Monday, 14 December 2015

Time Opening Ceremony - Continental Ballroom8:00-8:10 Introductory Comments Nick Gales - Society for Marine Mammalogy, President8:10-8:20 In Memoriam8:20-8:30 Opening Address Eileen Sobeck - NOAA, Assistant Administrator for Fisheries8:30-8:40 History of Society for Marine Mammalogy Dan Costa - University of California, Santa Cruz8:40-9:10 Plenary: Future directions in marine mammal science Peter Tyack - University of St. Andrews, U.K.9:10-9:30 Conservation Award

9:30-10:30 Coffee & Tea

Talks - Conservation Talks - Distribution Talks - BehaviorContinental 1-4 Continental 5 Continental 6-9

Chair: Peter Thomas Chair: Caroline Good Chair: Patrick Pomeroy10:30-10:45

10:45-11:00

11:00-11:15

Vaquita conservation actions are on a rollercoaster but when is enough, enough?

Sight unseen: Environmental DNA (eDNA) detection of vulnerable manatee species using state-of-the-art digital droplet PCR

An automated lunge detector for baleen whale tag data: Application and results for fin whales off Southern California

Lorenzo Rojas Bracho; Armando Jaramillo Legorreta; Gustavo Cardenas Hinojosa; Edwyna Nieto García

Margaret Hunter; Gaia Meigs-Friend; Lucy Keith Diagne; Fabia Luna; Aristide Kamla Takoukam; Robert Dorazio; James Reid

Ann Allen; Jeremy Goldbogen; Ari Friedlaender; John Calambokidis; Brandon Southall

Estimate of Vaquita population trend 2011-2014 based on acoustic detection rates

Demography of harbor seals in Iliamna Lake

Using tri-axial accelerometers to remotely identify wild polar bear behaviors

Armando Martin Jaramillo Legorreta; Lorenzo Rojas Bracho; Gustavo Cardenas Hinojosa; Edwyna Nieto Garcia; Jay VerHoef; Jeff Moore; Len Thomas; Jay Barlow; Tim Gerrodette; Barb Taylor

Peter Boveng; Jay VerHoef; David Withrow; Josh London

Anthony Pagano; George Durner; Amy Cutting; Megan Owen; Shannon Jensen; Terrie Williams

Ongoing significant Southern Right Whale (Eubalaena australis) mortality at Península Valdés, Argentina

The abundance decline of a resident fin whale within the Gulf of California

Individual responses to stress: Linking behavioural types and physiological measures of coping styles in wild pinnipeds

11:15-11:30

Janet Mann; Eric Patterson

11:30-11:45

11:45-12:00

Marcela Uhart; Mariano Sironi; Carina Marón; Matías Di Martino; Lucas Beltramino; Virginia Rago; Denise McAloose; Victoria Rowntree

Mario Pardo; Diane Gendron; Tim Gerrodette; Sandra Lanham; Alejandro Gómez-Gallardo; Jorge Urbán

Sean Twiss; Naomi Brannan; Amanda Bishop; Simon Moss; Patrick Pomeroy

Spatio-temporal interactions between cetaceans and tuna purse seine fisheries with link to environmental factors in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans

The littlest minkes make big voyages: identification of migratory paths and feeding grounds of dwarf minke whales that visit the Great Barrier Reef in winter and the sub-Antarctic in summer

To sponge or not to sponge: We can answer that question

Lauriane Escalle; Pierre Chavance; Daniel Gaertner; Anna Capietto; Maria Grazia Pennino; Laurent Dubroca; Hilario Murua; Alicia Delgado de Molina; Hervé Demarcq; Jérôme Spitz; Jeremy Kiszka; Laurent Floch; Alain Damiano; Evgeny Romanov; Bastien Mérigot

Russel Andrews; R. Alastair Birtles; Jimmy White; K. Curt Jenner; Kylie Owen; John Rumney

Moving towards dynamic species management: How well do modeled ocean products forecast cetacean distribution patterns?

Distribution and relative density estimates of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) for the Western Antarctic Peninsula derived from satellite-based location data using a Markov chain approach

The transition to independence: Sex-specific behavioral and social development in bottlenose dolphins

Elizabeth Becker; Karin Forney; Jessica Redfern; Paul Fiedler; Jay Barlow; Thomas Moore

Susan Heaslip; David Johnston; Corrie Curtice; Nick Gales; Ari Friedlaender

Ewa Krzyszczyk; Eric Patterson; Janet Mann

Yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares) as biological indicators of cetacean communities in the oceanic eastern tropical Pacific

The importance of day-to-day environmental fluctuations for prediction of cetacean distributions

Cumulative exposure of Hawaiian spinner dolphins (Stenella longirostris) to human activities: No rest for the wicked

Summer Martin; Lisa Balance

12:00-13:00 Lunch

Continental 1-4 Continental 5 Continental 6-9Chair: Rebecca Lent / Jeff Boehm Chair: Vicki Cornish Chair: Tim Tinker

13:00-13:15

Robin Baird; Daniel Webster

13:15-13:30

Marc Fernandez; Chris Yesson; Alexandre Gannier; Peter Miller; James Bowcott; José Azevedo

Julian Tyne; Fredrik Christiansen; Heather Heenehan; David Johnston; Lars Bejder

Conservation Talks and Mixed Speedtalks

Health Talks (Deep Water Horizon) and Mixed Speedtalks

Ecology Talks and Mixed Speedtalks

Unintended consequences of using dolphins to catch tuna: examining the extent and nature of hook and line fishery interactions with pantropical spotted dolphins off the island of Hawai'i

Investigation of injuries in live common bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) from the northern Gulf of Mexico following the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

In search of the diet analysis Holy Grail: Quantifying prey biomass using high-throughput scat DNA sequencing

Teresa Rowles; Cynthia Smith; Leslie Hart; Forrest Townsend; Randall Wells; Brian Balmer; Eric Zolman; Kathleen Colegrove; Jenny Litz; Stephanie Venn-Watson; Tracy Collier; Lori Schwacke

Austen Thomas; Bruce Deagle; Paige Eveson; Andrew Trites

Can pots solve the conflict with seal depredation and harbour porpoise bycatch in the Baltic Sea?

Long-term, consistent data sets aid in the investigation of bottlenose dolphin strandings in the northern Gulf of Mexico following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill

Estimation of an unobservable transition, from dependence to weaning, in the California sea lion (Zalophus californianus)

Lotte Kindt-Larsen; Sara Königson; Maria Hedgärde; Finn Larsen

Jenny Litz; Kathleen Colegrove; Stephanie Venn-Watson; Ruth Carmichael; Erin Fougères; Lauren Noble; Delphine Shannon; Steve Shippee; Suzanne Smith; Lydia Staggs; Sabrina Stevens; Elizabeth Stratton; Mandy Tumlin; Teresa Rowles

Jeffrey Harris; Jeffrey Laake; Sharon Melin; Robert DeLong; Aaron Wirsing

13:30-13:45

Carmen Or; Leszek Karczmarski

13:45-14:00

14:00-14:15

Carolyn Kurle; Jennifer McWhorter

14:15-14:30

New insights into spatio-behavioural dynamics of Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins (Sousa chinensis) in Hong Kong

Correlation between elevated common bottlenose dolphin stranding rates and the presence of surface oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill

How the whale became: 3D tooth microtextures shed light on the complex dietary transition in archaeocete whale evolution (Cetacea: Archaeoceti)

Lance Garrison; Jenny Litz; Blair Mase-Guthrie; Gina Rappucci

Robert Goodall; Julia Fahlke; Katharina Bastl; Mark Purnell

New demographic insights: The first mark-recapture analysis of Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins (Sousa chinensis) in Hong Kong

An age- and stage-structured model with density dependent fecundity for estimating dolphin population injury following the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

Habitat use and diet variability among female sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) from the Eastern Tropical Pacific: Insights from bulk and compound specific isotope analysisStephen C.Y. Chan; Leszek

KarczmarskiLori Schwacke; Randall Wells; John Schwacke; Aleta Hohn; Nicholas Kellar; Trent McDonald; Wayne McFee; Keith Mullin; Brian Quigley; Len Thomas; Eric Zolman

Jessica Zupcic-Moore; Iliana Ruiz-Cooley; Matthew McCarthy; Paul Koch

Identifying areas of bycatch risk when resources are limited: A case study using the Atlantic humpback dolphin

Ultrasound evidence of lung disease in bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) living in the northern Gulf of Mexico following the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

Spatial and temporal variation within fine-scale, δ13C and δ15N isoscapes isoscapes of the Southern California Bight: Applications for reconstructing foraging ecology and migration patterns of marine vertebratesTim Collins; Kristian Metcalfe;

Samantha Strindberg; Richard Boumba

Cynthia Smith; Leslie Hart; Marina Ivancic; Kathleen Colegrove; Forrest Townsend; Eric Zolman; Brian Balmer; Randall Wells; Teresa Rowles; Lori Schwacke

Cetacean bycatch in the western Black Sea: Initial assessments

Reproductive failure rates of two northern Gulf of Mexico bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) stocks following the Deepwater Horizon disaster (2010-2014)

The habitat use of northern fur seals Callorhinus ursinus around northern Japan during non-breeding season, defined from stable isotopes and trace elements in whiskers

14:30-14:45

14:45-14:50

14:50-14:55

Simon Northridge; Frances James; Alexei Birkun; Charles Kilgour; Sergey Krivokhizhin; Martin Lander; Konstantin Mikhailov; Simion Nicolaev; Ayaka Ozturk; Violin Raykov; Vladislav Shlyakhov; Arda Tonay; Edward Willsteed

Nicholas Kellar; Suzanne Lane; Cynthia Smith; Todd Speakman; Brian Balmer; Marisa Trego; Krista Catelani; Michelle Robbins; Camryn Allen; Randall Wells; Lori Schwacke

Takanori Horimoto; Svetlana Artemyeva; Peter Permyakov; Mari Kobayashi; Kaoru Hattori; Hiromi Kasai; Hiroshige Tanaka; Yoshinori Ikenaka; Shouta Nakayama; Hazuki Mizukawa; Mayumi Ishizuka; Vladimir Burkanov; Russel Andrews; Yoko Mitani; Yasunori Sakurai

Long-term human interaction trends within a multi-generational resident inshore bottlenose dolphin community

Changes in immune functions associated with the Deepwater Horizon in bottlenose dolphins in the northern Gulf of Mexico

Changes in the ecology of the Weddell seal after a century of human presence in the Ross Sea

Katherine McHugh; Jason Allen; Aaron Barleycorn; Kim Bassos-Hull; Elizabeth Berens McCabe; Sue Hofmann; Jessica Powell; Randall Wells

Sylvain De Guise; Milton Levin; Erika Gebhard; Lindsay Jasperse; Jeremiah Saliki; Leslie Burdett Hart; Cynthia Smith; Stephanie Venn-Watson; Forrest Townsend; Randell Wells; Brian Balmer; Eric Zolman; Teresa Rowles; Lori Schwacke

Luis Huckstadt; Matthew McCarthy; Paul Koch; Daniel Costa

Mapping marine mammals with Whale mAPP

Tags reveal sperm whale dive behaviors near Macondo Spill Site as a potential long-term issue

Can gene transcript profiles in sea otters (Enhydra lutris) elucidate population drivers?

Lei Lani Stelle; Melodi King; Courtney Hann

Bruce Mate; Ladd Irvine; Martha Winsor

Lizabeth Bowen; A. Keith Miles; M. Tim Tinker; Brenda Ballachey; James Bodkin; James Estes; Michael Murray

Humpback whale behavioral response to ships in and around major shipping lanes off San Francisco, CA

Density and survival of common bottlenose dolphins in the northern Gulf of Mexico following the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

Female reproductive success and post-natal growth in spinner dolphins through underwater photo-identification and photogrammetry

Angela Szesciorka; John Calambokidis; Jeremy Goldbogen; James Harvey

Trent McDonald; Fawn Hornsby; Todd Speakman; Suzanne Lane; Eric Zolman; Keith Mullin; Carrie Sinclair; Patricia Rosel; Lori Schwacke

Amina Cesario; Marina Costa; Maddalena Fumagalli; Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara; Leszek Karczmarski

14:55-15:00

15:00-15:05

15:05-15:10

15:10-15:15

Whale Alert: Updates and enhancements to a tool for reducing collisions between ships and endangered whales

Effects of contaminant exposure in polar bears (Ursus maritimus) across the Arctic and over the last three decades

Humpback whales prey upon juvenile salmon at Alaska hatchery release sites

David Wiley; Roland Arsenault; Moira Brown; Michael Carver; Patrick Ramage; Kurt Schwehr; Michael Thompson; Brad Winney; Jaime Jahncke

Rune Dietz; Kim Gustavson; Christian Sonne; Jean-Pierre Desforges; Frank Rigét; Viola Pavlova; Melissa McKinney; Robert Letcher

Ellen Chenoweth; Jan Straley; Kevin Boswell; Ari Friedlaender; Steve Reifenstuhl

Occurrence and distribution of large whales in the New York Bight: Implications for marine spatial planning of the New York seascape

Lipid composition in the brain compartments of striped dolphins (Stenella coeruleoalba) in relation to the accumulation of environmental pollutants (PCBs and OH-PCBs)

Are seals and inshore fisheries targeting the same food source?

Ricardo Antunes; Arthur Kopelman; Paul Sieswerda; Robert DiGiovanni; Chris Spagnoli; Catherine Granton; Howard Rosenbaum

Mari Ochiai; Kei Nomiyama; Tomohiko Isobe; Tadasu Yamada; Yuko Tajima; Hisato Iwata; Masao Amano; Shinsuke Tanabe

Martha Gosch; Mark Jessopp; Emer Rogan; Ronan Cosgrove; Michelle Cronin

RABEN: Mexican Big Whales Disentanglement Network

Modeling the bioaccumulation of Cesium 137 in the resident killer whale food-web of the Northeastern Pacific following the Fukushima Nuclear Accident

Individual variation and dietary overlap with fisheries in an endangered cetacean, the Irrawaddy dolphin (Orcaella brevirostris)

Astrid Frisch Jordán; Iyari Espinoza Rodriguez

Juan Jose Alava; Frank A.P.C. Gobas

Justine Jackson-Ricketts; Iliana Ruiz-Cooley; Chalatip Junchompoo; Laddawan Sangsawang; Ellen Hines; Daniel Costa

Telemetry buoys deployed on entanglements enhances North Atlantic right whale survival and responder safety

The environment as a driver of immune and stress responses in dolphins (Tursiops truncatus)

Line transect estimates of Irrawaddy dolphin abundance along the eastern Gulf Coast of Thailand

Scott Landry; Bob Lynch; Doug Sandilands; Lisa Sette; Jennifer Tackaberry; David Mattila

Patricia Fair; Adam Schaefer; Dorian Houser; Gregory Bossart; Tracy Romano; Cory Champagne; Jeffrey Stott; Charles Rice; Natasha White; John Reif

Ellen Hines; Samantha Strindberg; Chalatip Junchumpoo; Louisa Ponnampalam; Anoukchika Ilangakoon; Justine Jackson-Ricketts; Somchai Mananunsap

15:15-15:20

15:20-15:25

15:25-15:30

15:30-16:30 Coffee & Tea

16:30-18:00 Communicating Science Panel: How to Make Your Science Matter - Continental BallroomChair: Frances Gulland - The Marine Mammal Center, Senior ScientistModerator: Nancy Baron - COMPASS, Director of SciencePanelists: Marcia McNutt - Science, Editot-in-Chief

Jane Lubchenco - U.S. Science Envoy for the OceanNick Gales - Society for Marine Mammalogy, PresidentCharles Littnan - NOAA Fisheries, Hawaiian Monk Seal Research Program, Lead ScientistKen Weiss - Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, Independent JournalistDavid Malakoff - Science Magazine, Deputy News Editor

Satellite telemetry on Mediterranean fin whales to identify critical habitats and mitigate ship strikes

Touch and blow: Finding success with a novel hormone method

Stranding events of Kogia whales along the Brazilian coast

Simone Panigada; Greg Donovan; Jean-Noël Druon; Giancarlo Lauriano; Nino Pierantonio; Enrico Pirotta; Margherita Zanardelli; Alexandre Zerbini

Jillian Wisse; Kathryn Sandberg; Ewa Krzyskczyk; Eric Patterson; Jill Arnold; Leigh Clayton; Allison Ginsburg; Janet Mann

Jailson Moura; Esteban Acevedo-Trejos; Davi Tavares; Ana Carolina Meirelles; Cristine Silva; Larissa Oliveira; Roberta Santos; Janaína Wickert; Rodrigo Machado; Salvatore Siciliano; Agostino Merico

Moving from documentation to protection of a blue whale foraging ground in an industrial area of New Zealand

A 16 year (1999-2014) summary of mass stranded cetaceans on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA

Allometric scaling and vertical habitat ranges in deep-diving toothed whales of the northern Bahamas

Leigh Torres; Peter Gill; Brittany Graham; Debbie Steel; Rebecca Hamner; Scott Baker; Rochelle Constantine; Pablo Escobar-Flores; Phil Sutton; Sarah Bury; Nadine Bott; Matt Pinkerton

Kristen Patchett; Kathleen Moore; W. Brian Sharp; Misty Niemeyer; Kathryn Rose; Charles Harry; Jane Hoppe; Sarah Sharp; Ian Robinson; Michael Moore

Trevor Joyce; John Durban; Holly Fearnbach; Diane Claridge; Lisa Balance

Public-private partnership assess whale threats in central California

Not ships or sharks? Predation by grey seals may explain corkscrew seal deaths

Dining and diving: The physiological interactions between digestion and food acquisition in a marine mammal, the Steller sea lion

Jaime Jahncke; Meredith Elliott; Jan Roletto; Danielle Lipski

Dave Thompson; Joe Onoufriou; Amy Bishop; Andrew Brownlow

David Rosen; Carling Gerlinsky; Andrew Trites

18:00-20:00 Communicating Science Panel Reception - Imperial and Franciscan Ballrooms

19:00-20:30 Movie Night: Racing Extinction - Offsite theater

Monday, 14 December 2015

Opening Ceremony - Continental BallroomNick Gales - Society for Marine Mammalogy, President

Eileen Sobeck - NOAA, Assistant Administrator for FisheriesDan Costa - University of California, Santa CruzPeter Tyack - University of St. Andrews, U.K.

