UNIVERSIDAD INTERNACIONAL MENENDEZ PELAYO
Fifth European Seminar on
MARINE
MAMMALS: BIOLOGY AND CONSERVATION
Valencia (Spain), 13-17
September 2004
DIRECTORS: J. A. Raga (University of
Valencia) & P. Evans
(University of Oxford)
SCIENTIFIC SECRETARIES: F.J. Aznar & M.
Fernández (University of Valencia)
ADMINISTRATIVE SECRETARY:
Universidad
Internacional Menendez Pelayo
Student Office
Plaza del Carmen, 4
E-46003 Valencia, Spain
Phone +34.96.3869802; Fax +34.96.3869804
E-mail
secretaria_valencia@uimp.es
(secretaria_valencia@uimp.es)
REFERENCE NUMBER OF THE COURSE: 70024
LANGUAGE: English (with simultaneous Spanish translation)
REGISTRATION: It is limited to a maximum
of 100 participants and is subjected to current availability and order of receipt.
REGISTRATION FEES: 110 €
DEADLINE: 10 September 2004 (if places are available)
GRANTS:
A
limited number of grants are available for the course
The applications should be presentend from 24 May to
23 June 2004
For further information contact the UIMP student
office (see above).
PROGRAM
MONDAY, 13th
08.30 Registration
09.00 Opening session
Juan Antonio Raga & Peter Evans
09.30 Life history strategies of marine mammals
Christina Lockyer
Age dynamics, Denmark
12.00
Behavioural ecology of marine mammals
Arne Bjørge
Institute of Marine Research, Norway
16.30
Molecular
ecology of marine mammals
A.Rus Hoelzel
University of Durham, UK
TUESDAY, 14th
09.00 Parasitism in marine mammal populations
Juan Antonio Raga
University of Valencia, Spain
11.30 Pathology of marine mammals
Mariano Domingo
Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain
16.30 Marine mammal diet studies
Graham Pierce
University of Aberdeen, UK
WEDNESDAY, 15th
09.00 Bioacoustics of
marine mammals
F. Borsani
Istituto Centrale per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica Applicata al Mare,
Italy
11.30 Tracking techniques to study ecology and behaviour of marine mammals
Jonas Teilmann
National Environmental Research Institute, Denmark
16.30 Assessment of marine mammal population size and
status
Philip S. Hammond
University of St. Andrews, UK
THURSDAY, 16th
09.00
Practical sessions: Cetacean necropsy & analysis of photo-identification
data using mark-recapture techniques.
COORDINATOR:
Juan
Antonio Raga, University of Valencia, Spain
PARTICIPANTS:
Gregory
P. Donovan, International Whaling Commission, UK
Phil
S. Hammond, University of
St. Andrews, UK
16.30 Practical sessions: Age determination &
bioacoustics
COORDINATOR:
Peter
Evans, Oxford University of Oxford, UK
PARTICIPANTS:
Christina
Lockyer, Age dynamics, Denmark
F. Borsani, ICRAM, Italy
FRIDAY, 17th
09.00 Management of cetacean populations
Gregory P. Donovan
International Whaling Commission, UK
11.30 Conservation of marine mammals
Peter Evans
Oxford University of Oxford, UK
13.30 Closing session
REGISTRATION REQUIREMENT:
Applicants must be university students or
post-graduates.
DOCUMENTATION
REQUIRED FOR REGISTRATION:
A registration form will be provided by the Student
Office (No of the course: 70024). Once this has been completed, it should be
handed into the same office together with the following documentation:
a) Photocopy of the passport or Identity Card
b) Evidence that the applicant is at least a university
student or graduate
c) Original receipt showing payment of registration
fees. Bank transfers should be made to the UIMP's account nº
2077-0063-51-3101275278, IBAN ES88, BANCAJA, in Pintor Sorolla Street, 8 (Head
Office 63) in Valencia (Spain) and should cover commissions of both sending
and receiving banks. It is, therefore, highly recommended that payment is
made on arrival in Valencia of the participant at any BANCAJA branch.
