Marine Mammal Science

On this episode guest Ragan Davey, the Alaska Marine Representative from Defenders of Wildlife, talks about Beluga Conservation in Cook Inlet.   

On this week's episode Dr Scarlett Smash (Dr Ashley Scarlett) and Dr Chris Parsons discuss recent marine mammal news that is causing major concerns.

On this week's episode Dr Scarlett Smash (Dr Ashley Scarlett) and Dr Chris Parsons discuss recent marine mammal news that is causing major concerns.

On this episode Dr Scarlet Smash chats with Dr Ashley Blawas about her PhD disseration work on whale and dolphin's cardiovascular and metabolic processes.

On this episode Dr Ashley Scarlett (Dr Scarlett Smash) chats with Lauren Kashiwabara about her work studying the effects of plastic pollution.

On this week's episodes Dr Ashley Scarlett (Dr Scarlett Smash) has Dr Simon Elwen explain what is happening to white sharks in Africa. He goes over the detailed footage that was captured.

On this week's episode, Dr. Ashley Scarlett (Dr. Scarlett Smash) chats with Dr. Imogen Webster, Lead for Programme Development at IWC about the new IWC document – General Principles for Whale Watching.

On this week's episode Dr. Scarlett Smash chats with Dr. Vivienne Foroughirad about her research on the social structure and kinship in female bottlenose dolphins.

On this week's episode Dr Ashley Scarlett (Dr Scarlett Smash) chats with Dr. Séverine Methion, lead investigator on dolphin research at the Bottlenose Dolphin Research Institute, who tells us about how bottlenose dolphin group size varies with the environment.

On this week's episode Dr Ashley Scarlett (Dr Scarlett Smash) chats with Dr. Bruno Díaz López the founder of the Bottlenose Dolphin Research Institute, who tells us about how bottlenose  dolphin group size varies with climate and oceanographic conditions , and the work of BDRI.

On this week's episode Dr Ashley Scarlett (Dr Scarlett Smash) chats with Dr Marie Louis about her recent work on population structure of narwhals.

This week's episode is memorializing and honoring the late Graham Derzon-Supplee and his work on common bottlenose dolphins. Graham was a rising star in marine science, who we sadly lost far too young. Dr Tara Cox, his research advisor, tells Dr Ashley Scarlett (Dr Scarlett Smash) about the the fond memories that she has of Graham and the fascinating research he was doing.

On this week's episode Dr Ashley Scarlett (Dr Scarlett Smash) chats with Dr Shirel Kahane-Rapport about microplastics in the sea and her work with baleen whales.

On this week's episode Dr. Ashley Scarlett (Dr Scarlett Smash) has Rhea Storlund is a PhD candidate studying cardiovascular anatomy and function in diving behaviors.

On this week's episode Dr Ashley Scarlett (Dr Scarlett Smash) has Rachel Aronson, "Quiet Sound" Program Director at Washington Maritime Blue to talk about their voluntary vessel slow down project in Puget Sound that they hope will help the endangered Southern Resident killer whales.

In this week's episode Ashley Scarlett (Dr Scarlett Smash) continues to chat with Guilherme Frainer from Sea Search, who explains how dolphins with broken beaks can still survive and hypothesizes the cause of the injuries.

In this week's episode Ashley Scarlett (Dr Scarlett Smash) chats to Guilherme Frainer from Sea Search, about how dolphins produce sound. Gui also explains some differences between dolphins species.

On this week’s episode Dr Ashley Scarlett (Dr Scarlett Smash) is joined by past host Dr Chris Parsons. They discuss the recent International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting and how important science and conservation is to the IWC

On this week’s episode Ashley Scarlett (Dr Scarlett Smash) has an in depth conversation with Sasha Dines from Sea Search Research and Conservation, about bioacoustics as a monitoring tool to for dolphins across Southern Africa.

On this week's episodes Dr Ashley Scarlett (Dr Scarlett Smash) chats with Dr Chris Parsons about how CITES works and protect marine mammals.