Coffee & Tea

Talks - Polar Ecology Talks - HealthImperial A Imperial B

Chair: Lori Quakenbush Chair: Kathi LefebvreEstimating seasonal behavior states from biologging sensor data

The influence of foraging behavior on contaminant bioaccumulation in a wide-ranging marine mammal

Josh London; Paul Conn; Devin Johnson; Brett McClintock; Michael Cameron; Peter Boveng

Sarah Peterson; Michael Peterson; Joshua Ackerman; Adrian Covaci; Cathy Debier; Daniel Costa

Inter-annual variability and oceanographic correlates of bowhead whale movements in the Chukchi Sea

A novel approach to contaminant-related health assessment in marine mammals

John Citta; Stephen Okkonen; Lori Quakenbush; John George; Robert Small; Lois Harwood; Harry Brower; Mads Peter Heide-Jorgensen

Marisa Trego; Eunha Hoh; Nathan Dodder; Michelle Robbins; Camryn Allen; Nicholas Kellar; Andrew Whitehead; Rebecca Lewison

Late summer aggregations of bowhead whales in the Canadian Beaufort Sea, 2006-2012

Antarctic seals: Molecular biomarkers as indicators for diet, pollutant exposure and health effects

Nicholas Lunn; Ian Stirling

Lois Harwood; Lori Quakenbush; John Citta; Robert Small; Craig George; James Pokiak; Charles Pokiak; Dennis Arey; Ellen Lea; Mads Peter Heide-Jørgensen; Harry Brower

Kristina Lehnert; Lina Weirup; Tero Harkonen; Olle Karlsson; Karin Harding; Jonas Teilmann

Continued declines in reproduction in western Hudson Bay polar bears despite short-term stability in sea ice conditions

Organochlorine contaminant concentrations in multiple tissues of live Steller sea lions (Eumetopias jubatus) in Alaska

Mandy Keogh; Kimberlee Beckmen; Kathleen Burek Huntington; Gina Ylitalo; Brian Fadely; Kenneth Pitcher

Behavioural responses of an ice-obligate pinniped to a sudden collapse in sea-ice conditions

Regional variations and drivers of mercury and selenium concentrations in Steller sea lions

Charmain Hamilton; Christian Lydersen; Rolf Ims; Kit Kovacs (Presenter)

Lorrie Rea; J. Margaret Castellini; Lucero Correa; Brian Fadely; Vladimir Burkanov; Michael Rehberg; Todd O'Hara

Spatial and temporal variation of ringed seal (Pusa hispida) feeding ecology in a changing Arctic marine ecosystem

The neurobehavioral effects of naturally occurring domoic acid toxicosis in wild California sea lions

Lunch

Imperial A Imperial BChair: Vincent Janik Chair: James Harvey

David Yurkowski; Steven Ferguson; Christina Semeniuk; Derek Muir; Aaron Fisk

Peter Cook; Colleen Reichmuth; Andrew Rouse; Laura Libby; Sophie Dennison; Jim Stuppino; Kris Kruse-Elliott; Josh Bloom; Owen Carmichael; Baljeet Singh; Vanessa Fravel; Lorraine Barbosa; Bill Van Bonn; Frances Gulland; Charan Ranganath

Behavior Talks and Mixed Speedtalks

Population Assessment Talks and Mixed Speedtalks

Sperm whale foraging behavior changes in response to anthropogenic sound

Movement of a blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) between the Costa Rica Dome and the Galapagos: Management implications of the first documented cross-equatorial movement

Stacy DeRuiter; Saana Isojunno; Isabelle Noirot; Alison Stimpert; Walter Zimmer; Megan Leung; Catriona Harris; Len Thomas; Brandon Southall; John Calambokidis; Peter Tyack; Patrick Miller

Annie Douglas; Richard Sears; Judith Denkinger; Elana Dobson; Paula Olson; Tim Gerrodette; John Calambokidis

Effectiveness of ramp-up of naval sonar studied in humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae)

New Zealand blue whales: residency, distribution, and feeding behavior of a little-known population

Paul Wensveen; Petter Kvadsheim; Frans-Peter Lam; Peter Tyack; Alexander von Benda-Beckmann; Lise Sivle; Fleur Visser; Charlotte Curé; Patrick Miller

Paula Olson; Paul Ensor; Carlos Olavarria; Nadine Bott; Brian Miller; Rochelle Constantine; Jody Weir; Olive Andrews; Simon Childerhouse; Miranda van der Linde; Natalie Schmitt; Michael Double

Complementary analyses of behavioral responses to sonar in blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus)

Evidence of density-dependent changes in harp seal growth in the Gulf of St Lawrence, Canada

Brandon Southall; Stacy DeRuiter; Ari Friedlaender; Elliott Hazen; Jeremy Goldbogen; Alison Stimpert; Roland Langrock; Catriona Harris; Len Thomas; Greg Schorr; Ann Allen; Glenn Gailey; Erin Falcone; David Moretti; John Calambokidis

Mike Hammill; Caroline Sauvé; Garry Stenson

Using behavioural responses of sperm whales to predator sound playbacks as a reference of disturbance to assess impact of naval sonar

Evidence of continuing occupation by pygmy blue whales of the south subtropical convergence zone south of Australia

Charlotte Curé; Saana Isojunno; Fleur Visser; Paul Wensveen; Lise Sivle; Petter Kvadsheim; Frans-Peter Lam; Patrick J.O. Miller

Maria Garcia Rojas; Curt Jenner; Peter Gill; Michellin Jenner

Behavioural responses of marine mammals to anthropogenic sounds: an exploratory meta-analysis

Tracking southern right whales through the South Atlantic: New insights into migrations routes and feeding ground locations

Catalina Gomez; Jack Lawson; Andrew Wright (Presenter); Alejandro Buren; Véronique Lesage; Dominic Tollit

Martin Mendez; Howard Rosenbaum; Alexandre Zerbini (Presenter); Federico Sucunza; Artur Andriolo; Guillermo Harris; Phillip Clapham; Mariano Sironi; Marcela Uhart

Using fine scale marine mammal distributions to predict potential effects of underwater vessel noise

Contextual use of coda vocalizations in sperm whales

Rowenna Gryba; Michelle Bailey Shane Gero; Peter Madsen

Laura Feyrer; Hal Whitehead Stephanie Nehasil; Mark Lowry

Bottlenose dolphins produce a context-specific call while bottom foraging at Turneffe Atoll, Belize

Should I stay or should I go: Movement and residency patterns of satellite tagged pilot whales offshore of Cape Hatteras, NC

Eric Ramos; Marcelo Magnasco; Diana Reiss

Heather Foley; Danielle Waples; Zach Swaim; Robin Baird; Daniel Webster; Joel Bell; Andrew Read

Examining the foraging behavior of beluga whales using combined technology: satellite telemetry, passive acoustics, accelerometry, and stomach temperature sensing

Increases in California sea lion strandings associated with anomalous oceanographic conditions along the central California coast

Manuel Castellote; T. Aran Mooney; Russel Andrews; Stacy DeRuiter; Lori Quankenbush; Caroline Goertz; Roderick Hobbs; Eric Gagione

Cara Field; Tenaya Norris; Shawn Johnson; Frances Gulland

Designating evolutionary significant units for northern bottlenose whales

The diet of California sea lions before, during, and after the 2013 Unusual Mortality Event

Behavioral reaction of manatees to a side-scan sonar: Preliminary results

An experiment to evaluate bias in humpback whale group size estimation in line transect ship surveys

Nataly Castelblanco-Martínez; Katerin Arévalo-González

Guilherme Bortolotto; Daniel Danilewicz; Alexandre Zerbini; Artur Andriolo

Hidden Markov Models reveal complexity in the diving behaviour of short-finned pilot whales

Investigating coastal bottlenose dolphin stock structure and movements in the presence of spatial-temporal stock overlap

Nicola Quick; Douglas Nowacek; Andrew Read

Daniela Silva; Rob Young; Alyson Lavin

Stable groups and roaming residence: Characterizing residency and group stability among Caribbean pilot whales (Globicephala macrorhynchus)

Building web-based collaborative photo-identification networks to better understand cetacean population structure

Kim Parsons; David Herman; John Durban; Charlotte Dunn; Nicola Quick; Gina Ylitalo; Diane Claridge

Kim Urian; Ei Fujioka; Patrick Halpin

Killer whale (Orcinus orca) vocal response to naval sonar

Beluga (Delphinapterus leucas) use of coastal habitat in Western Hudson Bay

Filipa Samarra; Paul Wensveen; Petter Kvadsheim; Frans-Peter Lam; Peter Tyack; Alexander von Benda-Beckmann; Patrick Miller

Kristin Westdal; Jeremy Davies; Steven Ferguson

Coffee & Tea

Short-finned pilot whales and Risso's dolphins respond strongly and divergently to biphonic calls of mammal-eating killer whales

Using historical Platform of Opportunity (POP) data to assess cetacean distribution around the north of Ireland

Matthew Bowers; Stacy DeRuiter; Ari Friedlaender; Douglas Nowacek; Nicola Quick; Brandon Southall; Andrew Read (Presenter)

Suzanne Beck; Rebecca Dunlop; Jonathan Houghton; Adam Mellor

Fine-scale foraging behavior of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) in Sitka Sound, Alaska

Utility of sighting and stranding data to document marine mammal occurrence: A case study in Puget Sound, Washington, USA

Julia Burrows; David Johnston; Ari Friedlaender; Ellen Chenoweth; Janice Straley

Jessica Huggins; John Calambokidis; Dyanna Lambourn; Stephanie Norman; Joseph Evenson; David Anderson; Brad Hanson; Steven Jeffries; Susan Berta

Surface lunge feeding behaviour of Bryde's whales in the Hauraki Gulf, New Zealand

Occurrence, distribution and abundance of cetaceans in the eastern Great Australian Bight, southern Australia

Sahar Izadi; Rochelle Constantine; Mark Johnson; Natacha Aguilar de Soto

Kerstin Bilgmann; Guido Parra; Luciana Möller

Tuesday, 15 December 2015

Time8:30-10:00 Poster Session 1 - Grand Ballroom

10:00-10:30 Coffee & Tea

Talks - Behavior Talks - Distribution Continental 1-4 Continental 5

Chair: Patrick Miller Chair: Alex Zerbini10:30-10:45

10:45-11:00

11:00-11:15

11:15-11:30

Chord and clock navigation during humpback whale migration

Automated detection of large cetaceans in aerial digital imagery

Travis Horton; Nan Hauser; Alexandre Zerbini

Darren Ireland; Kathleen Leonard; Gregory Schaefer; Ciani Sparks; Robert Jannarone; Bill Koski; Michael Macrander; Koen Broker

Twenty years later: Comparison of maternal attendance patterns of lactating female South American fur seals (Arctocephalus australis) at Punta San Juan, Peru

Using small unmanned aerial systems and thermal imaging to survey gray seals breeding colonies in Eastern Canada

María José Ganoza Gallardo; Susana Cárdenas Alayza; Patricia Majluf Chiok

Julian Dale; Susan Heaslip; Mike Hammill; Jerry Moxley; David Johnston

WhaleWatch: Real-time models for dynamic management of blue whales in the Pacific

Unmanned versus manned: A direct comparison between sightings from an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and human observers during a dugong aerial survey

Elliott Hazen; Helen Bailey; Steven Bograd; Ladd Irvine; Daniel Palacios; Karin Forney; Evan Howell; Monica DeAngelis; Elizabeth Becker; Aimee Hoover; Bruce Mate

Amanda Hodgson; David Peel; Natalie Kelly

Temporal stability of non-song vocalizations in North Pacific humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) at the decadal scale

The transition from observers in aircraft to digital imagery collected by Unmanned Aerial Systems

11:30-11:45

Kathryn Ono

11:45-12:00

12:00-13:00 Lunch

Continental 1-4 Continental 5Chair: Cécile Vincent Chair: Louisa Ponnampalam

13:00-13:15

13:15-13:30

Michelle Fournet; Holger Klinck; David Mellinger; Christine Gabriele; Fred Sharpe

William Koski; Dale Funk; A Macrander

Harbor seal (Phoca vitulina) pups demonstrate consistent individual differences in response to a novel stimulus

What whales do at night: A comparison of low-light observation technologies

Scott Kraus; Marianna Hagbloom; Monica Zani

Killer tags: Estimating the effect of eavesdropping predators in acoustic tagging projects on fish

Flexible foragers: Humpback whale diets in the California Current indicate variance in ocean climate and ecosystem conditions

Volker Deecke; Amanda Stansbury; Thomas Götz; Vincent Janik

Alyson Fleming; Casey Clark; John Calambokidis; Jay Barlow

Ecology Talks and Mixed Speedtalks

Conservation Talks and Mixed Speedtalks

Busy bees: Very high foraging rates of harbour porpoises revealed by echolocation

Conservation of the African manatee (Trichechus senegalensis) through catfish aquaculture as an alternative livelihood for hunters in Owode-Ise, Lagos State, Nigeria

Danuta Wisniewska; Mark Johnson; Jonas Teilmann; Lee Miller; Ursula Siebert; Signe Sveegaard; Peter Madsen

Dunsin Bolaji; Oluwafemi Fakayode; Oluwakemi Aliu; Ibufura Ayaobu-Cookey; Abiola Akintayo; Sabinus Opurum; Tomas Diagne; Deborah Bolaji; Lucy Keith-Diagne

Feeding associations between long-beaked common dolphins (Delphinus capensis) and other marine predators in the Gulf of California

Investigation of dugong mortality in the United Arab Emirates (2000-2014): Challenges and opportunities

Victoria Olivia García Ruiz Velasco; Rocio Ruiz-Cooley; Fernando Elorriaga-Verplancken; Juan Gallo Reynoso

Himansu Das; Maitha Al Hameli; Hind Al Ameri; Edwin Grandcourt

13:30-13:45

Emma Weitzner

13:45-14:00

14:00-14:15

14:15-14:30

14:30-14:45

B. Louise Chilvers

14:45-14:50

Identifying the factors that influence prey pursuit behavior of Hawaiian monk seals (Neomonachus schauinslandi) in the Main Hawaiian Islands using Crittercam video analysis

Northern fur seal re-colonization and population growth at South Farallon Islands, California

Russell Bradley; Ryan Berger; James Tietz; Derek Lee; Pete Warzybok; Anthony Orr; Rod Towell; Jaime Jahncke

Expansion rates of ventral groove blubber in lunge-feeding blue whales

Re-evaluation of the sustainability of an indigenous marine mammal harvest using several lines of evidence

David Cade; John Calambokidis; Ari Friedlaender; Jeremy Goldbogen

Helene Marsh; Jillian Grayson; Alana Grech; Rie Hagihara; Susan Sobtzick

Diving and foraging behavior of blue whales tracked with intermediate-duration Advanced Dive Behavior Tags off Southern California

An evaluation of twenty-six years of a post-release monitoring program for Florida manatees

Ladd Irvine; Bruce Mate; Daniel Palacios

Nicole Adimey; Monica Ross; Madison Hall; James Reid; Margie Barlas; Lucy Keith-Diagne; Robert Bonde

Downscaling foraging activity: The impact of Argos-based sampling schemes on movement behavior identification in whale tracking data

Indus river dolphin: An overview of the population status, threats and conservation efforts in Pakistan

Daniel Palacios; Ladd Irvine; Bruce Mate

Uzma Noureen; Gillian Braulik (Presenter)

Marine top predator foraging strategies as surrogate for population dynamics

Rapid assessment of cetaceans in poorly known areas: Is it effective and worthwhile? A case study from TanzaniaGill Braulik; Magreth Kasuga; Anja Wittich

Behavioral drivers of energetic expenditure in a flexible forager

Monitoring manatee (Trichechus manatus latirostris) response to changes within a primary warm-water habitat: Insights from five years of aerial surveys

Elizabeth McHuron; Sarah Peterson; Luis Huckstadt; Sharon Melin; Jeffrey Harris; Robert DeLong; Colin Ware; Lisa Schwarz; Daniel Costa

Kerri Scolardi; John Reynolds III; Jane Provancha; Jodie Gless

14:50-14:55

14:55-15:00

15:00-15:05

15:05-15:10

Barbie Byrd; Aleta Hohn

15:10-15:15

15:15-15:20

Accelerometers can measure total and activity-specific energy expenditure in free-ranging marine mammals only if linked to time-activity budgets.

