Dear Colleagues Sea Search Research and Conservation will be running a 4 week course on marine mammal research techniques - see below and attached flyer. We would greatly appreciate if you could please pass this information around your departments and to potentially interested undergrad or post-grad students. Kind regards, Dr Simon Elwen and Dr Tess Gridley Information below and attached and contact info@seasearch.co.za for more details: --- --- --- --- *Where *- Cape Town,South Africa *When *- November 2019 *Target audience* - students and early career researchers engaging or interested in research on marine mammals and other large marine vertebrates. ---- ---- ---- Course Summary. This academically intensive course is targeted at students and postgraduates with a strong interest in a career in marine mammal research. Based on decades on cumulative team experience this course will provide you with a sound knowledge of survey design, research tools, data collection and analytical methods to enable you to effectively set up and conduct a research study on whales and dolphins and efficiently analyse your data. Course leaders: Dr Simon Elwen & Dr Tess Gridley. Date: 04 to 29 Nov. Course Content - Survey & Experimental Design - Photographic & Video Methods - Acoustic research methods - Shore based tracking - Behavioural data collection - Intro to GIS / Telemetry / Strandings / Boat skills Modules consist of a combination of lectures, discussion, computer based and field-based practical exercises. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Simon Elwen Ph.D. NRF Research Fellow at the Mammal Research Institute, University of Pretoria Based at Sea Search Research & Conservation - Muizenberg, Cape Town. Phone: +27 21 788 1206 (Office SA), +27 71 139 5951 (Mob SA) www.seasearch.co.za & www.namibiandolphinproject.org