Tim Awbery

@samsocean.bsky.social

Grateful to see our latest article out in Marine Mammal Science. It raises some important questions about over-reliance on 'snapshot' surveys performed at basin-wide levels and highlights why more regular, nationwide studies could provide better estimates: doi.org/10.1111/mms....

Meet the Scientist: Fishing Gear Entanglement - The Research and Solutions Ellie MacLennan talks about current research and how the Scottish Entanglement Alliance are supporting fishing communities to reduce the risk of entanglement.

www.seabird.org/events/meet-...

🐬 New Research🐬

Grateful to be part of this collaborative study on bottlenose ecotypes in the Mediterranean! Using 15 years of data from 43 research groups, investigate coastal vs pelagic ecotypes.

🔗 Read more: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#MarineBiology #DolphinResearch

I'd like to be added. Thank you 🙂

First documented observation of feeding behaviour of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) in its breeding range off the southern coast of Tanzania Feeding and breeding activities of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) are generally understood to be geographically and temporally separated, with feeding activities taking places in the high...

Great to see more publications from Ekaterina Kalashnikova, Davis Orio and Aylin Akkaya coming out on the marine mammals of southern Tanzania. The multi-year study is discovering lots of cool new things about an understudied and important area for marine mammals:

www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Was great to be back at UKIRSC_SMM as a participant rather than an organiser and great to see the new committee smashing it! 🐳 Really honoured to have been voted by my fellow students as the winner of the long-talk - look closely for some amazing photoshop work 😂📸✂️ #workofart

Thanks Angus, kind words as always, hope you're well 😀

The title slide of a presentation on minke whale distribution.

Lovely evening talking about minke whales on the west coast as part of WDC's Winter Webinar Series last Wednesday.
Thanks everybody who came along and to all of the amazing Shorewatch volunteers for giving up their time to collect this valuable data!