Sixteen years later: An updated evaluation of the status and impacts of chronic human interactions with common bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in Panama City, Florida, USA

Tiphaine Jeanniard-du-Dot; Andrew Trites; John Arnould; Christophe Guinet

Jessica Powell; Abigail Machernis; Laura Engleby; Nicholas Farmer; Trevor Spradlin

Pinnipeds suck: Examining underwater feeding strategies in seals and sea lions

Mouthline injuries as an indicator of fisheries interactions for false killer whales and pygmy killer whales in Hawai'i

Sarah Kienle; Holly Hermann-Sorensen; Daniel Costa; Rita Mehta; Colleen Reichmuth

Kelly Beach; Robin Baird; Sabre Mahaffy; Daniel Webster; Dan McSweeney

Crossdating: Not just for trees. Investigating synchronous growth in odontocete teeth

Redefining cold stress syndrome in the Florida manatee (Trichechus manatus latirostris)

Vicki Hamilton; Karen Evans; Emma Betty; Mark Hindell

Ashley Barratclough; Bobbi Conner; Ruth Francis-Floyd; Roger Reep; Ray Ball

Long-term individual niche fidelity in southern elephant seals

Differential risk of bottlenose dolphin bycatch in North Carolina, USA

Trevor McIntyre; Horst Bornemann; Nico de Bruyn; Cheryl Tosh; Marthán Bester

Harbor seal (Phoca vitulina) movements and behaviors near Adak Island, Alaska

The conservation is pushing the Yangtze finless porpoise into an even dangerous situation in the Poyang Lake

Shawn Dahle; Joshua London; Peter Boveng

Zhigang Mei; Lijun Dong; Kexiong Wang; Ding Wang

Variation in cetacean blubber shear over axial muscle in the context of rigid trans-dermal intra-muscular tracking tag trauma

Citizen Scientists can help protect whales along the US West Coast

15:20-15:25

Gi-Mick Wu; Bernie McConnell

15:25-15:30

15:30-16:30 Coffee & Tea

Wood Award Presentation and Climate Change Plenary Talks - Continental BallroomF.G. Wood Memorial Scholarship Award

16:30-17:00 Whales sustain fisheries: Blue whales stimulate primary production in the Southern OceanClimate Change Plenary Talks

17:00-17:30 Crazy weather and the Arctic meltdown17:30-18:00 Marine mammals as sentinels to impacts of climate change on arctic ecosystems

18:00-20:00 Poster Session 1 - Grand Ballroom

Alexandre Zerbini; Michael Moore (Presenter)

Meredith Elliott; Sara Acosta; Michael Carver; Jaime Jahncke

Adjustment of diving behaviour with prey encounters and body condition in a deep diving predator: The southern elephant seal

Predicting the impacts of disturbances on harbour seals using a network modelling framework

Joffrey Joumaa; Yves Le Bras; Gaëtan Richard; Jade Vacquie-Garcia; Baptiste Picard; Nory El Ksabi; Christophe Guinet

Return of Guadalupe fur seal to the Pacific Northwest: Stranding and sightings

Dyanna Lambourn; Erin D'Agnese; Steven Jeffries; Kristin Wilkinson; Jessica Huggins; James Rice; Deborah Duffield; Woutrina Smith; Michael Grigg; Stephen Raverty

Tuesday, 15 December 2015

Poster Session 1 - Grand Ballroom

Coffee & Tea

Talks - Conservation Talks - EcologyContinental 6-9 Imperial A

Chair: Tim Collins Chair: Lorenzo Rojas BrachoFine-scale population structure and high site fidelity increase vulnerability of Blainville's beaked whales on a navy range in the Bahamas

Diet of endangered Steller sea lions in the Aleutian Islands: New insights from DNA detections and bio-energetic reconstructions

Diane Claridge; Phillip Morin; Charlotte Dunn; Leigh Hickmott; Brittany Hancock-Hanser; Gabriela Serra-Valente; Holly Fearnbach; John Durban

Dominic Tollit; Lowell Fritz; Kristina Miller; Andrea Schulze; Tonya Zeppelin; Thomas Gelatt; Jim Thomason; William Walker

Fine-scale habitat use of the critically endangered Māui dolphins: Describing and predicting spatial distribution in a coastal environment

Pacific walrus foraging areas inferred from movement patterns and dive profiles

Solène Derville; Rochelle Constantine; Scott Baker; Marc Oremus; Leigh Torres

William Beatty; Chadwick Jay; Anthony Fischbach

The decline of northern fur seals on the Pribilof Islands: Is it food?

Hunting in the dark depths: Prey abundance and distribution in the mysterious world of a deep-diving predator, the northern elephant seal

Andrew Trites; Elizabeth Atwood; Brian Battaile; Kelly Benoit-Bird; Scott Heppell; Chad Nordstrom

Yoko Mitani; Daisuke Saijo; Takuzo Abe; Hiroko Sasaki; Daniel Costa; Chandra Goetsch; Kazushi Miyashita

Acoustic trauma compatible lesions in a long-finned pilot whale mass-stranded individual

Evidence for individual specialisations in the foraging ecology of male Australian fur seals

Per Berggren

Timothy Werner Rocio Ruiz-Cooley

Lunch

Continental 6-9 Imperial AChair: Elliott Hazen Chair: Patrick Robinson

Maria Morell; Andrew Brownlow; Barry McGovern; Robert Shadwick; Michel André

Travis Knox; Alastair Baylis; Damien Callahan; John Arnould

Urgent need for no/low cost methods to reduce marine mammal bycatch in artisanal fisheries

Assessing the robustness of quantitative fatty acid signature analysis to assumption violations

Jeffrey Bromaghin; Suzanne Budge; Gregory Thiemann; Karyn Rode

A review of fishing gear modifications for reducing entanglement risk and injury severity to North Atlantic right (Eubalaena glacialis) and other baleen whales

Bulk and amino acid stable isotopes reveal a strong geographic structure in the Eastern Pacific population of sperm whales: Implications for understanding population structure and migration

Climate Change Talks and Mixed Speedtalks

Distribution and Abundance Talks and Mixed Speedtalks

A circumpolar assessment of Arctic marine mammals and sea ice loss, with conservation recommendations for the 21st century

The places to be in the Great Australian Bight: Areas of ecological significance for multiple iconic species

Kristin Laidre; Harry Stern; Kit Kovacs ; Lloyd Lowry; Sue Moore; Eric Regehr; Steven Ferguson; Øystein Wiig; Peter Boveng; Robyn Angliss; Erik Born; Dennis Litovka; Lori Quakenbush; Christian Lydersen; Dag Vongraven; Fernando Ugarte

Frederic Bailleul; Simon Goldsworthy; Alice Mackay; Paul Rogers; Bradley Page; Alastair Baylis; Jane Mckenzie; Ian Jonsen; Mark Hindell

CSI Beringia: Reconstructing 2500 years of Pacific walrus foraging

Spatiotemporal patterns of cetacean density and diversity in the U.S. Northwestern Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico

Casey Clark; Lara Horstmann; Nicole Misarti

Jason Roberts; Laura Mannocci; Patrick Halpin

Haydee Dominguez Tejo

Oil yield data from historical whaling records link energy stores of humpback whales to environmental conditions in the Antarctic

Abundance and distribution of an isolated population of franciscana dolphin in southeastern Brazil: Red alert for local extinction

Lyn Irvine; Clive McMahon; Christine Hanson; Michele Thums; Rob Harcourt (Presenter); Mark Hindell

Daniel Danilewicz; Alexandre Zerbini; Federico Sucunza; Artur Andriolo; Emanuel Ferreira; Pablo Denuncio; Eduardo Secchi; Paulo FloresTiming is everything: Shifts in

maternity den phenology of polar bears (Ursus maritimus) in Baffin Bay

Clicking to be counted: Using passive acoustic monitoring to estimate the density and abundance of sperm whales in the central Gulf of Alaska

Erica Escajeda; Kristin Laidre; Erik Born; Oystein Wiig; Stephen Atkinson; Steve Ferguson

Tina Yack; Thomas Norris; Elizabeth Ferguson; Brenda Rone; Alexandre Zerbini; Sean Hanser

Forecasts of Western Arctic bowhead whale habitat under Arctic climate change

Heterogeneous habitat use by dugongs in tropical coral reef lagoons

Dan Pendleton; Elizabeth Holmes; Jinlun Zhang

Christophe Cleguer; Mariana Fuentes; Claire Garrigue; Alana Grech; Mark Hamann; Claude Payri; Helene Marsh

Warming effects at the southern edge of an arctic marine mammal's range: Slow or episodic changes in reproduction, body condition, foraging behaviour, and abundance of ringed seals

Ensemble modeling of Antillean manatee distribution in the Dominican Republic

Steven Ferguson; Brent Young; David Yurkowski; Robert Hodgson; Randi Anderson; Cornelia Willing; Sebastián Luque

Walrus activity budgets depend on availability of sea ice

New integrated approach for modeling the first statewide abundance estimate for the Florida manatee (Trichechus manatus latirostris)Rebecca Taylor; Chadwick Jay;

Anthony Fischbach; Mark UdevitHolly Edwards; Julien Martin; Christopher Fonnesbeck; Stacie Koslovsky; Craig Harmak; Teri Dane

Baleen whales at Arctic Gateways: A tale of three straits

100 not out: A century of strandings monitoring in the UK

Kathleen Stafford; Kristin Laidre; Sue Moore

Rob Deaville; James Barnett; Andrew Brownlow; Molly Clery; Nicholas Davison; Rebecca Lyal; Roderick Penrose; Perkins Matthew; Brian Smith; Ruth Williams; Paul Jepson

Bowhead whale foraging ecology in the Eastern Canadian Arctic: Implications for climate change

Preliminary assessment of fishing activities and the overlap with cetacean occurrence in Kuching Bay, Sarawak, east Malaysia

Sarah Fortune; Steve Ferguson; Mark Baumgartner; Bernard LeBlanc; Andrew Trites

Cindy Peter; Anna Zulkifli Poh; Jenny Machau; Andrew Tuen; Gianna Minton

Under the ice: Post-moult dive behaviour of the Weddell seal (Leptonychotes weddellii) in the southern Weddell Sea

The distribution of baleen whales found off the Queen Maud Land coast of Antarctica in relation to primary productivity and the availability of preyIzzy Langley; Michael Fedak; Keith

Nicholls; Daniel Costa; Lars BoehmeKirsty Venter; Meredith Thornton; Fannie Shabangu; Luke Gregor; Peter Best; Ken Findlay

First evidence on predation of Saimaa ringed seal pups by the red fox: Consequences of climate change

First records of coastal cetaceans around Penang Island, Malaysia

Mervi Kunnasranta; Marja Niemi; Miina Auttila

Leela Rajamani; Luz Helena Rodriguez-Vargas; Mansor Yobe; Louella Dolar; Lindsay Porter

Object-based image classification of glacial ice as habitat for harbor seals in a tidewater glacial fjord in Alaska

A genetics based Capture-Mark-Recapture Approach for estimation of abundance and demographic rates of Pacific walruses

Jamie Womble; Robert McNabb; Anupma Prakash; Jay Ver Hoef; Rudi Gens; Scott Gende

Patrick Lemons; Suresh Sethi; Jeffrey Olsen; Jason Everett; Cara Lewis; Joel Garlich-Miller; Lori Quakenbush; Geoffrey Cook; James MacCracken; Sergei Zagrebelnyy; John WenburgIntroducing the Australian humpback

dolphin (Sousa sahulensis): Biology and status of the world's 'newest' dolphin species

Preliminary evidence suggesting habitat partitioning among bottlenose, pantropical spotted and rough-toothed dolphins off undescribed Guerrero, southwestern Mexico: Winters 2014-2015

Thomas Jefferson; Daniele Cagnazzi; Simon Allen; Isabel Beasley; Alexander Brown; Daniellla Hanf; Tim Hunt; Carol Palmer; Guido Parra

Victoria Pouey-Santalou; Anthony Kaulfuss; Joëlle De Weerdt; Andrea Garcia Chavez; Mari Smultea; Katherina Audley

The Protected Species Climate Vulnerability Assessment (PSCVA)

Australian humpback dolphins (Sousa sahulensis) of the North West Cape, western Australia: An important habitat toward the south western limit of their range

Matthew Lettrich; Roger Griffis

Coffee & Tea

Wood Award Presentation and Climate Change Plenary Talks - Continental Ballroom Chair: Nick Gales - Society for Marine Mammalogy, President

Whales sustain fisheries: Blue whales stimulate primary production in the Southern Ocean Trish Lavery - Department of the Environment, Australia

Jennifer Francis - Rutgers UniversityMarine mammals as sentinels to impacts of climate change on arctic ecosystems Sue Moore - NOAA/NMFS Office of Science & Technology

Poster Session 1 - Grand Ballroom

Tim Hunt; Lars Bejder; Simon Allen; Guido Parra

Modelling harbour seal (Phoca vitulina) habitat in the most recent Glacial Maxima

Methods of assessing spatio-temporal variation in harbour porpoise distribution and activity

Maria Zicos; Dave Thompson; Lars Boehme

Laura Williamson; Kate Brookes; Beth Scott; Paul Thompson

Harbour seals in the High Arctic: Future ecological winners?

