Professor Ian Boyd is the Director of the Sea Mammal Research Unit at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. He has worked for over two decades on marine mammals, mainly the Antarctic fur seal but has recently changed focus to study beaked whales in the tropics. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and has received several prestigious awards including the W.S. Bruce Medal for his research in polar science and the Zoological Society of London's Scientific Medal.

Dr. Don Bowen is a Senior Biologist at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada. He is also an adjunct professor at Dalhousie University and a former Division Chief of the Marine Fish Division at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography and former editor of Marine Mammal Science. He has focussed most of his research since the early 1980s on north Atlantic pinnipeds, especially grey seals. He is one of the world's leading marine mammal population ecologists.

Professor Sara Iverson is a faculty member in the Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. She is a physiological ecologist and is a leader in the field of trophic ecology of marine mammals and seabirds through her development of fatty acid signature analysis to derive information about predator diets. She has received a number of prestigious awards for her work including the Canadian Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council's E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship.

Geert Aarts (University of St Andrews, UK & Institute of Marine Resource and Ecosystem Studies, Netherlands)
Jason Baker (Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Centre, USA)
W.D. Bowen (Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Canada)
Ian L Boyd (University of St Andrews, UK)
Louise Cunningham (University of St Andrews, UK)
Dan Crocker (Sonoma State University, USA)
Tomo Eguchi (Southwest Fisheries Science Center, USA)
J.A. Estes (USGS Santa Cruz Field Station, USA)
John K.B. Ford (Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Canada)
Nick Gales (Australian Government Antarctic Division, Australia)
Frances M.D. Gulland (The Marine Mammal Center, USA)
Mike Fedak (University of St Andrews, UK)
Ailsa J. Hall (University of St Andrews, UK)
John A. Hammond (Institute for Animal Health, UK)
Philip S. Hammond (University of St Andrews, UK)
John Harwood (University of St Andrews, UK)
Mark A. Hindell (University of Tasmania, Australia)
Keith A. Hobson (Canadian Wildlife Service, Canada)
Sascha Hooker (University of St Andrews, UK)
Sara J. Iverson (Dalhousie University, Canada)
David Johnston (Duke Marine Laboratory, USA)
Scott D. Kraus (New England Aquarium, USA)
Shelley L. C. Lang (Dalhousie University, Canada)
Charles Littnan (Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Centre, USA)
Tom Loughlin (TRL Wildlife Consulting, USA)
Karen Martien (Southwest Fisheries Science Center, USA)
Jason Matthiopoulos (University of St Andrews, UK)
Bernie McConnell (University of St Andrews, UK)
Yoshihisa Mori (Teikyo University of Science and Technology, Japan)
Phillip Morin (Southwest Fisheries Science Center, USA)
Simon Northridge (University of St Andrews, UK)
Toby Patterson (CSIRO Marine & Atmospheric Research, Australia)
Graham J. Pierce (University of Aberdeen, UK)
Lori H. Schwacke (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, USA)
Don Siniff (University of Minnesota, USA)
Carol E. Sparling (University of St Andrews, UK)
Ian Stirling (Canadian Wildlife Service, Canada)
Dominic J. Tollit (SMRU Ltd, St Andrews, UK & University of British Columbia, Canada)
Peter Tyack (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA)
Barbara L. Taylor (Southwest Fisheries Science Center, USA)
Andrew J. Read (Duke Marine Laboratory, USA)
Sofie Van Parijs (NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center, USA)
Hal Whitehead (Dalhousie University, Canada)
Randall Wells (Chicago Zoological Society, USA)
Andrew Westgate (Duke Marine Laboratory, USA)
Terrie M. Williams (University of California Santa Cruz, USA)

"With 70 pages of references, this excellent book will have value for a wide range of biologists not only those studying mammals, and will quickly take its place alongside Southwood's Ecological Methods as a dependable research tool." -- Bulletin of the British Ecological Society 2011

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