Society for Marine Mammalogy

The following is an evolving list of links to help current and potential students of marine mammal science.  Additions and improvements to this list are welcome, so please contact us with your suggestions.

Societies/Associations

• Acoustical Society of America
• American Cetacean Society
• American Society of Mammalogy
• Canadian Association of Zoos and Aquariums
• Ecological Society of America
• European Cetacean Society 
• European Association for Aquatic Mammals 
• International Association Aquatic Animal Medicine
• International Marine Mammal Trainers Association 
• International Whaling Commission
• Society for Conservation Biology
• Society for Marine Mammalogy

NGO/Non-profit Organizations

• American Zoo and Aquarium Association (USA)
• British Columbia Wild Killer Whale Adoption Program (Canada)
• ACOREMA (Peru)
• Center for Coastal Studies (USA)
• Cetacean Alliance (Global)
• Cetáceous Uruguay (Uruguay)
• CIRCE – Conservation, Information, and Research on Cetaceans (Spain)
• Coastal Ecosystems Research Foundation (Canada) 
• Eutropia (Chile)
• Israel Marine Mammal Research and Assistance Center (Israel)
• Johnstone Strait Killer Whale Interpretive Centre Society (Canada)
• Marine Mammal Center (USA)
• Oceanographic Environmental Research Society (Canada)
• Pro Delphinus (Peru)
• The Dolphin Institute (USA)
• The Dolphins of Monkey Mia Research Foundation (Australia)
• The Oceania Project (Australia)
• Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society (Global)

Graduate Programs

• College of Charleston (Charleston, SC) 
• Duke University Marine Lab (Beaufort, NC) 
• Dalhousie University (Halifax, NS)
• Moss Landing Marine Laboratories (Moss Landing, CA) 
• Oregon State University (Corvallis, OR) 
• Scripps Institute of Oceanography (La Jolla, CA) 
• Texas A&M University (College Station, TX)
• Texas A&M University at Galveston (Galveston, TX) 
• University of Alaska (Fairbanks, AK)
• University of British Columbia (Vancouver, BC)
• University of California, Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz, CA) 
• University of Hawaii at Manoa (Honolulu, HI) 
• University of North Carolina at Wilmington (Wilmington, NC) 
• University of Pretoria (Pretoria, South Africa)
• University of St. Andrews, Sea Mammal Research Unit (St. Andrews, Scotland)
• University of Washington (Seattle, WA) 
• Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (Woods Hole, MA)

Research Groups/Programs/Institutes

• Cascadia Research Collective
• Cetacean Science at Dalhousie University
• Elephant Seal Research Group
• Far East Russia Orca Project
• Marine Mammal Conservation Network of India
• Marine Mammal Research Unit of the University of British Columbia
• Mammal Research Institute of the University of Pretoria
• Marine Zoology Unit at the University of Valencia, Spain
• Murdoch University Cetacean Research Unit
• National Marine Mammal Laboratory of the Alaska Fisheries Science Center (NOAA)
• Oregon State University Marine Mammal Institute
• Russian Far East Marine Mammal Research Program

Aquaria/Oceanaria/Education/Museums

• Alaska SeaLife Center
• Bayworld 
• Iziko South African Museum
• New Bedford Whaling Museum
• The Whale Museum
• Vancouver Aquarium

Free Software Tools

• The Atlas of Canada (Digital on-line database)
• Blender (Creates virtual models, animations, etc.)
• Ecosystem-Based Management Tools Network (Database for finding such tools)
• FinBase (Photo-identification database and mapping tool)
• Flash Earth (On-line alternative to Google Earth)
• Marine Geospatial Ecology Toolbox
• OBIS-SEAMAP (Ocean Biogeographic Information System - Spatial Ecological Analysis of Megavertebrate Populations)
• Open Office (Similar to MS Office but free)
• Program MARK (Mark-recapture software)
• Program R (Statistical computing and graphics)
• Raven Lite (Interactive sound analysis software)
• Quantum GIS (Open source GIS package)
• XBAT (Extensible bioacoustic tool)

Other Sources of Information

• cetaceanhabitat.org (Marine Protected Area resource)
• COSEWIC (Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada)
• IMARPE (Instituto del Mar del Perú)
• IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 
• MARMAM (Marine Mammal Research and Conservation E-mail List) 
• North Pacific Universities Marine Mammal Consortium
• RealOceans (Synthesizes ocean policy and science)
• Whale and Dolphin Information On-line (Compiled by The Oceania Project)
• Whalenet (Interactive educational site)