Distribution of stranded bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) throughout Alabama waters from 2004-2013

Marie-Anne Blanchet; Christian Lydersen; Andrew Lowther; Rolf Ims; Kit Kovacs

Noel Wingers; Courtney Nelson Seely; Ruth Carmichael

Tuesday, 15 December 2015

Poster Session 1 - Grand Ballroom

Coffee & Tea

Talks - Health, Infectious DiseaseImperial B

Chair: Tracey GoldsteinDolphin morbillivirus and the 2013-2015 Mid-Atlantic bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) unusual mortality eventDeborah Fauquier; Tracey Goldstein; Kathleen Colegrove; David Rotstein; Robert DiGiovanni, Jr; William McLellan; Patricia Rosel; Lynsey Wilcox; Megan Stolen; Kim Urian; Perry Habecker; Laura Coffee; Shannon Swist; Elizabeth Howerth; Nicole Gottdenker; Gregory Bossart; Judy St. Leger; Thomas Waltzek; James Wellehan; Jeremiah Saliki; Ole Neilsen; Sinead Morris; Jon Zelner; Bryan Grenfell; Mendy Garron; Blair Mase-Guthrie; Teresa RowlesBrucella infections in North American cetaceans: Pathology, genetics, and unanswered questions

Kathleen Colegrove; Deborah Fauquier; Karen Terio; Christine Quance; Rebekah Tiller; Quingzhong Wu; Stephanie Venn-Watson; Suelee Robbe-Austerman; David Rotstein; Teresa RowlesModeling a morbillivirus outbreak in Hawaiian monk seals in support of vaccination program design

Jason Baker; Albert Harting; Michelle Barbieri; Stacie Robinson; Thea Johanos; Charles Littnan

Determining relative susceptibility of Hawaiian monk seal, northern fur seal, California sea lion, and northern elephant seal to phocine distemper virus using an in-vitro approach

Lunch

Imperial BChair: Michael Ziccardi

Andrea Bogomolni; Michelle Barbieri; Sylvain De Guise; Deborah Fauquier; Frances Gulland; Christine Fontaine; Steven Osborn; Gayle Sirpenski; Teri RowlesDiverse subtypes of Influenza A virus (IAV) are detected in live-caught North Atlantic grey seals (Halichoerus grypus)Wendy Puryear; Mandy Keogh; Nichola Hill; Elizabeth Josephson; Kimberly Ryan-Davis; Christopher Bandoro; Shelley Lang; Michael Hammill; Don Bowen; Jerry Moxley; David Johnston; Tracy Romano; Gordon Waring; Jonathan RunstadlerDiscovery of a novel hepatovirus (Phopivirus of seals) suggests a possible zoonotic origin for human hepatitis A

Simon Anthony; Judy St. Leger; Eliza Liang; Allison Hicks; Maria Sanchez-Leon; Komal Jain; Jay Leftkowitch; Isamara Navarrete-Macias; Nick Knowles; Tracey Goldstein; Katie Pugliares; Hon Ip; Teri Rowles; W. Ian Lipkin

General Health Talks and Mixed Speedtalks

Ciguatoxin and Hawaiian monk seals: Monitoring blood toxin levels in northwestern and main Hawaiian islands seals and evaluating of foraging under stress using a mouse modelJohn Ramsdell; Aurelie Ledreaux; Zhihong Wang; Tod Leighfield; Jessica Tiedeken; Michelle Barbieri; Stacie Robinson; Charles Littan

Fresh water skin disease: Clinical presentation, pathology and epidemiological associations in cetaceans worldwidePádraig Duignan; Nahiid Stephens; Kate Charlton-Robb; Katie Colegrove; Marie-Francoise van Bressem

Assembly of the indigenous microbiota of neonatal harbor seals and the impact of antibiotics

Alexandra Switzer; David Relman; Frances Gulland; Elisabeth Bik; Benjamin Callahan

A novel coccidian parasite, Sarcocystis pinnipedi, caused significant mortality in grey seals (Halichoerus grypus) in the western north AtlanticKatherine Haman; Amy Sweeny; Stephen Raverty; Pierre-Yves Daoust; Rick Cawthorn; Natarajan Sundar; Dorota Wadowska; Ole Nielsen; Kathy Burek; Lori Quakenbush; Mike Hammill; Heather Fenton; Andrew Trites; Michael GriggPattern of habitat use of the parasitic nematode Crassicauda within its host, the pygmy sperm whale (Kogia breviceps)Tiffany Keenan-Bateman; William McLellan; Alexander Costidis; Craig Harms; David Rotstein; Sentiel Rommel; Charles Potter; D. Ann PabstComprehensive investigation into the health status of live stranded short-beaked common dolphins (Delphinus delphis)

Kathryn Rose; Charles Harry; Jane Hoppe; Misty Niemeyer; Ian Robinson; Brian Sharp; Simon Anthony; Rogers Williams; Kathleen Moore; Michael MooreAerial photogrammetry reveals declining body condition and impaired reproduction in endangered Southern Resident killer whalesHolly Fearnbach; John Durban; David Ellifrit; Kenneth Balcomb III; Lynn Barre (Presenter)Survey for placental disease and reproductive pathogens in the endangered Hawaiian monk seal (Neomonachus schauinslandi)

Michelle Barbieri; Colleen Duncan; Kristy Pabilonia; Thea Johanos; Albert Harting; Tracey Goldstein; Stacey Robinson; Charles Littnan

First case of meningoencephalitis associated with Listeria monocytogenes, Toxoplasma gondi and Brucella spp. coinfection in a cetaceans

Carla Grattarola; Federica Giorda; Barbara Iulini; Maria Domenica Pintore; Alessandra Pautasso; Simona Zoppi; Maria Goria; Angelo Romano; Simone Peletto; Serena Durante; Alessandro Addeo; Katia Varello; Fulvio Garibaldi; Giuliano Garofolo; Cristina Esmeranda Di Francesco; Elena Bozzetta; Giovanni Di Guardo; Alessandro Dondo; Walter Mignone; Cristina Casalone

Novel alphaherpesvirus in harbour porpoises associated with severe meningitis and encephalitis

Lonneke Ijsseldijk; Steven van Beurden; Geert de Vrieze; Andrea Gröne; Hélène Verheije; Marja KikSea lions go viral: Spatio-temporal prevalence of enteric viruses in pups born in Mexican rookeriesLuis Soto-Garcia; Adriana Flores-Morán; Carlos Godínez-Reyes; Karina Acevedo-WhitehousePrevalence, intensity and pathogenicity of hookworm infection in three species of otariids in Australian watersRachael Gray; Damien Higgins; Alan Marcus

Changes in body condition in response to natural factors and fishing gear entanglements in North Atlantic right whales (Eubalaena glacialis)

Heather Pettis; Rosalind Rolland; Philip Hamilton; Amy Knowlton; Scott Kraus

Does this make me look skinny?: Using reference intervals to identify poor body condition among free-ranging bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in the Southeast U.S.

Coffee & Tea

Chair: Nick Gales - Society for Marine Mammalogy, President

Trish Lavery - Department of the Environment, Australia

Sue Moore - NOAA/NMFS Office of Science & Technology

Poster Session 1 - Grand Ballroom

Leslie Hart; Eric Zolman; Brian Balmer; Larry Hansen; Aleta Hohn; Wayne McFee; Teri Rowles; Forrest Townsend; Randall Wells; Lori SchwackeEnhanced survival of stranded cetaceans on Cape Cod, MA USA

Kathleen Moore; Charles Harry; Jane Hoppe; Michael Moore; Misty Niemeyer; Kristen Patchett; Ian Robinson; Kathryn Rose; Sarah Sharp; William SharpThe ecotoxicological status of gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus) in two Mexican breeding grounds: POPs and biomarkers responses in reproductive females and calvesMaria Cristina Fossi; Daniele Coppola; Matteo Baini; Letizia Marsili; Cristina Panti; Jorge Urban

Wednesday, 16 December 2015

Time Talks - Acoustics Talks - BehaviorContinental 1-4 Continental 5

Chair: Michael Weise Chair: Sean Twiss8:30-8:45

Mark Baumgartner; Sofie Van Parijs

8:45-9:00

9:00-9:15

9:15-9:30

9:30-9:45

Improving conservation and management of baleen whales via persistent real-time passive acoustic monitoring from autonomous platforms

Carrying a tag, what a drag: Assessing the effects of carrying an external mounted data-logger on dive behaviour and energetics in grey seals (Halichoerus grypus)J. Chris McKnight; Ryan Milne; Gordon Hastie; Sophie Brasseur; Debbie Russell; Dave Thompson

Spatio-temporal patterns of Antarctic blue whale vocal behavior from a multi-year PAM array in the Southern Ocean

Observation of diving behavior of sei whales in relation to vertical distribution of their prey

Karolin Thomisch; Olaf Boebel; Christopher Clark; Stefanie Spiesecke; Daniel Zitterbart; Ilse Van Opzeeland

Midori Ishii; Hiroto Murase; Yoshiaki Fukuda; Kouichi Sawada; Toyoki Sasakura; Tsutomu Tamura; Takeharu Bando; Koji Matsuoka; Akira Shinohara; Sayaka Nakatsuka; Nobuhiro Katsumata; Kazushi Miyashita; Yoko Mitani

The not-so-silent world: Measuring Arctic, Equatorial, and Antarctic soundscapes in the Atlantic Ocean

Fine-scale movement and dive behavior of gray whales satellite-tracked in the northern Bering and Chukchi Seas

Samara Haver; Holger Klinck; Jennifer Miksis-Olds; Sharon Nieukirk; Haruyoshi Matsumoto; Robert Dziak

Amy Kennedy; Brenda Rone; Alexandre Zerbini; Phillip Clapham

Lunar trends in delphinid echolocation activity in the Southern California Bight

Estimating the per-stroke work of a bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) during a continuous swimming task

Anne Simonis; Marie Roch; Barbara Bailey; John Hildebrand; Simone Baumann-Pickering

K. Alex Shorter; Lauro Ojeda; Julie Rocho-Levine; Julie van der Hoop; Mark Johnson; Michael Moore

Interannual spatial and temporal variations in acoustic occurrence of baleen whale species in a future off-shore wind energy development area along the North Atlantic coast

The use of tidally driven hydrodynamic features by coastal bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus)

9:45-10:00

Caitlin Karniski; Janet Mann

10:00-10:30 Coffee & Tea

Talks - Behavior Talks - AcousticsContinental 1-4 Continental 5

Chair: Dorian Houser Chair: Julie Oswald10:30-10:45

10:45-11:00

11:00-11:15

11:15-11:30

Bobbi Estabrook; Jamey Tielens; Ashakur Rahaman; Aaron Rice; Christopher Clark

Sam Cox; Phil Hosegood; Clare Embling; Anneli Englund; Steve Votier; Emer Rogan; Simon Ingram

Seen or heard? Comparison of visual and acoustic autonomous detection methods for monitoring presence of southern right whales at the Auckland Islands, New Zealand

Birth order and maternal age as predictors for calf mortality in bottlenose dolphins

William Rayment; Trudi Webster; Tom Brough; Steve Dawson

Disturbance-specific social responses in long-finned pilot whales

Cue rate and track kinematics of calling Bryde's whales (Balaenoptera brydei) transiting through the U.S. Pacific Missile Range Facility (PRMF)

Fleur Visser; Charlotte Cure; Petter Kvadsheim; Frans-Peter Lam; Peter Tyack; Patrick Miller

Tyler Helble; Stephen Martin; Glenn Ierley; Brian Matsuyama

Consortship rate and alliance structure vary with habitat in a large bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops cf. aduncus) social network

Using multipath arrivals to obtain three-dimensional localizations for beaked whales on acoustic line transect surveys

Richard Connor; William Cioffi; Srdan Randic; Jana Watson-Capps; Simon Allen; William Sherwin; Michael Krützen

Annamaria Izzi; Robert Valtierra; Sofie Van Parijs; Danielle Cholewiak

Where the Boys Are: Unravelling the social structure of male sperm whales present on high latitudes

Tracking porpoise underwater movements in tidal rapids using drifting hydrophone arrays: Filling a key information gap for assessing collision risk

Jan Straley; Russel Andrews; Lauren Wild; R. Katy Pendall

Jamie Macaulay; Jonathan Gordon; Doug Gillespie; Simon Northridge

The social structure of the Icelandic killer whale (Orcinus orca) population

Fine-scale acoustic tracking of harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) in tidal rapids

Sara Tavares; Filipa Samarra; Patrick Miller

Chloe Malinka; Jamie Macaulay; Jonathan Gordon; Simon Northridge

11:30-11:45

11:45-12:00

12:00-13:00 Lunch

Continental 1-4 Continental 5Chair: Monica DeAngelis Chair: Charles Littnan

13:00-13:15

Jill Lewandowski

13:15-13:30

Fission-fusion on a larger scale: Long-term social groupings of North Atlantic humpback whales

Temporary threshold shift in harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) and harbor seals (Phoca vitulina) due to offshore pile driving sound

Tanya Lubansky; Gareth Russell; Peter Stevick

Ronald Kastelein; Robin Gransier; Lean Hoek; Nancy Jennings; Jennifer Covi

Redefining association: North Atlantic right whales within communication range

Does depth matter? Investigating the effect of recording depth on delphinid signal characteristics

Christin Khan; William Cioffi; Hal Whitehead; Philip Hamilton

Marc Lammers; Julie Oswald; Anke Kügler; Eva Nosal

Human Dimensions Talks and Mixed Speedtalks

Foraging Ecology Talks and Mixed Speedtalks

Transforming conflict into effective action: The case study of marine sound and marine mammals

Predator-prey dynamics in the mesopelagic: Odontocete foraging ecology and anti-predator behavior of preyKelly Benoit-Bird; Patricia Arranz; Peter Tyack; Mark Moline; Brandon Southall

Acoustic tags on wild harbour porpoises show individual reactions to ships

Evaluating gain functions in foraging bouts using vertical excursions in female northern elephant seals

Jonas Teilmann; Danuta Maria Wisniewska; Mark Johnson; Lee Miller; Ursula Siebert; Rune Dietz; Anders Galatius; Peter Teglberg Madsen

Michelle Ferraro; Daniel Costa; Daniel Crocker

13:30-13:45

13:45-14:00

14:00-14:15

14:15-14:30

Jeffrey Adams; Gregory Silber

14:30-14:45

14:45-14:50

Evaluating the effects of dolphin watching boats on the behavior of bottlenose dolphins in Bocas del Toro, Panama: Using Markov chains to model the impacts of tourism on a genetically distinct population

Prey spectrum analysis of South American fur seal (Arctocephalus australis) in Punta San Juan, Peru between 1984 to 2013

Ayshah Kassamali-Fox; Fredrik Christiansen; Shakira Quinones Lebron; Laura May-Collado; Beth Kaplin

Emily Ruiz Puerta; Susana Cárdenas Alayza

Calculating acoustic environment metrics for Glacier Bay marine mammals

Multi-scale asynchrony of white shark and US gray seal activity reveals the interaction of predators and prey engaged in food acquisition

Christine Gabriele; Dimitri Ponirakis; Christopher Clark; Jamie Womble; Phoebe Vanselow

Jerry Moxley; Greg Skomal; John Chisholm; Patrick Halpin; David Johnston

The relationship between vessel traffic and noise levels received by killer whales and an evaluation of compliance with vessel regulations

Negative buoyancy and high metabolic rate of long-finned pilot whales: An estimation of body condition and drag coefficient of freely diving animalsJuliana Houghton; Marla Holt;

Deborah Giles; Brad Hanson; Candice Emmons; Jeffrey Hogan; Trevor Branch; Glenn VanBlaricom

Kagari Aoki; Saana Isojunno; Tomoko Narazaki; Patrick Miller (Presenter)

Use of satellite and terrestrial Automatic Identification System (AIS) data in marine conservation

Foraging plasticity of southern sea lions across the continental shelf off Chile

Maritza Sepulveda; Karla Hevia; Macarena Santos; Guido Pavez; Luis Hückstädt

Talking amidst noise: Loss of communication space for baleen whales in an urban sanctuary

Using state-space models to compare the foraging ecology of humpback and minke whales around the Antarctic Peninsula

Danielle Cholewiak; Sofie Van Parijs; Christopher Clark; Adam Frankel; Leila Hatch; Dimitri Ponirakis; Denise Risch; Joy Stanistreet; Michael Thompson; Elizabeth Vu

Ari Friedlaender; Susan Heaslip; David Johnston; Andrew Read; Douglas Nowacek; John Durban; Logan Pallin; Jeremy Goldbogen; Nick Gales

Exploring seasonality and environmental factors on the occurrence of Bryde's whale Balaenoptera edeni Anderson, 1879 (Cetartiodactyla, Mysticeti) on the coast of Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil

To the lab and back: Developing a novel head mounted RFID reader with a wild harbor seal

14:50-14:55

Seon-Mi Lee

14:55-15:00

Maria Fernanda Urrutia-Osorio

15:00-15:05

15:05-15:10

15:10-15:15

Bruna Di Dario; Ana Petry; Jailson Moura

Chad Nordstrom; Austen Thomas; Albert Franzheim; Justin Rosenberg; Todd Lidstrom; Lance Barrett-LennardGenetic diversity and

phylogeography of finless porpoise in East Asia

Environmental drivers of foraging behavior by individual humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) near the Antarctic ice edgeKylie Owen; Curt Jenner; Micheline Jenner; Robert McCauley; Russel Andrews

Analysis of the artisanal fisheries of San Felipe, Mexico: Estimating incidental mortality of the vaquita (Phocoena sinus)

