[CINC] bottlenose dolphin problems

[Kenneth A. Tatro]

Very informative and educational exchange. Thanks to all who participated. I, for one, thoroughly enjoy and soak up this valuable info as I am not always available to attend these fine seminars and confabs on our oceans. I will be going thorough the several links with interest.

Thanks again, folks,

Ken Tatro

On Apr 29, 2013, at 5:48 AM, Bernardo Alps wrote:

> Hi Paul.
>  
> You are thinking of Dr. Toni Frohoff of TerraMar Research, http://www.terramarresearch.org/about_us/about_toni_frohoff.html . She and Dr. Daniela Maldini of the California Coastal Dolphin Project, http://www.danielamaldini.com/ , are two of a number of very capable researchers studying these animals in different parts of the California coast.
>  
> The "dean" of coastal bottlenose dolphin research is R. H. Defran of San Diego State, http://www.sci.sdsu.edu/cbl/Director.html . There is an interesting video of him speaking about dolphin photo ID during a recent Southern California Marine Mammal Workshop here, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxIMRj-J1vA (you'll see in the thumbnails to the right that John Calambokidis and yours truly also presented in that session).
>  
> Other researchers and projects include Izzy Szczepaniak, Dr. Jon Stern, Bill Keener and Marc Webber of Golden Gate Cetacean Research, http://www.ggcetacean.org/ ; Dr. Maddalena Bearzi of Ocean Conservation scoiety in Santa Monica Bay, http://www.oceanconservation.org/ (her paper on Tt skin lesions is athttp://www.oceanconservation.org/research/publications_pdf/skin_lesions_2009.pdf , and her presentation at the same SCMMW session previously mentioned is athttp://socalmarinemammals.org/archive2012.php ); Dennis Kelly and his students at Orange Coast College of the Coastal Dulphin Survey Project, http://news.fullerton.edu/2012fa/Dennis-Kelly.asp (the Orange County Chapter of ACS has long been involved in this study, http://www.acsonline.org/oldwebsite/orangecounty/supported_research.html); Dr. Kayla Causey of Cal State Fullerton's Coastal Dolphins of Orange County Project, http://www.cdocproject.org/CDOC/Home.html ; and Dr. Dave Weller of NOAA's Southwest Fisheries Science Center and Greg Campbell of Scripps Institute of Oceanography have done work off San Diego for a long time. And finally my wife, Diane Alps, conducts a very localized research project at Cabrillo Beach,https://www.facebook.com/pages/Project-Dol-FIN/141268959243894 .
>  
> Since these animals travel between the various study areas this research is a great candidate for collaboration, which is becioming more commoon. There is now a joint California Dolphin Online Catalog, http://www.oceanconservation.org/research/publications_pdf/CDOC_Poster_ACS-XIII_06NOV12AM-v9.pdf , managed by Alex Kesaris.
>  
> The research indicates that there is a northward expansion of the range of this species along the California coast, but caution must be used when speculating about its causes. Global warming would be a plausible explanation but it could be something as benign as a natural cycle. As for exposure to contaminants, I would think that sites in Southern California like Santa Monica Bay, the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach and San Diego Bay are much more likely candidates than coastal Santa Barbara and even Monterey Bay.
>  
> Some food for thought.
>  
> Take care,
>  
> Bernardo
> 
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> 
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Paul Petrich 
> Sent: Apr 28, 2013 10:41 PM 
> To: Bernardo Alps 
> Cc: CINC 
> Subject: Re: [CINC] bottlenose dolphin problems 
> 
> Bernardo, Debra, and other Ocean People,
>  Dr. Daniela Maldini was one of many presenters at a  Protect Our Dolphins  gala put on at the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum in January of 2010. She and the organization she represented from Monterey were the only presenters with science about our local dolphins who was legit. The organizer, a Dr Toni ???,charged $50 entrance, and had a book signing at a packed house, but we never saw or heard from here again. Please read my exchange below about Dr. Madini's comments and take on the event. Fellow CINC member John Kuizenga is the "John" my exchange is with. John, do you remember her last name ? I threw her book away. Dr, Madini probably did , too!   
> 
> John,
>  Thanks for the thoughtful reply. I guess my concerns amplified when I sat in the back row and found that the group next to me included Dr. Daniela Maldini,( the best expert there on our local Bottlenose), but not until she got up to talk did I know who she was. They were wincing at the beginning of Toni's talk, when she showed the sick dolphin slides, and implied they got sick in our area. They were slides sent to Toni by Daniela, as we found out, and I had a definite take that Daniela did not like the way they were used.
>   Did you notice she immediately corrected the misconception about the slides by telling us that the Dolphins in question got contaminated in her own Monterey Bay, then got better when they came south to"our sun and warmer water?" Then she said she looked forward collaborating with Toni the future, which I saw as an implication such collaboration was lacking prior to the presentation. 
>   As we heard, Dr. Maldini went on to explain that the Bottlenose are clearly expanding their range, as the larger numbers in Monterey are from our area, not arriving until 1882. The same ones are even  seen in San Diego. So, is the real issue diminishing numbers or a search for expanding their range for some food or health reason?      Paul
> On Apr 28, 2013, at 8:28 PM, Bernardo Alps wrote:
> 
>> Hi Deb
> 
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