497E4540] Call for Abstracts is Now Open!!! The Deadline for Submitting Abstracts is March 15, 2011 For more information on the conference or to submit an abstract, visit the AESS 2011 Conference Website (www.aess.info/2011)<http://www.aess.info/content.aspx?page_id=22&club_id=939971&module_id=81727> Registration for AESS 2011 - including all workshops and field trips - opens on February 15! Symposium, Panel Session, and Other Program Information Coming Soon to the AESS 2011 Website. AESS 2011 is delighted to feature plenary addresses by Dr. Heidi Cullen CEO and Director of Communications, Climate Central and U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (invited) [cid:image002.jpg@01CBC22D.497E4540] Also on the AESS 2011 Conference agenda: Exciting Vermont Field Trips A Scrumptious "Taste of Vermont" Banquet Live Musical Entertainment Featured Films Student Mixers More on the Conference Theme: AESS recognizes and embraces complexity as the hallmark of our field. Social, physical, biological and ideological factors in environmental problems are intricately linked, and environmental problems are so tightly interconnected that addressing one invariably affects others. This limits our predictive capacity and challenges the assumptions embedded in our models of natural and social phenomena. Engaging in dialogues about complexity presents challenges in both classroom and public sphere. Confronting complexity is critical to our ability to develop effective responses, thus this theme for the AESS 2011 annual meeting. About the Conference Host: The University of Vermont, the state's land grant institution, is one of the top green universities in the United States. It offers numerous environmental majors and is home to 10,000 undergraduates, 1,500 graduate students, and 1,300 faculty. Located in Burlington, Vermont, the campus and green conference venue are perched on a hill and look west across Lake Champlain to the Adirondacks and east to the Green Mountains. Downtown is a short shuttle ride or walk from campus with easy access to shops and restaurants. Burlington is the largest metropolitan area in Vermont and has received high ratings for livability, sustainability, and cultural engagement. To learn more about AESS or to become an AESS member, click here!<http://www.aess.info/> If you have questions, please e-mail: AESS Program Committee Chair Rich Wallace at rwallace(a)ursinus.edu<mailto:rwallace@ursinus.edu> or AESS 2011 Site Host Stephanie Kaza at Stephanie.Kaza(a)uvm.edu<mailto:Stephanie.Kaza@uvm.edu>

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New Articles
by David S. Janiger 31 Jan '11

31 Jan '11

Hi, All Here's the latest posting of new PDF's that are available. File sizes have been included. Abstracts also available on request. Make all requests to: janiger(a)cox.net Cheers! David Janiger - Curatorial Assistant (Mammals) Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 900 Exposition Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90007 (213) 763-3369 janiger(a)cox.net djaniger(a)nhm.org Janiger Journals BACKLIN, BRITT-MARIE; CHARLOTTA MORAEUS; ANNA ROOS; EVA EKLOF and YLVA LIND. ICES (INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL FOR THE EXPLORATION OF THE SEAS) JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE 68(1):183-188. 2011. Health and age and sex distributions of Baltic grey seals (Halichoerus grypus) collected from bycatch and hunt in the Gulf of Bothnia 0.338 MB BARRETT-LENNARD, LANCE G.; CRAIG O. MATKIN; JOHN W. DURBAN; EVA L. SAULITIS and DAVID ELLIFRIT. MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES 421:229-241. 2011. Predation on gray whales and prolonged feeding on submerged carcasses by transient killer whales at Unimak Island, Alaska. 0.607 MB BECHSHOFT, T. O.; C. SONNE; R. DIETZ; E. W. BORN; M. A. NOVAK; E. HENCHEY and J. S. MEYER. SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 409(4):831-834. 2011. Cortisol levels in hair of East Greenland polar bears. 0.199 MB BOWLES, ANN E.; SAMUEL L. DENES and MICHAEL A. SHANE. JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 128(5):3223-3231. 