What captive studies can tell us about the foraging ecology of free-ranging Arctic seals

Colleen Reichmuth; Roxanne Beltran; Jillian Sills; Sarah Peterson; Elizabeth McHuron; Jenna LofstromHarbor seals as sentinels of mercury

contamination and its potential effects in San Francisco Bay, California

The absent niche: A historical perspective on the ecology of Enhydra lutris in California through stable isotope analysis

Denise Greig; Elizabeth McHuron; Stephanie Kennedy; Tiffini Brookens; Samala Van Hoomissen; Todd O-Hara; James Harvey

Emma Elliott Smith; M. Tim Tinker; Mark Hylkema; Emily Whistler; Seth Newsome

First mobile App for monitoring marine mammal populations in Cameroon

Do foraging beaked whales and sperm whales target the Gulf Stream frontal edge off Cape Hatteras? Using long-term passive acoustic monitoring to explore habitat associationsAristide Takoukam; Paul Rodrigue

Ngafack; Robert Bonde; Thomas Bacha; Tim Collins

Joy Stanistreet; Douglas Nowacek; James Hench; Lynne Hodge; Sofie Van Parijs; Joel Bell; Andrew Read

Overlap of grey seals and fisheries in Irish waters, some new insights using telemetry technology and VMS

Fur seal odour encodes mother-offspring similarity, relatedness and genetic quality

15:15-15:20

Szymon Surma

15:20-15:25

15:25-15:30

15:30-16:30 Coffee & Tea

Plenary Talks: Emerging Technology - Continental Ballroom16:30-17:00 Tracing evolution using ancient DNA17:00-17:30 Novel tools and technologies for health assessment of marine mammals

18:00-20:00 Student Affairs Workshop - Continental Ballroom20:00-late Student Fundraiser: Beachmaster's Ball - Mezzanine

Michelle Cronin; Mark Jessopp; Hans Gerritsen; Emer Rogan (Presenter); Dave Reid

Martin Stoffel; Barbara Caspers; Jaume Forcada; Athina Giannakara; Markus Baier; Luke Eberhart-Phillips; Caroline Müller; Joseph Hoffman

A year in the acoustic world of bowhead whales in the Bering, Chukchi and Beaufort Seas

Predicting the ecological effects of Northeast Pacific herring fisheries on marine mammal populations

Christopher Clark; Catherine Berchok; Susanna Blackwell; David Hannay; Josh Jones; Dimitri Ponirakis; Kathleen StaffordAre humpback whale breeding grounds in the Great Barrier Reef on a collision course with development?

Life on the edge: Short-finned pilot whales (Globicephala macrorhynchus) target shelf break waters in the U.S. Mid-Atlantic Bight

Joshua Smith; David Peel; Natalie Kelly; Simon Childerhouse; Jessica Redfern; Thomas Moore

Lesley Thorne; Heather Foley; Daniel Webster; Robin Baird; Zach Swaim; Joel Bell; Andrew ReadIdentification of prey captures in Australian fur seals (Arctocephalus pusillus doriferus) using head-mounted accelerometers: Field validation with animal-borne video cameras Beth Volpov; Andrew Hoskins; Brian Battaile; Morgane Viviant; Kathryn Wheatley; Greg Marshall; Kyler Abernathy; John Arnould

Wednesday, 16 December 2015

Talks - Distribution Talks - Ecology Talks - HealthContinental 6-9 Imperial A Imperial B

Chair: Elizabeth Becker Chair: Stacie Robinson Chair: Christine Kreuder JohnsonImproving estimates of availability bias for franciscana dolphins

Using movement, diving and haul out behavior to identify the relative importance of foraging areas for walruses in the Alaskan Chukchi Sea

Health of North Atlantic right whales (Eubalaena glacialis) over three decades: from individual health to the population level

Federico Sucunza; Daniel Danilewicz; Marta Cremer; Artur Andriolo; Jeffrey Laake; Alexandre Zerbini

Justin Crawford; Lori Quakenbush; John Citta; Clarence Irrigoo Jr.; Patrick Lemons

Rosalind Rolland; Robert Schick; Heather Pettis; Amy Knowlton; Philip Hamilton; James Clark; Scott KrausOmura's whales (Balaenoptera

omurai) in Northwest Madagascar: A first ecological description of the species

Past environmental changes and ecology shaped evolutionary divergence of bottlenose dolphins in the North-East Atlantic

The effect of entanglement severity on health in North Atlantic right whales (Eubalaena glacialis)

Salvatore Cerchio; Boris Andrianantenaina; Alec Lindsay; Melinda Rekdahl; Norbert Andrianarivelo; Tahina Rasoloarijao

Marie Louis; Michael Fontaine; Jérôme Spitz; Erika Schlund; Willy Dabin; Rob Deaville; Florence Caurant; Yves Cherel; Christophe Guinet; Benoit Simon-Bouhet

Amy Knowlton; James Clark; Philip Hamilton; Scott Kraus; Heather Pettis; Rosalind Rolland; Robert Schick

Take me to the spa - North Pacific killer whales make rapid long-range movements to subtropical waters: More evidence for physiological maintenance migrations?

Location, location, location: Is the largest harbor seal haulout in the world any different from the others?

Quantitative assessment of wound healing based on long-term follow up of tagged gray and blue whales

Paul Wade; John Durban; Tom Gelatt; Robert Pitman; Russel Andrews

John Jansen; Jay Ver Hoef; Gavin Brady; Peter Boveng

Stephanie Norman; John Calambokidis; Kiirsten Flynn; Bruce Mate; Craig Hayslip; Frances Gulland; Michael Moore; Stephen Raverty; David Rostein; Alexandre Zerbini; Annie Douglas; Diane Gendron; Richard Sears

Ranging patterns of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in and near Barataria Bay, Louisiana, following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill

North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis) distribution, movement and habitat preferences along the U.S. Mid-Atlantic coast

Quantitative examination of long-term impact of implant tagging on survival of gray and blue whales

Randall Wells; Lori Schwacke; Teri Rowles; Brian Balmer; Eric Zolman; Todd Speakman; Forrest Townsend; Mandy Tumlin; Aaron Barleycorn; Krystan Wilkinson

Caroline Good; Lance Garrison; Debi Palka; Amy Knowlton; William McLellan; Tim Cole; Scott Landry; Robert Kenney

John Calambokidis; Alex Zerbini; Kiirsten Flynn; Annie Douglas; Stephanie Norman; Bruce Mate; Craig Hayslip; Diane Gendron; Richard Sears; Jeff Jacobsen; Dawn GoleyStocks or communities: Assessing

current stock definitions of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in North Carolina estuarine waters, USA

Habitat use of dwarf minke whales in Tasmanian waters

Emergence of the grey seal as a potentially significant predator of marine mammals

Coffee & Tea

Talks - Distribution Talks - Conservation Talks - PhysiologyContinental 6-9 Imperial A Imperial B

Chair: Sarah Allen Chair: Tara Whitty Chair: Shannon Atkinson

Lindsay Porter; Ruth Joy

Antoinette Gorgone; Barbie Byrd; Karen Altman; Aleta Hohn

Elena Fontanesi; Mary-Anne Lea; Mark Hindell; Alastair Birtles; James White; K. Curt Jenner; Russel Andrews

Andrew Brownlow; Joseph Onoufriou; Nicholas Davison; Mariel ten Doeschate; Steve Bexton; David Thompson

A multi-decadal Bayesian trend analysis of harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) populations off California relative to past fishery bycatch

Where can Florida manatees find reliable warm-water habitat? Quantifying thermal quality and vulnerability to cold-induced mortality

Pathological assessment of damage to grey seal carcasses inflicted by a tidal turbine blade

Karin Forney; James Carretta; Scott Benson; Jeffrey Moore

Stacie Koslovsky; Charles Deutsch; Tiffanie Cross

Joseph Onoufriou; Dave Thompson; Simon Moss; Andrew Brownlow

Oxygen isotope analysis (δ18O) of cetacean dentine: Validation of an underused approach for studying marine mammal migrations and distribution

Social transmission drives California sea lion foraging of endangered salmon at the Bonneville dam: Assessing the impact of lethal removal using epidemiological models

Using the earplug of a female bowhead whale to reconstruct its lifetime chemical profiles

Cory Matthews; Fred Longstaffe; Richard Stern; Steve Ferguson

Zachary Schakner; Michael Buhnerkempe; Matthew Tennis; Daniel Blumstein

Stephen Trumble; Sascha Usenko; J.G.M. Hans Thewissen; J. Craig George; Nadine Lysiak; Rebel Sanders; Zach Winfield; Amanda StevensAnalysis of manatee periotic bone

microchemistry as a tool to track manatee migrations in the northern Gulf of Mexico

Bottlenose dolphin abundance and habitat use in St Andrews Bay, Scotland: Increasing knowledge outside the Moray Firth SAC

Baleen progesterone profiles of North Atlantic right whales (Eubalaena glacialis) reflect recent reproductive history

Kayla DaCosta; Ruth Carmichael; William Patterson

Monica Arso Civil; Nicola Quick; Barbara Cheney; Philip Hammond

Kathleen Hunt; Nadine Lysiak; Michael Moore; Rosalind Rolland

Line-transect abundance estimates of cetaceans in the Hawaiian EEZ

Population demographics and seasonal variation of the Burrunan dolphin (Tursiops australis) in the Gippsland Lakes, Australia

Pregnancy rates of humpback whales along the western Antarctic Peninsula

Amanda Bradford; Karin Forney; Erin Oleson; Jay Barlow

Angus Henderson; Kate Charlton-Robb; John Arnould

Logan Pallin; David Johnston; Doug Nowacek; Andrew Read; Jooke Robbins; Ari Friedlaender

Using land watch data to determine long-term trends in cetacean abundance

The Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin and the Hong Kong-Zuhai-Macao Bridge: Building bridges between science and management

Timing is everything: Minimally-invasive ultrasonographic techniques show intra-specific variation in the initiation and probability of pregnancy in the Weddell seal

Graham Pierce; Peter Evans; Gemma Veneruso; Caroline Weir; Danielle Gibas; Pia Anderwald; Susanna Quer; M. Begoña Santos

Michelle Shero; Gregg Adams; Robert McCorkell; Amy Kirkham; Jennifer Burns

Lunch

Continental 6-9 Imperial A Imperial BChair: John Calambokidis Chair: Lisa Van Atta Chair: James Estes

The challenge of mark-recapture studies on poorly marked gregarious dolphins: The case of common dolphins in the Hauraki Gulf, New Zealand

Testing an acoustic decoy as a countermeasure to reduce whale depredation in Alaskan longline fisheries

Endocrine and metabolic response to an acute stressor in the bottlenose dolphin

Krista Hupman; Gabriela Tezanos-Pinto; Matthew Pawley; Karen Stockin

Lauren Wild; Aaron Thode; Jan Straley; Dan Falvey; Linda Behnken; Stephen Rhoades; Tobias Robinson; Victoria O'Connell

Cory Champagne; Daniel Crocker; Dorian Houser

Accuracy and precision of dolphin school size estimates

Single-minded: Focus on reproductive success prevents some male gray seals from responding to human disturbance

The pleiotropic role of cetacean blubber

Tim Gerrodette; Wayne Perryman; Cornelia Oedekoven

Amanda Bishop; Paddy Pomeroy; Sean Twiss

Joanna Kershaw; Andrew Brownlow; Nicholas Davison; Ailsa Hall

Distribution Talks and Mixed Speedtalks

Acoustics Talks and Mixed Speedtalks

Sea Otter Talks and Mixed Speedtalks

Marine seismic surveys and ocean noise: Mitigation, monitoring and a plan for international management

Insights into the ontogeny of acoustic communication of North Atlantic right whales

Between a rock (crab) and a sharp place: The curious conundrum of the southern sea otter, and some unexpected silver linings

Douglas Nowacek; Chris Clark; Greg Donovan; Glenn Gailey; Jay Golden; Michael Jasny; David Mann; Patrick Miller; Roberto Racca; Randall Reeves; Howard Rosenbaum; Brandon Southall; Alexander Vedenev; David Weller

Susan Parks; Holly Root-Gutteridge; Dana Cusano; Lisa Conger; Sofie Van Parijs

Martin Tinker; Jack Ames; Francesca Batac; Gena Bentall; James Bodkin; Lizabeth Bowen; Tristan Burgess; Lilian Carswell; Patricia Conrad; Erin Dodd; Sarah Espinosa; James Estes; Jessica Fujii; Emily Golson; Frances Gulland; Michael Harris; Brian Hatfield; Laird Henkel; Brent Hughes; Dave Jessup; Andrew Johnson; Christine Johnson; Michael Kenner; Nicole LaRoche; Karl Mayer; Keith Miles; Melissa Miller; Mike Murray; Seth Newsome; Teri Nicholson; Katherine Ralls; Karen Shapiro; Michelle Staedler; Lily Tarjan; Nicole Thometz; Joe Tomoleoni; Ben Weitzman; Colleen Young

Regional and seasonal density and abundance of harbor porpoise: Recolonization of Puget Sound, aerial surveys 2013-2015

Cultural macro- and microevolution of killer whale dialects

A range wide examination of southern sea otter diving behavior using 15 years of TDR data

Mari Smultea; Thomas Jefferson; David Steckler; Greg Campbell; Kate Lomac MacNair; Sarah Courbis; Kristen Ampela; Andrea Balla-Holden; Sean Hanser

Olga Filatova; John Ford; Erich Hoyt; Patrick Miller; Filipa Samarra; Harald Yurk

Joseph Tomoleoni; Nicole Thometz; Michelle Staedler; Martin Tinker

Amanda Stansbury; Vincent Janik

The sense of active touch in sea otters

Seasonal habitat-based density models for harbour porpoises in the North Sea

Repeated song transmission from the west Australian to the east Australian humpback whale population

A first look at using genetics to quantify reproductive success and skew in male sea otters

Anita Gilles; Sacha Viquerat; Elizabeth Becker; Karin Forney; Steve Geelhoed; Jan Haelters; Jacob Nabe-Nielsen; Meike Scheidat; Ursula Siebert; Signe Sveegaard; Floris van Beest; Rob van Bemmelen; Geert Aarts

Melinda Rekdahl; Michael Noad; Ellen Garland; Rebecca Dunlop; Anne Goldizen; Chandra Salgado Kent; Robert McCauley; Curt Jenner; Micheline Jenner

Max Tarjan; M. Tim Tinker; Holly Ernest

Small-scale spatiotemporal heterogeneity in harbour porpoise site usage

Acoustic evidence of fin whale population structure in the eastern North Pacific

The metabolic roller coaster: Reproduction in sea otters (Enhydra lutris) necessitates unique physiological adaptations

Steven Benjamins; Gordon Hastie; Jim Elliott; Dave Thompson; Arne Vögler; Ben Wilson

Barbara Koot; John Ford; David Hannay; Andrew Trites

Nicole Thometz; Traci Kendall; Beau Richter; Terrie Williams

Bering-Okhotsk Seal Surveys (BOSS): Joint US-Russian aerial surveys for ice-associated seals, spring 2012 and 2013

Vocal dialects of the northern elephant seal: Changes in geographic variation in a recovering species

The importance of soft sediment and intertidal habitats for foraging sea otters

Michael Cameron; Erin Morland; Paul Conn; Peter Boveng; Vladimir Chernook

Caroline Casey; Dan Costa; Colleen Reichmuth

Erin Rechsteiner; Tim Tinker; Jane Watson; Anne Salomon; Chris Darimont

Ecological and genetic separation of two sibling species in an area of sympatry

Vocal production learning in wild grey seal (Halichoerus grypus) pups

Thirty years of live strandings provide insights regarding threats to southern sea otters and implications for population growth and expansion along the California coastline

Line Cordes; Gregory O'Corry-Crowe; Robert Small

Teri Nicholson; Karl Mayer; Michelle Staedler ; Jessica Fujii; Andrew Johnson; Mike Murray; Martin TinkerSteller sea lion survivors: A

retrospective on the impact of alternative research methods on an endangered species

Similarity and divergence among calls of Bigg's killer whales in Western Alaska: An adaptive means to maintain cooperative cohesiveness across large regions?

