Please could you post the following message on Marmam, thanks! Dear colleagues, The North Atlantic Killer Whale ID Project (Project NAKID, www.northatlantickillerwhales.com) is organising a workshop on North Atlantic Killer Whales during the 26th European Cetacean Society’s conference in Galway, Ireland (www.iwdg.ie/ecs) in March 2012. The aims of this workshop are to: summarise the current state of knowledge; to build further bridges between different research groups, NGOs and individuals working on this species in the North Atlantic; and to further facilitate the sharing of data to allow broader geographic comparisons. These include photo-identification, tissue samples and acoustic recordings and it is hoped that an outcome of this workshop would be a move towards a coordinated database of these materials. Finally we hope to promote discussion on how past, current and future research can help inform policy and management. We hope this workshop will help identify research gaps and facilitate the coordinated cooperative approach across a broad geographic area that is needed to further our understanding of killer whales in the North Atlantic. The workshop will be held on the Sunday 25th March 2012, 08:30-17:00, at the Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (www.gmit.ie) on Dublin Road. Abstracts of presentations will shortly be able to be downloaded as a PDF from www.northatlantickillerwhales.com/publications<http://www.northatlantickillerwhales.com/index.asp?pageid=100060> . We now have an exciting and diverse range of presentations lined up (see below) and we only have space for one or two more, but we will still consider abstracts for presentations. For those wishing to participate or interested in submitting an abstract please contact us at (nakillerwhales@gmail.com). The cost to participants will be between 10-20 EUR to cover provision of teas and coffees, payable on the day. We look forward to seeing you there. Sanna Kuningas, Filipa Samarra, Andy Foote and Renaud de Stephanis Confirmed Presentations (only presenting author and preliminary talk titles are listed): Andy Foote: Population structure of Northeast Atlantic killer whales Sanna Kuningas: Population dynamics of Northern Norwegian killer whales Pádraig Whooley: Sightings of killer whales in Irish waters Charlotte Dunn: Killer whale occurrence and predation in the Bahamas Andreia Pereira: Killer whale occurrence in Portugese waters Ruth Esteban: Killer whales in the Strait of Gibraltar Filipa Samarra: Behaviour of Icelandic killer whales Heike Vester: Do salmon feeding North Atlantic Killer Whales use context specific calls? Volker Deecke: Population identity of Shetland killer whales – results of the analysis of pulsed call repertoires Dag Vongraven: Experimental insights and observational evidence of prey switching by killer whales in the northeast Atlantic Nicola Rehn: Cross-cultural and cross-ecotype production of a killer whale excitement call suggests universality Steve Ferguson: Research on killer whales in the Northwest Atlantic and Canadian Arctic Cory Matthews: Assessing diet of Eastern Canadian Arctic/Northwest Atlantic killer whales using stable nitrogen isotope ratios (δ15N) in teeth Sandra Kötter: Using opportunistic data to study a critically small community of killer whales in Scottish waters Robert Deaville: Killer whale strandings in the UK 1913-2010 Nicola Hodgins: Turning research into conservation policy Renaud de Stephanis: Conservation plans for cetaceans in the Spanish Mediterranean