March 16, 2017
by Lorenzo Rojas-Bracho and Barbara Taylor
Despite serious efforts by the government of Mexico that warranted the Society’s first Conservation Merit Prize, vaquitas have continued to decline at a high rate. Papers describing the decline from 2011-2015 and the 2015 abundance estimate are now published and available by OpenAccess. The recovery team (CIRVA—Comité Internacional para la Recuperación de la Vaquita) reiterated the need for gillnets to be […]
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February 27, 2017
by Katherina Audley
Greetings, Are you interested in submitting an abstract or workshop proposal for the upcoming Society for Marine Mammalogy’s 22nd Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals, to be held in Halifax, October 2017? Well, the submission deadline for abstracts and workshop proposals is approaching rapidly! Be sure to submit your proposal(s) online by 12PM […]
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December 5, 2016
by Tonya Wimmer
We are pleased to announce on December 5th, 2016 the opening of registration, abstract submission, and workshop proposals for the 22nd Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals. The 22nd Biennial will be hosted in Halifax, Nova Scotia on October 22nd-27th 2017, with workshops to be held October 28th-29th. Halifax is one of Canada’s […]
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by Katherina Audley
We are pleased to announce on December 5th, 2016 the opening of registration, abstract submission, and workshop proposals for the 22nd Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals. The 22nd Biennial will be hosted in Halifax, Nova Scotia on October 22nd-27th 2017, with workshops to be held October 28th-29th. Halifax is one of Canada’s […]
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December 3, 2016
by Katherina Audley
Your president, Jay Barlow, is currently representing the SMM at the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP-CBD) in Cancun, Mexico. The Society was invited to participate by Mexico’s environmental minister, Rafael Pachiano Alaman, who was one of the recipients of the SMM Conservation Merit Award at the last biennial. The […]
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