You are invited to register for the scientific symposium on Harbour porpoises in the Wadden Sea.
The event is organized by the Common Wadden Sea Secretariat and the UNESCO Wadden Sea World Heritage Visitor Centre as part of ‘Harbour Porpoise Days 2019’ in Wilhelmshaven.
Please register by 29 March 2019 under info@waddensea-secretariat.org (indicate your name and affiliation).
THE IDENTIFICATION OF NEW ACCOBAMS CCH: A COLLABORATIVE THREAT-BASED MANAGEMENT APPROACH
Tuesday 9th April 2019 – (14:15-18:30)
The Westin Resort, Costa Navarina, Messinia, Greece
The aim of this session is to present the ongoing ACCOBAMS threat-based management approach which incorporates the concepts of both Cetacean Critical Habitats (CCH) and Important Marine Mammal Areas (IMMAs) and to propose appropriate management tools and mitigation measures.
For an appropriate management of main human activities in the ACCOBAMS area, main resulting threats for cetaceans will be presented as well as examples of existing legislative framework and proposed mitigation measures in some specific areas with their strengths and weaknesses.
Recommendations of the workshop will assist the ACCOBAMS Permanent Secretariat in providing the Countries with advices on targeted and effective conservation measures.
1.1. ACCOBAMS
1.2. CCH approach
2.1. Main threats for cetaceans (ship strikes and continuous noise)
2.2. Legislative tools
2.3. Examples of proposed mitigation measures
3.1. Main threat for cetaceans (impulsive noise)
3.2. Legislative tools
3.3. Examples of proposed mitigation measures
4.1. Main threats for cetaceans (By-catch and depredation)
4.2. Legislative tools
4.3. Examples of proposed mitigation measures
5.1. Main threat for cetaceans (Harassment)
5.2. Legislative tools
5.3. Examples of proposed mitigation measures
For more information please contact:
Léa DAVID (léa.david2@wanadoo.fr) and Maylis SALIVAS (msalivas@accobams.net)
Distance Sampling Training Workshops 2019
In August 2019, the Centre for Research into Ecological and Environmental Modelling (CREEM) at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, is hosting a series of linked, training workshops on distance sampling survey methods and analysis. Distance sampling (Buckland et al. 2001) is a widely used method of estimating density and abundance for marine mammals. Conducting such surveys are expensive and so it is important that survey designs and methods are appropriate. The introductory workshop covers the basic methods of distance sampling: for those wishing to learn more advanced methods, or indeed what to do when the basic assumptions of conventional distance sampling methods cannot be met, there is the ‘Advanced-level distance sampling’ workshop.
Introduction to R (for distance sampling): 19-20 August 2019
Many of the options available in the Distance for Windows program (Thomas et al. 2013) are now available in R (R Core Team, 2018) packages. The goal of this two-day workshop is to introduce participants to the R language and software for statistics, in the context of analysis of distance sampling data.
Introduction to Distance Sampling (using R): 21-23 August 2019
This workshop will give participants a solid grounding in the basic methods for design and analysis of distance sampling surveys. The statistical programming language R will be used for all computer sessions and therefore this workshop will be invaluable for those wishing to make the switch from the Distance for Windows program to R.
Advanced-level Distance Sampling: 26-30 August 2019
This workshop will cover the simulation of distance sampling surveys to allow different survey designs to be compared (thus allowing the user to select the most appropriate design), survey and analysis methods for estimating detection on the track line (i.e. double-observer methods) and spatial modelling of distance sampling data (as described in Miller et al. (2013)) to help describe and explain how animals use their habitat. The statistical programming language R will be used for all computer sessions.
For more information see https://www.creem.st-andrews.ac.uk/distance-workshops-st-andrews-2019/ or contact Louise Burt (lb9@st-andrews.ac.uk) or Rhona Rodger (rmr5@st-andrews.ac.uk).
References
Buckland ST, Anderson DR, Burnham KP, Laake JL, Borchers DL and Thomas L (2001) Introduction to distance sampling: Estimating abundance of biological populations. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK
Miller DL, Burt ML, Rexstad EA & Thomas L (2013) Spatial models for distance sampling data: recent developments and future directions. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 4 (11):1001–1010. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.12105.
Ocean Alive Summer School.
This course targets young people with interest for ocean issues. It’s conducted in conjunction with the Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal – Marine Science and Experiential Learning Program.
This marine science course is embedded into our award-winning local sustainability project, “Seagrass Guardians”. Participants will take on the challenge of developing life-changing and balanced solutions as part of their final evaluation. The course will take place in Sado estuary, Setúbal, Portugal.
Marine mammal summer school
Basic module (50 h) 14-18 July (In Spanish)
Evolution
Systematics and diversity
Oceanography and marine zoogeography
Ecology and life history
Anatomy and physiology
Conservation and current status
Legislation
Human dimensions
Field trip (principles of navigation,distance sampling, first aid, sample preservation, pinniped census, and
much more)
Advanced modules (20 h each) 20-21 July (In English)
Ecotoxicology and Marine Pollutants
Juan José Alava, University of British Columbia, Canadá.
