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- SATURDAY, 12TH MARCH 2016 - WORKSHOPS
- SUNDAY, 13TH MARCH 2016 - WORKSHOPS, REGISTRATION AND ICEBREAKER
- MONDAY, 14TH MARCH 2016 - REGISTRATION, OPENING, CONFERENCE AND POSTER SESSION 1
- TUESDAY, 15TH MARCH 2016 - CONFERENCE, FOR INFO, POSTER SESSION 2 AND VIDEO NIGHT
- WEDNESDAY,16TH MARCH 2016 - CONFERENCE, AGM, AWARDS AND CLOSING
- THURSDAY, 17TH MARCH 2016 - WORKSHOPS
WORKSHOPS
ECS student workshop – Where the wild things are
09:00 – 16:30 Venue: Catamaran of VMT-Madeira (Room J) at Funchal Marina and auditorium of Centro de Estudos de História do Atlântico (Room H)
Development of a conservation status surveillance system for monk seals
09:00 – 17:30 Venue: Auditorium Golden Gate (Room C)
Conserving Europe’s cetaceans through synergy-building between the relevant legislative frameworks
09:30 – 17:40 Venue: Auditorium of the Museu de Electricidade (Room A)
Remote insular marine habitats: how important are these regions for oceanic cetacean populations
09:15 – 12:30 Venue: Auditorium of Tribunal de Contas (Room B)
Platforms of opportunity as research vehicles: benefits and limitations
14:15 – 17:30 Venue: Auditorium of Tribunal de Contas (Room B)
WORKSHOPS
Measuring and interpreting behavioural responses by marine mammals to anthropogenic sounds - ECS Scientific Advisory Committee
09:00 – 17:00 Venue: auditorium of Centro de Estudos de História do Atlântico (Room G)
The Joint Cetacean Protocol: lessons learned and looking to the future
09:30 – 17:00 Venue: auditorium InfoArt (Room D)
Integrating abundance and distribution information into the process for the identification of Important Marine Mammal Areas (IMMAs)
09:00 – 17:30 Venue: Auditorium of Tribunal de Contas (Room B)
Changing values, uses and practices regarding marine mammals: from the Iron Age to early modern and contemporary times
09:30 – 17:30 Venue: Auditorium of Espaço de Memórias João Carlos Abreu (Room H)
Marine Mammal Rescue
09:30 – 17:00 Venue: Auditorium of Conservatório - Escola de Artes – Eng. Luíz Peter Clode (Rooms I)
Developing tools to ensure high quality MMOs in the ACCOBAMS area
09:00 – 17:30 Venue: Auditorium at Casa-Museu Frederico de Freitas (Room F)
Threats to marine mammals in the Mediterranean Sea: how do they cope with human impact?
09:30 – 16:30 Venue: Auditorium Golden Gate (Room C)
What is new in cetacean pathology
09:30 – 18:00 Venue: Auditorium of Conservatório - Escola de Artes – Eng. Luíz Peter Clode (Rooms I)
4th workshop on communicating marine mammal science to the general public
09:00 – 18:00 Venue: auditorium of Madeira Whale Museum, Caniçal
REGISTRATION
15:00 – 19:00 – Centro de Congressos da Madeira
REGISTRATION
08:00 - 09:00 – Registration/help desk of the Centro de Congressos da Madeira
OPENING
09:00 - 09:30 - Auditorium of the Centro de Congressos da Madeira
Please note: Only presenting authors are listed below
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
09:30 – 10:15 Sperm whale societies of the Atlantic and Pacific: why so different? - Prof. Hal Whitehead
ABUNDANCE AND DISTRIBUTION I
Chairperson: Hal Whitehead
10:15 – 10:30 Density dependent responses in Southern Right whales Eubalaena australis at Península Valdés, Argentina - Enrique Crespo
10:30 – 10:45 A generalized logistic regression model of the functional distribution of fin whales (Balaenoptera physalus) in Catalonian coasts - Daniel Patón
10:45 – 11:00 Connecting the dots between Critical Habitats for beaked whales in the deep ocean - Laura Feyrer
11:00 - 11:45 COFFEE BREAK
BEHAVIOUR
Chairperson: Mario Acquarone
11:45 – 12:00 Habitat use and activity patterns of landlocked Baltic Ringed seals - Martin Silts
