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Join us on Thursday, July 21st 11 PM GMT (4 PM PDT / 7 PM EDT) for the next SMM Seminar Editors' Select Series: Response of humpback whales to biopsy sampling with Dr. Solène Derville of the Geospatial Ecology of Marine Megafauna Lab in the Marine Mammal Institute of the Oregon State University.

Free to attend. Registration required.
Presented online on Zoom.
Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/.../reg.../WN_lo_3OmCmQqK8Ka7_DIaJ3g
Space on Zoom is limited to the first 500 attendees. The talk will also be streamed live on the SMM Facebook page.

The SMM Seminar Editors' Select Series highlights the latest and most exciting marine mammal science published in the Marine Mammal Science Journal. This is your chance to engage with marine mammal scientists, learn and ask questions from anywhere in the world. All are welcome.

About this talk:
Tissue biopsy sampling from cetaceans is essential to address many biological, ecological, and behavioral questions that can ultimately inform conservation. Yet, these research activities are invasive and their effect therefore deserves to be investigated, particularly when performed over young individuals (calves and juveniles). We assessed the short-term response of humpback whales to boat approach and remote biopsy sampling in a breeding ground according to age-class, sex, female reproductive status, social context, sampling system, habitat, and repeated sampling with more than 20 years of data collected in New Caledonia, South Pacific.

About the presenter:
I conduct research in animal behavior and spatial ecology, the way animals interact with their environment, move and are distributed in geographical space. In general, I seek to develop innovative and multidisciplinary methods to study the multi-scale space use patterns of marine megafauna species. I obtained my Masters degree in biology from the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Lyon, France, and my PhD from Sorbonne Université studying humpback whales in the South Pacific. I am currently a postdoc at the Geospatial Ecology of Marine Megafauna lab, in the Marine Mammal Institute (Oregon State University) although I am still based in New Caledonia where I have lived and conducted research for seven years.

Best regards,
Ayca Eleman, Ph.D. Candidate
Theresa-Anne Tatom-Naecker, Ph.D. Student
Eric Angel Ramos, Ph.D.
Student Members-at-Large
Society for Marine Mammalogy