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National Whale and Dolphin Research Conference presentations

Adelaide 21–22 February 2006

Note, all presentations are available as PDF files. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer to view them.

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Conference presentations
Presenter Presentation File name and size
Southern right whales
John Bannister Southern right whales off southern Australia (srw-bannister.pdf - 430 KB)
Rebecca Pirzl Southern right whale coastal habitat preference (srw-pirzl.pdf - 1,396 KB)
Stephen Burnell Head of Bight research overview (srw-burnell.pdf - 845 KB)
Nathalie Patenaude Stock identification of southern right whales in Australia (srw-patenaude.pdf - 381 KB)
Blue whales
John Bannister Blue whales in the Perth Canyon: estimate of abundance from aerial surveys, 1999-2005 (bw-bannister.pdf - 478 KB)
Chris Burton Blue whales in Geographe Bay: blue whale project 1994-2005 (bw-burton.pdf - 2,415  KB)
Peter Gill Movements of satellite-tagged blue whales in the Bonney Upwelling, April 2005 (bw-gill.pdf - 822 KB)
Margie Morrice Photo identification of blue whales in the Bonney Upwelling (bw-morrice.pdf - 1,404 KB)
Fishing
Sue Gibbs Resource overlaps in dolphins and fisheries in Spencer Gulf, South Australia (fishing-gibbs.pdf - 309 KB)
Carla Ganassin

Broad-scale interactions between fishing and mammals, reptiles and birds in NSW marine waters

(fishing-ganassin.pdf - 222 KB)
Victor Peddemors Responses of Indian Ocean bottlenose dolphins to active acoustic devices (pingers) in South Africa (fishing-peddemors.pdf - 1,258 KB)
Jeremy Lyle Monitoring marine mammal interactions in the small pelagic fishery - part 1 (fishing-lyle.pdf - 1,130 KB)
Monitoring marine mammal interactions in the small pelagic fishery - part 2 (fishing-lyle2.pdf - 1,548 KB)
Whale watching
Simon Allen Short term effects of dolphin watching in Port Stephens, NSW (ww-allen.pdf - 215 KB)
Nick Gales Decline in relative abundance of bottlenose dolphins exposed to long-term disturbance (ww-gales.pdf - 1,328 KB)
Peter Arnold and Alastair Birtles

Research for sustainable management of Australian dwarf minke whales

(ww-arnold.pdf - 804 KB)
Noise
John Hughes Whale calls from seismic streamers: the potential implications (noise-hughes.pdf - 769 KB)
Doug Cato Effects of noise on marine mammals: progress since Ballina (noise-cato.pdf - 345 KB)
Rob McCauley Centre for Marine Science and Technology (CMST) noise and impacts (noise-mccauley.pdf - 978 KB)
Dolphins
Guido Parra Australian snubfin and Indo-pacific humpback dolphins: four years of research, two species potentially under threat where do we go next? (dolphin-parra.pdf - 498 KB)
Daniele Cagnazzi Humpback dolphins in the Great Sandy Strait and Hervey Bay, Qld (dolphin-cagnazzi.pdf - 1,647 KB)
Deb Thiele Kimberley Orcaella conservation project (dolphin-thiele.pdf -1,749 KB)
Kerstin Bilgmann Population genetic structure and dispersal of bottlenose and common dolphins in South Australia  
Mike Bossley Spatial behaviour of Bottlenose Dolphins in the Port River Estuary (dolphin-bossley.pdf - 1,764 KB)
Bill Sherwin Tursiops dolphins in Shark Bay, WA World Heritage Area (dolphin-sherwin.pdf - 76 KB)
Christine Fury Habitat use of Bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus) in estuaries: Not all estuaries are created equal (dolphin-fury.pdf - 2,772 KB)
Humpback whales
John Bannister West Coast population assessment (hw-bannister.pdf - 776 KB)
Mike Noad East Australian humpback whale population estimates, 2004 (hw-noad.pdf - 283 KB)

Megan Anderson

Genetic Assessment of Group IV and V humpback whale population dynamics and migratory interchange

(hw-anderson.pdf - 276 KB)
Dave Paton A preliminary assessment of southern hemisphere humpback whale population structure and migratory interchange based on Discovery mark data (hw-paton.pdf - 940 KB)
Rebecca Dunlop Bioacoustic communication in humpback whales: the use of social sounds and song (hw-dunlop.pdf - 1,228 KB)
Curt Jenner Whale research in north west Australia, planning for the future (hw-jenner.pdf - 2,542 KB)
Wally Franklin Group characteristics of eastern Australian humpback whales in Hervey Bay 1992-2005 (hw-franklin.pdf - 3,152 KB)
Greg Kaufman The importance of Eden, NSW as an opportunistic feeding area for southbound east Australian humpback whales (hw-kaufman.pdf - 2,333 KB)
Population estimates
Mark Bravington Improved spatial abundance estimates from line transect data (pe-bravington.pdf - 72 KB)
Cara Miller

Using mark-recapture methodology for marine mammal population estimates

(pe-miller.pdf - 255 KB)
Rob McCauley Centre for Marine Science and Technology (CMST) acoustic monitoring great whales (pe-mccauley.pdf - 903 KB)
Jane McDonald A population viability analysis of the bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops sp) at Shark Bay, Western Australia (pe-mcdonald.pdf - 420 KB)
Shannon McKay Determining seasonal presence of large baleen whales in East Antarctica using passive acoustics (pe-mckay.pdf - 2,636 KB)
Strandings, tagging and other applied research
Karen Evans Cetaceans: combining long-term datasets with contemporary data to better understand population dynamics (research-evans.pdf - 752 KB)
Heidi Taylor Whale strandings in Western Australia 2005 (research-taylor.pdf - 1,162 KB)
Nick Gales Trials and tribulations of tagging large whales (research-gales.pdf - 1,953 KB)
Carolyn Hogg Non lethal technique to determine reproductive hormones in cetaceans (research-hogg.pdf - 361 KB)
Glen Dunshea Minimally invasive ecological diagnostic techniques for marine mammals: Development and application of DNA based methods (research-dunshea.pdf - 603 KB)
Rob Harcourt Genetic diversity and stock identification of sperm whales in Australian waters (research-harcourt.pdf - 497 KB)
Margie Morrice Killer whales (Orcinus orca) in Australian territorial waters (research-morrice.pdf - 1,893 KB)
Future research needs
Robyn McCulloch Future research need for the Australian Government Department of the Environment and Heritage (future-mcculloch.pdf - 26 KB)
Nick Gales Future research needs: International cetacean context (future-gales.pdf - 601 KB)
Sarah Salmon Cetacean research priorities for the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park (future-salmon.pdf - 520 KB)
Doug Cato Defence marine mammal research priorities (future-cato.pdf - 83 KB)
Mark McCallum Australia's oil and gas exploration and production industry (future-mccallum.pdf - 2,434 KB)
Wally Franklin Future research needs for whale watching (future-franklin.pdf - 232 KB)
Phillip Gibbs Research priorities for mammals, NSW fisheries (future-gibbs.pdf - 309 KB)
Darren Kindleysides

International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) perspectives on research priorities

(future-kindleysides.pdf - 444 KB)
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