Selected Oral and Poster Presentations 

Delarue, J., S. Todd, R. Sears and L. Di Lorio. 2007. Use of fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus) vocalizations to determine stock identity and structure; a comparative study of two North Atlantic feeding grounds. Poster presented at the Seventeenth Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals, Cape Town, South Africa. (See Poster here)

Doniol-Valcroze, T., D. Berteaux and R. Sears. 2006. Multivariate analysis of habitat selection by rorqual whales. Poster presented at the inaugural meeting of the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution, Montreal , April 3-4, 2006. (See Poster here).

Doniol-Valcroze, T., D. Berteaux & R. Sears. 2006. Multivariate analysis of habitat selection by rorqual whales in the Gulf of St. Lawrence , Quebec , Canada . Oral presentation to the 16th biennial conference on the biology of marine mammals, San Diego, December 11 – 16, 2005. (See Abstract here)

Doniol-Valcroze, T., P. Larouche, D. Berteaux and R. Sears. 2005. Influence of thermal fronts on habitat selection by rorqual whales in the Gulf of St. Lawrence . Oral presentation to the 44th Annual Conference of the Canadian Society of Zoologists, Kingston , May 11-14, 2005. (See Abstract here)

Conway C.A., L.A. Lyons, R. Sears, J. Calambokidis, N. Kanda, P.C. Gill, and B.P. May. 2005. Global Population Structure of Blue Whales, Balaenoptera musculus , Based on Nuclear Genetic Variation. Poster presented at the Sixteenth Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals, San Diego , California .

Sears, R., C.L.K. Burton, and G. Vikingson. 2005. Review of Blue Whale ( Balaenoptera musculus ) Photoidentification Distribution Data in the North Atlantic, Including the First Long-Range Match between Iceland and Mauritania . Poster presented at the Sixteenth Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals, San Diego , California . (See Poster here).

Ramp, C., Berube, M., Hagen , W, and Sears, R. 2005 Population Structure and Dynamic of Humpback Whales ( Megaptera novaeangliae ) in the Gulf of St Lawrence, Canada . Poster presented at the Sixteenth Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals, San Diego , California .

Berchok, C.L., Bradley, D.L., Gabrielson, T.B., and Sears, R. 2004. Detection of a unique calling pattern during the respiratory cycle of blue whale pairs. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 116:2613. Oral Presentation. (See Abstract here).

Doniol-Valcroze, T. and R. Sears. 2003. Influence of thermal fronts on the distributionand behaviour of four species of rorqual whales from the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Quebec , Canada . Oral presentation to the 15th biennial conference on the biology of marine mammals, Greensboro , December 14 – 19, 2003. (See Abstract here).

Berchok, C.L., Bradley, D.L., Gabrielson, T.B., and Sears, R. 2003. Comparison of St. Lawrence blue whale vocalizations with field observations. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 113:2277. Oral Presentation. (See Abstract here).  

Berchok, C.L., Bradley, D.L., Gabrielson, T.B., and Sears, R. 2002. St. Lawrence blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus ) vocalizations. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 112:2400. Oral Presentation. (See Abstract here).

Doniol-Valcroze, T., D. Sergeant and R. Sears. 2001. Spatial distribution of rorqual whales from the Gulf of St. Lawrence , Quebec , Canada . Poster presented at the 14th Biennial conference on the biology of marine mammal. Vancouver, CA. December 2001. (See Abstract here).

Sears, R. C. Ramp, and J. Calambokidis. 2001. Sightings of Blue whale ( B. musculus ) calves and calving intervals for known females in the Sea of Cortez from 1984-2001 and subsequent observations off California . Poster presented at the 14th Biennial conference on the biology of marine mammal. Vancouver, CA. December 2001. (See Abstract here).

Chandler , T., J. Calambokidis, and R. Sears. 2001. First Report on Sightings of a White Blue Whale. Poster presented at the 14th biennial conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals, Vancouver, Canada , November 28 – December 3, 2001. (See Abstract here).

Conway, C., L. Lyons, R. Sears, J. Calambokidis, P. Gill and B. May. 2001. Population Structure of the Blue Whale ( Balaenoptera musculus ) Based on Nuclear Genetic Variation. Poster presented at the 14th biennial conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals, Vancouver , Canada , November 28 – December 3, 2001. (See Abstract here).

Berchok, C.L., Gabrielson, T.B., and Bradley, D.L. 1999. An inexpensive, portable, and rugged system for recording the low-frequency sounds of cetaceans. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 106:2281. Oral Presentation. (See Abstract here).

Sears, R., C.L. Berchok, P. Palsboll, T. Doniol-Valcrose, and C. Ramp. 1999. Gender related structure in blue whale ( Balaenoptera musculus ) pairs from eastern Canadian waters. Oral Presentation to the 13th Biennial conference on the biology of marine mammals, Maui , Hawaii Nov28-Dec3 1999. (See Abstract here).

Koenig, B., T. Metcalfe, C. Metcalfe, J. Stegeman, M. Moore, C. Miller, and R.   Sears. 1999. Monitoring contaminants and biomarker responses in biopsy samples of blue whales. In: Abstracts 13th Biennial conference on the biology of marine mammals, Maui , Hawaii Nov28-Dec3 1999. (See Abstract here).

Conway , C., R. Sears and B. May. 1999. Determining Blue Whale ( Balaenoptera musculus ) Population Structure Using Introns Of Conserved Nuclear Genes. Presentation to the 13th biennial conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals, Maui , Hawaii , November 28 – December 3, 1999. (See Abstract here).

Palsbøll, P.J., M. Bérubé, P.J. Clapham, D. Dendanto, D. Dietz, T.P. Feddersen, A.C. Heiberg, M. P. Heide-Jørgensen, H. Jørgensen, A. H. Larsen, F. Larsen, L. Lien, D.K. Mattila, G. Notarbartolo di Sciara, J. Sigurjónsson, R. Sears, R. Sponer, N. Øien. 1998. Post-glacial origin and expansion of arctic and temperate cetacean populations in the North Atlantic . Oral Presentation to the World Marine Mammal Science Conference , Monaco . January 20-25, 1998.

Lien, J., Stenson, G. B., Booth, S. and Sears, R. 1987. Ice entrapments of blue whales ( Balaenoptera musculus ) in Newfoundland and Labrador (1978-1987).  In: abstracts from the North Atlantic Marine Mammal Association Conference, March 26-7, 1987, Boston , MA .