Involvement in Other Marine Mammal Conservation and Research Activities

Current Research, January 2010

• Dolphin tag development
• Franciscana dolphin conservation program in Argentina: Efforts to reduce incidental captures in gillnets
• Conservation genetics of Franciscana dolphins
• Human-related problems affecting wild dolphin populations along the Pacific coast of Guatemala
• Ecology and conservation of Guiana dolphins in the Colombian Caribbean Sea (2002-2010)
• Scientific representation on the Bottlenose Dolphin Take Reduction Team
• SDRP participation in international scientific conferences in 2009

Previous Research

• Tagging and tracking of franciscana dolphins in Argentina, Year 4
• Conservation genetics of franciscana dolphins
• Ecology and conservation of Guiana's dolphin in the Colombian Caribbean Sea (2002-2009)
• Marine mammal conservation and research in Guatemala
• Tracking spotted dolphins in the Eastern Tropical Pacific
• Assessment and management of dolphins around islands
• Entanglement Working Group update
• Tagging and tracking of Franciscana dolphins in Argentina: Year 3
• Gannon and Wells participate in NOAA/NMFS Take Reduction Teams
• Entanglement Working Group update
• Helping to conserve manatees in Southern Mesoamerica
• Tagging and tracking of Franciscana dolphins in Argentina: Year 2
• Distribution, habitat use, and relative abundance of coastal dolphins in the Gulf of Morrosquillo, Colombia.
• Searching for baiji dolphins in the Yangtze River: Will this be the first cetacean species to go extinct in our lifetime?
• Dolphins in Bangladesh
• Scientific Representative on Take Reduction Teams
• Entanglement Working Group

• Bermuda bottlenose dolphin tracking project update
• Radio tagging of Franciscana dolphins in Argentina
• Distribution, habitat use and relative abundance of coastal tucuxi and bottlenose dolphins in the Gulf of Morrosquillo, Colombia
• Genetic population structure of coastal tucuxi dolphins in Southern Brazil
• Serving as a Scientific Representative on a NMFS Take Reduction Team