Currently, the 19th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals is taking place in Tampa, Florida, USA (27 November – 2 December, 2011).
Members of Murdoch University’s Cetacean Research Unit are there in strong force and will be presenting their research in the form of both spoken presentations and posters. Here is a list of the presentation titles, authors and times. If you are at the conference, stop by and listen in.
Oral presentations:
Title: A successful demonstration of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for detecting dugongs and a range of other species.
Authors: Amanda Hodgson, Natalie Kelly and David Peel.
Date and time: 29 November, 8:45 – 9:00.
Title: Quantifying the efficacy of a spatio-temporal management intervention on human-dolphin interactions in Hawai’i
Authors: Julian Tyne, Dave Johnston, Ken Pollock, Kim New and Lars Bejder.
Date and time: 30 November, 9:15 – 9:30
Title: Cultural hitchhiking leads to fine scale genetic structure.
Authors: Anna Kopps, Michael Krützen, Simon Allen and William Sherwin.
Date and time: 30 November, 16:45-17:00
Poster Presentations:
Title: Abundance and distribution of Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus) at the Southern Seawater Desalination Plant, Binningup, Western Australia.
Authors: Valissa Buchanan, Ken Pollock, Holly Smith and Lars Bejder.
Dates and time: 28 and 30 November, 17:30-19:00
Title: Relationships between prey quantity and quality and seasonal movement patterns of bottlenose dolphins in the nearshore waters of Bunbury, south western Australia.
Authors: Shannon McCluskey, Holly Smith, Delphine Chabanne, Neil Loneragan and Lars Bejder.
Date and time: 28 and 30 November, 17:30-19:00
Title: Satisfying model assumptions for capture-recapture estimates of bottlenose-dolphins (Tursiops sp.) in the western gulf of Shark Bay, Australia.
Authors: Krista Nicholson, Ken Pollock, Michael Krützen, Simon Allen and Lars Bejder.
Dates and time: 29 November and 1 December, 17:30-19:00
Title: Mitochondrial DNA analyses reveal complex patterns of connectivity in bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops sp.) populations in southwest Western Australia
Authors: Claire Daniel, Lars Bejder, Michael Krützen, Simon Allen and William Sherwin.
Dates and time: 29 November and 1 December, 17:30-19:00
Title: Male alliance formation by north-western Australian Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins?
Authors: Michael Krützen; Simon Allen, Daniele Cagnazzi, Lars Bejder and Guido Parra.
Dates and time: 29 November and 1 December, 17:30-19:00
