Marine Mammal Field Course 2015

Thank Betzi for this awesome summary of the course!

21/6/2015

Last night in Bocas

14/6/2015

Betzi's fantastic underwater video!

12/6/2015

Veronica's Journey

12/6/2015

UMIP students helping to put Veronica in one piece

Joel y Mo finishing to put together Veronica's skeleton

So Veronica can be safe!

Veronica ready to be taken to Buena Esperanza

Almost there!

Welcoming Veronica

Veronica the dolphin now ready to be place in the town of Buena Esperanza

Someone is excited about Veronica

Buena Esperanza

Changinola

8/6/2015

Lunch time

Breanna

Momentarily stock

Paper presentations

7/6/2015

Angel talking about blue whales and ship collisions

Cole presenting on whistle matching

Course guest Betzi talking about her work on humpback whale

Sunday: dolphins, beach, and sloths

7/6/2015

Having lunch at Red Frog Beach

Group photo at Red Frog Beach

The instructors

Christian fancy recording strategy

Marisa modeling the sighting #

Mom and Baby pygmy sloth

Bottlenose dolphin in Drago

Zack and sighting 2

Bottlenose dolphin in Drago

Cole and sighting 2

Guiana dolphin outside San San Lagoon

Bottlenose dolphin in Almirante Bay

Christian sighting 4

Five days of field work with an amazing group of students

5/6/2015

searching for dolphins

searching for dolphins

Prof. Jose Julio casas talking about his work

Celebrating Tatiana's birthday

First day of field work

UMIP students joining our course

Arriving to Panama

Our first dinner

Putting together a bottlenose dolphin skeleton with Lissette Trejos

Instructors Monica and Betzi, with our boat captains Demetrio and Rene

...and the drone is ready!

22/5/2015

Last field season between bad weather conditions and technical issues we couldn't get the most of our drone. This year we hope things will be better!

Getting ready: hydrophones check! cameras check! drone check!

19/5/2015

This is a busy week getting ready for our first marine mammal course at UVM! 12 students from UVM plus 4 invited students from UMIP-Panama, three national researchers as guests: Betzi, Liss, and JJ. Our equipment is packed, posters are for outreach activities with the community, dorsal fin catalogue is printed to facilitate focal follows, etc. Panama here go!