Hobart2023 HERE WE ARE! We've started our morning with incredible stories on cetacean health, morphometrics, distribution & habitat use. More amazing presentations to come, stay tuned for today and tomorrow's talks. Thank you Grace Russell Anna Marissa Hutchings and Raphael Mayaud

Welcome to the Australian and New Zealand Student Chapter of the Society for Marine Mammalogy!!!Their 2023 student conference is kicking off today at IMAS in Hobart with the theme 'Sampling along the marine food chain - from predators to prey!!

Finishing day 1 of HOBART2023 this afternoon with our guest speakers: Prof. Mary-Anne Lea (Prof. Mary-Anne Lea, IMAS), Dr Brian Miller (AAD), Dr Karen Evans (karen evans, CSIRO) and Dr David Hocking (Dr David Hocking, TMAG). Thank you all for such informative, diverse and amazing talks!

What a fantastic ANZSCSMM symposium IMAS today! Very thankful for the opportunity to present alongside Drs Karen Evans, Brian Miller & David Hocking!!

Day 2 is here at our HOBART2023 conference! Starting with a workshop and discussion on linkages between marine predators and their prey in a changing environment lead by incredible talks from Dr David Green (David Green) and Noémie Friscourt (Noémie Friscourt)

Further discussions on Diet and Bioenergetics this morning with great talks from students Aashi Parikh and Md.Hafiz All Hosen, keep an eye out for some interesting results from these two coming soon! #Hobart2023 #studentconference #smm

Onto our third workshop topic this morning learning all about species distribution modelling & biologging techniques with student talks from Angus Henderson, Sarah McCulloch and Valeria Serafini, followed by an amazing discussion panel with David Green and Ashley.

Our last workshop topic & panel discussion for day 2 was on Populations & Future Projections, with great talks by @SophiaVolzke, Vanessa Morris, Alexandra Strang & Kennadie Haigh demonstrating the different methodologies we can use to study marine mammals at population scales!

HUGE shoutout to our incredible University of Tasmania chapter head & SMM(SMM Student Affairs) SMaL @SophiaVolzke, thank you for all your help with on-ground organisation & leading today's workshop discussions but also for a great talk on her PhD research on southern elephant seals!

Time is flying by with all of these amazing talks, and we are quickly approaching the end of day 2, filled with more fascinating and very different talks from Caitlin Nicholls, Gabrielle Genty, @leahmcrowe and Katy Fannei. #marinemammals #science #Hobart2023 #studentconference

What a way to finish the #Hobart2023 conference with some great talks and awareness on Leopard seals by Tineke Joustra & Giverny Forbes and some interesting insights into New Zealand's dolphins Déborah Casano-Bally (Déborah Casano-Bally) & Emily Palmer (Emily Palmer)