Dear MARMAM subscribers, The American Cetacean Society is proud to announce the full-color special issue on Climate Change: Challenges to Cetacean Conservation of our journal "Whalewatcher". Our special guest editor for this issue is Dr. Ian Dutton, president and CEO of the Alaska SeaLife Center and Chairman of the North Pacific Research Board. We would like to take the opportunity to once again thank all authors and photographers who have contributed to this publication. The result is a poignant and timely publication with compelling articles on a tremendously important issue. Whalewatcher, journal of the American Cetacean Society, Volume 39, No. 2. Climate Change: Challenges to Cetacean Conservation. In this issue: – Climate Change Demands a New Approach to Cetacean Conservation, by Ian Dutton – Climate Change: Effects on the Diversity of Whales and Dolphins, by Hal Whitehead – Whales Facing Climate Change in the Pacific Arctic, by Sue E. Moore – Feeling the Heat: Potential Climate Change Impacts on Bottlenose Dolphins, by Randall S. Wells – Top Ten Percent of Cetaceans Affected by Climate-driven Shift in Human Behavior, illustrated plates by Uko Gorter – The Biggest Threat of All, by Elin Kelsey – Climate Change and European Cetaceans, by Mark Peter Simmonds and Sonja Eisfeld – Freshwater-Dependant Cetaceans: Intergrating Climate Change-Related Impacts from Mountain to Sea, by Brian D. Smith and Randall R. Reeves – Aerial Photo Gallery, by Laura Morse (NOAA Fisheries) – Recent Research: Overview of Research on the Impact of Climate Change on Cetaceans, by Dominique Rossi and Ian Dutton To order your copy: Contact Kaye Reznick, American Cetacean Society, business manager. Email: acsoffice@acsonline.org Call: (310) 548-6279 Price: $ 6.00 within the U.S. and $10 International (includes shipping & handling) Have you credit card number ready if you're calling. Or, become an ACS member today! Note: We still have copies of our beaked whale issue, dedicated to the late John Heyning, and our Phocoenid issue on the Vaquita and its Relatives, available for purchase. Same pricing applies. Happy Holidays from all of us at ACS! Uko Gorter AMERICAN CETACEAN SOCIETY Cheryl McCormick Ph.D., Executive Director P.O Box 1391 San Pedro, CA 90733-1391 www.acsonline.org acsoffice@acsonline.org (310) 548-6279