February 17, 2022
by Charles Littnan
(This news item is written in collaboration with Sondra Katzen, Chicago Zoological Society) The Society for Marine Mammalogy (SMM) announced the 2021/2022 that Dr. Randall Wells, vice president of marine mammal conservation and director of CZS’s Sarasota Dolphin Research Program, received the Kenneth S. Norris Lifetime Achievement Award. The announcement was made earlier this month during […]
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by Jay Barlow
The Society for Marine Mammalogy (SMM) announces six conservation awards totaling $140K! Over the past several years the SMM has raised money for a newly created Conservation Fund. The purpose of this endowment fund is to support research and education projects worldwide that can help catalyze real conservation action to save the world’s most endangered […]
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February 4, 2022
by Theresa-Anne Tatom-Naecker
The SMM Seminar Editor’s Select Series highlights the latest and most exciting marine mammal science published in the Marine Mammal Science Journal. The SMM created this series to give scientists and citizens around the world a chance to engage with marine mammal scientists, learn and ask questions. All are welcome. Thursday, 17 February 2022 at […]
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February 3, 2022
by Charles Littnan
Aloha Everyone. Thanks to all of our members that were able to join us for the live portion of the member’s meeting. For those of you that were unable to make it you can know watch the meeting on demand at the link below. The topics on the agenda were the following: Welcome and 2021 […]
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February 2, 2022
by Katherina Audley
Louis M. Herman Research Scholarship 2022 This is the final week to apply for the 2022 cycle of the Louis M. Herman Research Scholarship Criteria The Louis M. Herman Research Scholarship supports a research project that contributes to our understanding of either cetacean cognition and sensory perception (laboratory or field studies), or humpback whale behavioral […]
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