Dear MARMAM community, We hope you are well during these difficult times. Like many of you we have had to decrease our operations and cancel our internships. We have heard many sad stories about people having their universities shut, missing out on dream placements and losing short-term contracts and even full-time jobs because of the virus. This not only leaves people with nothing to do but also if the virus is to persist, then it leaves the possibility of a knowledge gap in marine biology. DMAD - Marine Mammals Research Association will be offering help for people in the form of free online GIS lessons. These lessons will be using the freely available, opensource software QGIS so literally anyone with a computer can partake. The lessons and all the files used are available on our website: http://www.dmad.org.tr/qgis or the videos can be viewed from our youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZe6-gcELQiTaPQaxkaZGlQ There are currently 16 videos in the series but new videos will be added each working day whilst biologists are struggling due to coronavirus. We have been really pleased with the feedback and so far the videos have collectively had over two and a half thousand views but we know that there are many individuals who could benefit from this training so please forward this email to anyone you know that might be interested. DMAD are certainly not alone in providing support to the biology community and we want to thank each and every person that has reached out and helped. Stay positive, stay safe and keep helping each other. Kind regards, Tim *Tim Awbery* *Montenegro Operations Director and Research Associate at DMAD - Marine Mammal Research Association (**Deniz Memelileri Araştırma Derneği)* *info@dmad.org.tr <info@dmad.org.tr>* *www.dmad.org.tr <http://www.dmad.org.tr/>*