12:00 – 12:15 Seeking companions: An analysis of cetacean mixed-species associations and co-occurrence in the eastern and central Pacific - Mridula Srinivasan
12:15 – 12:30 Sperm whales reduce foraging effort during exposure to 1-2 kHz sonar and killer whale sounds - Saana Isojunno
12:30 – 12:45 Humpback dolphins (Sousa plumbea) in south-eastern South African waters-where to from here - Stephanie Ploen
12:45 - 13:00 Next level fission fusion society: fin whales - Christian Ramp
13:00 - 14:15 LUNCH BREAK
SHORT-TALKS
14:15 – 15:15 ECOLOGY, BEHAVIOUR AND STRANDINGS
Chairperson: Mark Simmonds
- Photo-identification as a tool to monitor the critically endangered Mediterranean monk seal Monachus monachus in Greece - Styliani Adamantopoulou
- Behavioural observations on wild harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) using drones - an innovative approach to marine mammal monitoring and behavioural analysis - Daniela Prömper
- Stranded minke whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) cases on Cape Cod, MA, USA from 1999-2014, with a review of pathology findings including ship strikes, entanglements and brucellosis - Misty Niemeyer
- Finding food in the ocean: could cetaceans use chemical cues? - Bertrand Bouchard
- Cytochrome P450 1A1 and 2B protein expression as biomarker for the first assessment of the ecotoxicological status of Cuvier's beaked (Ziphius cavirostris) in the NW Mediterranean Sea - Matteo Baini
- Preliminary ecotoxicological data on C type kille whale (Orcinus orca) from Terra Nova Bay (Antarctica): Molecular biomarkers and persistent organic contaminants - Cristina Panti
- “Weather or not?” An investigation into the effect of variations in oceanographic and meteorological conditions on cetacean strandings along the Irish coast - Emer Keaveney
- Studying the vertical distribution of small cetaceans and their prey in a tidal stream Demonstration Zone - Gemma Veneruso
- Causes of death of harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) stranded on the northern French coastline (1995-2015) - Thierry Jauniaux
STRANDINGS AND ANATOMY
Chairperson: Antonio Fernandez
15:15 – 15:30 CSI of the sea - investigating UK strandings over the last 25 years - Robert Deaville
15:30 – 15:45 Localization and characterization of the brain structures of the stress system in toothed whales - Simona Sacchini
15:45 - 16:00 Rescue response to long-finned pilot whale mass stranding events in the United Kingdom - Stephen Marsh
16:00 - 16:30 COFFEE BREAK
ACOUSTIC AND HUMAN INTERACTIONS
Chairperson: Rui Prieto
16:30 - 16:45 Signature whistles and group composition in resident bottlenose dolphins: can we link
photo-id with emissions? - Ana Rita Luís
16:45 – 17:00 Responses of seals to mitigation signals revealed by at sea controlled exposure experiments - Jonathan Gordon
17:00 – 17:15 Conservation of killer whales in the Strait of Gibraltar requires ecosystem-based bluefin tuna fishery management - Ruth Esteban
17:15 – 17:30 Assessing the impact of underwater clearance of unexploded ordnance on harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) in the Southern North Sea - Alexander von Benda-Beckmann
17:30 – 17:45 Ambient & vessel noise measurement and marine mammal monitoring in the Strait of Georgia, British-Columbia, Canada - John Moloney
POSTER SESSION 1 – odd numbers
17:45 - 19:15 – Poster room at Centro de Congressos da Madeira
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
09:00 – 09:45 The ecological importance of open waters and oceanic islands for baleen whales - Dra. Mónica Silva
ECOLOGY
Chairperson: Mónica Silva
09:45 –10:00 Niche diversification in deep-diving sperm, pilot and beaked whales - Natacha Aguilar de Soto
10:00 – 10:15 Ecological insights from long-term trends in cetacean stomach contents – Andrew Brownlow