Stable isotopes in ecological and environmental studies
Seth Newsome & Emma Elliot Smith,University of New Mexico, USA.
Telemetry as a tool for animal ecology
Tenaya Norris, The Marine Mammal Center, USA.
Population genetics and conservation genetics
Larissa Rosa de Oliveira, UNISINOS, Brazil. Adrián Munguía-Vega, University of Arizona,
USA.
Passive Acoustic Monitoring and photoID database management
Sally Mizroch, NOAA, USA. Armando Jaramillo Legorreta, INECC, SEMARNAT, México.
Introduction to marine mammal rehabilitation and disease
Cara Field, The Marine Mammal Center, USA.
Behavioural ecology of marine mammals
Concepción García Aguilar, CICESE, México.
Diane Gendron, CICIMAR, México.
Sergio MarVnez Aguilar, UABCS, México.
For details and cost go to: www.escuelamexicanademamiferosmarinos.com
The Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences will be holding their annual conference at the University of Central Florida. Join students, practitioners, faculty and professionals at all career levels as they participate in interdisciplinary collaboration across workshops, panels, discussion symposia, mealtime roundtables and poster presentations.
This year’s conference theme is “Sustainable Futures”
Visit aessconference.org for more details.
About AESS
The Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences (AESS) is an independent faculty-and-student-based professional association in higher education, designed to serve the needs of environmental scholars and scientists who value interdisciplinary approaches to research, teaching, and problem-solving.
The next world killer whales symposium/conference will take place in Tarifa (Strait of Gibraltar, Spain), in April 2020. The meeting will take place in Tarifa between the 13th and 18th April 2020 in Tarifa, Strait of Gibraltar. All researchers on killer whales are invited to the event. The meeting will be organised by CIRCE, and follows the symposium that was held previously by the CEBC-CNRS in Chizé (France) in 2002. For more details go to: www.orca.world
The objective of the meeting will be to gather international orca researchers for a week in Tarifa, to present the latest advances on killer whale research. All the participants are invited to present one or more posters (Send us the abstract to organise the poster sessions!! You can bring as many posters as you want, but almost one is needed to participate in the meeting) or an oral presentation (abstract submission needed to organise the program).
The first 2.5 days will be reserved for oral presentations and plenary sessions. The last 2 days will be reserved for workshops, which will be defined throughout the plenary sessions. The symposium will leave broad scope for discussion, and interaction among researchers.
A broad social and cultural parallel agenda will be organized. The spirit of the meeting will be the same as in previous meetings. The more socialization the better.
Accompanying the symposium, CIRCE will take the opportunity to carry out parallel training activities in the Campo de Gibraltar, which will consist of an exhibition of photographs on orcas in the premises of Tarifa, a campaign of micro-volunteers in schools in Algeciras, Barbate and Tarifa, video exposition, and talks open to the general public.
For more information : www.orca.world
8th European Congress of Mammalogy will be held 23 – 27 September 2019 in Warsaw, Poland.
Please, mark the date and check www.ecm8.org for further details and to register to receive conference announcements. Information will be updated as it gets closer to the meeting.
Following the successful congresses in Lisbon (1991), Southampton (1995), Jyväskylä (1999), Brno (2003), Siena (2007), Paris (2011) and Stockholm (2015) it is now the turn of a Central European country to host this exciting event and to invite mammalogists to the 8th European Congress of Mammalogy (ECM8) in Warsaw, Poland.
The congress is going to be held on 23rd – 27th September 2019 at the Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw.
Website: http://www.ecm8.org/
The Fifth International Conference on the Effects of Noise on Aquatic Life (AN2019) will take place during the week of 7-12 July, 2019, in Den Haag, The Netherlands.
Abstracts are due this month; deadline 28 Feb 2019.
You can access the Abstract Submission website here: https://www.eiseverywhere.com/eSites/364801/Homepage.
Instructions to access:
You can review your submission(s) on the submission page. Any queries relating to your abstract or the abstract submission process can be directed via email to abstracts@an-2019.org
Conference Registration
Once you have submitted your abstract, you can also register via the conference registration page here: https://www.eiseverywhere.com/ereg/index.php?eventid=364801&
Registration is a very simple process, I encourage you to register sooner rather than later to secure your hotel reservation and early bird registration fee.
Any queries relating to your conference registration can be directed via email to registrations@an-2019.org
Financial Support
We have secured funding to provide financial support to attend AN2019. You can apply here: http://www.an-2019.org/financial-support/
You must be first author on an abstract. While anybody wishing to attend AN2019 and needing support can apply, preference will be given to students and early career researchers.
