UNIVERSIDAD INTERNACIONAL MENENDEZ PELAYO
Eighth European
Seminar on
MARINE MAMMALS: BIOLOGY AND CONSERVATION
Valencia
(Spain), 13-17 September 2010
DIRECTORS: J. A. Raga (
SCIENTIFIC SECRETARIES: F.J. Aznar
& M. Fernández (
ADMINISTRATIVE SECRETARY:
Universidad
Internacional Menendez Pelayo
Student Office
Plaza del Carmen, 4
E-46003 Valencia, Spain
Phone +34.963869802; Fax +34.963865249
E-mail: secretaria_valencia@uimp.es
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
reception.
REGISTRATION FEES: 129 €
DEADLINE: 8th September 2010 (if places
are available)
GRANTS: A limited number of grants is available for the
course
Applications should be submitted from 1st May to 31st May 2010.
For further information contact the UIMP student
office (see above).
PROGRAMME
MONDAY,
13th
08.30 Registration
09.00 Opening session
Juan Antonio Raga & Peter Evans
09.30 Life
history strategies of marine mammals
Christina Lockyer
NAMMCO, Norway
12.00 Feeding ecology of marine mammals: techniques,
problems and solutions?
Begoña
Santos
Instituto Español de Oceanografía, Spain
16.00 Statistical modelling for cetacean habitat use, diet
and life history
Graham Pierce
University of Aberdeen, UK
TUESDAY, 14th
09.00 Assessment of marine mammal
population size and status
11.30 Management of cetacean
populations
Gregory P. Donovan
International Whaling Commission,
16.00 Impact of pollutants on marine mammals
Alex Aguilar
University of Barcelona, Spain
WEDNESDAY, 15th
09.00 Practical sessions*: (1) Age determination & (2)
Estimating population size using mark-recapture methods.
COORDINATOR:
Juan Antonio Raga,
PARTICIPANTS:
Christina Lockyer, NAMMCO,
Philip
S. Hammond,
16.00 Practical sessions*: (3) Identifying
and quantifying cetacean diet & (4)
Cetacean necropsy.
COORDINATOR:
Peter Evans, Sea Watch Foundation & University of Bangor, UK
PARTICIPANTS:
Graham Pierce, University of Aberdeen, UK
Begoña
Santos, Instituto Español de Oceanografía, Spain
Juan Antonio Raga, University of Valencia, Spain
*
Practical sessions will be held in the Cavanilles Institute of Biodiversity and
Evolutionary Biology at the Science Park of Valencia University. Only one of
the four practical sessions offered can be chosen by each student.
THURSDAY, 16th
09.00 Parasitism in marine mammal populations
11.30
Pathology of marine mammals
Mariano Domingo
Autonomous University of
16.00 Wind farms and marine mammals
Jonas Teilmann
Aarhus University, Denmark
18.00 Coffee
round table
Free talks with
the speakers
FRIDAY, 17th
09.00 Behavioural
ecology of marine mammals
Arne Bjørge
Institute of Marine Research, Norway
11.30 Conservation of marine mammals and the role of Marine
Protected Areas in management
13.30
Closing session
REGISTRATION REQUIREMENT:
Applicants must be universitary students or
post-graduates.
DOCUMENTATION REQUIRED FOR REGISTRATION:
A registration form will be
provided by the Student Office. Once this has been completed, it should be
handed into the same ofice together with the following documentation:
a) Photocopy of the passport
b) Evidence that the
applicant is at least a university or graduate student
c) Original receipt showing
payment of registration fees.
PLEASE BEAR IN MIND THAT COIMMUNICATION WITH THE
STUDENT OFFICE IS NOT POSSIBLE IN AUGUST DURING UNIVERSITY VACATION TIMES – list these.