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Walker, B. (BFZ Veterinary Externship Student), Stone, A., Wilkinson, K. A., Wells, R. S., Hueter, R. E., Morris, J., LECTURES AND WORKSHOPS
Langan, J. N., Hostnik, E. T., & Alexander, A. B. (2022, Hoopes, L. A., Bakker, J., van Zinnicq Bergmann, M. The Chicago Zoological Society has relationships with the following educational
September 17-23). Dental nerve blocks of the Bennett’s P. M., Rossman, S., Tatom-Naecker, T.-A. & Hagan, V. institutions where our staff are frequent lecturers, teachers, and mentors, as well
wallaby (Macropus rufogriseus): Anatomic landmarks (2022, August 1-5). Food fight? Assessing the trophic as advisors and committee members for M.S. and Ph.D. students.
and approaches assessed with computed tomography overlap of resident common bottlenose dolphins
and gross dissection [Presentation & Abstract]. (Tursiops truncatus) and coastal shark species off Duke University, Durham, North Carolina University of Florida, Gainesville
American Association of Zoo Veterinarians Annual Sarasota, Florida [Oral presentation]. 24 Biennial Florida International University, Miami University of Illinois Chicago
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Conference, Houston, TX, United States. Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Wells, R. S. (2022, January 20). Health and movements Palm Beach, FL, United States.
of Florida’s Gulf dolphins [Virtual presentation]. Wolters, P., van Zeeland, L., Jensen, F., Sayigh, L., Mote Marine Laboratory, Sarasota, Florida University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Florida RESTORE Act Centers of Excellence Program Morrison, E., Ermi, G., Wells, R., McKennoch, S., & New College of Florida, Sarasota University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
All Hands Meeting, Tampa, FL, United States. Smith, S. (2022, August 1-5). Deep learning-based Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida Wilmington University, New Castle, Delaware
recognition of bottlenose dolphin signature whistles
Wells, R. S. (2022, May 4). Alliance of Marine Mammal Parks th University of California, Irvine Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,
and Aquariums annual meeting [Oral presentation]. [Poster presentation]. 24 Biennial Conference on Woods Hole, Massachusetts
Alliance of Marine Mammal Parks and Aquariums the Biology of Marine Mammals, Palm Beach, FL, University of California, Santa Cruz
Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL, United States. United States. University of Chicago, Hyde Park
Wells, R. S. (2022, August 1-5). Individuals make a Zabojnik, M., Stacey, R., McGee, J., & Gonka, M. (2022,
difference: 50+ years of lessons from Sarasota’s February 27-March 4). Oral squamous cell carcinoma
dolphins [Kenneth S. Norris Lifetime Achievement treatment in a bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops
Award plenary presentation]. 24 Biennial Conference truncatus) at Brookfield Zoo: Lucky’s story [Paper Scientists with CZS’s Sarasota Dolphin Research Program
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on the Biology of Marine Mammals, Palm Beach, FL, presentation]. International Marine Animal Trainers’ 4 (SDRP) joined other researchers and NOAA Fisheries in a large
United States. Association (IMATA) Annual Conference, Chicago, IL,
United States. study that has been examining the long-term impact of a cata-
Wells, R. S. (2022, August 1-5). Tagging Franciscana strophic oil spill on dolphins living within the oil spill footprint,
dolphins off Argentina and Brazil: Considerations
for integrated conservation planning [Integrated in Barataria Bay, Louisiana. In 2010, the Deepwater Horizon (DWH)
Conservation Planning for Cetaceans Workshop]. Dolphins swimming through water polluted offshore drilling rig exploded and released more than 3 million
24 Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. barrels of oil that contaminated offshore waters, bays, sounds, and
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Mammals, Palm Beach, FL, United States. AP Photo/Alex Brandon estuaries in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Using catch-and-release
Wilkinson, K. A., Bassos-Hull, K., Gardiner, J. M., Schloesser, techniques refined by SDRP for the purpose of health assess-
R. W., DeGroot, B. C., & Ajemian, M. J. (2022, ments, comparative health assessments were performed on
December 13). Sarasota Coast Acoustic Network dolphins that lived in some of the most heavily polluted
(SCAN) project update [Oral presentation]. FACT Winter
Meeting, Jensen Beach, FL, United States. waters in the Gulf. SDRP conducted health assessments on
the resident dolphin community of Sarasota Bay that had
Wilkinson, K. A., Morris, J. J., Hagan, V. N., Aeberhard, W. H.,
Cahill, B. V., Dougherty, D. A., Byrd, G. L., Chapman, no exposure to the DWH oil. Using the SDRP dolphins
D. D., Hueter, R. E., & Clark, E. (2022, October 20-22). as a control group, the study found strong evidence of
Times they are-a-changin’: Shifts in shark assemblage chronic and potentially progressive respiratory injury,
and relative abundance along the Florida Gulf Coast, as well as high rates of reproductive failure, in bottlenose
1955-2022 [Oral presentation]. Sharks International dolphins living within the DWH oil spill footprint.
Conference, Valencia, Spain.
The study concluded that the effects of the oil spill
are long-lasting, and continued long-term monitoring of
exposed populations is needed after such an event.

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