Annual Meeting Scheduled

The annual meeting of the Marine Mammal Commission and its Committee of Scientific Advisors on Marine Mammals will take place 9 - 11 December 2008 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Portions of the meeting will focus on marine mammal issues in the Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, and Atlantic coast off the southeastern United States. A draft agenda will be available at a later date.

Research Funding

The Commission's FY2008 Focused Research Topics are closed to further submissions. The Commission will continue to accept unsolicited proposals as described in the Research Priorities and Guidelines section of this site, but no further funding decisions are anticipated until FY2009.

For a list of awards made under the recent RFP, click here.

Report Available

Underwater Sound and the Marine Mammal Acoustic Environment: A Guide to Fundamental Principles, by David L. Bradley and Richard Stern, is now available for download (pdf, 3.4 MB) from this Web site. To request a hard copy of the book, contact Melissa Herman.