Rescues of entangled dolphins, Deepwater Horizon oil spill-related research, and international conservation capacity building activities were added to our usual behavioral and ecological studies in 2011. You can read about them by downloading a pdf of our annual newsletter Nicks n Notches. It contains articles written by SDRP staff, students, visiting scientists, and current and former [...]
January, 2012 Our desire with each research or conservation project in Florida or elsewhere is to contribute to a better understanding of the structure and dynamics of populations of small cetaceans (dolphins, whales, and porpoises), as well as the natural and anthropogenic factors (factors of human origin) that impact them. We use an interdisciplinary and [...]
In April of 2011 the SDRP community was saddened by the passing of its dear friend Bill Scott following his long fight with cancer. Bill had been a valued and beloved colleague since he first came to work with us as an Earthwatch volunteer back in the fall of 1990. Over the next 21 years [...]
Again in 2011, for a second year, the story continues to be calves, calves and more calves. We have followed up last summer’s 17 new babies with a very respectable eight newborns in 2011. It has been a decade since so many calves have been born into the population over only two years. 2011 moms [...]
Coastal estuaries such as Sarasota Bay are reservoirs of biological diversity; however, out of the thousands of species that inhabit Sarasota Bay, bottlenose dolphins are of special ecological importance for at least two reasons. They are large predators near the top of their food web and they are long-lived. Top predators are useful indicators of [...]
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