2025 Research Recipients

Congratulations to the 2025 Recipients of the Eric A. Ramos Grants in Aid of Research!

The 2025 SGIAR Program was funded by Dolphin Quest and several members of our society. The society sincerely thank you for your support to this career changing program.

Pinniped strandings as indicators of climate and global change, Mexico, Lili Pelayo

Age structure assessment of Lahille’s bottlenose dolphin through aerial photogrammetry, Brazil, Gabriela Oms

Using Drones to Monitor the Distribution and Surface Behavior of the Philippines’ Critically Endangered Dugongs (Dugong dugon) in the Sarangani Bay Protected Seascape, Philippines, Diofel Tampoy

Understanding the behaviors associated with depredation by bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in Jamaica, Jamaica, Christine O’Sullivan

Influence of the use of trophic resources, foraging strategies and kinship relationships on the social structure of dusky dolphins (Lagenorhynchus obscurus) in Península Valdés, Patagonia, Argentina,  Betania Melisa Coronel

Sentinels in a changing sea: Integrating body condition, social structure and demography to assess human impacts on an endangered coastal dolphin, Brazil,  Tomaz Cezimbra

Assessing the impacts of environmental change on the foraging ecology and condition of Southern Right Whales: an integrative approach using CSIA-AA and UAV photogrammetry, Argentina, Camila Muñoz Moreda

Interactions of Indian Ocean humpback dolphin, Sousa plumbea (G. Cuvier, 1829), with nearshore fisheries along the Kerala coast, India, Aswin Thekkekudaram Raveendran

Pathways of microdebris exposure in southern right whales: The role of zooplankton in Península Valdés, Mexico, Eva Camila Tavano Formigo