Dear colleagues, We are happy to announce we will be running a full-day workshop entitled "Breaching Disciplines: Integrating Marine Mammal Social-Ecological Research and Management" at the Biennial in San Francisco on Saturday, December 12th from 8:30 am – 5:30 pm. We would like to encourage anyone with interest in marine mammal social-ecological integration to attend. This workshop focuses on interdisciplinarity in the hopes that it will help elucidate the importance for integrating social science in marine mammal research and to focus on key avenues for social science research in the Society. The goal for this workshop is to produce a document related to the outcomes of the workshop. See full description of the workshop below or on the SMM conference website (https://www.marinemammalscience.org/conference/workshops/#breaching). Registration for the workshop should be done through the conference website: https://www.marinemammalscience.org/conference/conference-registration/. The registration fee is US $80.00 if registered prior to September 15, 2015. If you register after the 15th the registration fee increases to US $90.00, so make sure to sign up early. If you have any questions about the workshop please feel free to contact us. Thank you, Carlie S. Wiener, Heather Heenehan, and David W. Johnston *Breaching Disciplines: Integrating Marine Mammal Social-Ecological Research and Management* Socio-economic integration into ecological sciences in the framework of marine mammal research is often presented in an abstract manner, which lacks context for use in management decision making. This full-day workshop will address important challenges and questions in coupled human and natural systems, emphasizing key theory-based principals related to human-marine mammal case studies. The workshop will be divided into a morning session focused on research connected to the late Elinor Ostrom’s common pool resource theory and an afternoon session examining human attitudes and perceptions centered on marine mammal-human relationships. In both the morning and afternoon sessions critical examples of social, economic, cultural, political and behavioral components of marine mammal management, science, and policy will be central to discussions. Participants will have the opportunity to engage in two dynamic and engaging sessions exploring how important social theory principals can inform marine mammal research and better bridge the gap between human dimensions and natural sciences research. This progressive workshop will highlight human-animal conflict, marine mammal valuation, and oral-historical research, amongst other topics. This workshop aims to provide an open forum of shared learning experiences with people involved in research, management and a general interest in marine mammal social-ecological integration, and will include breakout discussions centered around theory-based case studies presented throughout the workshop. Opportunities for idea exchange in cross-disciplinary fields will be offered through group activity and participation in active discussion concerning future research needs. The morning session will be focused on research related to common pool resource theory and the afternoon session devoted to human attitudes and perceptions research associated with marine mammal-human conflict issues. Four to five different experts will be brought into each session to present on a case study, followed by in-depth breakout discussions guided by each case study.