Dear all, here are some new publications of weeks 01 / 2007, which haven't been announced on MARMAM earlier AFAIK. By clicking the following link you are guided to a website, where the following references are linked to their according journal homepages. There you can find abstracts and contact information: http://www.mmbib.com/news.html Please do not contact MARMAM, the MARMAM editors or me for reprints. Thank you. Thanks to all of you who sent in reprints to be included in the weekly announcements. Kindest Regards, Jan Herrmann CETACEA Andersen, M.S. and M.L. Miller (2006): Onboard Marine Environmental Education: Whale Watching in the San Juan Islands, Washington. Tourism in Marine Environments 2(2): 111-118. Howard, C. and E.C.M. Parsons (2006): Public Awareness of Whale-watching Opportunities in Scotland. Tourism in Marine Environments 2(2): 103-109. Lusseau, D., L. Slooten, and R.J.C. Currey (2006): Unsustainable Dolphin-watching Tourism in Fiordland, New Zealand. Tourism in Marine Environments 3(2): 173-178. Myers, R.A. et al. (2007): Saving endangered whales at no cost. Current Biology 17(1): R10-R11. Parsons, E.C.M., J. Lewandowski, and M. Lück (2006): Recent Advances in Whale-watching Research: 2004-2005. Tourism in Marine Environments 2(2): 119-132. Parsons, E.C.M., M. Lück, and J.K. Lewandowski (2006): Recent Advances in Whale-watching Research: 2005-2006. Tourism in Marine Environments 3(2): 179-189. Slansky, M. et al. (2006): Echocardiographic evaluation of the bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus). Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine 37(4): 454-463. Whitt, A.D. and A.J. Read (2006): Assessing Compliance to Guidelines By Dolphin-watching Operators in Clearwater, Florida, USA. Tourism in Marine Environments 3(2): 117-130. PINNIPEDIA OTHER MARINE MAMMALS Jaffe, J.S. et al. (2007): Measurement of the acoustic reflectivity of sirenia (Florida manatees) at 171 kHz. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 121(1): 158-165. Siegal-Willott, J. et al. (2006): Electrocardiography in two subspecies of manatee (Trichechus manatus latirostris and T. m. manatus). Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine 37(4): 447-453. Tinker, M.T. et al. (2006): Incorporating diverse data and realistic complexity into demographic estimation procedures for sea otters. Ecological Applications 16(6): 2293-2312. -- --> jan.herrmann -at - cetacea.de