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 […]
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 […]
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), […]
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 […]
Aloha Marine Mammal Community, We are reaching out today to share our decision to postpone both the in-person and the virtual 24th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals until 2022. The new dates will be Monday, August 1 to Friday, August 5, 2022 with workshops being held on Saturday, July 30 and Sunday, […]