2010. Acoustic characteristics of ultrasonic coded transmitters for fishery applications: Could marine mammals hear them? 0.506 MB BRANDT, MIRIAM J.; ANSGAR DIEDERICHS; KLAUS BETKE and GEORG NEHLS. MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES 421:205-216. 2011. Responses of harbour porpoises to pile driving at the Horns Rev II offshore wind farm in the Danish North Sea. 0.974 MB BUTLER, JAMES R. A.; STUART J. MIDDLEMAS; ISLA M. GRAHAM and ROBERT N. HARRIS. MARINE POLICY 35(3):317-323. 2011. Perceptions and costs of seal impacts on Atlantic salmon fisheries in the Moray Firth, Scotland: Implications for the adaptive co-management of seal-fishery conflict. 0.408 MB CARTER, BRIAN T. G. and ERIK A. NIELSEN. MARINE POLICY 35(3):299-308. 2011. Exploring ecological changes in Cook Inlet beluga whale habitat though traditional and local ecological knowledge of contributing factors for population decline. 0.975 MB CHOW, BRIAN A.; JASON HAMILTON; MARC R. L. CATTET; GORDON STENHOUSE; MARTYN E. OBBARD and MATHILAKATH M. VIJAYAN. COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY PART A: MOLECULAR AND INTEGRATIVE PHYSIOLOGY 158(1):111-115. 2011. Serum corticosteroid binding globulin expression is modulated by fasting in polar bears (Ursus maritimus). 0.356 MB DOS SANTOS, MANUEL E.; MIGUEL N. COUCHINHO; ANA RITA LUIS and EMANUEL J. GONCALVES. JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 128(6):3805-3808. 2010. Monitoring underwater explosions in the habitat of resident bottlenose dolphins. 0.187 MB FOLEY, AOIFE; DAVID MCGRATH; SIMON BERROW and HANS GERRITSEN. AQUATIC MAMMALS 36(4):372-381. 2010. Social structure within the bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) population in the Shannon Estuary, Ireland. 0.674 MB FOOTE, ANDREW D.; PHILLIP A. MORIN; JOHN W. DURBAN; ROBERT L. PITMAN; PAUL WADE; ESKE WILLERSLEV; M. THOMAS P. GILBERT AND RUTE R. DA FONSECA. BIOLOGY LETTERS 7(1):116-118. 2011. Positive selection on the killer whale mitogenome. 0.286 MB FORD, JOHN K. B.; GRAEME M. ELLIS; CRAIG O. MATKIN; MICHAEL H. WETKLO; LANCE G. BARRETT-LENNARD and RUTH E. WITHLER. AQUATIC BIOLOGY 11(3):213-224. 2011. Shark predation and tooth wear in a population of northeastern Pacific killer whales. 1.068 MB GARAFFO, GRISELDA V.; SILVANA L. DANS; SUSANA N. PEDRAZA; MARIANA DEGRATI; ADRIAN SCHIAVINI; RAUL GONZALEZ and ENRIQUE A. CRESPO. MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES 421:217-227. 2011. Modeling habitat use for dusky dolphin and Commerson's dolphin in Patagonia. 0.756 MB GEORGE, SANIL; K. MEENAKSHI and A. BIJUKUMAR. CURRENT SCIENCE 100(1):117-120. 2011. Molecular taxonomy of marine mammals stranded along Kerala coast, India. 0.138 MB GILL, PETER C.; MARGIE G. MORRICE; BRAD PAGE; REBECCA PIRZL; ANDREW H. LEVINGS and MICHAEL COYNE. MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES 421:243-263. 2011. Blue whale habitat selection and within-season distribution in a regional upwelling system off southern Australia. 2.323 MB GINTER, CARLY C.; S. ANNE BOETTGER and FRANK E. FISH. JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY 272(6):27-33. 2011. Morphology and microanatomy of harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) dorsal fin tubercles. 0.625 MB GLOVER, KEVIN A.; NAOHISA KANDA; TORE HAUG; LUIS A. PASTENE; NILS OIEN; MUTSUO GOTO; BJORGHILD B. SELIUSSEN and HANS J. SKAUG. PLOS ONE 5(12) e15197. 6pp. 2010. Migration of Antarctic minke whales to the Arctic. 0.456 MB GOETZ, SABINE; MARTIN LAPORTA; JULIO MARTINEZ PORTELA; M. BEGONA SANTOS and GRAHAM J. PIERCE. ICES (INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL FOR THE EXPLORATION OF THE SEAS) JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE 68(1):228-238. 2011. Experimental fishing with an "umbrella-and-stones" system to reduce interactions of sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) and seabirds with bottom-set longlines for Patagonian toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides) in the Southwest Atlantic. 0.684 MB HAELTERS, JAN; FRANCIS KERCKHOF and KEES (C. J.) CAMPHUYSEN. LUTRA 53(2):93-100. 