Society for Marine Mammalogy

Membership is conducted online in two easy steps.

1. Create a website account
2. Login to our Member Area to choose a membership plan.
   You can pay with credit card or PayPal

Once a member, you can always renew your yearly membership online as well.

Membership plans and benefits

All members receive:

• One-year subscription to Marine Mammal Science (MMS) in print, published quarterly by Wiley-Blackwell
• Access to the Member Area of our Web site, which includes one year of access to:
  • job postings
  • instant online access to MMS
  • early access to MMS "latest articles" set to come out in the next print issue
  • member directory, voting and more
• One-year subscription to the Society’s newsletter, published quarterly in electronic format
• Voting privileges
• Rights to run for elective office
• Rights to serve on standing and ad hoc Society committees
• Participatation in our biennial conferences on the biology of marine mammals at the member’s registration fee rate

Membership Categories

Full

Open to professionals in the natural sciences or in the management, husbandry, conservation or training of marine mammals, and to graduate students in these fields. ($115/yr, $75/yr developing countries)

Emeritus

Open to any member who has retired from a professional career, is 60 years of age or older, and has been a Full Member of the Society for at least one year. Emeritus members have all privileges of Full membership. ($75/yr)

Student

Open to anyone actively enrolled in a degree-granting institution of higher education. Students members may not serve as officers (except Student Member-at-Large) or members of standing committees, but have all other membership privileges. ($50/yr, $30/yr developing¹ countries, $10/yr developing¹ countries--online only)

Associate

Open to anyone interested in the aims of the Society. Associate members may not vote, hold elective office, or serve as members of standing committees, but have all other membership privileges. ($90/yr)

Institutional

Open to any organization or institution. Institutional members receive all Society Publications and Notices, but may not vote in Society elections and may not hold elective office or serve on standing committees. Institutional members may register one person for the Society's conference at the member rate.

Life

Life members have the same rights and privileges of membership as Full members. ($1500, one-time payment)

Notes

• With the exception of Institutional, all membership categories are for individuals, and are not transferrable.
• The Society does not refund memberships under any circumstances.
• Institutional members should provide the name of a contact person, which can be updated as necessary.
• Please direct member queries to Doug Nowacek, Membership Committee Chair, at admin@marinemammalscience.org.

Privacy Policy

The Society for Marine Mammalogy does not share, sell or distribute information about our members with any other institution (commercial or otherwise), for any purpose. On very rare occasions, the Society will rent on a one-time-use-only basis its membership directory address list to publishers that wish to advertise a new publication the Society believes would be of interest to its membership. Note: e-mail addresses are NOT included with the shared information.

¹ Countries not listed on the IUCN/OECD list of high income countries