Marine Mammal Presentations

Byrd, B. L. 2010. Alternative Platform Observer Program in North Carolina, USA. ICES/NAMMCO Workshop on Observation Schemes for By-catch of mammals and birds. 28 Jun. - 1 July. In abstracts of the meeting summary. Copenhagen, Denmark

Byrd, B. L., and J.T. Harvey. 2001. What drives harbor porpoise distribution: Predators, prey, or bathwater? In Abstracts of the 14th Biennial Conference of the Biology of Marine Mammals, Nov. 29 - Dec. 2, 2001. Vancouver, B.C. Canada.

Byrd, B. L., Hohn A. A., LoPiccolo, R. E., Lovewell, G. N. 2005. Can Protecting Fish Reduce Bycatch of Bottlenose Dolphins in North Carolina, USA? In Abstracts of the 16th Biennial Conference of the Biology of Marine Mammals, Dec. 12-16, 2005. San Diego, CA.

Eguchi, T, A.A. Hohn, P. Haase, A.M. Gorgone, R.W Baird. 2005. Abundance, movements, and temporal sampling design for bottlenose dolphins in estuarine and coastal waters of the mid-Atlantic coast, USA, using photographic mark-recapture analyses. In Abstracts of the 16th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals, Dec. 12-16, 2005 San Diego, CA, December 2005.

Gorgone, A.M., R.W. Baird and D.L. Webster. 2003. Only 50 kms apart, yet bottlenose dolphins do not move between islands in the main Hawaiian island chain. In Abstracts of the 15th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals, Greensboro, NC, December 2003.

Gorgone, A.M., A.R. Jugovich, L.J. Hansen. 2010. In the right place at the wrong time? Bottlenose dolphins in the Shrewsbury River, New Jersey. In Abstracts of the 2010 Southeast and Mid-Atlantic Marine Mammal Symposium (SEAMAMMS) at Virginia Aquarium and Marine Science Center, Virginia Beach, Virginia.

Gorgone, A.M., A.R. Jugovich, B.L. Byrd, L.J. Hansen. 2009. Population studies in the time of recession: Can we define population components with efficient, short-term sampling? In Abstracts of the 18th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals, Quebec City, Canada, October 2009.

Gorgone, A.M., R.W. Baird, D. J. McSweeney, D. L. Webster, D. R. Salden, M. H. Deakos, A. D. Ligon, G. S. Schorr, J. Barlow, S. D. Sabre. 2007. False Killer Whales (Pseudorca crassidens) Around the Main Hawaiian Islands: Long-Term site Fidelity, Inter-Island Movements, and Association Patterns. In Abstracts of the 17th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals, Cape Town, South Africa, December 2007.

Gorgone, A.M., P.A Haase, E.S. Griffith, A.A. Hohn. 2005. Remote Biopsy Sampling of Bottlenose Dolphins: Think Twice Before Shooting into Large Crowds. In Abstracts of the 16th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals, Dec. 12-16, 2005. San Diego, CA, December 2005.

Harms, C. A., Rotstein, D. S., Hohn, A. A., Lovewell, G. L., LoPiccolo, R. E. 2005. Histopathologic Comparison of Dolphins Stranded with and Without Evidence of Fisheries Interactions. 16th Biennial Conference of the Biology of Marine Mammals, Dec. 12-16, 2005. San Diego, CA.

Jugovich, A.R., A.M. Gorgone, L.J. Hansen, A.A. Hohn. 2009. Assessing dorsal fin injuries from tagging studies: A method for objectively evaluating the effects of through-bolt tag attachments for bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus). In Abstracts of the 18th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals, Quebec City, Canada, October 2009.

Lo Piccolo, R.E., B.L. Byrd, A.A. Hohn. 2003. Recording evidence of human interactions on stranded bottlenose dolphins, Tursiops truncatus, in North Carolina, USA. Proceedings of the Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals, December 2003.

Lovewell, G. N. and A. A. Hohn. 2005. Mass Stranding of Pilot Whales in North Carolina during January 2005: Lessons that May Enhance Collection of Data and Samples during Future Mass Strandings. National Marine Fisheries Service National Marine Mammal Health and Stranding Conference - April 4-6, 2005 National Conference Center in Lansdowne, VA.

McSweeney, D.J., R.W. Baird, D.L. Webster, A.D. Ligon, A.I. Mackay, L.K. Antoine, and A.M. Gorgone. 2003. Inter-island differences in cetacean species composition in the main Hawaiian islands. In Abstracts of the 15th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals, Greensboro, NC, December 2003.

Passerotti, M.S., T. Kolkmeyer, and B. Byrd. 2009. Challenges to data standardization between on-board and alternative platform observation of small vessels. In Abstracts of the Proceedings of the International Fisheries Observer and Monitoring Conference, Portland, Maine, July 20 - 24, 2009.

Rotstein, D. S., Hohn A. A., Harms, C. A., Lovewell, G. N., Jugovich, E. R., George, C., Younger, L., McFee, W., Burdett, L., Sayles, K. M., McLellan, W. A., Pabst, D. A., Brush, J., Mase, B., Hartley, D., Rowles, T. K. 2005. Epidemiologic and Pathologic Findings in Cetaceans from the 2004 Mid-Atlantic Unusual Mortality Event Along the U.S. Mid-Atlantic. In Abstracts of the 16th Biennial Conference of the Biology of Marine Mammals, Dec. 12-16, 2005. San Diego, CA.

Rotstein, D. S., Harms, C. A., Lovewell, G. N., Hohn, A. H. 2005. Gastric Leiomyoma in a Tursiops truncatus. 36th Annual International Association for Aquatic Animal Medicine Conference, May 14-19, 2005. Seward, AK.

Thayer, V. T., Rittmaster, K. A., Hohn, A. A., Harms, C. A., Bowles, N. I., Brooks A., Byrd, B. L., Friedlaender, A. S., Gorgone, A. M., Lovewell, G. N., Ninke, T., Russell, J. R. 2005. A Case Study of an Entangled Bottlenose Dolphin Calf. In Abstracts of the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic Marine Mammal Symposium (SEAMAMMS), Mar 18-20, 2005. Wilmington, NC.

Toth, J.L., A.A. Hohn, A.M. Gorgone, K.W. Able. 2005. Sighting patterns of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in their northern range along the US Atlantic Coast. In Abstracts of the 16th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals, San Diego, CA, December 2005.