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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
¿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
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
