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SC/69A/SH/04/Rev1
Full Title
Annual Report of the Southern Ocean Research Partnership (IWC-SORP) 2022/23
Author
Elanor M. Bell (Compiler)
Authors Summary
SC/69a/SHXX presents the Annual Report of The Southern Ocean Research Partnership (IWC-SORP). IWC-SORP is a multi-lateral, non-lethal scientific research programme established in 2009 to improve the coordinated and cooperative delivery of science to the IWC. There are 13 Partners: Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Chile, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa, and the United States. The paper reports on the continued progress of IWC-SORP and its seven Commission-endorsed research themes1 in 2022/23. Progress includes publication of ca. 43 peer-reviewed scientific papers, bringing the total number produced since the start of the initiative to ca. 291. Moreover, >200 IWC-SORP related papers have been submitted to the Scientific Committee, >14 of them this year. IWC-SORP has directly contributed to at least 11 PhD, 8 Masters and 8 honours theses and the work of at least 5 postdoctoral fellows.
The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted all IWC-SORP projects but field and lab work have now resumed. Expeditions were conducted around the western Antarctic Peninsula, sub-Antarctic Marion Island and Prince Edwards Islands, the shelf waters from the South Orkney Islands/ Las islas Orcadas del Sur to the South Shetland Islands/ Las islas Shetland del Sur, the French Sub-Antarctic Territories, in the waters off South Africa, Western Australia, and around Península Valdés, Argentina. Southern right whale aerial surveys occurred in South Africa, Australia and Brazil. Images for photo-identification were collected; satellite tags deployed on killer whales, southern right and fin whales; biopsy samples collected from killer, southern right, fin and humpback whales; long-term acoustic moorings were deployed and hundreds of hours of cetacean acoustic recordings made and analysed.
Publisher
IWC
Publication Year
2023
Abstract
The Southern Ocean Research Partnership (IWC-SORP) is a multi-lateral, non-lethal scientific research programme established in 2009 to improve the coordinated and cooperative delivery of science to the IWC. There are 13 Partners: Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Chile, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa, and the United States. This paper reports on the continued progress of IWC-SORP and its seven Commission-endorsed research themes1 in 2022/23. Progress includes publication of ca. 43 peer-reviewed scientific papers, bringing the total number produced since the start of the initiative to ca. 291. Moreover, 208 IWC-SORP related papers have been submitted to the Scientific Committee, 22 of them this year. IWC-SORP has directly contributed to at least 19 PhD, 10 Masters and 8 honours theses and the work of at least 5 postdoctoral fellows.