I have been very lucky to participate once again in the Sarasota Dolphin Research Program, but this time working on my senior thesis, which will allow me to get my degree when I go back to Argentina. I’ve always been attracted to how a simple algal cell could cause such a big change in the [...]

Conservation research, education, and training are among the core activities of the Sarasota Dolphin Research Program. Professional training, especially as it relates to conservation capacity building, is an important aspect of our program’s mission and that of its parent division of the Chicago Zoological Society, the Conservation, Education, and Training group. The year 2011 provided [...]

Our lives are full of dreams. Some come true, and others remain on a list. My dream to develop AquaMarina as a team to run marine conservation action based in science in my country, Argentina, followed the typical process from a wish to a challenge. Established in 1998 as a non-profit organization, its mission has [...]

We conducted a 5-day capture-release dolphin health assessment project in Sarasota Bay in May 2011. The primary impetus behind the project was to obtain data and samples to serve as controls for comparison to samples to be collected by NOAA in oil-impacted Barataria Bay, Louisiana in August. An additional goal included training foreign scientists for [...]

I was fortunate to start working on conservation very early in my (short) career. It all started in Argentina in the mid-nineties, during my undergraduate studies, when Pablo Bordino took me in as an intern to do Franciscana dolphin behavior and conservation work with AquaMarina. These were my first conservation lessons at a time when [...]

I am from Argentina.  I am a member of the AquaMarina team, a group of biologists, students and fishermen working together on different projects in marine biology. In 2005, some members of the SDRP went to Argentina to help us with our Radio Tracking Franciscana Dolphin Project. It was a challenge for all, because it [...]

Franciscana dolphin: Southern Brazil Signals continued to be received through the end of November from two of the five Franciscana dolphins tagged with satellite-linked tags. The dolphins are exhibiting a very high degree of residency to a very small area within the bay. These highly endangered dolphins were tagged as part of a tri-national (Brazil-Argentina-USA) [...]

5 endangered Franciscana dolphins were captured, tagged and released, by a tri-national team of veterinarians and conservation scientists in Babitonga Bay, Brazil. The dolphins are being tracked with satellite-linked transmitters to learn about their activities, dive patterns, and range in Southern Brazil. This is important new information because Franciscana dolphins are threatened by coastal development, [...]