Courtney Shuert; Jo-Ann Mellish; Markus Horning

Harald Yurk; Lance Barrett-Lennard; Julien Delarue; Craig Matkin; Eva Saulitis

Sarah McKay Strobel; Colleen Reichmuth; Francesca Batac; Melissa Miller

Sperm whale population and cultural turnover off the Galapagos Islands over the last 30 years

Response in fin whale vocalization behavior to local shipping at two sites off the California coast

The history of sperm whales in the Hawaiian Islands

John Joseph; Tetyana Margolina

John Terhune

Mauricio Cantor; Lisa Hoogenboom; Shane Gero; Luke Rendell; Hal Whitehead

Kenneth O'Brien; Fred Sharpe; Susan Lebo; Judith Lund; Sharon Birzer

Kinematics and energetics of breaching whales

Effects of wind farm construction on harbour porpoises: Noise mitigation reduces the impact of pile driving

Size and intensity of female mating behavioral repertoire predicted from reproductive anatomy in odontocetes

Megan Jensen; Jeremy Goldbogen; Alison Stimpert; Ari Friedlaender; Kyler Abernathy; Jean Potvin; Cláudia Oliveira; Susan Parks; Mark Johnson; Peter Madsen

Michael Dähne; Jakob Tougaard; Jacob Carstensen; Jacob Nabe-Nielsen

Dara Orbach; William Keener; Angela Ziltener; Jessica Hillhouse; Bernd Würsig

Development of an altricial mammal at sea: II. Energy budgets of female sea otters and their pups in Simpson Bay, Alaska

A quiet haven in a noisy world: Baseline data on critical call usage in a pristine beluga nursery area

Three-dimensional neuroanatomy of the Killer Whale (Orcinus orca): A quantitative investigation with magnetic resonance imaging

Michelle Cortez; Caroline Goertz; Verena Gill; Randall Davis

Valeria Vergara; Lance Barrett-Lennard

Alexandra Wright; Miriam Scadeng; Dominik Stec; Rebecca Dubowitz; Sam Ridgway; Judy St. Leger

Male humpback whale escorts disrupt nursing behavior of acoustically cryptic neonate calves

The effects of vessel passages on the vocal behavior of an aquatically breeding pinniped, the harbor seal (Phoca vitulina)

Seasonality of killer whale (Orcinus orca) ecotypes off Washington state, USA

Simone Videsen; Lars Bejder; Peter Madsen

Leanna Matthews; Christine Gabriele; Susan Parks

Ally Rice; Volker Deecke; John Ford; James Pilkington; Simone Baumann-Pickering; Amanda Debich; John Hildebrand; Ana Sirovic

Never stray far: Matrilineal habitat use in wild bottlenose dolphins

When should we use dB(M) hearing weighting functions?

Photogrammetry of killer whales using a small hexacopter launched at sea

Eric Patterson; Céline Frère; Ewa Krzyszczyk; Janet Mann

John Durban; Holly Fearnbach; Lance Barrett-Lennard (Presenter); Wayne Perryman; Don LeRoi

Winter movements of GPS-tagged Florida manatees before, during, and after operation of an interim heated refuge: Attendance patterns and use of the warm-water network

The rehabilitation of stranded dolphins suffering from acoustic trauma

Toxic legacy? Severe PCB pollution in European dolphins

Coffee & Tea

Chair: Frank CiprianoBeth Shapiro - University of California, Santa CruzKarina Acevedo-Whitehouse - Autonomous University of Queretaro

Charles Deutsch; Margaret Barlas; James Reid; Susan Butler

Gail Laule; Leo Suarez; Carlo Magno; Robert Braun; Lemnuel Aragones; Aude Pacini

Paul Jepson; Rob Deaville; Jonathan Barber; Alex Aguilar; Asunción Borrell; Sinéad Murphy; Jon Barry; Andrew Brownlow; James Barnett; Simon Berrow; Andrew Cunningham; Nick Davison; Ruth Esteban; Marisa Ferreira; Andrew Foote; Tilen Genov; Joan Giménez; Jan Loveridge; Ángela Llavona; Vidal Martin; David Maxwell; Alexandra Papachlimitzou; Rod Penrose; Matthew Perkins; Brian Smith; Renaud de Stephanis; Nick Tregenza; Philippe Verborgh; Antonio Fernandez; Robin Law

Strategies of hunting by killer whales and evasion by narwhal inferred by satellite tracking of both predator and prey in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago

Use of acoustic vector sensors to reduce masking effects in passive acoustic monitoring

North Pacific killer whales (Orcinus orca) from California to the Russian Far East: Baseline concentrations and profiles of organochlorine contaminants

Greg Breed; Marianne Marcoux; Natalie Reinhart; Jeff Higdon; Cory Matthews; Stephen Petersen; Jack Orr; Steven Ferguson

Katherine Kim; Aaron Thode; Robert Norman; Susanna Blackwell; Charles Greene, Jr.

Teresa Mongillo; Gina Ylitalo; Marilyn Dahlheim; Paul Wade; Craig Matkin; Vladimir Burkanov; Daryle Boyde

Humpback whale presence and habitat-use in high-traffic areas off Virginia

Quantification of morphological differences between northeastern Pacific killer whale (Orcinus orca) ecotypes from photo-identification data using elliptical Fourier analysis

Jessica Aschettino; Daniel Engelhaupt; Amy Engelhaupt; Joel Bell; Jacqueline Thorton

Candice Emmons; Jeffrey Hard; Marilyn Dahlheim; Janice Waite

No contaminant left behind: Enhanced cataloguing of bioaccumulative organic pollutants in five southern California marine mammal species using a non-targeted analytical approach

Do vessel regulations that limit approach distance reduce noise exposure in cetaceans?

Northern elephant seal population decline on South Farallon Islands as a result of habitat degradation

Jennifer Cossaboon; Nathan Dodder; Susan Chivers; David Weller; Kerri Danil; Keith Maruya; Eunha Hoh

Marla Holt; M. Bradley Hanson; Deborah Giles; Candice Emmons; Jeffrey Hogan

Ryan Berger; Russ Bradley; Derek Lee; Sarah Codde; Sarah Allen; Jaime Jahncke

Thursday, 17 December 2015

Time8:30-10:00 Poster Session 1 - Grand Ballroom

10:00-10:30 Coffee & Tea

Talks - Acoustics Talks - EcologyContinental 1-4 Continental 5

Chair: Paul Nachtigall Chair: Beth Mathews10:30-10:45

10:45-11:00

11:00-11:15

11:15-11:30

11:30-11:45

Far-reaching reaction of harbor porpoises to navy mid-range sonar

Using multi-dimensional stable isotope niche models to investigate the ecology of marine mammal unusual mortality events

Jakob Tougaard; Line Hermannsen; Line Kyhn; Darja Polesiuk

Sam Rossman; Wendy Noke; Megan Stolen; Peggy Ostrom; Elise Zipkin

Tagged fin whale call production, associated behavior, and response to anthropogenic sound in the Southern California Bight

Use of stable isotope ratios for life-time diet reconstruction in West Indian manatees

Alison Stimpert; Stacy DeRuiter; Erin Falcone; John Joseph; Annie Douglas; David Moretti; Ari Friedlaender; John Calambokidis; Glenn Gailey; Peter Tyack; Brandon Southall; Jeremy Goldbogen

Ruth Carmichael; Katherine Gilligan; Thomas Bilbo; Katie Brill; Kayla DaCosta; Emily Baker

Cetacean occurrence from passive acoustic monitoring in Guam and the Mariana Islands, 2011-2012

Age-specific d15N ratios in dentin reveal ontogenetic diet shifts in Risso's dolphins (Grampus griseus) stranded in Taiwan

Lisa Munger; Marc Lammers; Julie Oswald; Tina Yack; Morgan Richie; Robert Uyeyama; Whitlow Au

Florence Evacitas; Graham Worthy; Lien-Siang Chou

Turn down for what: Animal-borne controlled exposure as an innovative tool for dive manipulation in free-ranging marine mammals

A year in the life: A bioenergetics model for the northern elephant seal

Selene Fregosi; Holger Klinck; Markus Horning; David Mellinger; Daniel Costa; David Mann; Kenneth Sexton; Luis Huckstadt; Brandon Southall

Jennifer Maresh; Lisa Schwarz; Daniel Costa

Using soundscape metrics to describe changes to ambient noise levels in the resting bays of Hawaiian spinner dolphins (Stenella longirostris)

Using agent-based models to predict behavioral and physiological responses of top predators to environmental change: A case study with Weddell seals (Leptonychotes weddellii)

11:45-12:00

12:00-13:00 Lunch

Continental 1-4 Continental 5Chair: Tyler Helble Chair: Karen Martien

13:00-13:15

13:15-13:30

13:30-13:45

Heather Heenehan; Lars Bejder; Julian Tyne; Brandon Southall; Hugh Southall; David Johnston

Roxanne Beltran; Jennifer Burns; J. Ward Testa

Ingredients for a good LATTE: Statistical methods servicing biological questions

A new perspective on sea lion habitat utilization of foraging success in the California Current: Results from a fully coupled end-to-end ecosystem modelTiago Marques; Tiago Marques; Len

ThomasJerome Fiechter; Luis Huckstadt; Kenneth Rose; Daniel Costa; Enrique Curchitser; Katherine Hedstrom; Christopher Edwards; Andrew Moore

Acoustics Talks and Mixed Speedtalks

Genetics Talks and Mixed Speedtalks

Improving classification of dolphin groups: Compound classification using whistles, echolocation clicks, and burst pulses

Evaluating the demographic independence of the Pacific Coast Feeding Group of gray whales: Using a simulation-based approach to provide insight into results of traditional genetic analyses

Shannon Rankin; Jennifer Keating; Jay Barlow; Julie Oswald

Aimee Lang; Karen Martien; Barbara Taylor

Amazon river dolphins (Inia geoffrensis Blainville 1817) have a high frequency, short range biosonar

Complex genetic structure informs management of Southern Hemisphere humpback whales at multiple scales

Michael Ladegaard; Frants Jensen; Mafalda de Freitas; Vera da Silva; Peter Madsen

Howard Rosenbaum; Martin Mendez; Francine Kershaw; Cristina Pomilla; Matthew Leslie; Ken Findlay; Peter Best; Timothy Collins; Michel Vely; Marcia Engel; Robert Baldwin; Gianna Minton; Michael Meyer; Lilian Florez-Gonzalez; M. Michael Poole; Nan Hauser; Claire Garrigue; Muriel Brasseur; John Bannister; Megan Anderson; Carlos Olavarria; C. Scott Baker

Using visual survey data to estimate passive acoustic detection parameters for harbor porpoise abundance estimates

Using genetic assignment tests to assess population-level impacts of the die-off of common bottlenose dolphins in the northern Gulf of MexicoEiren Jacobson; Karin Forney; Jay

BarlowPatricia Rosel; Lynsey Wilcox; Jenny Litz; Carrie Sinclair; Mandy Tumlin; Eric Zolman

13:45-14:00

14:00-14:15

14:15-14:30

14:30-14:45

Danielle Harris; Douglas Gillespie

14:45-14:50

Estimation of North Atlantic right whale call detection distances and source levels from moored passive acoustic arrays on the southeast US calving grounds

Fine-scale population structure of common bottlenose dolphins, Tursiops truncatus, in bays, sounds and estuaries in Texas

Melissa Soldevilla; Katrina Ternus; Tyler Helble; Aaron Rice; Christopher Clark; Lance Garrison

Nicole Phillips; Carrie Sinclair; Errol Ronje; Patricia Rosel

Underwater source level measurements of vocalizing walruses in the Chukchi Sea and implications for detection range and communication space in natural and human-influenced soundscapes

Where were they from? Assigning stranded dolphins to stocks by combining stable isotope and genetic assignment studies

Julien Delarue; Xavier Mouy; Jay Chadwick; Anthony Fischbach; David Hannay

Len Thomas; Cormac Booth; Aleta Hohn; Patricia Rosel; Jenny Litz

Observations of false killer whale longline depredation using integrated video, acoustic, and acceleration packages

Beached bones: mtDNA diversity and population differentiation of humpback whales from the South Georgia whaling stations

Aaron Thode; Janice Straley; Victoria O' Connell; Lauren Wild; Ali Bayless; Toby Robinson; Dan Falvey

Angela Sremba; Anthony Martin; Ana Cypriano-Souza; Márcia Engel; Sandro Bonatto; Howard Rosenbaum; Tim Collins; Carlos Oalvarria; C. Scott Baker

Quantifying the efficiency of C-PODs for detecting harbour porpoise using spatially-explicit-capture-recapture

What drives the genetic structure in oceanic populations of the sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus)?

Alana Alexander; Debbie Steel; Kendra Hoekzema; Sarah Mesnick; Daniel Engelhaupt; Iain Kerr; Roger Payne; C. Scott Baker

Density estimation of singing fin whales derived using received acoustic energy

The Saimaa ringed seal: Freshwater insights into the loss of genomic diversity in marine mammals

David Mellinger; Michelle Weirathmueller; Elizabeth Küsel; William Wilcock

Mia Valtonen; Juhana Kammonen; Tommi Nyman; Jouni Aspi; Patrik Koskinen; Mervi Kunnasranta; Ari Löytynoja; Jukka Palo; Olli-Pekka Smolander; Tarja Sundell; Jukka Jernvall; Petri Auvinen

14:50-14:55

14:55-15:00

15:00-15:05

Emily Griffiths; Jay Barlow

15:05-15:10

Jay Barlow; Emily Griffiths Christina Lockyer; Claire Garrigue

15:10-15:15

15:15-15:20

Who's who? Similarity of small delphinids biosonar signal properties makes species discrimination challenging in Passive Acoustic Monitoring (PAM)

Modeling nitrogen tensions in the diving California sea lion (Zalophus californianus)

Mafalda de Freitas; Frants Jensen; Joshua Smith; Julian Tyne; Kristian Beedholm; Lars Bejder; Peter Madsen

Matthew Hodanbosi; Andreas Fahlman

Whistle characteristics and daytime dive behavior of pantropical spotted dolphins (Stenella attenuata) in Hawaii

Genetic identification of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) feeding on hatchery-released salmon at Hidden Falls Hatchery, Southeast Alaska

Tammy Silva; T. Aran Mooney; Laela Sayigh; Peter Tyack; Robin Baird

Dorothy Nevé Baker; Jan Straley; Ellen Chenoweth; Debbie Steel; C. Scott Baker

Odontocete acoustic detections from drifting recorders

Recovery of microsatellite DNA variation in remnant and translocated sea otter (Enhydra lutris) populations

Shawn Larson; Katherine Ralls; Holly Ernest; James Bodkin

Precision and bias in estimating detection range for beaked whale echolocation clicks using a two-element vertical hydrophone array

Age estimation from teeth in Longman's beaked whales (Indopacetus pacificus) stranded in New Caledonia (South Pacific)

Beluga whale (Delphinapterus leucas) vocalizations and call classification from the eastern Beaufort Sea population

Genomic insights into the origin, spread and pathogenicity of Influenza A virus in marine mammals

Ellen Garland; Manuel Castellote; Catherine Berchok

Morten Olsen; Rune Dietz; Kamran Chabokdavan; Karin Hårding; Tero Härkönen

Fin whale song variability in Southern California and the Gulf of California

Diversity of immune-related MHC genes in the critically endangered Mediterranean monk seal

15:20-15:25

15:25-15:30

Jillian Sills; Colleen Reichmuth

15:30-16:30 Coffee & Tea

Plenary Talks: Human Dimensions - Continental Ballroom16:30-17:00 Language is the dress of thought17:00-17:30 The human dimension of marine mammal conservation

17:30-19:30 Poster Session 1 - Grand Ballroom

18:00-20:00 AGU/SMM Mixer - Exploratorium, Pier 15, Fisher Bay ObservatoryMarine mammals at the poles: Sentinels for climate change

19:30-20:30 LGBT Mixer - Marker Hotel

Ana Sirovic; Erin Oleson; Jasmine Buccowich; Ally Rice

Stephen Gaughran; John Hammond; Ailsa Hall; Jeff Graves; Alexandros Karamanlidis; Alex Aguilar; George Amato

Knowing their enemies: Individual vocal signature used by northern elephant seal in male contests

Inferring population structure of depleted eastern tropical Pacific spinner (Stenella longirostris) and spotted dolphins (Stenella attenuata) from mitogenomic and nuclear SNP dataIsabelle Charrier; Nicolas Mathevon;

Caroline Casey; Colleen ReichmuthMatthew Leslie; Frederick Archer; Phillip Morin

The vocal behavior of spotted seals (Phoca largha)