10:15 – 10:30 The effect of changing environmental conditions on the distribution of fin whales (Balaenoptera physalus) in the Northeast Atlantic - Anna Schleimer
10:30 – 10:45 Stable isotope analysis reveals inter-specific and individual variation in migration strategies and wintering habitats in NE Atlantic blue, fin and sei whales - Rui Prieto
10:45 – 11:00 Results from chemical marker analyses question some of the currently accepted conservation units for Atlantic whale populations - Morgana Vighi
11:00 – 11:30 COFFEE BREAK
HUMAN INTERACTIONS
Chairperson: Luís Freitas
11:30 – 11:45 Use of AIS data for characterization of passenger vessel traffic in the Pelagos Sanctuary and assessment of impact risk - Alessandro Bisson
11:45 – 12:00 Assessing the ecological risk of anthropogenic noise pollution from maritime traffic on the Cuvier’s beaked whale in the Genoa Canyon - Frazer Coomber
12:00 – 12:15 Dolphin depredation of bottom-set fishing nets in the Gulf of Corinth, Mediterranean Sea - Silvia Bonizzoni
12:15 – 12:30 The PlasticPelagos Project: microplastics, convergence areas and fin whales in the Pelagos Sanctuary (northwestern Mediterranean Sea) - Maria Cristina Fossi
12:30 – 12:45 Common dolphins, Delphinus delphis, and the Portuguese sardine purse-seine fishery: Interactions, feeding ecology and mitigation - Ana Marçalo
12:45 – 13:00 Predicting the effects of human developments on individual dolphins to understand potential long-term population consequences - Enrico Pirotta
13:00 – 14:15 LUNCH (short student AGM meeting in the conference room at 13:00)
SHORT-TALKS
14:15 – 15:15 ECOLOGY, ABUNDANCE, GENETIC AND ANATOMY
Chairperson: Alexandros Frantzis
- A genetic perspective of one of the smallest conservation units of bottlenose dolphin in Europe – the Sado population (Portugal) - Inês Carvalho
- Risso’s dolphin (Grampus griseus) absolute abundance estimates using photographic mark-recapture methods in the northwestern part of the Pelagos Sanctuary, Mediterranean Sea - Sabina Airoldi
- Skull shapes of the Lissodelphininae: open ocean to nearshore - Anders Galatius
- Cetaceans distribution in the Macarronesia: from Portugal to Cape Verde - Ana Mafalda Correia
- Deep sea predators in Irish waters and their trophic relevance - Gema Hernandez-Milian
- Autonomous photo trap systems: new tool for the monk seal conservation in Madeira - Rosa Pires
- Using radiocarbon to study Southern hemisphere humpback whale feeding ecology and migration - Pascale Eisenmann
- Genomic insights into the origin, spread and pathogenicity of Influenza A virus in marine mammals - Linnea Worsøe Købke
MODELLING
Chairperson: Sophie Laran
15:15 – 15:30 Data degradation: an approach to simulating rare species distribution models - Auriane Virgili
15:30 – 15:45 Using environmental envelopes to assess existing cetacean data collections and help prioritize survey effort at the basin scale - Laura Mannocci
15:45 - 16:00 Estimating proportion of occupied area in single - visit surveys of marine mammals - Matthieu Authier
16:00 - 16:30 COFFEE BREAK
ABUNDANCE AND DISTRIBUTION II
Chairperson: Phil Hammond
16:30 - 16:45 Distribution, abundance and habitat use of bottlenose dolphin in the Madeira archipelago - Luis Freitas
16:45 – 17:00 Mediterranean Monk seal distribution in the Saharan coast (Mauritania/Morocco) - Pablo Fernandez de Larrinoa
17:00 – 17:15 Using seismic data to study fin whales in offshore waters off southwest Portugal - Andreia Pereira
17:15 – 17:30 Model based humpback, fin whale and krill distribution – results of a snapshot study from the west Antarctic Peninsula - Helena Herr
17:30 – 17:45 The First REMMOA Program: A tropical tour of marine mammal biodiversity across three oceans - Sophie Laran
