Management of Ocean Resources under Shifting Expectations:
bringing the historical perspective into marine mammal conservation
 

Participate in the MORSE Project!

The MORSE project aims to understand the extent to which humans have changed the distribution and abundance of marine mammals at the global scale.

We are looking for historical and pre-historical records of presence/abundance of marine mammals through fossils data, historical accounts, whaling/sealing records from 10 000 BP—1950 AD. These records may come from archeological data, historical accounts, or commercial whaling/sealing data.

For the purpose of this study, we need records identified to species-level and with a good certainty regarding location and the time period. If you have any such records, please complete the online form, or contact us by Cette adresse e-mail est protégée contre les robots spammeurs. Vous devez activer le JavaScript pour la visualiser..

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Walrus image ( Jón Guðmundsson Lærði, On the diversity of Iceland’s Natures, 1690).

We are particulalry interested in the following species:

Gray Whale in the Atlantic

North Atlantic Right Whale

Mediterranean Monk Seal

Japanese Sea Lion

Sea Mink

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MORSE is a three-year project (2011-2014) funded by the French National Research Agency (Agence Nationale de la Recherche, ANR), under the 2011 call "Changements Environnementaux Planétaires et Sociétés" (CEP&S 2011).