Restoration of degraded scat DNA: A useful tool for molecular scatology of marine mammals

Fabiola Guerrero de la Rosa; Diane Gendron; Fausto Arellano-Carbajal; Karina Acevedo-Whitehouse

Thursday, 17 December 2015

Poster Session 1 - Grand Ballroom

Coffee & Tea

Talks - Population Biology Talks - Genetics Talks - Human DimensionsContinental 6-9 Imperial A Imperial B

Chair: Rob Harcourt Chair: Ellen Hines

Rebecca Lent; Dale Squires

Jeffrey Moore Annabel Beichman

Carlie Wiener; Paul Wilkinson

Chair: Karina Acevedo-Insights into the underwater behavior, species interactions, and biomechanics of baleen whales using integrated video and inertial sensors

Female dolphins who are heterozygous for MHC do not produce more offspring, but their offspring are more viable

Novel approaches to reduction of marine mammal bycatch in fisheries: What economists have to offer

Jeremy Goldbogen; Dave Cade; John Calambokidis; Alison Stimpert; Megan Jensen; Jean Potvin; Ari Friedlaender

Oliver Manlik; Janet Mann (Presenter); Michael Krützen; Anna Kopps; Holly Smith; Kate Sprogis; Lars Bejder; Simon Allen; Connor Richard; William Sherwin

Improving bycatch estimation and inference through model-based approaches: A sperm whale case study

The whale gut microbiome digests a carnivorous diet using pathways common in terrestrial herbivores

Modelling the pre-whaling distribution and abundance of the endangered North Atlantic whale from historical whaling records of a congeneric speciesSophie Monsarrat; Maria Pennino; Tim Smith; Randall Reeves; Christine Meynard; David Kaplan; Ana S. Rodrigues

Fisheries interactions of Delphinus delphis in the North-East Atlantic

The effects of vibratory pile driving sound on bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) behavior and echolocation target detection

Finance, history, and recreation: Using human dimensions to assess attitudes and behaviors towards Hawaiian spinner dolphin swim tourism Fiona Read; M. Begoña Santos;

Ángel González; Sinead Murphy; Alfredo López; Emer Rogan; Helene Peltier; Vincent Ridoux; Graham Pierce

Brian Branstetter; Victoria Bowman; Patchouly Banks; James Finneran; Keith Jenkins

Bachelor sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) in the Bahamas: Insights from a multi-disciplinary study

We are (all) family: Investigating the high genetic relatedness and inbreeding of the endangered Florida manatee (Trichechus manatus latirostris)

Bioeconomic modelling of grey seal predation impacts on West of Scotland fisheries

Charlotte Dunn; Kim Parsons; David Herman; John Durban; Gina Ylitalo; Diane Claridge

Michelle Davis; Michael Tringali; Robert Bonde; Margaret Hunter

Vanessa Trijoulet; Alex Dickson; Robin Cook

A hierarchical Bayesian model of Pollock's Closed Robust Design, with extensions and application to the capture-recapture analysis of Shark Bay bottlenose dolphins, Tursiops sp.

First range-wide phylogeography, phylogeny, and Bayesian divergence dating for the Vulnerable African manatee (Trichechus senegalensis)

Bridging knowledge systems to monitor beluga whale (Delphinapterus leucas) health and habitat use in the Beaufort Sea

Katrina MacIver; Cindy Elliser

Lunch

Continental 6-9 Imperial A Imperial BChair: Shane Kanatous Chair: Mike Hammill Chair: Charlotte Boyd

Robert Rankin; Krista Nicholson; Lars Bejder; Simon Allen; Michael Krüzen; Kenneth Pollock

Lucy Keith-Diagne; Shichao Chen; Richard Hodel; Michelle Davis; Robert Bonde; Aristide Kamla Takoukam; Tomas Diagne; Josea Dossou-Bodjrenou; Heather Arrowood; Cyrille Mvele; Margaret Hunter

Sonja Ostertag; Lisa Loseto; Danny Swainson; Diane Ruben; Bernadette Green; Diva Lynn Pokiak; Kathleen Snow

Social complexity among bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus): Dynamic third-order relationships and processes of mediation

Who is that? Methods for identifying individual harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) in the Pacific Northwest

When inclusion in a national park limits conservation: Spinner dolphin tourism in Egypt analysed in a social-ecological system framework

Whitney Friedman; Richard Connor; Michael Krützen; Edwin Hutchins

Maddalena Fumagalli; Amina Cesario; Marina Costa; Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara; Elisabeth Slooten; James Higham

Physiology Talks and Mixed Speedtalks

Population Biology Talks and Mixed Speedtalks

Human Dimensions Talks and Mixed Speedtalks

Microvascular characteristics of the acoustic fats of deep- and shallow-diving odontocetes

A hidden process model to explain the demographic rates of a well-studied local population of harbor seals

Assessing disturbance responses of Pacific walruses (Odobenus rosmarus divergens) to vessel presence in the Chukchi Sea

Molly Gabler; D. Mark Gay; Andrew Westgate; Heather Koopman

Sophie Smout; Marjolaine Caillat; Paul Thompson; Jason Matthiopoulos

Sasha McFarland; Lisanne Aerts; Sheyna Wisdom

Variation in adrenal and thyroid hormones with life-history stage in juvenile northern elephant seals

Thirty years and counting: Prey abundance affects the birth rate and timing of pupping of South American fur seals in Peru

Integrating empirical data and expert opinion to assess threats to marine mammals: A case study for Southern resident killer whales

Jennifer Jelincic; Michael Tift; Dorian Houser; Daniel Crocker

Susana Cardenas-Alayza; Andrew Trites

Lindsey Peavey; Eric Johnson; Carrie Kappel; Robert Wildermuth; Leah Gerber

Measuring instantaneous energetic costs in highly maneuverable marine mammals

Effects of diet on survival, breeding and population growth of New Zealand sea lions (Phocarctos hookeri) in the Auckland Islands from 1998 to 2010

Citizen Science: Benefits and limitations for marine mammal research and education

Jason John; Susanna Blackwell; Mads Peter Heide-Jørgensen; Brandon Southall; Ari Friedlaender; Nicole Thometz; Terrie Williams

Phoebe Stewart-Sinclair; Doug Armstrong; Laureline Meynier

Courtney Hann; Lei Lani Stelle; Andrew Szabo; William Hanshumaker; Leigh Torres

Sarah Dungan; Belinda Chang Jaume Forcada; Iain Staniland

A. Mel Cosentino; Gabriela Bellazzi

Dave Steckler

John Maniscalco

Exploring the molecular evolution of rhodopsin structure and function across the terrestrial-aquatic transition of cetaceans

How can fur seals evolve to counteract changes in their environment?

The ecosystem approach: Recovering a river to help save the Southern Resident Killer Whales

Colleen Weiler; Rob Lott; Erich Hoyt; Deborah Giles; Kenneth Balcomb

Gliding down and stroking up: Blood oxygen depletion and exercise intensity in California sea lions

Control of reproduction in Northwest Atlantic harp seals and the impact of climate change

Activism vs education: When cetacean activism goes wrong

Michael Tift; Luis Huckstadt; Birgitte McDonald; Paul Ponganis

Garry Stenson; Alejandro Buren; Mike Hammill; Mariano Koen-Alonso

Heart rate regulation in diving California sea lions

Evaluation of sources of variation in pup mass gain in Weddell seals

Marine mammal harassment take estimates are fictional and what we can do about it

Paul Ponganis; Birgitte McDonald; Michael Tift; Luis Huckstadt

Jay Rotella; John Paterson; Robert Garrott; Jennifer Mannas

Physiological constraint in the foraging ecology and ability of otariids to respond to climate change

The effect of maternal care on demographic buffering in Steller sea lions (Eumetopias jubatus) and its relevance to population dynamics of other long-lived mammals

A social and ecological evaluation of marine mammal take reduction teams

Daniel Costa; Stella Villegas-Amtmann; Luis Husckstadt

Sara McDonald; Rebecca Lewison; Deborah Rigling-Gallagher; Andrew Read

Metabolic effects of drag on instrumented bottlenose dolphins

Red tide adversely impacts population viability of resident bottlenose dolphins

Principles, guidelines and a strategy for building capacity to respond to entangled large whales: Building a global whale entanglement response network

Julie van der Hoop; Andreas Fahlman; K. Alex Shorter; Julie Rocho-Levine; Micah Brodsky; Tom Hurst; Michael Moore

Lisa Schwarz; Randall Wells; Daniel Costa; Jason Allen; Elizabeth McCabe; Katherine McHugh; Spencer Fire

David Mattila; Arne Bjørge; Yong-Rock An; Paul Cottrell; Douglas Coughran; Greg Donovan; Astrid Frisch Jordán; Frances Gulland; Amy Knowlton; Scott Landry; Wayne Ledwell; Edward Lyman; Milton Marconde; Charles Mayo; Mike Meyer; Michael Moore; Mike Morrissey; Egil Ole Øen; Jooke Robbins; Teri Rowles; Mark Simmonds; Jamison Smith; Sohn Hawsun; Joanna Toole; Lissette Trejos Lasso; Marcela Uhart

Nina Young

Blubber cortisol levels in cetaceans: Effect of biopsy depth and anatomical location

Assigning stranded dolphins to stock using stable isotope ratios

Southeast U.S. Right Whale Recovery Plan Implementation Team: An example of a cooperative approach to advance conservation goals

Krista Catelani; Nicholas Kellar; Camryn Allen; Michelle Robbins; Nicole Beaulieu; Marisa Trego

Aleta Hohn; Len Thomas; Ruth Carmichael; Secret Holmes; Jenny Litz; Delphine Shannon; Steve Shippee; Carrie Sinclair; Suzanne Smith; Todd Speakman; Mandy Tumlin; Eric Zolman

Leslie Ward-Geiger; Barbara Zoodsma

Swimming metabolic rate and the cost of transport (COT) in subadult and adult fur seals and sea lions

Quantification of contaminant blubber burdens demonstrates contaminant ingestion in a free-ranging marine predator

Marine mammal bycatch in global fisheries and trade solutions under the Marine Mammal Protection Act, the next chapter

Monique Ladds; David Slip; Robert Harcourt

Michael Peterson; Sarah Peterson; Cathy Debier; Adrian Covaci; Daniel Costa

It is not just about the poop: Biogeography of the gut microbiota in bowhead whales provides novel insights into digestion

The return of harbor porpoises to San Francisco Bay after decades of absence

Size, challenges, and values of Marine Mammal Protected Areas in South and Southeast Asia

Carolyn Miller; Lara Horstmann-Dehn; John George; Mark Baumgartner; Benjamin Van Mooy; Amy Apprill

Marc Webber; William Keener; Isidore Szczepaniak; Jonathan Stern

Putu Mustika; Louisa Ponnampalam; Fairul Hisne; Ellen Hines; Swen Gin; Anoukchika Ilangakoon; Anna Poh; Cindy Peter; Jo Marie Acebes; Adityo Setiawan; Chalatip Junchompoo; Lindsay Porter

Acoustic fat bodies of beaked whales: Unexpected variation in physical and biochemical properties within the Ziphiids

Photogrammetric and respiratory assessment of blue whales using small drones

Sperm whale and killer whale depredation: Implications for the Alaskan sablefish stock assessment

Heather Koopman; Andrew Westgate; Tiffany Ernst; Ana Yanes; Gina Lonati; Molly Gabler

Michael Moore; John Durban; Gustavo Chiang; Leigh Hickmott; Alessandro Bocconcelli; Gloria Howes; Paulina Bahamonde; James Gilpatrick; Donald LeRoi; Wayne Perryman

Megan Peterson; Dana Hanselman; Brian Pyper

Effects of blubber collection procedure and seawater exposure in relation to lipid loss and hormone levels

The costs of first breeding in female southern elephant seals: Earlier is sometimes better

Mixing it up in Alaska: Habitat use of adult female Steller sea lions (Eumetopias jubatus) reveals a variety of foraging strategies

Camryn Allen; Nicole Beaulieu; Michelle Robbins; Krista Catelani; Marisa Trego; Nicholas Kellar

Chris Oosthuizen; Res Altwegg; Marie Nevoux; Marthán Bester; Nico de Bruyn

Michelle Lander; Brian Fadely; Thomas Gelatt; Jeremy Sterling; Devin Johnson; Martin Haulena; Susanne McDermott

Heat shock protein gene expression in blubber of grey seal (Halichoerus grypus) pups during suckling and the post weaning fast: Effects of development rather than contaminant exposure?

New demographic and biological evidence for the causes of decline of New Zealand sea lions

Where is the risk? Identifying by-catch hotspots for common dolphin (Delphinus delphis) and harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena)

Shawn Noren

Coffee & Tea

Chair: Tara Whitty - Scripps Institution of OceanographyClaudio Campagna - Wildlife Conservation SocietyMichael Orbach - Duke University

Poster Session 1 - Grand Ballroom

Holly Armstrong; Spyridon Stamatas; Sarah Brand; Ailsa Hall; Simon Moss; Paddy Pomeroy; Jean-Pierre Thomé; Cathy Debier; Kimberley Bennett

Jim Roberts; Simon Childerhouse; Wendi Roe; Ian Doonan

Patricia Breen; Susie Brown; David Reid; Emer Rogan

Blubber transcriptome response to acute stress in free-ranging northern elephant seals

Grey seals moving into new breeding areas at the Isle of May, Scotland incur no apparent survival costs

Jane Khudyakov; Cory Champagne; Daniel Crocker

Patrick Pomeroy; Ana Jesus; Simon Moss; Christian Ramp; Sophie Smout

Rapid muscle biochemistry maturation: A prerequisite for growing up in a polar environment with ephemeral breathing holes

The cost of hybridisation in Southern Ocean fur seals

Quantifying ship-whale encounters in Alaska

Debbie Baird-Bower; Melanie Lancaster; Joe Hoffman; Mark Hindell; Clive McMahon; Simon Goldsworthy

Scott Gende; Karin Webb; Noble Hendrix; Paul Lukacs; Sara Williams

Friday, 18 December 2015

Time Talks - Biology Talks - Conservation

Continental 1-4 Continental 5Chair: Colleen Reichmuth Chair: Gill Braulik

8:30-8:45

8:45-9:00

9:00-9:15

9:15-9:30

9:30-9:45

Janet Neilson; Christine Gabriele

Breathing currents of prey fish quantified to predict their role in benthic predation

Increased kelp gull-inflicted lesions on southern right whale (Eubalaena australis) calves at Península Valdés, Argentina

Wolf Hanke; Alexander Bublitz; Benedikt Niesterok

Carina Marón; Lucas Beltramino; Matías Di Martino; Andrea Chirife; Jon Seger; Marcela Uhart; Mariano Sironi; Victoria Rowntree

Temporal and spectral changes in dolphin hearing sensitivity during echolocation

Short and long-term population consequences of increased calf mortality in the southern right whales off Argentina

James Finneran; Jason Mulsow; Dorian Houser

Jon Seger; Carina Maron; Victoria Rowntree; Mariano Sironi; Marcela Uhart; Roger Payne; Frederick Adler

Five years of CHAOZ in the Arctic: Results from a multi-disciplinary study in the Alaskan Chukchi Sea

Evaluating the effects of satellite tagging on female reproduction in humpback whales

Jessica Crance; Catherine Berchok; Ellen Garland; Adam Spear; Jeff Napp; Phyllis Stabeno

Jooke Robbins; Alexandre Zerbini; Frances Gulland; Nick Gales; Michael Double; Phillip Clapham; Jennifer Tackaberry; Scott Landry; David Mattila

The biogeochemical role of baleen whales in Southern Ocean nutrient cycling

Reverse-engineering allowable limits to cumulative and sub-lethal effects of human activities on cetacean populations

Lavenia Ratnarajah; Andrew Bowie; Delphine Lannuzel; Klaus Meiners; Stephen Nicol; Jessica Melbourne-Thomas; Martin Marzloff; Fanny Chever

Rob Williams; Len Thomas; Erin Ashe; Chris Clark; Philip Hammond

Whale whiskers: Small structures for big sensation?