17:45 – 18:00 Observatory of the Mediterranean monk seal population of the Cabo Blanco Peninsula (Mauritania/Morocco). An important conservation tool - Mercedes Muñoz Cañas
FOR INFO
18:00 – 18:30
- Ship Strikes: How to Mitigate a Problem with Many Unknowns – Fabian Ritter
- Important Marine Mammal Areas (IMMAs): why do we need them? – Micheal Tetley
- Years of new learning from cetaceans in arctic norway ‐ before the increased human presence – Russel Baker and Mario Acquarone
POSTER SESSION 2 – even numbers
18:30 - 20:00 - Poster room at Centro de Congressos da Madeira
VIDEO NIGHT
21:15 23:00 Video Night at Centro de Congressos da Madeira
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
09:00 – 09:45 Oasis in a desert sea: island-associated populations of open-ocean odontocetes in the Hawaiian archipelago - Dr. Robin Baird
CONSERVATION AND ENERGETICS
Chairperson: Robin Baird
09:45 - 10:00 The science and policy drivers leading to a mitigation zone for beaked whales along the Irish shelf edge - Simon Berrow
10:00 – 10:15 An evaluation of EU Habitats Directive criteria for a mobile cetacean in a small country - Tina Centrih
10:15 – 10:30 A critical assessment of research trajectories concerning climate change, with recommendations for future engagement - Mark Simmonds
10:30 – 10:45 Using management strategy evaluation to test the performance of a potential biological removal tier system - Paula Moreno
10:45 - 11:00 The benefit of being big: body rotations and acceleration over a 3000:1 mass range in cetaceans - Lucia Martina Martin Lopez
11:00 - 11:30 COFFEE BREAK
GENETICS
Chairperson: Inês Carvalho
11:30 - 11:45 Reconstructing the post-glacial colonization of the northern extreme of the range of a top marine predator, the bottlenose dolphin - Milaja Nykanen
11:45 – 12:00 History of population fragmentation and collapse in the endangered Yangtze finless porpoise revealed by population genetics - Yacine Ben Chehida
SHORT-TALKS
12:00 – 13:00 CONSERVATION, HUMAN INTERACTIONS, ACOUSTICS AND HISTORY
Chairperson: Cristina Brito
- Harmonization of general and local approaches to effective conservation of critically endangered population of Baltic harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) in Polish waters - Iwona Pawliczka
- Computing ship strike and near miss along main shipping lanes; results of a direct observation study in the Mediterranean Sea undertaken from 2007 to 2015 - Antonella Arcangeli
- A new equation to calculate the allometric inter-pulse interval to body length relationship in Mediterranean male sperm whales - Nino Pierantonio
- Risk assessment of port activities on cetaceans, a framework to analyse and reduce the impacts: case study on the Guiana dolphin in southern Brazil - Tara Van Belleghem
- Fishing’s phantom menace: the impact of lost and discarded fishing gear on European cetaceans & pinnipeds - Elizabeth Hogan
- Estimates of grey seal predation mortality on three principal commercial demersal species in a mixed fishery and the implications for stock assessments - Vanessa Trijoulet
- Sperm whale codas can encode individuality as well as clan identity - Cláudia Oliveira
- Social and biological implications of medieval European whaling - Youri van den Hurk
- Spatio-temporal variation in click production rates of beaked whales: implications for passive acoustic density estimation - Victoria Warren
13:00 - 14:15 LUNCH BREAK
14:15 15:30 Workshop reports
15:30 - 16:45 Annual General Meeting
16:45 - 17:15 COFFEE BREAK
17:15 - 18:15 Awards & Closing
- Student awards
- Video award
- Mandy McMath Conservation Award
WORKSHOPS
Marine mammals pathology: update of the necropsy protocol on dissection techniques and tissue sampling – Part II
10:00 – 17:30 Venue: Auditorium of Portugal Telecom (Room E)