WHO WE ARE  

 
CETÁCEOS URUGUAY
INVESTIGATION AND CONSERVATION OF CETACEANS IN URUGUAY
 
 


The main objective of the research group Cetáceos Uruguay is to promote investigation and conservation of cetaceans in the Uruguayan coast. Cetáceos Uruguay originated in 2004, when students of the Bachelor in Biological Sciences Degree doing research at the Ethology, Evolution, Ecology and Oceanography laboratories at the Faculty of Sciences (University of the Republic, UDELAR), joined their projects in order to maximise their efforts and their future objectives.
At present, Cetáceos Uruguay constitutes a new research branch associated to the Ethology Section of the Faculty of Sciences and it is integrated by biologists (Bachelor of Sciences in Biology) and postgraduate students from the Faculty of Sciences, University of the Republic, UDELAR (Uruguay); University of Rio Grande (Brazil); Massey University (New Zealand) and National Autonomous University of Mexico, UNAM (Mexico).

One of the Cetáceos Uruguay objectives is to establish, develop and encourage research and conservation of marine mammals in Uruguay by means of concrete research and conservation projects. We pretend to continue and to maintain capacitating our human resources at a national and international level. In addition, Cetáceos Uruguay aims to establish the first marine mammal research laboratory in Uruguay.

Cetáceos Uruguay has the academic and institutional support of the Faculty of Sciences (UDELAR) and the projects have been/are conducted in collaboration with regional and national researchers: Ing. Agr. Ricardo Praderi, MSc. Marila Lázaro, MSc. Enrique Páez and Dr. Bettina Tassino (Uruguay); Dr. Enrique Crespo (Argentina) and Dr. Eduardo Secchi (Brazil). Cetáceos Uruguay coordinates its research projects with public institutions and NGO's such as the National Administration of Aquatic Resources (DINARA); the National Naval Prefecture and General Command of the Army, the NGO Profauma (Protection of Marine Fauna); Karumbé Project: Marine Turtles of Uruguay; and Oceanographic Museum "Prof. Eliézer C. Ríos" (Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil).

At present, Cetáceos Uruguay in conjunction with NGO Profauma and with the academic and institutional support of the Faculty of Sciences (UDELAR) is organizing the XIII Meeting of South American Aquatic Mammal Specialists and the 7th SOLAMAC Congress (Latin American Society of Aquatic Mammal) which will be held at Montevideo's City Council, Uruguay, in October 2008.


 
 
PARTICIPATION IN CONFERENCES AND MEETINGS
 
 
 
I Animal Behaviour Meeting. 30th November to 1st of December of 2006, Ethology Section, Faculty of Sciences (UDELAR) - Institute of Biological Investigation Clemente Estable, Montevideo, Uruguay.
 
 
1st International Meeting for the Study of Aquatic Mammals SOMEMMA (Mexican Society of Marine Mastozoology) - SOLAMAC (Latino American Society of Aquatic Mammals) 5th to 9th of November, 2006, Yucatán Autonomous University, Mérida, México.
 
 
XII Meeting of South American Aquatic Mammal Specialists and the 6th SOLAMAC Congress (Latin American Society of Aquatic Mammal). 5th to 9th of November, 2006, Yucatán Autonomous University, Mérida, México.
 
 
I Meeting of National Environmental Education for the Human Development of Sustainability. 27th to 29th of April, 2006, Montevideo, Uruguay.
 
 
V Latin American Conference on Environmental Education. 5th to 8th of April, 2006, Joinville, Brazil.
 
 
16th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals. 12th to 16th of December of 2005, San Diego, USA.
 
 
V Workshop for the Coordination of Investigation and Conservation of Franciscana Pontoporia blainvillei in the southwestern Atlantic Ocean. 28th to 30th of November of 2005, Mar del Plata, Argentina.
 
 
VIII Meeting of the Uruguayan Zoological Society. 24th to 28th of October, 2005, Faculty of Sciences (UDELAR), Montevideo, Uruguay.
 
 
III Meeting of Conservation and Sustainability of Marine Fauna (NGO PROFAUMA). 14th to 17th, September of 2005, Naval School, Montevideo, Uruguay.
 
 
18th Annual Conference of the European Cetacean Society. 28th to 31st of March, 2004, Kolmarden, Sweden.
 
 
22nd Wakefield Fisheries Symposium Sea Lion of the World: conservation and research in the 21st century. 30th of September to 3rd of October of 2004, Anchorage, Alaska, USA.
 
 
22nd Wakefield Fisheries Symposium Sea Lion of the World: conservation and research in the 21st century. 30 de Septiembre al 3 de Octubre de 2004, Anchorage, Alaska, EE.UU.
 
 
I Symposium of the Activities and Scientific Investigation in the Antarctic 18th of November of 2004, Uruguayan Antarctic Institute, Montevideo, Uruguay.
 
 
XIX Argentinean Meeting of Mastozoology. 8th to 11th of November of 2004, Argentinean Society for the study of Mammals (SAREM), Puerto Madryn, Argentina.
 
 
XI Meeting of South American Aquatic Mammal Specialists and the 5th SOLAMAC Congress (Latin American Society of Aquatic Mammal) 11th to 17th of September, 2004, Pontific Catholic University of Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador.
 
 
1st Workshop of Estimation of Abundance for marine mammal's populations. 20th to 30th of October of 2003, Laboratory of Statistics- DEMAt FURG, Brazil.
 
 
VII Meeting of the Uruguayan Zoological Society. 13th to 17th of October, 2003, Faculty of Sciences (UDELAR), Montevideo, Uruguay.
 
 
II Meeting of Conservation and Sustainability of Marine Fauna (NGO PROFAUMA). 1st to 4th of October, 2003, Naval School, Montevideo, Uruguay.
 
 
28th International Ethological Conference, International Council of Ethologists-Brazilian Society of Ethology. 20 al 27 de Agosto de 2003, Florianópolis, Brasil.
 
 
X Meeting of South American Aquatic Mammal Specialists and the 4th SOLAMAC Congress (Latin American Society of Aquatic Mammal) 14th to 19th of October, 2002, Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Austral University of Chile, Valdivia, Chile.
 
 
I Meeting of Conservation and Sustainability of Marine Fauna (NGO PROFAUMA). 26th to 27th of September, 2002, Naval School, Montevideo, Uruguay.
 
 
First Seminar "Marine Uruguay". November of 2001, Naval School, Montevideo, Uruguay.
 
 
VI Meeting of the Uruguayan Zoological Society. 13th to 17th of October of 2003, Faculty of Sciences (UDELAR), Montevideo, Uruguay.
 
 
VIIII Meeting of South American Aquatic Mammal Specialists and the 3th SOLAMAC Congress (Latin American Society of Aquatic Mammal) 30th of October to 19th of November, 2000, Argentinean Museum of Natural Sciences "Bernardino Rivadavia" and Campomar Foundation, Buenos Aires, Argentina.