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Marine Mammal Science is a podcast covering some of the latest scientific research on marine mammals – whales and dolphins, polar bears, seals and sea lions, manatees and dugongs, and sea otters. The podcast is produced by Absolutely Smashing Events and Consulting on behalf of the Society for Marine Mammalogy and the journal Marine Mammal Science. The host, editor and producer is Dr. Ashley Scarlett, familiarly known as Dr Scarlett Smash.

Marine Mammal Science The Society for Marine Mammalogy

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    • 4.8 • 45 Ratings

Marine Mammal Science is a podcast covering some of the latest scientific research on marine mammals – whales and dolphins, polar bears, seals and sea lions, manatees and dugongs, and sea otters. The podcast is produced by Absolutely Smashing Events and Consulting on behalf of the Society for Marine Mammalogy and the journal Marine Mammal Science. The host, editor and producer is Dr. Ashley Scarlett, familiarly known as Dr Scarlett Smash.

    Pacific coast feeding group's morphology and Climate Change

    Pacific coast feeding group's morphology and Climate Change

    On this episode Dr Scarlett Smash talks to Dr KC Bierlich, a postdoctoral scholar about his research on the Pacific coast feeding group (PCFG) gray whales. Dr Bierlich is investigating the health of whales in a changing climate, with drones.

    • 22 min
    Zoop to Poop: Pacific Coast Feeding Group

    Zoop to Poop: Pacific Coast Feeding Group

    On this episode Dr Scarlett Smash has chats with Lisa Hildebrand, a PhD student at Oregon State University's Marine Mammal Institute, about her work analyzing  the “summer resident” gray whale sub-species' prey species from their scat. The   results were a big surprise!

    • 25 min
    "Summer resident” gray whales

    "Summer resident” gray whales

    On this episode Dr Scarlett Smash has chats with Dr. Leigh Torres, head of the GEMM Lab, about the health and habitat of the “summer resident” gray whale sub-species.

    • 21 min
    Wind Turbines and noise underwater

    Wind Turbines and noise underwater

    On this episode Dr Scarlett Smash has a conversation with Dr. Jim Miller about offshore wind turbines and cetaceans.
     

    • 27 min
    Working in conjunction with fishing communities in India

    Working in conjunction with fishing communities in India

    On this episode Dr Scarlett Smash chats with Dr. Dipani Sutaria about engaging fishing communities to mitigate cetacean bycatch in the west coast of India.
     

    • 22 min
    Solitary sociable dolphins

    Solitary sociable dolphins

    On this episode Dr Chris Parsons chats with Liz Sandeman from Marine Connection about the phenomenon of solitary, sociable dolphins - when single wild dolphins interact with humans. Sadly these situations often come to an unfortunate end for the dolphins. They talk about what to do if one of these dolphins is reported and ways to manage the situation to help protect both the dolphin and humans.

    • 25 min

Customer Reviews

4.8 out of 5
45 Ratings

45 Ratings

A Very Covid Relief ,

Informative

Always like tuning in

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Does anyone else have issues with the hosts voice?

Love the content, however the voice patterns of the host make it hard to listen. Is this just me?

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Well done!

The WGRP is worth your time! Listen to this podcast or and know that they are out there doing the good work!

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