Papers and publications

Welcome to the publications/papers resource page, for scientific and educational purposes. You will need Acrobat reader to view these documents, which can be downloaded here.


Marine Impacts

• Sperm whale/seismic study report
• The effects of underwater pile driving
• Acute and chronic gas bubble lesions in cetaceans stranded in the United Kingdom
• Ocean noise report - "Sounding the Depths"
• Controlled-exposure experiments to determine the effects of noise on marine mammals
• "Gas and Fat Embolic Syndrome" involving a mass stranding of Beaked whales exposed to anthropogenic sonar signals
• Are seismic surveys responsible for cetacean strandings?
• International regulation of undersea noise
• Odontocete stranding patterns in the main Hawaiian Islands
• The pollution of the marine environment by plastic debris
• Bay of Algeciras: biodiversity hotspot and environmental crisis area
• Monitoring bubble growth in supersaturated blood and tissue ex vivo and the relevance to marine mammal bioeffects
• IACMST report on "Underwater sound and marine life"
• Effects of offshore windfarm noise on marine mammals
  and fish
• Disturance to marine mammals during seismic surveys

Captivity

• Captive cetaceans; the science behind the ethics
• The case against marine mammals in captivity
• EU Zoo Directive on keeping animals in zoos
• EAAM regulations
• Below the surface the facts about captivity
• Seaworld Susan Davis on her two year research for Frontline
• Dolphin Assisted Therapy: More Flawed Data and More Flawed Conclusions

Bycatch/Fisheries

• Ghost fishing via lost gear
• Dolphin-Safe tuna issue in the UK
• Commerson's dolphin bycatch in Argentina
• Pirate fishing fleets/profiteers
• Collateral impacts of fishing methods in US waters
• Bycatch of marine mammals in US and global fisheries
• Bottom trawling report

Whaling / Human Consumption

• Mercury and cadmium contamination in cetacean products from the Japanese market
• Mercury and selenium concentrations in the internal organs of toothed whales and dolphins marketed for human consumption in Japan

General

• Lone Rangers Report on solitary/friendly cetaceans
• Spinner dolphin resting habitat in Samadai Reef (Egypt/Red Sea) protected through tourism management
• Pilot cetacean survey of the sub-Arctic North Atlantic utilizing a cruise-ship platform
• Porpoise deaths and climate change
• Guide to Best Practice for Watching Marine Wildlife
• Scottish Marine Wildlife Watching Code
• Queensland, Australia - 2005 Strandings Report
• Report on status of cetaceans in the Mediterranean and Black Seas
• Diving behaviour of Cuvier's and Blainville's beaked whales in Hawai'i
• A catalogue of Indian marine mammal records
• Habitat selection in a coastal dolphin species- Hector's dolphins (copyright holder: Springer-Verlag)
• Climate change and the cetacean community of north-west Scotland
• An analysis of whale watching 'Codes of Conduct'
• The value of conserving whales: The impacts of cetacean-related tourism on the economy of rural west Scotland
• The southern outer Moray Firth in NE Scotland as a potential "Safe Area" candidate for the harbour porpoise
• Niche partitioning, distribution and competition in North Atlantic beaked whales
• Harbour porpoise activity off South Wales
• Aerial and acoustic marine mammal detection