Consider submitting an abstract and attend: *Workshop: **Environmental** History** of Marine Mammals*** * * *Cádiz, 19th March 2011 (12h30-21h00)* 25th Annual Conference of the European Cetacean Society<https://webmail.iict.pt/owa/redir.aspx?C=acb6d4873dc84b0395812cd83833054f&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.europeancetaceansociety.eu%2f> Cádiz, Spain, 21st to 23rd March 2011 The goals of the workshop “Environmental History of Marine Mammals” are to discuss various aspects of the study of human interaction with marine mammals over time. This is a relationship with a long common history of cultural and ecological interactions, marked by great interest of people in these giants of the sea, but also by conflicts in the use of their habitat. Whales and dolphins, seals and sea lions, manatees and dugongs, once considered "big fish" of the unknown sea, or strange monsters that stranded on beaches and even seen just as a human resource, are currently regarded as animals whose natural populations need to be studied and preserved. During the workshop aspects about how humans shape the marine environment and marine mega fauna and also how ecological changes shape humans will be considered. Besides, some methodological aspects on how to conduct an environmental history research, its interdisciplinary characteristics and its present day relevance to all the other fields of science related with marine mammals will be approached. Topics related with whaling history in the world and in the Iberian Peninsula (north and south of Spain, and Portugal mainland and archipelagos), historical and recent strandings of marine mammals, among others, will be presented and discussed. Some researchers are already invited to take part of the workshop but submissions for oral presentations from ongoing investigations from different scientific domains will be accepted and greatly appreciated. *Organized by Cristina Brito (CHAM – FCSH, UNL: http://cham.fcsh.unl.pt/) in the scope of the project “Knowledge and recognition in areas of Portuguese influence: registries, scientific expeditions, traditional knowledge and biodiversity in Subsaharian Africa and Insulindia” (FCT_HC0075) and the postdoctoral project “Trading, transporting and dealing in exotic animals and their products from 1500-1970: their impact on European science and culture” (SFRH/BPD/63433/2009) funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology * -- Escola de Mar Investigação, Projectos e Educação em Ambiente e Artes, Lda. Lisboa, Portugal +351217500483 www.escolademar.pt info@escolademar.pt