Marine Mammal Ecology Laboratory

12/15/2025

Last paper of the year for our lab! The paper addresses the following question: can recovering marine mammal populations and sustainable fisheries coexist?

Our results suggest that we don't necessarily have to choose between predators and profit. The restoration of marine mammal populations is not incompatible with optimized fisheries yields. When viewed at the ecosystem scale, we can support conservation success stories while maintaining productive, sustainable fisheries.

Congrats to all the coauthors, particularly Dr. Matt Woodstock for leading this effort (5 years in the making!). Here is the link to the paper (photographs: white-beaked dolphins and harbor porpoises, by Dr. J. Kiszka). Link to the paper: https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/abs/10.1139/cjfas-2025-0056?journalCode=cjfas

12/15/2025

that one of our research partners, Dr. Jeremy Kiszka at Florida International University (FIU), has teamed up with Fahlo, a company that sells bracelets that let you track tagged animals? Each purchase gives you access to a QR code that allows you to follow a wild tagged dolphin. Through this partnership, bracelet sales are helping to support some of our own dolphin conservation research. Visit Fahlo’s website to learn more. https://myfahlo.com.

12/12/2025

New paper for our lab! Our very own Aarin Allen published the second chapter of his dissertation!

Results indicate that a macroalgae-rich diet provides readily digestible energy but contains significantly less fiber, and exhibits altered nutritional balances compared to seagrass. Such a dietary transition may exacerbate malnutrition risks to manatees in Florida. Thank you so much to Save the Manatee Club for funding this work! Here is the link to the paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S030437702500107X

12/06/2025

New paper out from our lab!

Long-term dynamics of the home range and community structure of bottlenose dolphins in a fast-developing coastal ecosystem in southern Florida https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aqc.70253

12/02/2025

How do delphinids share food in a resource-limited ecosystem? Here the work we published today in the journal Science of the Total Environment and led by postdoctoral researcher Guillaume Chandelier Dolphin drawings: Uko Gorter. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969725026348?dgcid=coauthor

11/19/2025

NEW PAPER from the lab! Our postdoc Dr. Jessica Cardé just published the first paper of her PhD dissertation on the trophic ecology of bottlenose dolphins experiencing habitat degradation in Biscayne Bay, South Florida! Here is the link to the paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mms.70090

09/30/2025

Congratulations to Dr Enrico Corsi who successfully defended his PhD today on the socioecology of odontocete cetaceans around the main Hawaiian islands! Thanks to Cascadia Research Collective for this fantastic collaboration!

08/01/2025

Congratulations to our very own Enrico Corsi for publishing the first chapter of his PhD dissertation in Marine Mammal Science on the social structure of bottlenose dolphins in Hawaiian waters. Thank you to Cascadia Research Collective for this wonderful collaboration! Here is the link to the paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mms.70051

07/13/2025

A vary happy birthday to our very own Dr Guillaume Chandelier! Guillaume investigates the effects of climate change on small cetaceans in the North Atlantic. He also run multiple projects on the foraging ecology of small cetaceans in tropical marine ecosystems. We are so glad to have you in our lal, Guillaume!! 🇫🇷

06/23/2025

New science out: Led by Rodrigo Tardin and Guilherme Maricato with the participation of 50 other scientists from six countries, this work shows how a coastal dolphin species occurring in tropical waters could be affected by climate change. Guiana dolphins might just lose nearly 50% of their suitable habitats. Marine Protected Areas will obviously fail in safeguarding dolphins now but even more in the future. Here is the link to the paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/.../pii/S0964569125002625... Photograph: Guiana dolphin (Sotalia guianensis) in Costa Rica (J. Kiszka)

06/09/2025

Our lab just completed our second field season in northern Norway to deploy satellite-linked transmitters on long-finned pilot whales, killer whales and s***m whales. 11 tags were deployed, over 20 biopsy samples and lots of data collected! Thank you so much to our collaborators at Whale2Sea and at the university of Tromsø! Norway has been so amazing, as usual!!

05/06/2025