Conference News

January 21, 2026

SMM Website Restored + Key Deadline Extensions

Dear Marine Mammal Science Community, We are pleased to share an update regarding the Society for Marine Mammalogy (SMM) website and the extension of key SMM deadlines. Over the past week, we experienced technical difficulties with our main website. To address the issue, the site was temporarily placed into maintenance mode while we took the […]

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November 5, 2024

Prof Kit Kovacs Receives the 2024 SMM Kenneth S. Norris Lifetime Achievement Award

I am thrilled to announce that Prof Kit Kovacs has been selected as the recipient of the prestigious 2024 Norris Award. This career achievement award, given in honour of our founding president, recognises individuals who have made exemplary lifetime contributions to marine mammalogy through research, teaching, and service. Prof Kovacs, currently based at the Norwegian […]

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Matus Hodul – recipient of the 2024 F. G. Wood Award

The Wood Award is given in honour of F. G. Wood, one of the founders of the Society for Marine Mammalogy. The Award is presented to the first author of the best student paper submitted to Marine Mammal Science, every biennium. The winner is invited to present their work as a Plenary Talk at the […]

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March 13, 2024

SMM2024 Conference: Abstract and workshop submissions closing March 26!

Dear Marine Mammal Community, You are invited to join the Society for Marine Mammalogy’s 25th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals this November in Perth, Western Australia! Abstract and workshop proposal submissions for SMM2024 are due in two weeks time! The deadline for submissions is Tuesday, March 26, 2024 at 12 PM (noon), […]

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September 14, 2022

SMM 2026 Conference Location Options

Greetings SMM Members! We are just past a very successful SMM 2022 in West Palm Beach, USA and in the process for gearing up for SMM 2024 in Perth, Australia. We must now cast our gaze to 2026 and decide where our community will meet to discuss all things marine mammals. We will decide our […]

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