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A Conservation Great: Buddy Powell

2025-07-25T19:03:32+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 Powell2025-07-25T19:03:32+00:00

Plastics in Rural and Urban Dolphins

2025-07-25T18:01:55+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 Dolphins2025-07-25T18:01:55+00:00

TADpoles and Dolphins

2025-07-25T10:52:07+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 Dolphins2025-07-25T10:52:07+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

Phthalates and Dolphins

2025-02-17T14:42:51+00:00

Will Changing Weather Patterns Expose Dolphins to More Chemicals? Sarasota Bay, Florida, study aims to understand whether excess rainfall and red tides impact the concentration of chemical contaminants in dolphins Since 2016, the College of Charleston and its partners at the Sarasota Dolphin Research Program (SDRP) have been studying

Phthalates and Dolphins2025-02-17T14:42:51+00:00

Biennial Conference on Marine Mammals 2024

2024-12-21T14:08:29+00:00

We participated in or led a dozen presentations during the 25th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals hosted by the Society for Marine Mammalogy, the largest global organization of individuals interested in marine mammal research and conservation. The conference, which took place in Perth, Australia, in November 2024, focused on "Culture and

Biennial Conference on Marine Mammals 20242024-12-21T14:08:29+00:00
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