In early March Caroline was invited to attend a Towed Passive Acoustic Monitoring (PAM) Workshop at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography in San Diego. The workshop was jointly supported by the US Acoustical Society of America (ASA), the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement

I am pleased to announce the publication of a new paper describing the occurrence of Atlantic humpback dolphins in the Río Nuñez region of northern Guinea: Weir, C.R. (2015). Photo-identification and habitat use of Atlantic humpback dolphins Sousa teuszii around the Río Nuñez estuary

We are pleased to announce the publication of a new paper has just been published describing the occurrence of Atlantic humpback (Sousa teuszii) and bottlenose (Tursiops truncatus) dolphins in the coastal waters of Guinea-Bissau. More information is available on the Journal of the Mar

A new paper has just been published assessing the distribution of Clymene dolphins (Stenella clymene) in the eastern Atlantic Ocean. More information is available on the Journal of Mammalogy website. Weir, C.R., Coles, P., Ferguson, A., May, D., Baines, M., Figueirdo, I., Reichelt, M.

We have just published a new paper describing several sightings of blue whales off Angola during 2012, together with an assessment of the whaling data available for the country. More information is available on the African Journal of Marine Science website. A limited number of author

A new publication describing the first record of Atlantic humpback dolphins in Benin (Gulf of Guinea) has just been published. The publication is available to download from: Marine Biodiversity Records. Zwart, S.J. and Weir, C.R. (2014). Filling in the gaps: first record of Sousa teus

Events in February 2014 and media coverage On 17 February I assisted the Scottish Marine Animal Strandings Scheme (SMASS) with the collection of two dead harbour porpoises from St Cyrus beach in Aberdeenshire. The skin of both porpoises exhibited extensive tooth raking from bottlenose

Our paper reviewing the impact of human activities on cetaceans in the eastern tropical Atlantic (west coast of Africa) has just been published in Mammal Review (the online version was first made available in 2012). Not only that, but one of my images (a leaping common dolphin taken o

I am pleased to announce a new publication on the global distribution of the Risso’s dolphin. More information is available on the Mammal Review website. Jefferson, T.A., Weir, C.R., Anderson, R.C., Ballance, L.T., Kenney, R.D. and Kiszka, J.J. (2013). Global distribution of Ris

A new publication on records of the false killer whale in shelf waters in the Gulf of Guinea region has just been published. The publication is available to download from: Marine Biodiversity Records. Weir, C.R., Collins, T., Cross, T., Gill, A., Elwen, S., Unwin, M. and Parnell, R.J.