The end of 2013 is upon us, and DCP brings you the latest dolphin research roundup with our final Dolphin Gazette of the year.
Join Sacred Heart University (SHU) in Bimini, The Bahamas for a 12-night field course in cetacean ecology!
This course was a huge success last year and we look forward to another success in 2014. The course begins with an online component, with Professor Deirdre Yeater, on 19 May 2014. By 27 May all students will arrive in Bimini, for classroom time and fieldwork! With 8 boat trips in search of Bimini’s wild dolphins, students will experience many facets of wild dolphin research.
All participants must take this course for credit through SHU, however visiting students are encouraged to apply.
We're proud to announce the latest overflowing issue of our quarterly newsletter, The Dolphin Gazette. In this issue, Kathleen shares updates from her recent trip to Europe and we continue our push to achieve our FundAGeek goal. Justin is busy preparing for the second installment in his collaborative Apes and Dolphins Seminar Series. For those of you interested in our Bimini, Bahamas field site, we hope you enjoy updates not only from Kel, but also from our summer interns.
Words are not enough to to express our thanks to the team at Wildlife Acoustics! They have been very supportive of our research studying dolphin calls and noise levels. DCP was honored to beta test the very first SM2M recorder off Bimini (pictured here). This passive acoustic recorder is autonomous: we deployed it for two ~2-week stints off Bimini to record sounds continuously.
DCP is proud to announce the launch of our first ever attempt at crowdfunding!
Check out this article written by a young
student journalist with The Simpson Street Free Press and featuring an
interview with DCP Director Kathleen Dudzinski: http://www.simpsonstreetfreepress.org/glendale-free-press/animal-watch/dolphins
The Dolphin Gazette Issue 17.2 is now
available! Good luck trying to decide what to read about first in this
issue! Been dying to know how Justin's seminar went? Curious about the whale that stranded in Bimini? Or is Kathleen's fall 2013 visit
to RIMS, and DCP's first go at crowd-funding, that has you avoiding
doing the dishes? Fear not! You can read all about these and other DCP
updates in the latest issue of The Dolphin Gazette.
For all you dolphin and ape fans out there: DCP researcher Justin Gregg be giving a series of seminars (together with the philosopher Esteban Rivas) this summer concerning the study of intelligence and language in apes and dolphins. The first seminar titled "Why can’t apes and dolphins talk?" takes place on April 13th at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. If this interests you, or if you think someone you know might be interested, check out visit www.apesanddolphins.com and/or like the seminar's Facebook page.
DCP is pleased to announce that applications will now be accepted until 15 February 2013.
Applications for what, you say?
Our 12-night field course studying wild dolphins in Bimini, The Bahamas, that's what!
Join Sacred Heart University and DCP from 28 May - 9 June for a 200-level, 3-credit field course. With introductions to dolphin biology, behavior and photo-ID, this course includes 8 boat trips in search of Bimini's wild dolphins. During those trips, students will help search for dolphins, record sighting data and collect underwater digital photographs for DCP's photo-ID catalog.
Following from Justin's blog post on this subject, we thought it might be helpful to let students know that the journal Aquatic Mammals put together a collection of videos featuring advice to students wishing to pursue a career in marine mammal science. Over 40 if the world's leading marine mammalogists provide students with words of wisdom on how to break into the field.