In this week’s episode, Jacquelyn Shaff from Cascadia Research Collective talks to Dr. Ashley Scarlett about rough-toothed dolphins dive behavior in relation to lunar and diel light levels.
Ashley’s Notes__________Do not publish_________
Jacquelyn Shaff is a graduate student at the School of Marine and Environmental Affairs at the University of Washington working with Cascadia Research Collective to study odontocete diving behavior in Hawaiian waters.
This week’s episode is part two of the “Intentionally Building Inclusive Spaces for Queer Scientists” webinar organized by the Society for Marine Mammalogy‘s Committee on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and Absolutely Smashing Events and Consulting.
This webinar series will focus on the fact that the advancement of ocean science, and marine conservation success, ultimately relies on the well-being of the scientists involved. This well-being largely depends on our scientific community providing a safe and supportive space for scientists and conservation practitioners to work in.
There are large number of LGBTQ+ scientists within our community that often face prejudice, exclusion, and discrimination. Success of the whole community depends upon diversity, equity, and inclusion. In this webinar we seek to promote understanding of the issues and struggles our LGBTQ+ scientists face, and work towards solutions to problems and barriers that they face.
This week’s episode is part one of the “Intentionally Building Inclusive Spaces for Queer Scientists” webinar organized by the Society for Marine Mammalogy‘s Committee on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and Absolutely Smashing Events and Consulting.
This webinar series will focus on the fact that the advancement of ocean science, and marine conservation success, ultimately relies on the well-being of the scientists involved. This well-being largely depends on our scientific community providing a safe and supportive space for scientists and conservation practitioners to work in.
There are large number of LGBTQ+ scientists within our community that often face prejudice, exclusion, and discrimination. Success of the whole community depends upon diversity, equity, and inclusion. In this webinar we seek to promote understanding of the issues and struggles our LGBTQ+ scientists face, and work towards solutions to problems and barriers that they face.
On this week’s episode Dr Ashley Scarlett chats with guest Dr Carlos Peredo about The evolutionary history of marine mammals and the extreme adaptations they developed for eating their prey.
Ashley’s Notes__________
how they became what they are today
Changes in feeding ecology
Studying fossill whales (megafauna)- palaeontology
(Ancestral whales) primitive whales – Basilosaurs BACIL O SOURS
meaning “king lizard
The earliest specimens were found in Alabama in the 1830s,
functional pelvic limb
sharp-toothed creature that lived 40-35 million
Extreme modifications- and adapting to the marine life
How the mammal body change to become a marine mammal represent major evolutionary innovations
let’s generally do how marine mammals adapt to feeding in the water, with our biggest emphasis on whales and pinnipeds
The evolutionary history of aquatic mammals
departed from using ancestral terrestrial feeding mechanisms and adopted novel ways of feeding
Short Bio:
Dr. Carlos Peredo is an NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Biology and a University of Michigan Society of Fellows Postdoctoral Scholar. His research focuses on understanding the macroevolutionary patterns associated with mammals returning to a marine environment. Carlos studies major ecological transitions in Earth history and how they drive the evolutionary origins of key innovations in mammals to facilitate life in the water. Currently Carlos is studying the loss of mastication in two lineages of marine mammals: whales and pinnipeds.
This episode is part 2 of the interview with Dr Matthew Savoca. He will continue discussing the results of his new published paper on the estimate of baleen whale prey consumption and how it impacts the ocean ecosystem.
This episode is one of two episodes with guest Dr. Matthew Savoca. In this episode, Dr. Savoca explains how important his new findings are on the prey of baleen whales and why these results are so important.
In this week’s episode, Stephanie Stack from the Pacific Whale Foundation talks to Dr. Ashley Scarlett about the behavioural impacts of swim-with-whale tourism on cetaceans.
This week’s episode is the recording of the Research Challenges in Asia webinar hosted by the Society for Marine Mammalogy Diversity Equity and Inclusion committee. This series will focus on research in Asia and issues around conducting marine mammal science in low-income countries.
On this week’s episode, Michaela Kratofil, a research assistant at Cascadia Research Collective, is talking to Dr. Ashley Scarlett about her work as a statistical coder and how, via this work, she reveals foraging and ecological patterns within small cetacean populations.
On this week’s episode, Liah McPherson, a graduate student working on Hawaiian spinner dolphins, talks about her research on population abundance and age structure and her experiences entering the field of marine mammal science.