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Today's Topics:
1. New publication: Ecology of humpback dolphins in the Norther
Persian Gulf (Bruno Diaz Lopez)
2. FinBase Workshop (Jason Allen)
3. Job Posting: Associate Director, Field Operations & Response,
The Marine Mammal Center (Kathi George)
4. Call for Abstracts: 2022 NWSSMM Conference (Adelsheim, Julia)
5. 2021 Humpback Whale Monitoring Report from Glacier Bay
National Park, Alaska (Neilson, Janet L)
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Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2022 09:39:22 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [MARMAM] New publication: Ecology of humpback dolphins in the
Norther Persian Gulf
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Dear Colleagues,
We are delighted to share with all of you our last study on the ecology of Indian Ocean humpback dolphins in the Northern Persian Gulf published in the European Journal of Wildlife Research.
Title: Abundance estimation, group dynamics, and residence patterns of Indian Ocean humpback dolphin (Sousa plumbea) in the Dayer?Nakhiloo Marine National Park, Northern Persian Gulf, Iran
Authors: Nazanin Mohsenian, S?verine Methion, Hamed Moshiri, Shadi Karbalaei Hassan, Shaghayegh Afkhami, Mohammad Amin Tollab, Mahmod Sadeh, Gill T. Braulik, Bruno D?az L?pez
AbstractThe Persian Gulf is positioned in the heart of the Middle East as one of the most critical water bodies. Indian Ocean humpback dolphins (Sousa plumbea) are distributed in nearshore waters and are therefore highly vulnerable to a variety of anthropogenic pressures. To our knowledge, there is a little information and data available about habitat use and abundance of this endangered species in Iranian waters. In the present study, baseline data about population size and site fidelity of Indian Ocean humpback dolphins in the Dayer-Nakhiloo Marine National Park in Northern Persian Gulf, Iran, has been explored for the first time. From March 2014 to December 2018, 127 boat-based surveys and 6436 km of survey effort were conducted. Overall, 127 groups of humpback dolphins were observed on 62% of the surveys. Humpback dolphin group size ranged from 1 to 14 individuals (mean 5.8 ? SE 0.3). Abundance estimates were calculated and fitted with open population models. Thirty (95%!
CI 22?38) humpback dolphins were estimated to inhabit the study area. There was a lack of seasonality in the occurrence of humpback dolphins and strong site fidelity within the Dayer-Nakhiloo Marine National Park. Most of the identified individuals used the study zone regularly (79.5%), while a smaller number were present less often. The results of this study provide important baseline information about humpback dolphin ecology in an area subject to significant anthropogenicpressures which can help to take effective conservation and management measures.
Journal Reference:?
Mohsenian, N., Methion, S., Moshiri, H., Hassan, S.K., Afkhami, S., Tollab, M.A., Sadeh, M., Braulik, G.T. and D?az L?pez, B., 2022. Abundance estimation, group dynamics, and residence patterns of Indian Ocean humpback dolphin (Sousa plumbea) in the Dayer-Nakhiloo Marine National Park, Northern Persian Gulf, Iran. European Journal of Wildlife Research, 68(2), pp.1-11. DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10344-022-01565-yYou can read the article here:
Please do not hesitate to ask for any question regarding our study or to request a PDF copy of the article.
Kind regards,
Bruno D?az L?pez Ph.DChief biologist and Director
The Bottlenose Dolphin Research Institute BDRI -?www.thebdri.comAvenida Beiramar 192, O Grove 36980, Pontevedra, SpainTel. 0034 684248552
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Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2022 13:51:11 -0500
Subject: [MARMAM] FinBase Workshop
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The SMM'22 workshop ?FinBase photographic-identification database user
community development: Advanced data management and analysis topics? is
rescheduled for Saturday, July 30th, 2022. This full day workshop will be
held in person with no virtual attendance options.
The goal of the workshop is to foster a more engaged FinBase user community
that can share knowledge and resources. Many of the FinBase data management
concepts and techniques used to address research questions employed by
individual research labs can be easily adapted and applied by other FinBase
users. The workshop will bring together FinBase users to share their
experiences with the system and discuss how they use the program to meet
their data management, reporting and analysis needs, showcase any
customizations, and relay any system issues and shortcomings.
like more information.
Cheers,
Jason Allen and Jeff Adams
Workshop Coordinators
Jason Allen
Lab Manager
Chicago Zoological Society's Sarasota Dolphin Research Program
c/o Mote Marine Laboratory
1600 Ken Thompson Parkway
Sarasota, FL 34236
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Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2022 21:27:06 +0000
Subject: [MARMAM] Job Posting: Associate Director, Field Operations &
Response, The Marine Mammal Center
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Hello MARMAMers,
Please see the link below to apply for the Associate Director, Field Operations & Response position at The Marine Mammal Center.
