Conferences
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17th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals, 29 November - 3 December 2007 - Cape Town, South Africa

The 17th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals is a gathering of marine mammalogists and other scientists from around the world, held under the auspices of the Society for Marine Mammalogy, at which the results of recent research are presented and discussed. This conference occurs every two years in different locations.
BMMRO presented the following 6 presentations:

Claridge, D. E., Estimating calving intervals, weaning age and calf survival of Blainville's beaked whales (Mesoplodon densirostris): insights from individual life histories.
DeRuiter, S., A noninvasive molecular method for diet determination from toothed whale fecal samples.
Dolman, S., Monitoring abundance trends of Bahamian odontocetes.
Dunn, C. A., Killer whale (Orcinus orca) occurrence and predation in the Bahamas.
Gillespie, D., Detection of beaked whales using near surface towed hydrophones: prospects for survey and mitigation.
Hickmott, L. S., Evidence of adaptive foraging behaviour on schooling prey by Blainville's beaked whale (Mesoplodon densirostris).

ASAC - The Abaco Science Alliance, 3-6 January 2008 - Abaco, Bahamas

The topic for the 2008 seminar was "A Conference to Share Scientific Knowledge of Abaco and the Bahamian Environment".
BMMRO presented the following 3 presentations:

Claridge, D. E., Visual and acoustic surveys for beaked whales in the Great Bahama Canyon: determining their distribution, abundance and population structure.
Dunn, C. A., Killer whale (Orcinus orca) occurrence and predation in the Bahamas.
Durban, J., Two decades of bottlenose dolphin research on Little Bahama Bank