Former graduate student Katherine McHugh, is now Dr. McHugh, Ph.D. Katie, as she is known to friends and colleagues, officially received her Doctorate Degree from the University of California, Davis in September 2010. Katie studied the behavioral development of Sarasota dolphins for her Doctorate. She is now employed by the Chicago Zoological Society as a [...]

Researchers have found severe to profound hearing loss in 57 percent of the bottlenose dolphins and 36 percent of the rough-toothed dolphins studied after the animals stranded.  Results of this study were published in the November 3, 2010 edition of the journal PLoS One. The study’s authors included our SDRP colleagues Dr. David Mann and [...]

October 11, 2010. Chicago Zoological Society (CZS) and Mote Marine Laboratory (MML) received Top Honors in Conservation for sponsorship of the world’s longest-running wild dolphin study. The award, in recognition for exceptional conservation efforts, was given to CZS and MML for their roles in continuing  collaborative efforts on the Sarasota Dolphin Research Program. The joint [...]

An SDRP team, led by Program Director Dr. Randy Wells, is planning to travel to New Orleans, LA to assist with the release and then monitoring of a rehabilitated wild dolphin. The young male dolphin, referred to as LA-168, was found on the southern coast of Louisiana during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. It was [...]

June 10, 2010.   A grant to the Chicago Zoological Society (CZS) from the Morris Animal Foundation’s Betty White Wildlife Rapid Response Fund is helping Sarasota Dolphin Research Program staff and colleagues study long term effects on bottlenose dolphins of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. This study focuses on the resident Sarasota Bay dolphin community [...]