Health and Physiology
Bottlenose dolphin health assessments in Sarasota Bay
Health assessments were not conducted in Sarasota Bay during 2007, in order to provide breathing time for staff and colleagues to process samples, analyze data, prepare reports and manuscripts, and develop ideas for future research, as evidenced in the information presented below.

Current Research

• Persistent organohalogen contaminants in Sarasota Bay’s bottlenose dolphins
• Effects of mercury on Sarasota’s bottlenose dolphins
• Dolphin health and human health
• Effects of red tide on dolphins, sea turtles, and sea birds
• Studies of dolphin milk composition
• Recording the thermal behavior of wild dolphins
• Marine Mammal Unusual Mortality Events occurring at record levels

Previous Research

• Health assessment research in Sarasota Bay
• Investigating bottlenose dolphin health along the Florida panhandle, at the site of a series of Unusual Mortality Events
• Brominated flame retardants in bottlenose dolphins in Sarasota Bay
• Trace element homogeneity in bottlenose dolphin ski
• Health assessment projects in Sarasota Bay and St. Joseph Bay, Florida
• Health assessment modelling
• Microorganisms in bottlenose dolphins
• Humoral immune function of bottlenose dolphins: establishing baseline parameters
• Immune system function of bottlenose dolphins
• Organic environmental contaminants in bottlenose dolphins
• Emerging organic contaminants in bottlenose dolphins from Sarasota Bay
• Non-lethal monitoring of trace elements in Sarasota Bay bottlenose dolphins
• Mercury and Selenium: A contaminant and nutrient interaction assessment
• Investigating the thermal response of Sarasota Bay dolphins to changing environmental temperatures
• Evaluating bottlenose dolphin health from breath samples
• Health Assessment Modeling and Effects of Environmental Contaminants
• Emerging Contaminants in Bottlenose Dolphins from Sarasota Bay
• Mercury and Selenium: A Contaminant and Nutrient Interaction Assessment
• Dolphin Immunology Research
• Fatty Acids in Bottlenose Dolphins
• Humoral Immune Function of Bottlenose Dolphins: Establishing Baseline Parameters
• Investigating the Thermal Response of Sarasota Bay Dolphins to Changing Environmental Temperatures
• Effects of Red Tide Toxin on Bottlenose Dolphins
• Bottlenose Dolphin Population Health Assessments
• What Can Dolphin Exhalations Tell Us About Their Health and Reproduction?
• Integrating Life History, Health, and Reproductive Success Data to Examine Potential Relationships with Organochlorine Contaminants for Bottlenose Dolphins in Sarasota Bay