RESEARCH OPPORTUNITY, whales and squid, Feb 2004

[Jean]

chrono_war01 (good grief where did you get that screen name? )

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[chrono_war01]

Thanks

Thanks!

The way I got my screen is like this: I keep forgeting my screen name on a lot of multi-player games such as Battlefield, Runescape and C&C seris, so I just use that all the rest of my online stuff. Chrono means teleport or something...

 

[Steve O'Shea]

In editing the original post for this thread a message popped up to say 'text too long'. So I've had to remove the references and post them separately. Sorry. The following links to the first post in this thread.

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Brabyn, M.W. 1991. An analysis of the New Zealand whale stranding record. Science & Research Series. Report No. 29. Department of Conservation, Wellington, New Zealand. 47pp.

Candela, S.M. 1987. Cephalopod prey of pygmy and dwarf sperm whales (Kogia breviceps and K. simus) stranded in Florida and Georgia. Abstract. Seventh biennial conference on the biology of marine mammals, Dec.5-7, 1987. Miami, Florida, USA.

Clarke, M.R. 1980: Cephalopoda in the diet of sperm whales of the Southern Hemisphere and their bearing on sperm whale biology. Discovery Reports 37: 1-324.

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O’Shea, S. 1997. Status of three Octopoda recorded from New Zealand, based on beaks recovered from long-distance foraging marine predators. New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 24(3): 265-266.

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Plön, S.E.E.; Bernard, R.T.F.; Klages, N.T.K.; Cockcroft, V.G. 1999. Stomach content analysis of pygmy and dwarf sperm whales and its ecological implications: is there niche partitioning? European Research on Cetaceans-13. Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference of the European Cetacean Society, Valencia, Spain, 5-8 April 1999. Vancouver, Canada. 28 Nov.-3 Dec. 2001.

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Wang, M.C.; Walker, W.A.; Shao, K.T.; Chou, L.S. 2002. Comparative analysis of the diets of pygmy sperm whales and dwarf sperm whales in Taiwanese waters. Acta Zoologica Taiwanica 13(2): 53-62.

 

[marinebio_guy]

Next year, after I graduate I will be more than happy to help out if you have any projects then.

 

[Steve O'Shea]

And I should add here that the Physeter component of this research project has also been taken.

 

[rvangeld]

Got anything post doc?

 

[Steve O'Shea]

As in a funded postdoc? I guess so. Not at this point in time, but things change from one day to the next. Are you aware of any funding that could be applied for?

 

[rvangeld]

Funding in Australia.....yes. Whether I can get funding from the Australian government to study in New Zealand I have no idea. It's something I could check out....and will.
Please let me know if anything becomes available as I am longing to work with cephalopods again and enjoy ecology and marine conservation more than i do fish vaccination.