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Marine Mammal Science

Aug 29, 2020

This week’s guest is Dr. Ashley Scarlettwho talks to Dr. Chris Parsons about her natural and social science research assessing the sustainability of dolphin-watching in Bocas Del Toro Panama. She also discusses her research on science communication, including how to make an effective conservation commercial or...


Aug 22, 2020

This week’s guest is Katherina Audleythe Director and Founder of the Whales of Guerrero Project (https://www.whalesinmexico.com/). Katherina has been working with the local community in Guerrero, Mexico to study and conserve local humpback whales. She gives some excellent suggestions and tips for how to better...


Aug 15, 2020

This week’s guest is Dr. Laura May-Collado, who has studied whale and dolphin in several countries in Central America. Dr. May-Collado has, in particular, been working to help save a genetically distinct and imperiled population of dolphins in Bocas del Toro, Panama. After a decade and a half of scientific...


Aug 8, 2020

Dr. Chris Parsons chats Dave Mattila, the organizer of the International Whaling Commission’s whale entanglement program. They chat about his career, his research on humpback whales in the Caribbean, and how this brought him to his current position coordinating, setting up training, and developing networks...


Aug 1, 2020

Dr. Chris Parsons chats to marine mammal zoogeographer Dr. Ellen Hines about her career and her recent research investigating the unique “whale temples” in Vietnam - which are proving to be an invaluable scientific resource. They also talk about her research in Canada, other parts of Southeast Asia, and...