Long-term humpback whale population monitoring in Glacier Bay, Alaska

Christin Murphy; Marilyn Marx; Alison French; Nancy Simmons; Joy Lapseritis

9:45-10:00

10:00-10:30 Coffee & Tea

Talks - GeneticsContinental 1-4 Continental 5

Chair: Frank Cipriano

10:30-10:45

10:45-11:00

11:00-11:15

11:15-11:30

Size matters: Scaling in toothed whale biosonars

Role of place-based conservation initiatives in influencing business development planning: Potential application to marine mammal conservation in Southeast Asia

Peter Madsen; Mark Johnson; Danuta Wisniewska; Frants Jensen

Fairul Izmal Jamal Hisne; Louisa Ponnampalam; Duncan Lang

Talks - Human Dimensions -

Chair: Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara

The genomic basis of ecotype formation in the killer whale

Important Marine Mammal Areas (IMMAs): Why do we need them?

Andrew Foote; Nagarjun Vijay; María Ávila-Arcos; Robin Baird; John Durban; Matteo Fumagalli; Richard Gibbs; Brad Hanson; Thorfinn Korneliussen; Mike Martin; Kelly Robertson; Filipe Vieira; Tomas Vinař; Paul Wade; Kim Worley; Philip Morin; Thomas Gilbert; Jochen Wolf

Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara; Erich Hoyt; Michael Tetley; Kristin Kaschner; Simone Panigada

Detection of fine-scale population structure of the Atlantic white-sided dolphin (Lagenorhynchus acutus) in the western North Atlantic using RAD-seq data

Important Marine Mammal Areas (IMMAs): Methods and data availability for establishing global reference points for the assessment of relative importance of sites

Nicole Vollmer; Vanessa Gonzalez; Veronique Lesage; Charles Potter; Patricia Rosel; Frederick Wenzel

Kristin Kaschner; Heiko Schmidt; Michael Tetley; Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara; Erich Hoyt

Support for a new subspecies of fin whales (Balaenoptera physalus) in the North Pacific from mtDNA diagnosability and SNP genotype differentiation

IMMA criteria: Results from a marine mammal taxa community-wide consultation

Frederick Archer; Phillip Morin; Brittany Hancock-Hanser; Kelly Robertson; Martine Bérubé; Simone Panigada; Angela Sremba; C. Scott Baker; Barbara Taylor

Michael Tetley; Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara; Erich Hoyt; Kristin Kaschner

The holotype specimen of Balaenoptera edeni Anderson 1879 is really a B. edeni and different from B. brydei

How the IUCN standard for the identification of key biodiversity areas can be used to identify globally important sites for marine mammals

Chiou-Ju Yao; Yuko Tajima; Ramakrishna Arkalgud; Lalji Singh; Sunil Verma; Masayuki Oishi; Shiro Wada; Rvindra Sinha; Tadasu Yamada (Presenter)

Penny Langhammer; Annabelle Cuttelod; Charlotte Boyd

11:30-11:45

11:45-12:00

12:00-13:00 Lunch

Talks - Ecology Talks - EvolutionContinental 1-4 Continental 5

Chair: Aimee Lang Chair: Annalisa Berta13:00-13:15

13:15-13:30

13:30-13:45

13:45-14:00

Reagan Furbish; Annalisa Berta

Introgressive hybridization of Fraser's dolphin mitochondrial and nuclear DNA into Mariana Islands bottlenose dolphins

Applying the IUCN Key Biodiversity Area criteria to blue whales and other highly-mobile cetaceans

Karen Martien; Samuel Woodman; Kelly Robertson; Marie Hill; Louella Dolar; Frederick Archer; Erin Oleson

Charlotte Boyd; Mario Pardo; Penny Langhammer; Tim Gerrodette; Jessica Redfern

Genetic evidence for a new species of Baird's beaked whale (Berardius sp.) in the North Pacific

How genetics can support the identification of Important Marine Mammal Areas (IMMAs)

Phillip Morin; C. Scott Baker; Reid Brewer; Alexander Burdin; Merel Dalebout; James Dines; Ivan Fedutin; Olga Filatova; Erich Hoyt; Jean-Luc Jung; Morgane Lauf; Charles Potter; Gaëtan Richard; Michelle Ridgway; Kelly Robertson; Paul Wade

Francine Kershaw; Howard Rosenbaum

Seeing with sound: Using echograms to visualize the predator-prey interactions of odontocetes

Coevolution of female and male reproductive tract anatomy in cetaceans

Jeanne Shearer; Mark Johnson; Natacha Aguilar; Frants Jensen; Danuta Wisniewska; Peter Tyack; Fleur Visser; Peter Madsen

Sarah Mesnick; Dara Orbach; Kerri Danil; Susan Chivers; Todd Robeck; Giselle Montano; Frances Gulland; Christopher Marshall; Alan Dixson

Distinctive sounds for search, approach, and capture are revealed when dolphins carry cameras as they find and eat fish

Using simulation to evaluate the performance of a PBR Tier System

Sam Ridgway; Dianna Samuelson; Kaitlin Van Alstyne; Dru Ann Price

John Brandon; André Punt; Paula Moreno; Randall Reeves

Hypometabolism in pregnant females: A key adaptation for the world's smallest marine mammal (Enhydra lutris)?

On the evolution of acoustic communication of cetaceans and their terrestrial relatives

Daniel Monson; Tim Tinker; Michelle Staedler; George Esslinger; Jim Bodkin; Mike Murray; Brenda Ballachey; Nicole Thometz

Laura May-Collado; Tricia Daniels; Ingi Agnarsson; Susan Parks

Comparing overall and foraging habitat use in sympatric grey (Halichoerus grypus) and harbour (Phoca vitulina) seals

Just add water: An analysis of the pinniped family Desmatophocidae, its phylogenetic position and swimming mode

Deborah Russell; Esther Jones; Bernie McConnel; Dave Thompson; Philip Hammond; Paul Thompson; Jason Matthiopoulos

14:00-14:15

14:15-14:30

14:30-15:15 Coffee & Tea

General Meeting and Awards15:15-16:15 Member's Meeting16:15-17:00 Kenneth S. Norris Lifetime Achievement Award

Increase and diffusion? The role of the Smithsonian in marine mammal science17:00-17:45 Awards Ceremony

19:00-23:00 Birthday Bash - San Francisco City Hall

Molecular evidence of icthyophagous feeding in blue whales

Widespread hybridization in Cetacea: An analysis of driving factors

Diane Gendron; Karina Acevedo-Whitehouse; Cristina Jiménez-Pinedo

Carla Crossman; Eric Taylor; Lance Barrett-Lennard

Friday, 18 December 2015

Talks - Population Biology Talks - Anatomy

Continental 6-9 Imperial AChair: Christina Lockyer Chair: Ann Pabst

Phillip Clapham

Shannon Bettridge; Marta Nammack

The status of large whale populations in the North Pacific

Tread water feeding of Bryde's whales in upper Gulf of Thailand

Takashi Iwata; Tomonari Akamatsu; Surasak Thongsukdee; Phaothep Cherdsukjai; Kanjana Adulyanukosol; Katsufumi Sato

Genetic identification, temporal stability and mixed-stock analysis of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) in the nearshore waters of western Antarctic Peninsula

Stretchy nerves withstand high deformation during lunge feeding in rorquals

Renee Albertson; Ari Friedlaender; Debbie Steel; Anelio Aguayo-Lobo; Sandro Bonatto; Rochelle Constantine; Ana Cypriano-Souza; Marcia Engel; Claire Garrigue; Lillian Florez-Gonzalez; David Johnston; Douglas Nowacek; Carlos Olavarria; Michael Poole; Andrew Read; Jooke Robbins; Scott Baker

Robert Shadwick; Margo Lillie; Marina Piscitelli; Jeremy Goldbogen; Nicholas Pyenson; Wayne Vogl

Running fast in the slow lane: Rapid population growth of the humpback whale after exploitation

Accuracy and reliability of cetacean cranial morphometrics using computed tomography 3-D volume rendered images

Leonardo Wedekin; Márcia Engel; Mariana Neves; Artur Andriolo; Milton Marcondes; Paulo Prado; Paul Kinas; Alexandre Zerbini; Paulo Simões-Lopes

Hei Long Adams Yuen; Chun Lok Henry Tsui; Chin Wing Brian Kot

Catching up to conservation: Management regime challenges for recovering humpback whale populations

How do whales stow their baleen? A comparative biomechanical analysis

Alexander Werth; Michael Rosario; Todd Sformo; Robert Suydam; J. Craig George

Modeling predator and prey hotspots: Implications of co-occurrence of blue whales and krill in Central California

Ballasted bowheads: Bone density variations as part of the life history strategy of bowhead whales

Suzanne Manugian; Meredith Elliott; Julie Howar; Benjamin Saenz; Jennifer McGowan; Nadav Nur; Jaime Jahncke

John George; Raphaela Stimmelmayr; Sharon Usip; Robert Suydam; Hans Thewissen

Coffee & Tea

Talks - Acoustics Talks - ConservationContinental 6-9 Imperial A

Chair: Brandon Southall Chair: Samantha Simmons

Stacie Robinson; Charles Littnan

Genetic monitoring of New Zealand's critically endangered Māui dolphins - results of surveys in 2015

The cranial anatomy of balaenopterid cetaceans

C. Scott Baker; Debbie Steel; Rebecca Hamner; Laura Boren; William Arlidge; Garry Hickman; Rochelle Constantine

Maya Yamato; August Pivorunas; James Mead; Nick Pyenson

Intra-specific variability in delphinid whistle structure: Implications for acoustic species identification

Seals, sharks and the consequences of conservation success on Cape Cod

Julie Oswald; Kerry Dunleavy; Cory Hom-Weaver; Tina Yack; Shannon Rankin; Lynne Hodge; Melissa Soldevilla; Anthony Martinez; Andrew Read

David Johnston; Jerry Moxley; Gregory Skomal; Andrew Read

Using CT scans to estimate mass of sound producing muscles in odontocetes: Implications for scaling the cost of vocal modification

Impacts of nearshore fisheries on monk seals in the main Hawaiian Islands

Robin Dunkin; Dawn Noren; Marla Holt; Terrie Williams

Tracy Wurth; Kathleen Gobush; John Henderson; Brenda Becker; Charles Littnan

Listening in on the deep: Assessing year-round occurrence of cetaceans in the Gully MPA and nearby areas using autonomous passive acoustic recorders

Shuffling seals successfully: Factors making translocation an effective tool in Hawaiian monk seal conservation

Hilary Moors-Murphy; Clair Evers; Emma Marotte; Bruce Martin; Katie Kowarski; Xavier Mouy; Julien Delarue

High-frequency clicks associated with low-frequency minke whale pulse trains recorded at three separate locations in the Western North Atlantic

Demographic and reproductive status of the Mediterranean monk seal (Monachus monachus) population at the island of Gyaros, Cyclades Islands, Greece

Denise Risch; Simone Baumann-Pickering; Lynne Hodge; Thomas Norris; Andrew Read; Joy Stanistreet; Sofie Van Parijs

Panagiotis Dendrinos; Stella Adamantopoulou

Lunch

Talks - Acoustics Talks - AnatomyContinental 6-9 Imperial A

Chair: Michael Weise Chair: Alex Werth

D. Ann Pabst; William McLellan

Scott Myers

Kevin Carlin; Sam Ridgway

Upcalls of the North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis) contain individually distinctive parameters

Risk assessment and mitigation of icebreaker impacts on Holarctic pinnipeds

Holly Root-Gutteridge; Jessica McCordic; Susan Parks

Simon Goodman; Irina Trukhanova; Imogen Crawford; Evgeniya Dolgova; Lilia Dmitrieva; Susan WilsonInsights into the role of non-signature

whistles in bottlenose dolphin communication

Habitat reduction of critically endangered Saimaa ringed seal

Laela Sayigh; Claire Stuhlmann; Randall Wells; Vincent Janik

Jouni Koskela; Arto Vilén; Timo Halme; Raisa Tiilikainen; Tero Sipilä

Echolocation is cheap: Dolphins conserve oxygen while clicking at depth

Sex determination of free-ranging adult Cuvier's beaked whales (Ziphius cavirostris) using natural marking thresholds and pigmentation patternsDawn Noren; Marla Holt; Robin

Dunkin; Terrie WilliamsMassimiliano Rosso; Frazer Coomber; Paola Tepsich; Aurelie Moulins

Atlantic bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) whistle rates and blood cortisol levels during periods of perceived stress

The extreme morphology of mesoplodonts

Holli Eskelinen; Samantha Tufano (Presenter); Jill Borger-TurnerModeling the effects of noise on Orca echolocation success

Measurement of hydrodynamic force generation by tail stands in dolphins using Bubble DPIV

Frank Fish; Terrie Williams; Timothy Wei

Beluga whale (Delphinapterus leucas) protective hearing change following a warning sound is learned through classical conditioning

Neonatal brain size and gestation duration in cetaceans

Paul Nachtigall; Alexander Supin; Aude Pacini; Jose-Antonio Estaban

Coffee & Tea

James Mead - Smithsonian InstitutionIncrease and diffusion? The role of the Smithsonian in marine mammal science

Effects of airgun sounds on bowhead whale calling rates: Evidence for two behavioral thresholds

Diffusion tensor imaging of dolphin brains reveals direct auditory pathway to temporal lobe

Susanna Blackwell; Christopher Nations; Trent McDonald; Aaron Thode; Delphine Mathias; Katherine Kim; Charles Greene; Michael Macrander

Gregory Berns; Peter Cook; Sean Foxley; Saad Jbabdi; Karla Miller; Lori Marino

Anatomical specializations for swallowing food in cetaceansKelsey Gil; Margo Lillie; Robert Shadwick

Friday, 18 December 2015

Imperial BChair: Lynne Barre

Reny Tyson; Gail Tyson

Talks - Education and Communication

Sharing a whale's tale: Wyatt's Antarctic Adventure

Conflict, narratives, and the process of conservation: Finding new ways of doing business to save the endangered Hawaiian monk seal

Rachel Sprague; Francine Madden; Megan Draheim; Charles Littnan

The secret lives of killer whales: Taking complex science into the classroom

Jeffrey Hogan; Candice Emmons; Marla Holt; Brad Hanson

Using marine mammal sounds to engage visually impaired students in the sciences

Mary Curran; Laela Sayigh; Kathleen Patterson

Discovery of Sound in the Sea (DOSITS): Resources for decision makersKathleen Vigness-Raposa; Gail Scowcroft; Christopher Knowlton; Holly Morin

Coffee & Tea

Talks - PhysiologyImperial B

Chair: Birgitte McDonald

Laura Thompson; Tracy Romano

#Monkseal: Social media as a tool for science, conservation, and public relations for Hawaiian monk seals

Mark Sullivan; Stacie Robinson; Charles Littnan

Metabolic rate and respiratory physiology in the walrus (Odobenus rosmarus)Andreas Fahlman; Alexandra Epple; Stephen Loring; Daniel Garcia-Párraga; Micah Brodsky

The combined influence of diving and physiological challenges on cellular immune function in marine mammals

Effects of electronic instrumentation on thermoregulation in northern fur seals

Heather Liwanag; Natalia Gmuca; Carey Kuhn; Bobette Dickerson

The fat of the matter: Bowhead whale fat digestion and storage

Lara Horstmann-Dehn; Craig George; Alexandra Oliveira

Lunch

Talks - Human DimensionsImperial B

Chair: Carlie Wiener

Sascha Hooker

East or West: How much does it cost to be a gray whale?

Stella Villegas-Amtmann; Lisa Schwarz; James Sumich; Daniel CostaDegrees of physiological freedom: A new analytical tool for determining 3-dimensional critical habitats for marine mammalsTerrie Williams; Beau Richter; Traci Kendall; Courtney Ribeiro-French; Jason John; Nicole Thometz

Conservation planning for marine predators: A theoretical investigation of the benefits of MPAs compared to other forms of threat reduction

Integrating multiple data sets to improve acoustic detection data for endangered killer whales: A case study to better inform potential Critical Habitat near a US Navy Training RangeBradley Hanson; Eric Ward; Candice Emmonns; Marla Holt; Damon HolzerLack of recovery of beluga population in Cumberland Sound, Eastern Canadian Arctic

Marianne Marcoux; Marci Trana; Cory Matthews; Bailey McMeans; Aaron Fisk; Steven Ferguson

Thinking strategically in the Aleutian Archipelago

Douglas Burn; Martin Robards; Aaron Poe

Coffee & Tea

An introduction to biologically important areas within US waters

Megan Ferguson; Corrie Curtice; Sofie Van Parijs; Jolie Harrison; Patrick Halpin