Dear friends I am incredibly pleased to share great news with all of you! My paper on the First Record of an Omura’s whale in Sri Lankan waters has just been published in Marine Biodiversity Records. We had a lucky encounter that enabled me to take great photos that showed all the characteristics of this species very clearly. Here is the link to the paper: https://mbr.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s41200-017-0121-2 (Open Access so feel free to download and share!) Asha (I think the system rejected my previous effort to post this as soon as it was published hence the delay - my apologies) --

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Asha de Vos Ph.D. Senior Advisor <http://oceana.org/press-center/press-releases/renowned-marine-biologist-asha-de-vos-joins-oceana>, Oceana Pew Fellow <http://www.pewtrusts.org/en/projects/marine-fellows/fellows-directory/2016/asha-de-vos> in Marine Conservation National Geographic <http://nationalgeographic.org/projects/explorers-week/asha-de-vos/> Emerging Explorer TED <https://www.ted.com/speakers/asha_de_vos> Fellow WEF Young Global Leader http://ashadevos.com