2010. The first historic record of a humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) from the Low Countries (Southern Bight of the North Sea). 3.288 MB HUNTER, M. E.; N. E. AUIL-GOMEZ; K. P. TUCKER; R. K. BONDE; J. POWELL and P. M. MCGUIRE. ANIMAL CONSERVATION 13(6):592-602. 2010. Low genetic variation and evidence of limited dispersal in the regionally important Belize manatee. 0.417 MB KASTELEIN, RONALD; LEAN HOEK; CHRIST A. F. DE JONG and PAUL J. WENSVEEN. JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 128(5):3211-3222. 2010. The effect of signal duration on the underwater detection thresholds of a harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) for single frequency-modulated tonal signals between 0.25 and 160 kHz. 1.112 MB MACLEOD, COLIN D. JOURNAL OF THE MARINE BIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM 90(7):1269-1277. 2010. Habitat representativeness score (HRS): A novel concept for objectively assessing the suitability of survey coverage for modelling the distribution of marine species. 0.431 MB MATICH, PHILIP; MICHAEL R. HEITHAUS and CRAIG A. LAYMAN. JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY 80(1):294-305. 2011. Contrasting patterns of individual specialization and trophic coupling in two marine apex predators. 0.573 MB MENDEZ, MARTIN; HOWARD C. ROSENBAUM; RANDALL S. WELLS; ANDREW STAMPER and PABLO BORDINO. PLOS ONE 5(12) e15550. 7pp. 2010. Genetic evidence highlights potential impacts of by-catch to cetaceans. 0.310 MB MEYNIER, LAURELINE; PATRICK C. H. MOREL; B. LOUISE CHILVERS; DUNCAN D. S. MACKENZIE and PADRAIG J. DUIGNAN. JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY 91(6):1484-1495. 2010. Quantitative fatty acid signature analysis on New Zealand sea lions: model sensitivity and diet estimates. 0.540 MB MIRIMIN, LUCA; EULALIA BANGUERA-HINESTROZA; EILEEN DILLANE; ALAN R. HOELZEL; TOM F. CROSS and EMER ROGAN. JOURNAL OF HEREDITY 102(1):79-87. 2011 Insights into genetic diversity, parentage, and group composition of Atlantic white-sided dolphins (Lagenorhynchus acutus) off the west of Ireland based on nuclear and mitochondrial genetic markers. 0.164 MB O'MALLEY MILLER, PATRICK JAMES; ARI DANIEL SHAPIRO and VOLKER BERNT DEECKE. CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY 88(11):1103-1112. 2010. The diving behaviour of mammal-eating killer whales (Orcinus orca): Variations with ecological not physiological factors. 0.414 MB ORR, A. J.; G. R. VANBLARICOM; R. L. DELONG; V. H. CRUZ-ESCALONA and S. D. NEWSOME. CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY 89(2):109-122. 2011. Intraspecific comparison of diet of California sea lions (Zalophus californianus) assessed using fecal and stable isotope analyses. 0.328 MB PARKS, SUSAN E.; MARK JOHNSON; DOUGLAS NOWACEK and PETER L. TYACK. BIOLOGY LETTERS 7(1):33-35. 2011. Individual right whales call louder in increased environmental noise. 0.174 MB PEDRERO, ZOYNE; SANDRA MOUNICOU; MATHILDE MONPERRUS and DAVID AMOUROUX. JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL ATOMIC SPECTROMETRY 26(1):187-194. 2011. Investigation of Hg species binding biomolecules in dolphin liver combining GC and LC-ICP-MS with isotopic tracers. 0.439 MB PITCHER, BENJAMIN J.; ROBERT G. HARCOURT; BENOIST SCHAAL and ISABELLE CHARRIER. BIOLOGY LETTERS 7(1):60-62. 2011. Social olfaction in marine mammals: Wild female Australian sea lions can identify their pup's scent. 0.091 MB RAY, G. CARLETON; JAMES E. OVERLAND and GARY L. HUFFORD. GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS 37, no.L20504. 6pp. 2010. Seascape as an organizing principle for evaluating walrus and seal sea-ice habitat in Beringia. 0.932 MB RODE, KARYN D.; JAMES D. REIST; ELIZABETH PEACOCK and IAN STIRLING. JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY 91(6):1517-1523. 2010. Comments in response to "Estimating the energetic contribution of polar bear (Ursus maritimus) summer diets to the total energy budget" by Dyck and Kebreab (2009). 0.091 MB ROSING-ASVID AQQALU; JONAS TEILMANN; RUNE DIETZ and MORTEN TANGE OLSEN. ARCTIC 63(4):471-473. 2010. First confirmed record of grey seals in Greenland. 