Health and Physiology

Current Research, January 2010

• Potential climate change effects on dolphins
• Sarasota Bay dolphin health assessment 2009
• Collaborative field effort to assess dolphin health near Brunswick, Georgia and Sapelo Island National Estuarine Research Reserve
• A geographical perspective on bottlenose dolphin contamination
• Study focuses on disease known only from dolphins and humans: Lacaziosis project summary
• Hearing abilities of bottlenose dolphins in Sarasota Bay
• Impact of viral diseases on bottlenose dolphins
• Lungworms in dolphins: New findings about a common threat

Previous Research

• Bottlenose dolphin health assessments in Sarasota Bay
• Persistent organic pollutants in bottlenose dolphins
• The prevalence and progression of lobomycosis in Sarasota Bay dolphins
• Total circulating antibody levels and eosinophil counts are higher in the Sarasota Bay dolphin community than in managed collection population
• Two novel dolphin viruses: Parainfluenza and Enterovirus
• Effects of red tide on dolphins, sea turtles and sea birds
• Blubber deposition during development in free-ranging bottlenose dolphins: balancing disparate roles of insulation and locomotion
• Hearing abilities of bottlenose dolphins in Sarasota Bay
• 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
• 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