2019
March 2019 | The 5th Important Marine Mammal Area (IMMA) Workshop. Sal participated in this workshop, held in Salalah, Oman, along with 37 other marine mammal experts. This workshop was convened by the IUCN Marine Mammal Protected Areas Task Force. Several areas in Madagascar are now “candidate IMMAs” and are under consideration by an independent review panel, including a cIMMA for the northwest coast of Madagascar that encompasses the Omura’s whale habitat currently defined by our project’s work.
February 2019 | Learning about whales by eavesdropping on their songs. Wildlife on Tap, Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
2018
December 2018 | A new age of discovery: passive acoustics in the 21st century. African Bioacoustics Conference, Cape Town, South Africa.
November 2018 | Omura’s whales in Madagascar: describing the ecology of a new baleen whale species. MadaMegafauna, Madirokely, Nosy Be, Madagascar.
February 2018 | Baleen whale acoustics: from songs to human impacts. Tufts University Biology Department, Medford, Massachusetts.
January 2018 | Learning about whales by eavesdropping on their songs. Environment Society of Oman, Muscat, Oman.
January 2018 | Omura’s whales in Madagascar: Describing the ecology of a new baleen species. Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California.
2017
November 2017 | Contrasting movement patterns of migratory and non-migratory baleen whale populations. 22nd Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
October 2017 | Discovering the Omura’s whale: ecology and conservation of the newest baleen whale species. Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts.
October 2017 | Meet the Omura’s whale, the world’s newest baleen whale species. Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts.
September 2017 | Omura’s whales in Madagascar: describing the ecology of a new baleen whale species. Florida International University, Miami, Florida.
July 2017 | Contrasting movement patterns of migratory and non-migratory baleen whale populations. 2nd Humpback Whale World Congress, Reunion Island, France.
June 2017 | A first description of rhythmic song in Omura’s whale. Acoustical Society of America, Boston, Massachusetts.
2016
October 2016 | Omura’s whales off northwest Madagascar: a first description of species ecology, behavior and conservation needs. Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
April 2016 | Omura’s whales off northwest Madagascar: ecology, behavior and conservation needs. Caring for the Earth Film Series, Hyannis, Massachusetts.
March 2016 | Omura’s whales off northwest Madagascar: ecology, behavior and conservation needs. New England Aquarium, Boston, Massachusetts.
2015
December 2015 | Omura’s whales off northwest Madagascar: a first ecological description of the species. 21st Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals, San Francisco, California.
September 2015 | Omura’s whales off northwest Madagascar: a first ecological description of the species. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
March 2015 | First field observation and ecological description of Omura’s whales, including song-like vocalizations. Watkins Memorial Marine Mammal Bioacoustic Symposium, New Bedford, Massachusetts.