Dear MARMAM list members,



The following workshop entitled "Bottlenose dolphin’s conservation: what can we learn from different resident populations?", will be held at the upcoming Annual Conference of the European Cetacean Society on Saturday, 6th April. The workshop will start at 09:30 and finish at 18.00. More information on http://www.escolademar.pt/ecs2013/workshops/. 

If you would like to participate and have not yet registered, please contact carvalho.inesc@gmail.com.



Programme:


9.15-9.40h – Registration


9.40-10.00h - An Action Plan for the protection and monitoring of the resident population of bottlenose dolphins from the Sado 
Estuary (Portugal) – Marina Sequeira - Institute for Nature Conservation and Forestry (ICNF)

10.00-10.20h - A short story of a very small resident population – Raquel Gaspar – Associação Viver a Ciência

10.20-10.40h - Social structure, abundance and conservation of a population of bottlenose dolphins, Tursiops truncatus,
in the English Channel – Marie Louis - Centre d’Etudes Biologiques de Chizé (CEBC)


10.40-11.00h - Diet and life history of bottlenose dolphins – Graham Pierce - Aberdeen University and Aveiro University

11.00-11.30h – COFFEE BREAK

11.30-11.50h - The bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus (Montagu, 1821) in Galicia and Norte Peninsular – Alfredo Lopez - 
CEMMA (presented by Graham Pierce - Aberdeen University and Aveiro University)

11.50-12.10h - Movements, abundance, and population structure of the bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) in the Pelagos 
Sanctuary (north‐west Mediterranean Sea) – Guido Gnone - Acquario di Genova


12.10-12.30h - An integrative approach to population structureand social kin associations of sympatric coastal bottlenose 
dolphins (Portugal) with implications for their conservation – Inês Carvalho – Associação para as Ciências do Mar and Instituto Gulbenkian Ciência 

12.30-12.50h - Evaluation of the use of the Sado estuary (Setúbal, Portugal) by the resident bottlenose dolphin population. Results from a new goniometric method - Inês Brito -  Centro de Oceanografia – Laboratório Marítimo da Guia,  Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa

12.50-14.00h – LUNCH BREAK


14.10-14.30h – Monitoring bottlenose dolphins in SACs - the c ase of the Shannon estuary, Ireland – Emer Rogan – University  

College Cork

14.30-14.50h - Slovenian dolphin project: research and conservation of common bottlenose dolphins in Slovenia – Tilen Genov - Morigenos – Slovenian Marine Mammal Society 

14.50-15.10h - Potential impacts of artisanal fisheries on the bottlenose dolphin population of the Sado estuary, Portugal – 
Marina Laborde – Centro de Oceanografia, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa

15.10-15.30h - Common bottlenose dolphins and marine fin-fish farms: co-existence or conflict? – Bruno Diaz Lopez - 

Bottlenose Dolphin Research Institute BDRI

15.30 – 16.00h – COFFEE BREAK


16.00-16.20h - Disappearing killer whales (Orcinus orca) and coastal bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops  truncatus) in Europe: What’s causing the declines? – Paul Jepson – Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London

16.20-16.40h- Coastal bottlenose dolphins off the Arrábida and Tróia shores: Who are they? How many are there? – Francisco 

Martinho – Escola de Mar

16.40-17.00h - Developing acoustic monitoring techniques using C-PODs for monitoring Annex II species in Special Areas of 
Conservation – Joanne O’Brien - Marine Biodiversity Research Group Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology

17.00-18.00h – Discussion and Concluding Remarks 



Thanks,

Inês Carvalho

Associação para as Ciências do Mar

Edif. ICAT  - Campus da FCUL

Campo Grande

1749-016 Lisboa

Portugal

Population and Conservation Genetics Group

Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia
Rua da Quinta Grande, 6
2780-156 Oeiras
Portugal