1.657 MB SAMARRA, FILIPA I. P.; VOLKER B. DEECKE; KATJA VINDING; MARIANNE H. RASMUSSEN; RENE J. SWIFT and PATRICK J. O. MILLER. JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 128(5):EL205-EL210. 2010. Killer whales (Orcinus orca) produce ultrasonic whistles. 0.164 MB SIMMONDS, MARK PETER and VICKI C. BROWN. WILDLIFE RESEARCH 37(8):688-694. 2010. Is there a conflict between cetacean conservation and marine renewable-energy developments? 0.248 MB SIMON, MALENE; KATHLEEN M. STAFFORD; KRISTIAN BEEDHOLM; CRAIG M. LEE and PETER MADSEN. JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 128(5):3200-3210. 2010. Singing behavior of fin whales in the Davis Strait with implications for mating, migration and foraging. 1.257 MB STITH, BRADLEY M.; JAMES P. REID; CATHERINE A. LANGTIMM; ERIC D. SWAIN; TERRY J. DOYLE; DANIEL H. SLONE; JEREMY D. DECKER and LARS E. SODERQVIST. ESTUARIES AND COASTS 34(1):106-119. 2011. Temperature inverted haloclines provide winter warm-water refugia for manatees in southwest Florida. 0.827 MB TRICKEY, JENNIFER S.; BRIAN K. BRANSTETTER and JAMES J. FINNERAN. JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 128(6):3799-3804. 2010. Auditory masking of a 10 kHz tone with environmental, comodulated, and Gaussian noise in bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus). 0.405 MB UHEN, MARK D.; ANTHONY G. COATES; CARLOS A. JARAMILLO; CAMILO MONTES; CATALINA PIMIENTO; ALDO RINCON; NIKKI STRONG and JORGE VELEZ-JUARBE. JOURNAL OF SOUTH AMERICAN EARTH SCIENCES 30(3-4):167-175. 2010. Marine mammals from the Miocene of Panama. 1.701 MB VISCARRA, JOSE A.; JOSE PABLO VAZQUEZ-MEDINA; DANIEL E. CROCKER and RUDY M. ORTIZ. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY - REGULATORY INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY 300(1):R150-R154. 2011. Glut4 is upregulated despite decreased insulin signaling during prolonged fasting in northern elephant seal pups. 0.334 MB WADE, PAUL R.; AMY KENNEDY; RICK LEDUC; JAY BARLOW; JIM CARRETTA; KIM SHELDEN; WAYNE PERRYMAN; ROBERT PITMAN; KELLY ROBERTSON; BRENDA RONE; JUAN CARLOS SALINAS; ALEXANDRE ZERBINI; ROBERT L. BROWNELL JR. and PHILLIP J. CLAPHAM. BIOLOGY LETTERS 7(1):83-85. 2011. The world's smallest whale population? (Eubalaena japonica) 0.277 MB WAITE, JASON N.; LISETTE P. WAITS; MARY BOZZA and RUSSEL D. ANDREWS. MOLECULAR ECOLOGY RESOURCES 11(1):166-170. 2011. Differentiating between Steller sea lion (Eumetopias jubatus) and northern fur seal (Callorhinus ursinus) scats through analysis of faecal DNA. 0.234 MB WANG, JUN; KATHRIN HULCK; SU-MYEONG HONG; SHANNON ATKINSON and QING X. LI. ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION 159(1):71-77. 2011. Accumulation and maternal transfer of polychlorinated biphenyls in Steller sea lions (Eumetopias jubatus) from Prince William Sound and the Bering Sea, Alaska. 1.099 MB WATANABE, YUUKI Y.; KATSUFUMI SATO; YUTAKA WATANUKI; AKINORI TAKAHASHI; YOKO MITANI; MASAO AMANO; KAGARI AOKI; TOMOKO NARAZAKI; TAKASHI IWATA; SHINGO MINAMIKAWA and NOBUYUKI MIYAZAKI. JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY 80(1):57-68. 2011. Scaling of swim speed in breath-hold divers. 0.424 MB WHOOLEY, PADRAIG; SIMON BERROW and COLIN BARNES. MARINE BIODIVERSITY RECORDS 4: e8. 7pp. 2011. Photo-identification of fin whales (Balaenoptera physalus L.) off the south coast of Ireland. 0.309 MB WILLIAMS, NIGEL. CURRENT BIOLOGY 20(24):R1056-R1057. 2010. New support for polar bears and tigers. 0.518 MB WILLIAMS, R. JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY (LONDON) 283(1):1-2. 2011. Editorial Establishing general principles from little truths: Lessons from marine mammal research. 0.100 MB ZEYL, E.; D. EHRICH; J. AARS; L. BACHMANN and O. WIIG. CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY 88(12):1139-1148. 2010. Denning-area fidelity and mitochondrial DNA diversity of female polar bears (Ursus maritimus) in the Barents Sea. 0.235 MB ZHANG, CHANG IK; KYUNG-JUN SONG and JONG-HUN NA. ANIMAL CELLS AND SYSTEMS 14(4):291-296. 2010. Estimation of mortality coefficients and survivorship curves for minke whales (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) in Korean waters. 0.273 MB

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