Northern bottlenose whales in the Gully Marine Protected Area off Nova Scotia	Research platform : Balaena, a Valiant 40 sailboat	Sperm whales in the Gulf of California and in the Sargasso and Caribbean seas

Pilot whales off Cape Breton, Nova Scotia	River dolphins in the Amazon and Orinoco Basin	Narwhals in Pond Inlet, Baffin Island

Hal Whitehead (Professor) (Go here for class material)	Lindy Weilgart (Research Associate)	Tonya Wimmer (Instructor, Stranding Network)
Doctoral (Ph.D.) Students:	Masters (M.Sc.) Students:	Undergraduate Honours Students:	Previous students:
Hilary Moors Sarah Wong Shane Gero Armando Manolo Álvarez Torres Catalina Gomez Joana Augusto Mauricio Cantor	Kristi O'Brien Marina Milligan		P.D.F. Ph.D. M.Sc. Undergraduate Honours

Research Topics:

The group conducts scientific research on the behavioural ecology, social organisation, diving behaviour, ranging behaviour, distribution, population biology, acoustic behaviour and conservation of several cetacean species.

Species Studied:

Primary study species include the sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus), the northern bottlenose whale (Hyperoodon ampullatus), the bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops sp.), the long-finned pilot whale (Globicephala melas), the Pink River Dolphin (Inia geoffrensis), the Tucuxi (Sotalia fluviatilis), and the the narwhal (Monodon monoceros). However, research on other species is also conducted opportunistically including comparative studies on cetacean distribution and odontocete diving behaviour.

Publications:

List of Publications (.pdf) from the Lab 1977-present (including "in press")

Software :

SOCPROG 2.4 Programs for Analysing Social Structure

Other information:

• Animal Bioacoustics: Information from the Acoustical Society of America
  
• The Gully Marine Protected Area

Funding:

These agencies all support or have supported our research

• Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), Canada
• World Wildlife Fund Canada
• Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society
• Fisheries and Oceans Canada

Links

• Other Marine Mammal Sites
• The Email Discussion List MARMAM, Marine Mammal Research and Conservation
• Marine Animal Response Society (MARS)

Last Updated October 2009 by Catalina Gomez

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