2012 Annual Meeting

The Marine Mammal Commission is planning its annual meeting, to be held the week of 23 January 2012 in Anchorage, Alaska. To view the draft agenda, click here.

Drakes Estero

The Marine Mammal Commission's report on "Mariculture and Harbor Seals in Drakes Estero, California" is now available by clicking here.

PCAD Symposium

On 21 October 2011 the Marine Mammal Program of the Office of Naval Research (ONR) and the Marine Mammal Commission co-sponsored a symposium in Washington, D.C. on the population-level consequences of acoustic disturbance. The symposium reflected an interactive, synthetic process over the past three years that has engaged 30 experts from 20 institutions worldwide. Participants discussed translation of the National Research Council’s 2005 conceptual model on population-level consequences of sound into formal, species-specific, and ultimately transferable mathematical structures. They presented case studies of northern and southern elephant seals, coastal bottlenose dolphins, northern right whales, and beaked whales. The work was supported in part by grant N00014-09-1-0896 from ONR to the University of California, Santa Barbara. For a copy of the agenda and presentations, click here.
For more information on ONR’s Marine Mammals and Biology program click here