Saturday 19th March 2011
08:00-12:00: The Case For And Against Destructive Sampling. Organiser: Simone Panigada (panigada@inwind.it )
12:30-21:00: Environmental History of Marine Mammals. Organiser: Cristina Brito (cristina.brito@escolademar.pt )
12:30-21:00: Implementation of the cetacean component of the Habitats Directive in EU Member States. Organisers: Simon Berrow, Eunice Pinn, Meike Scheidat, Marije Siemensma, simon.berrow@shannondolphins.ie
12:30-21:00: Killer Whales in the North Atlantic (To be confirmed).
Sunday 20th March 2011
08:00-12:30 Student workshop: Tools for Marine Mammal Population Studies Organiser: Conor Ryan miolmor@gmail.com
08:00-16:30: Pollution and cetaceans Organisers: Mark Simmonds and Peter Evandspeter.evans@bangor.ac.uk
08:00-16:30: Interest and feasibility of a web-accessed database for marine mammals strandings and necropsy data in the ASCOBANS region. Organisers: Deaville R., Jepson P. and Jauniaux T. T.Jauniaux@ulg.ac.be
08:00-16:30: Prey identification in marine mammal diets Organiser: Graham Pierce, Gema Hernandez g.j.pierce@abdn.ac.uk
08:00-16:30: Fin whales research and conservation in the Mediterranean Sea Organisers: Pauline Gauffier, Simone Panigada, Manolo Castellote and Renaud de Stephanis. panigada@inwind.it