PATH 3094w


Anne Smith 09/10

  • April 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill

    • Lasted 4(40) years

    • Exams on 150+ wild dolphins in most oiled up areas

  • How to evaluate a dolphin (Bottlenose)

    • Locate & identify animal, then catch with a ring

    • Examine, takes 50-60 ppl to process examination (40-45 min)

  • What did they learn

    • Poor health, increases problems, severe lung disease, adrenal system injury

    • Reproduction decreased, perinatal loss

  • Gulf of Mexico Research initiative

    • Continued monitering

    • Enhanced techniques

    • mmm

    • Long term impacts

      • Lung disease was still present

      • 24% (1in4) reproduction occur / sustained high reproductive failure rate

      • Leaned into human medicine 20-week ultrasound and compared it to the dolphin and the health of the mother.

      • Next generation did not gain the disease but there could be transgenerational impacts

  • WWF

    • 73% humans have decreased wildlife population by 73%, fresh water 83%

    • Costal and fresh water are more vulnerable

  • Vaquita (panda of the sea)

    • In the way of the black market causing them to be killed.

    • Vaquita CPR

    • Older vaquita initally had no signs of distress but health began to rapidly deteriorate and stress signs of capture caused her to die.

    • Lorenza: found the animals that are most vunerable to human enviroment distrucytion. ? question how did they initially find ways to find out what animals where most venerable? not becuase of natural reasons but envriomental

    • Tasso: Blood collection for animals (136 hemo tags made, on dolphins)

  • Francescana Dolphines

    • 4d, 40d, 3m, 1 year learning life curve of natal Dolphine

  • Inia

    • —

  • Lake tefe

    • Lake 140*c

    • 209 River dolphins dead (12%of lake population)

  • Finding common ground

    • Creating routines and finding common grounds

    • Lead and listen / build trust

    • Sharing and invest w/ trust

    • Begin w/ share core values and the desire to protect life + Biodiversity

    • Capture myopothy


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Conversation medicine


  • question how did they initially find ways to find out what animals where most venerable given that 73% from WWf living planet roprt 2024 that 73% average decile in mintored wildlife populationm over 50 years ? not becuase of natural reasons but envriomental also especvially when you dont have a lot of time for natural occurences to happen due to may factors like if the bspecied will last as long


09/15

Scientific writing?

  • Clear - no ambiguity (no room for interpretation)

  • concise - no waste of words

  • accurate - no exaggeration

  • objective - fact based

Types of Scientific Writing

  • Primary research article (ex: PubMed/ will be using these for reference in article)

  • We will be writing a review article which is based on primary research articles

  • IMRad =

    • Introduction = why does this matter to us (broad)

    • Methods = what type of studies were done (narrow)

    • Results = What was founds (facts only) / (narrow)

      • We will not have a results section in our articles

    • Discussion = what do the findings mean (broaden discussion / understand significance)

Good research question?

  • Focused

  • Feasible - needs to be possible enough

  • significant