Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals!

The 18th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals will take place October 12-16, 2009,  in Québec City, QC, Canada.

“… Our conference organizing committee involves both government and private sector collaboration:  Dr. Mike Hammill (Chair), a Society member since 1985, is a pinniped research scientist with Fisheries and Oceans, Canada (DFO), the lead governmental organization responsible for marine mammals in Canada.  Dr. Véronique Lesage is a cetacean research scientist with DFO and has been a Society member since 1991.  Jean-Francois Gosselin, a Society member since 1995,  is a marine mammal biologist with DFO and Dr. Garry Stenson, a Society member since 1983, is a pinniped research scientist with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO-Newfoundland region).   Robert Michaud, a Society member since 1993, is the President and founding member of GREMM, an NGO dedicated to research, education and conservation of marine mammals in the St Lawrence Estuary.  Dr. D.W. Doidge is a society member since 1985, and is the research director with the Nunavik Research Centre in Kuujjuaq…. more info >> “