Marine Mammal Ecology Laboratory

Marine Mammal Ecology Laboratory Marine Mammal Ecology laboratory at Florida International University, led by Dr Jeremy Kiszka

New paper alert: published in Aquatic Botany! Nutritional composition of forage resources consumed by Florida manatees v...
01/06/2026

New paper alert: published in Aquatic Botany!

Nutritional composition of forage resources consumed by Florida manatees vulnerable to seagrass decline in the Indian River Lagoon. Congratulations to our very own Aarin-Conrad Allen for leading this work as part of his PhD dissertation and many thanks to Save the Manatee Club for funding this project.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S030437702500107X

Last paper of the year for our lab! The paper addresses the following question: can recovering marine mammal populations...
12/15/2025

Last paper of the year for our lab! The paper addresses the following question: can recovering marine mammal populations and sustainable fisheries coexist?

Our results suggest that we don't necessarily have to choose between predators and profit. The restoration of marine mammal populations is not incompatible with optimized fisheries yields. When viewed at the ecosystem scale, we can support conservation success stories while maintaining productive, sustainable fisheries.

Congrats to all the coauthors, particularly Dr. Matt Woodstock for leading this effort (5 years in the making!). Here is the link to the paper (photographs: white-beaked dolphins and harbor porpoises, by Dr. J. Kiszka). Link to the paper: https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/abs/10.1139/cjfas-2025-0056?journalCode=cjfas

12/15/2025

that one of our research partners, Dr. Jeremy Kiszka at Florida International University (FIU), has teamed up with Fahlo, a company that sells bracelets that let you track tagged animals? Each purchase gives you access to a QR code that allows you to follow a wild tagged dolphin. Through this partnership, bracelet sales are helping to support some of our own dolphin conservation research. Visit Fahlo’s website to learn more. https://myfahlo.com.

New paper for our lab! Our very own Aarin Allen published the second chapter of his dissertation! Results indicate that ...
12/12/2025

New paper for our lab! Our very own Aarin Allen published the second chapter of his dissertation!

Results indicate that a macroalgae-rich diet provides readily digestible energy but contains significantly less fiber, and exhibits altered nutritional balances compared to seagrass. Such a dietary transition may exacerbate malnutrition risks to manatees in Florida. Thank you so much to Save the Manatee Club for funding this work! Here is the link to the paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S030437702500107X

NEW PAPER from the lab! Our postdoc Dr. Jessica Cardé just published the first paper of her PhD dissertation on the trop...
11/19/2025

NEW PAPER from the lab! Our postdoc Dr. Jessica Cardé just published the first paper of her PhD dissertation on the trophic ecology of bottlenose dolphins experiencing habitat degradation in Biscayne Bay, South Florida! Here is the link to the paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mms.70090

Congratulations to Dr Enrico Corsi who successfully defended his PhD today on the socioecology of odontocete cetaceans a...
09/30/2025

Congratulations to Dr Enrico Corsi who successfully defended his PhD today on the socioecology of odontocete cetaceans around the main Hawaiian islands! Thanks to Cascadia Research Collective for this fantastic collaboration!

Congratulations to our very own Enrico Corsi for publishing the first chapter of his PhD dissertation in Marine Mammal S...
08/01/2025

Congratulations to our very own Enrico Corsi for publishing the first chapter of his PhD dissertation in Marine Mammal Science on the social structure of bottlenose dolphins in Hawaiian waters. Thank you to Cascadia Research Collective for this wonderful collaboration! Here is the link to the paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mms.70051

A vary happy birthday to our very own Dr Guillaume Chandelier! Guillaume investigates the effects of climate change on s...
07/13/2025

A vary happy birthday to our very own Dr Guillaume Chandelier! Guillaume investigates the effects of climate change on small cetaceans in the North Atlantic. He also run multiple projects on the foraging ecology of small cetaceans in tropical marine ecosystems. We are so glad to have you in our lal, Guillaume!! 🇫🇷

New science out: Led by Rodrigo Tardin and Guilherme Maricato with the participation of 50 other scientists from six cou...
06/23/2025

New science out: Led by Rodrigo Tardin and Guilherme Maricato with the participation of 50 other scientists from six countries, this work shows how a coastal dolphin species occurring in tropical waters could be affected by climate change. Guiana dolphins might just lose nearly 50% of their suitable habitats. Marine Protected Areas will obviously fail in safeguarding dolphins now but even more in the future. Here is the link to the paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/.../pii/S0964569125002625... Photograph: Guiana dolphin (Sotalia guianensis) in Costa Rica (J. Kiszka)

Our lab just completed our second field season in northern Norway to deploy satellite-linked transmitters on long-finned...
06/09/2025

Our lab just completed our second field season in northern Norway to deploy satellite-linked transmitters on long-finned pilot whales, killer whales and s***m whales. 11 tags were deployed, over 20 biopsy samples and lots of data collected! Thank you so much to our collaborators at Whale2Sea and at the university of Tromsø! Norway has been so amazing, as usual!!

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