The members of MUCRU work on both applied and empirical conservation-based research projects. We specialise in peer reviewed published research in the fields of marine mammal science and conservation.
About Murdoch Cetacean Research Unit (MUCRU)
Research Capabilities
Assessments of anthropogenic impacts on cetaceans, cetacean population biology and behavioural ecology, interactions between cetaceans and their ecosystems, marine mammal health, and development of novel methodological approaches.
Informing Management
MUCRU conducts research to improve the scientific basis for the conservation of cetaceans and enhance decision-making by industry, government, and the community.
Latest Blogs from the Field
What’s happened since the submission of the bycatch report?
April 30, 2012Status of dolphin bycatch mitigation in the Pilbara trawl fishery Protected and listed species including dolphins, turtles and critically endangered sawfish are incidentally caught (as ‘bycatch’) in varying numbers the Pilbara Fish Trawl Interim Managed Fishery each year. May 2012 marks two years since submission of the report “Reducing Dolphin Bycatch in the Pilbara Finfish [...]
Mitigating bycatch in fisheries
Kimberley inshore dolphin fieldwork underway
April 26, 2012This is the first of four field trips over the next two years, in a project which aims to investigate the abundance, residency and genetic connectivity of Australian snubfin and Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins
Kimberley dolphin research project
Post-mortem results of the Grays’ beaked whale stranding
March 30, 2012Greetings from Murdoch University’s Veterinary and Biomedical School and the Marine Mammal Health Project as we bring you some news on a recent and ongoing case.
Marine Mammal Health Program
Aloha from Hawaii !
March 11, 2012Aloha from Hawaii Julian Tyne, Krista Nicholson and Lars Bejder are currently in Hawaii participating in field research to support Julian’s PhD research – and Heather Heenehan’s PhD work (from Duke University). Below, is a blog by Heather on the two weeks of research. “Two summers ago I, Heather, came to Hawaii Island as a [...]
Hawaiian Spinner Dolphin Project
