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Disentangling Dolphins

2025-11-08T18:07:18+00:00

Coming to the Aid of Dolphin Calves Near Clearwater Things got scary for two dolphin calves off Clearwater before Halloween, when staff from Clearwater Marine Aquarium (CMA) received reports about and observed two dolphins in the area they monitor entangled in fishing line. After getting permission from the National Marine Fisheries Service, we mounted

Disentangling Dolphins2025-11-08T18:07:18+00:00

New Dolphin Calves — 2025

2025-11-08T17:50:42+00:00

Meet the 2025 Sarasota Bay Dolphin Calves! Calf 2134, pictured above with mom F213, was the first Sarasota Bay calf documented in 2025. 2134's mom, also known as Maddie, was born in 2007 to FB55, who is part of a life-long and well-known female lineage in Sarasota Bay. FB55 is the third

New Dolphin Calves — 20252025-11-08T17:50:42+00:00

Reducing Plastics and Phthalates in the Environment

2025-08-13T16:14:52+00:00

Help Wild Dolphins and Other Marine Life by Reducing Plastics and Phthalates in Your Life More than 170 trillion plastic particles end up in our oceans annually where they impact marine life in a variety of negative ways. Animals can mistake plastics for their traditional food sources and eat it — think

Reducing Plastics and Phthalates in the Environment2025-08-13T16:14:52+00:00

Spinner Dolphin Studies

2025-11-04T16:58:38+00:00

TADpole Breaks New Ground in Spinner Dolphin Studies During field work in O'ahu, Hawaii in earlier this summer (2025), SDRP collaborated with Robin Baird of Cascadia Research Collective to deploy satellite-linked tags on spinner dolphins. This was the first time this species has been tracked with satellite-linked tags — a feat made

Spinner Dolphin Studies2025-11-04T16:58:38+00:00

Remembering Buddy Powell

2025-11-06T14:42:44+00:00

A Tribute to James A. “Buddy” Powell, Ph.D. We lost a wonderful friend and colleague, and the world has lost a conservation hero with the death of Buddy Powell early on July 19 from cancer. Buddy was a pioneer in manatee research and conservation, whose work led to protected spaces

Remembering Buddy Powell2025-11-06T14:42:44+00:00

A Conservation Great: Buddy Powell

2025-10-26T13:19:36+00:00

Buddy Powell: A Life on the Edge of the Sea In 2005, when James "Buddy" Powell was Director of Aquatic Conservation for Wildlife Trust, SDRP colleague Nadine Slimak had the opportunity to interview him for a feature story. We think the anecdotes and highlights Buddy shared captured his spirit as a conservation biologist

A Conservation Great: Buddy Powell2025-10-26T13:19:36+00:00

Plastics in Rural and Urban Dolphins

2025-08-13T16:16:54+00:00

Dolphins Living Near Urban Coastline Show More Frequent Exposure to Chemicals from Plastics than those in Rural Area New study compared concentrations of endocrine-disrupting compounds between dolphins from Sarasota Bay, Florida, and Barataria Bay, Louisiana Dr. Leslie Hart, Associate Professor at the College of Charleston (left) and Miranda K.

Plastics in Rural and Urban Dolphins2025-08-13T16:16:54+00:00

TADpoles and Dolphins

2025-11-04T16:58:53+00:00

What do TADpoles have to do with dolphins? Development of a remote Tag Attachment Device The Sarasota Dolphin Research Program has acted as a testbed for the development of many innovative methods to study marine mammals. Since 1975, Sarasota Bay has been used extensively for testing electronic tags, including radio-tags and

TADpoles and Dolphins2025-11-04T16:58:53+00:00

Dolphins and Diabetes

2025-04-08T13:13:58+00:00

The Sarasota Bay Dolphin Diet May Provide Important Clues to Prevent Diabetes Just like people, some dolphins are susceptible to prediabetes, also called metabolic syndrome. This syndrome includes elevated insulin, glucose, triglycerides, fatty liver disease and associated iron overload. While metabolic syndrome is not a direct cause of death in dolphins, it

Dolphins and Diabetes2025-04-08T13:13:58+00:00

Ftalatos y Delfines

2025-02-17T14:21:38+00:00

¿Los cambios en los patrones climáticos expondrán a los delfines a más sustancias químicas? Un estudio en la bahía de Sarasota, Florida, tiene como objetivo comprender si el exceso de lluvias y las mareas rojas afectan la concentración de contaminantes químicos en los delfines. Desde 2016, el College of

Ftalatos y Delfines2025-02-17T14:21:38+00:00
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