You can follow the meeting on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/AquaticNoise2019/) and Twitter (@AquaticNoise). The website is regularly updated with new information about the meeting: an-2019.org
‘MARINE MAMMALS IN A CHANGING ENVIRONMENT’
Symposium – 07-08 March 2019 – CeNak, Hamburg, Germany
Marine mammals comprise top predators and upper trophic levels in oceanic ecosystems of the world. They are increasingly threatened by various anthropogenic impacts in their marine habitat, e.g. pollution by chemical and pharmaceutical substances, marine litter, underwater noise, changes in prey abundance and climate change. These constraints can have serious implications for the health status of marine mammals through elevated stress response, immune suppression as well as higher energy and metabolic demands caused by disturbances that may affect different populations to a varying degree.
The project ‘Marine Mammals In a Changing Environment’, funded by the VolkswagenFoundation, forms a consortium of museums and universities in Germany, Denmark and Sweden, combining unique collections, marine mammal expertise and innovative methods to investigate native marine mammal species.
Results will be presented with respect to changes in health condition and population status of marine mammals over long time periods and in different marine environments; in particular with respect to 1) to bone lesions in seal skulls, 2) feeding-related dental micro texture, 3) organochlorines in blubber of harbour seals, 4) trace elements in pelts of several seal species, and 5) parasitic and viral pathogens in seals during the last decades and century.
Cooperation partners:
Institute for Terrestrial and Aquatic Wildlife Research (ITAW), University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Foundation (TiHo), Germany
Centrum of Natural History (CeNak), University of Hamburg, Germany
Zoological Museum of Kiel University, Germany
German Oceanographic Museum Stralsund, Germany
University of Hildesheim, Germany
Natural History Museum of Denmark, Denmark
Swedish Museum of Natural History, Sweden
Confirmed keynote speakers:
Krishna Das, University of Liège, Laboratory of Oceanology-MARE, Belgium
Anders Galatius, Aarhus University, Department of Bioscience, Marine Mammal Research, Denmark
Gerd Meurs-Scher, Multimar Wattforum, Germany
Venue:
The symposium will be held at the Centrum of Natural History (CeNak), University of Hamburg;
Martin-Luther-King-Platz 3, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
Programme:
The detailed programme is available here
Thursday, 07th March 2019
11.00 – 13:30 Registration
13.00 – 13:30 Welcome
Ursula Siebert, Director of the Institute for Terrestrial and Aquatic Wildlife Research, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Foundation, Germany
Thomas M. Kaiser, Chair of Mammalogy and Paleoanthropology, Center of Natural History, University of Hamburg, Germany
13.30 – 14.15 Keynote 1
Mercury in marine vertebrates: new insights from speciation and isotopic composition, Krishna Das, University of Liege, Belgium
14.15 – 14.35: Dental pathology and alveolar bone lesions in Eastern Atlantic harbour seals, Patricia Kahle, University of Hildesheim, Germany
14.35 – 15.20 Coffee / Tea Break /Photo
15.20 – 15.40: Periapical lesions and osteomyelitis of the jaws as sequel, Uwe Kierdorf, University of Hildesheim, Germany
15.40 – 16.00: Dietary trait reconstruction in marine mammals, Elehna Bethune, Center of Natural History, Germany
16.00 – 16.20: Acanthocephalans in intestines of North and Baltic Sea grey and harbour seals: Pathologies, Prevalences and Present Situation, Jan Lakemeyer, Institute for Terrestrial and Aquatic Wildlife Research, Germany
16.20 – 16.40: Trophic niche structure of marine mammals from the North Sea: Location and time-trend effect, France Damseaux, University of Liege, Belgium
16.40 – 17.00: Skeletal adaptations of aquatic vertebrates to fasting, swimming, diving and hearing, Tim Rolvien, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany
17.00 – 17.30: Poster Session
19.00: Icebreaker with buffet, in the Exhibition of the CeNak
Friday, 08th March 2019
9.00 – 9.45: Keynote 2
Whales, Wadden Sea and World Heritage Site – relevance of whales for environmental education, Gerd Meurs, Multimar Wattforum, Germany
9.45 – 10.30: Keynote 3
From morphology to management, Anders Galatius, Aarhus University, Denmark
10.30 – 10.50
Title pending, Morten Tange Olsen, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
10.50 – 11.35: Coffee / Tea Break
11.35 – 11.55: A phylogenetic study on the evolutionary history of Canine Distemper Virus and Phocine Distemper Virus, Iben Stockholm, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
11.55 – 12.15: There and back again – the return of the nasal mite Halarachne halichoeri to seals in German waters, Kristina Lehnert, Anja Reckendorf, Institute for Terrestrial and Aquatic Wildlife Research, Germany
12.15 – 12.35: A concept for a travel exhibition – how to bring the research results to the people, Katrin Wollny-Goerke, Meeresmedien, Germany
12.35 – 13.00 Closing Remarks and Farewell
Hosts:
Center of Natural History (CeNak), University of Hamburg, Germany
Institute for Terrestrial and Aquatic Wildlife Research (ITAW), Büsum, Germany
Registration:
The symposium is free of charge but formal registration is needed as our venue is limited to 200 attendees.
Please e-mail your registration for the symposium until 15 February 2019 to vwkonferenz2019.cenak@uni-hamburg.de