Dr. Michelle Lander talks about some of the highlights of her research using tags on pinnipeds, and about the difficulties of tracking animals that spend a large portion of their time underwater, in remote locations, in the ocean depths.

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Dr. Ashley Scarlett talks to Dr. Luis Bedrinana-Romano about his team’s new paper on priority areas for blue whale conservation and the overlap with vessel traffic. They also talk about how their paper went viral on social media thanks to an informative animation they used.

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Dr. Ashley Scarlett talks to NOAA ecologist Carey Kuhn about her fascinating work on northern fur seal foraging ecology that integrates video cameras mounted on fur seals and prey mapping with unmanned surface vehicles (Saildrones). This technology has enabled Carey to fill in some of the long-missing information gaps there have been, about how seals feed out at sea.

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Dr. Ashley Scarlett talks to Lauren Hartny-Mills, about two much-loved, famous fins that visit the west coast of Scotland, Knobble the minke whale and John Coe the killer whale, and the key role citizen science has played in understanding the movements of these two celebrity whales.

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This week’s guest is Alison Lomax, the Director of the Hebridean Whale & Dolphin Trust in Scotland. She talks about the various programs that they run, and how they built a case for a new Marine Protected Area in West Scotland.

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Dr. Chris Parsons who long-time listeners will remember used to be the host of the Marine Mammal Science podcast. In this episode, Chris talks about his research, conservation, and education work on the West Coast of Scotland for the Hebridean Whale and Dolphin Trust and about what it’s like to live on a Scottish Island.

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The conflict between fisheries and dolphins in Mexico On this week’s episode, Dr. Ashley Scarlett talks to marine mammal ecology and fisheries expert Dr. Eduardo Morteo about the challenges of his project in Mexico, on dolphin and human interaction. He talks about he got into the field, and his discoveries and challenges when tackling the difficult issue of dolphin interactions with fisheries.

Show Notes:

http://www.uv.mx/personal/emorteo/

http://uv-mx.academia.edu/EMorteo

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Eduardo_Morteo/?ev=hdr_xprf

http://scholar.google.com.mx/citations?user=fDUl-IIAAAAJ

https://www.uv.mx/personal/emorteo/direccion-de-tesis/

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Eduardo_Morteo

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Kristi Ashley Collom is a Lead Researcher for Gotham Whale, Critter Spy with Atlas Obscura, Trip Leader for National Geographic, and one of the founding directors for the SMM Northeast Student Chapter. She collaborates with several passive acoustic monitoring projects with FINS in Central America and Wildlife Conservation Society in New York.

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Dr. Ari Friedlaender talks about how video-recording tags have revolutionized conducting research on the behavior of marine mammals.

He also discusses how important the information gained from tagging studies can be, including how it provides information about the effects of climate change on marine mammals.

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