| Project Title |
Principal Investigator |
Organization |
| Genetic differentiation, individual dispersal and effective population size of the New Zealand Hector's and Maui's dolphins: Implications for management |
Baker, C.S. |
Hatfield Marine Science Center, Oregon State University |
| Marine mammal fishery interactions: Assessing the effects of a gillnet ban on bottlenose dolphins from two Florida resident populations |
Barros, N. |
Chicago Zoological Society |
| Translation services at the Fifth International Conference on Marine Mammals of the Holarctic |
Bengtson, J., and V. Burkanov, Organizing Committee |
North Pacific Wildlife Consulting |
| Support for publication of the monograph "Cetaceans of the Southern Hemisphere: Biology and the prospect of population recovery" |
Burkanov, V. |
North Pacific Wildlife Consulting |
| Ecological studies of sea otters in the Commander Islands, Russia |
Estes, J. |
University of California, Santa Cruz |
| Workshop to develop a strategic plan for a cooperative disease center for marine animal health |
Goldstein, T. |
University of California, Davis |
| Status and conservation of the Cook Inlet beluga whale and development of criteria for assessing marine mammal status and using population viability analysis |
Goodman, D. |
Montana State University |
| Development and system support of the Marine Mammal Commission's Survey of Federally-Funded Research |
Greenberg, B. |
Alion Science & Technology, Washington Consulting Government Services |
| Non-lethal deterrence efforts to minimize pinniped-fishery interactions at Gold Beach, Oregon |
Griffin, G. |
Port of Gold Beach |
| Arctic Council working group meetings in 2008: Participation in the Arctic Council's Twelfth Biennial Meeting of the Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna Working Group (CAFF XII) and reporting on the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP) working group meetings |
Huntington, H. |
Huntington Consulting |
| Review of the Okhotsk Sea bowhead whale population |
Ivashchenko, Y. |
Seastar Scientific |
| Review of offshore oil and gas industry activities occurring at present and areas of interest for the next decade |
Ray, J. |
Oceanic Environmental Solutions, LLC |
| Support for meeting of IUCN/SSC Pinniped Specialist Group and development of Pinniped Action Plan |
Kovacs, K. |
International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) |
| Marine mammal consumption of key prey fishes and invertebrates in the northeast United States: Modeling, magnitude and sensitivity analysis |
Link, J. |
National Marine Fisheries Service, Northeast Fisheries Science Center |
| Human dimensions of marine mammal management in the Arctic: Implications for policy in a changing North |
Lovecraft, A.L., and C. Meek |
University of Alaska Fairbanks |
| Research on northern sea otters in Washington state: Health and Stranding Response Program and Oil Spill Response Plan |
Lynch, D. |
U.S Fish and Wildlife Service, Western Washington Office |
| Transient killer whale predation in southeastern Alaska |
Matkin, D. |
North Gulf Oceanic Society |
| Second International Conference on Acoustic Communication by Animals |
Mellinger, D. |
Oregon State University |
| Gray seal tagging on Muskeget Island, Massachusetts |
Ono, K. |
University of New England |
| A new species of beaked whale at Palmyra Island? |
Pitman, R. |
National Marine Fisheries Service, Southwest Fisheries |
| Publication and distribution of Sirenews (2008 - 2012) |
Powell, J.A. |
Sea to Shore Alliance, Inc. |
| An uncertainty analysis based on a modified PBR equation to assess relative risk of marine mammal stocks to indirect effects of fishing |
Read, A., and J. Moore |
Duke University |
| Foraging behavior and dietary preferences of the South American sea lion, Otaria flavescens: Resource competition with artisanal and coastal bottom trawl fisheries in Uruguay? |
Riet Sapriza, F. |
Cetaceos Uruguay |
| An integrated approach to community-based monitoring of killer whales around the Pribilof Islands, Alaska |
Robson, B., and K. Holser |
St. George Island Institute |
| Improving acoustic survey methods for detecting the highly endangered vaquita |
Rojas-Bracho, L. |
Oceanides Conservacion y Desarrollo Marino, A.C. |
| Bringing the knowledge of fishermen to bear on developing conservation strategies to reduce bycatch of Atlantic white-sided dolphins (Lagenorhyncus acutus) in the northwest Atlantic bottom trawl fishery |
Rosenberg, A., and E. Zollett |
University of New Hampshire |
| Southern right whale stranding response at Peninsula Valdes: Monitoring right whale health and building Argentine capacity |
Rowntree, V. |
Whale Conservation Institute/ Ocean Alliance |
| "Historical Perspectives": A new feature of the journal Aquatic Mammals |
Thomas, J. |
Aquatic Mammals |
| Why did the Yangtze River dolphin become extinct?: Identifying extinction drivers and causes of conservation failure |
Turvey, S. |
Zoological Society of London |