The Associate Director, Field Operations & Response will lead a large and geographically diverse team on the frontlines of the Center?s marine mammal field response and rescue work. If you are an experienced and dynamic leader and manager of people and you are excited by and have a track record of building analyses to create data-driven decisions, bringing together partners from across the organization to build and execute a plan, and leading and developing a team to keep pushing the limits of impact success, then this is the perfect role for you.
Best,
Kathi
Kathi George
Director, Field Operations & Response
The Marine Mammal Center
Sausalito, CA, USA
Kathi George (she-her)
Director, Field Operations & Response
The Marine Mammal Center, 2000 Bunker Road, Sausalito, CA 94965
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Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2022 00:08:23 +0000
Subject: [MARMAM] Call for Abstracts: 2022 NWSSMM Conference
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Hello all,
We are excited to announce that the annual meeting of the Northwest Student Chapter of the Society for Marine Mammalogy (NWSSMM) will take place virtually this spring on April 30, 2022, hosted by the Marine Mammal Research Unit at the University of British Columbia (UBC). This will be a virtual conference held on Zoom.
We would like to invite all graduate and undergraduate students in the Pacific Northwest (British Columbia, Washington, Alaska, Yukon, Oregon, Northern California, and Idaho) doing research on marine mammals to present their work at this conference. The purpose of the meeting is to gather students in a relaxed atmosphere to share their research and practice presenting it in a low-stakes, less formal situation. We also see this as an opportunity to meet other undergraduate and graduate students in the region. PI?s and other professionals involved in student led research projects are welcome to attend, but cannot present.
There will be oral presentations with two presentation styles: long form oral presentations (12 minutes) and shorter lightning talks (3 minutes), as well as a poster session. The poster session will take place in Zoom breakout rooms. Last year?s virtual conference hosted by Western Washington University was a great success and similar to their model, we are encouraging students that are in the early stages of their projects to present a poster, and researchers with results to give an oral presentation. Please indicate your method of presentation preference on the registration form and we will do our best to accommodate everyone?s wishes.
There will also be a plenary speaker to kick-off the conference and an informal networking breakout session called Philosopher?s Cafe. This event has taken place at past in-person NWSSMM conferences, and we wanted to offer a small networking opportunity for students, since Covid has made that more difficult these last few years.
There is no registration fee for attending the conference. Abstract submission for the Northwest Student Chapter of the Society for Marine Mammalogy (NWSSMM) conference is due Sunday, April 3rd 2022.
Guests interested in attending and not presenting can register for the event until Friday, April 29th, 2022. All registrants will receive information on how to attend the conference using the email that was used for the registration at a later date. Presentations will not be recorded.
Thanks so much, and we look forward to meeting everyone virtually and hearing about your research!
Regards,
Julia Adelsheim and Taryn Scarff
MSc Students | Marine Mammal Research Unit
Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries
University of British Columbia
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Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2022 20:05:56 +0000
Subject: [MARMAM] 2021 Humpback Whale Monitoring Report from Glacier
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The following report summarizing 2021 humpback whale monitoring results from Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska is now available:
Neilson, J.L., C.M. Gabriele, and A.R. Bendlin. 2022. Glacier Bay & Icy Strait Humpback Whale Population Monitoring: 2021 Update. National Park Service Resource Brief, Gustavus, Alaska.
The 2022 field season (our 38th year of monitoring) will be underway soon. Happy spring!
KEY FINDINGS FROM 2021:
? Effort-corrected counts indicate that the number of whales in Glacier Bay-Icy Strait (GB-IS) declined 5% from 2020 to 2021. In Glacier Bay, abundance declined compared to 2020, while in Icy Strait, abundance increased.
? Twenty-seven of 66 adult whales (41%) with a history of strong site fidelity to GB-IS remain missing and most are presumed to have died during or after the 2014-2016 Northeast Pacific marine heatwave (PMH).
? Eleven mother/calf pairs (crude birth rate, CBR, 6.6%) is an improvement over 2015-2019 (CBR 0%-3%) but the birth rate remains below average compared to the pre-PMH average (CBR 9.3%). We documented one case of apparent mid-season calf mortality, which is generally uncommon but has been more frequent since the PMH.
? A relatively high residency rate and record-low transience rate in 2021 stand in contrast to PMH years.
? An increasing proportion of whales (27%) appeared emaciated, including 9 of 11 mothers, compared to recent years.
? Overall, these results suggest that the population is still recovering from the PMH.
? We opportunistically documented numerous forage fish schools, especially capelin, however annual forage fish monitoring is needed to systematically assess trends.
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? There was an unusually high number of whale/human interactions, including a severely entangled whale (#2532) in GB who has not been sighted since July 30.
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Janet Neilson
Humpback Whale Monitoring Program
Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve
PO Box 140
Gustavus, AK 99826
907-697-2658
Xunaa K?awu Aan? ?w? y?i xat yatee ka ax? y?i jixan?
I live and work in Huna Tlingit Homeland.
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