Seminars

Post-eruption seafloor mapping following the VEI 5-6 eruption Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano, Tonga, January 2022

Kevin Mackay

National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA), New Zealand

Date and time: September 29th, 2023 1:00pm
Host: Carmel McDougall
Location: SOI Lecture Theatre

Public lecture and launch of the Blue Carbon Research Centre

Emeritus Professor Hilary Kennedy

School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor University

Date and time: September 8th, 2023 5:00pm
Host: Prof William Austin
Location: SOI Lecture Theatre

Unlocking diversity at the Major Histocompatibility complex (MHC) through the development of a pan-cetacean amplicon panel

Dr Dorothea Heimeier (Harrison)

University of Auckland, New Zealand

Date and time: September 6th, 2023 11:00am
Host: Carmel McDougall
Location: SOI Lecture Theatre

The EMBL TREC Expedition and tour of the mobile laboratory

Valerie Maier

European Molecular Biology Laboratory

Date and time: August 30th, 2023 12:00pm
Host: Julie Oswald and David Ferrier
Location: SOI Lecture Theatre

Delphinid acoustic communication: mixed species groups and seismic noise effect

Yasmin Viana

Federal University of Juiz de Fora Aqualie Institute

Date and time: August 3rd, 2023 1:00pm
Host: Dr Gui Bortolotto
Location: SOI Lecture Theatre

Hungry hungry schistos: The resource ecology of epidemics and control

Dr David Civitello

Emory University

Date and time: April 26th, 2023 1:00pm
Host: Andrew Brierley
Location: SOI Lecture Theatre & TEAMS

Investigating bottlenose dolphin cardiopulmonary physiology using a novel physio-logging tag

Dr David Haas

FaunaLabs and NatGeo Explorer

Date and time: April 19th, 2023 1:00pm
Host: Dr Chris McKnight
Location: SOI Lecture Theatre

ACCURATE news on cue rates to inform passive acoustic density estimation methods

Dr Tiago Marques

University of St Andrews

Date and time: April 13th, 2023 1:00pm
Host: –
Location: SOI Lecture Theatre

What does the UK’s departure from the European Union and the current political and legal uncertainty mean for legal protection of marine mammals in UK waters?

Helen Mitcheson

Environmental Law Team at Freeths LLP and Deputy Director of Cet Law

Date and time: March 22nd, 2023 1:00pm
Host: Sonja Heinrich
Location: SOI Lecture Theatre and TEAMS

‘Cleaning up the ‘scraps’: Dundee’s late nineteenth-century industrial transition from hunting bowheads to developing a wider Arctic trade’

Dr Matthew Ylitalo

School of History, University of St Andrews

Date and time: March 8th, 2023 1:00pm
Host: –
Location: SOI Lecture Theatre

SWORD: Signature Whistle for Occurrence, Recapture and Density

Jack Fearey

University of Cape Town

Date and time: December 14th, 2022 1:00pm
Host: –
Location: SOI Lecture Theatre

Development of a Convolutional Neural Network for Humpback Whale Song Detection in the North Atlantic

Vincent Kather

Technische Universitaet Berlin and Scottish Association for Marine Science

Date and time: December 9th, 2022 1:00pm
Host: Vincent Janik
Location: SOI Lecture Theatre

How many and where are the Stenella dolphins in Santos Basin, southeastern Brazil?

Thayusky Correa, Visiting Scholar

Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Date and time: December 7th, 2022 1:00pm
Host
Location: SOI Lecture Theatre

The Pitcairn Islands: Sanctuary of the enigmatic Oceania humpback whales

Professor Terry Dawson

Kings College London and the Darwin Plus Project

Date and time: December 1st, 2022 1:00pm
Host
Location: SOI Lecture Theatre

Climate variability and change in the subpolar Southern Ocean (and its impact on biogeochemistry and marine ecosystems)

Dr. Graeme MacGilchrist – https://gmacgilchrist.github.io

Date and time: November 1st, 2022 1:00pm
Host
Location: A15, Bute Building