Marine Mammal Science

On this week's episode Dr. Ashley Scarlett (Dr. Scarlett Smash) has guest Jamie Aquino, founder of Haiti Ocean Project to talk about her mantee conservation work in Haiti. This is part 2 of 2 episodes for this interview.

On this week's episode Dr. Ashley Scarlett (Dr. Scarlett Smash) has guest Jamie Aquino, founder of Haiti Ocean Project to talk about her conservation work in Haiti. This is part 1 of 2 episodes for this interview.

On this week’s episode Dr Ashley Scarlett (Dr Scarlett Smash) has the Cynde McInnis on the show to talk about her inflatable whale used for whale education and conservation outreach.

On this week’s episode Dr Ashley Scarlett (Dr Scarlett Smash) has the owner of The Whale Mobile, Cynde McInnis on the show to talk about innovative outreach and multi-spacial learning.

On this week's episode Dr Ashley Scarlett (Dr Scarlett Smash) has sea otter researcher Julia Adelsheim on the show to teach us about sea otters and the new bioenergetic model that she is creating to better understand the potential energetic limitations imposed by their dietary choices

On this week's episode, Dr Ashley Scarlett’s (Dr Scarlett Smash) guest Taryn Scarff talks about her graduate research on transient killer whale presence and prey consumption in the waters of Vancouver Island.

On this week’s episode, Dr Ashley Scarlett (Dr Scarlett Smash) hears about the real-life field experience that Dr Maite De Maria had to go through while collecting samples, to analyze pollutants in manatees. 

On this week’s episode, Dr Ashley Scarlett (Dr Scarlett Smash) has a great time with David Stemmer chatting about whale skeletons and whale poop.

On this week's episode Ashley Scarlett (Dr Scarlett Smash) chats with Dr Jack Fearey about his dissertation that focused on investigating the use of signature whistles to study the population ecology of dolphins.

On this week’s episode Dr Ashley Scarlett (Dr Scarlett Smash) chats with guest Alexi Archer at the 24th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals, about her research on human - interaction behaviors of common bottlenose dolphins and how to reduce their negative impacts. *The marine mammal protection act that protects marine mammals from harassment was passed in 1972.

This is the final of three episodes discussing eDNA. Dr Ashley Scarlett (Dr Scarlett Smash) talks to guest Charles Nye, who gives us an introduction to marine environmental DNA and how this area of research is starting to take off.

This is the second of three episodes discussing eDNA. Dr Ashley Scarlett (Dr Scarlett Smash) talks to guest Charles Nye, who gives us an introduction to marine environmental DNA and how this area of research is starting to take off.

This is the first of three episodes discussing eDNA. Dr Ashley Scarlett (Dr Scarlett Smash) talks to guest Charles Nye, who gives us an introduction to marine environmental DNA and how this area of research is starting to take off.

This week's episodes is the SMM's hosted webinar on the “Experiences of Women in Marine Mammal Science” recorded on Tuesday, July 19, 2022 Organized by the Women in Marine Mammal Science (WIMMS) Initiative, in association with the Society for Marine Mammalogy Ad-hoc Diversity and Inclusion Committee, this webinar consisted of presentations by speakers from a diversity of backgrounds, career stages and sectors, and family considerations followed by a Q&A discussion with the speakers.

On this week's episode Dr Ashley Scarlett (Dr Scarlett Smash) finds scientist Angela Ziltener at the SMM Conference and chats with her about her new work in the Red Sea with Indo-pacific bottlenose dolphins self-medicating with coral.

This episode is a special extra show recoded at the Society for Marine Mammalogy’s 24th Biennial Conference at Palm Beach, Florida. Dr Ashley Scarlett (Dr Scarlett Smash) interviews some of the scientists and students that presented posters at the conference. This episode features Enrico Corsi from Marine Conservation Ecology Lab at Florida International University in Miami, who talks about his research on the demographically independent stocks of common bottlenose dolphins in the Main Hawaiian Islands.

This episode is a special extra show recoded at the Society for Marine Mammalogy’s 24th Biennial Conference at Palm Beach, Florida. Dr Ashley Scarlett (Dr Scarlett Smash) interviews some of the scientists and students that presented posters at the conference. This episode features Mackenzie Griffin from Savannah State University, who talks about her research on levels of Mercury found in bottlenose dolphins in the southeastern U.S.

On this week's episode Dr Ashley Scarlett talks to guest Dr Alex Zerbini about the role of the Scientific Committee and the chair as well as the upcoming meeting in October. 

On this week’s episode Dr Ashley Scarlett and Dr Chris Parsons chat about the upcoming Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals (1-5 August; in person and online). They talk about the program, some of the things to expect and the benefits of going to conferences (both in person or online)

On this week’s episode Dr Chris Parsons chats with Mark Simmonds and Laetitia Nunny about the issue of solitary sociable dolphins, and how to protect them.