RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS
Last updated July 2026.
- Dolphin Research Institute (2024) DRI Position on Proposed Windfarm Developments in the Gippsland Declared Area (GDA). Download here…
- Dunn, W & Goldsworthy, A (2001) Report to the Department of Natural Resources and Environment, Victoria, for the Sustainable Dolphin Tourism Program. Download here…
- Hutchings, S; Parra, G; Totterdell, J; Wellard, R; Donnelly, D; Sandoval-Castillo, J & Möller, L (2025) Species Distribution Modeling of Killer Whales (Orcinus orca) in Australian Waters. Download here…
- Hutchinson, E; Weir, J; Dickie, J; Flynn, A & Donnelly, D (2025) More Than a Migratory Corridor: Humpback Whale Feeding and Calving in Bass Strait. Download here…
- Mason, S; Charlton-Robb, K & Donnelly, D (2009) Common or Uncommon? The unusual presence of short-beaked common dolphins (Delphinus delphis) in a shallow, semi-enclosed embayment in Victoria, Australia. Poster Presentation – Society for Marine Mammalogy Conference, Quebec, Canada, October 2009. Download poster…
- Mason, S; Salgado Kent C; Bilgmann, K & Kneist, H (2015) Behaviour and fine-scaled seasonal movement of resident short-beaked common dolphins (Delphinus delphis) in an urbanised embayment in southern Australia. Poster Presentation – Society for Marine Mammalogy Conference, San Francisco, USA, December 2015. Download poster …
- Mason, S; Salgado Kent C; Donnelly, D; Weir, J & Bilgmann, K (2016) Atypical residency of short-beaked common dolphins (Delphinus delphis) to a shallow, urbanized embayment in south-eastern Australia. Download paper...
- Mason, S; Salgado Kent C; McCauley, R; Bilgmann, K & Weir, J (2013) In the company of commons: Short-beaked common dolphins (Delphinus delphis) resident to an urbanised coastline. Poster Presentation – Australian Marine Sciences Association Conference, Gold Coast, Australia, July 2013. Download poster …
- Mason, S; Weir, J & Parsons, J (2012) Presence of epidermal lesions in resident southern Australian bottlenose dolphins Tursiops sp. in Port Phillip, Victoria. Poster Presentation – Australian Marine Sciences Association-New Zealand Marine Science Society Conference, Hobart, Australia, July 2012. Download poster …
- Owen, K; Dunlop, R & Donnelly, D (2012) Seaweed interactions by humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae): a form of object play? Aquatic Mammals 2012, 38(4), 418-422 Download here…
- Weir, J (2001) Case Study: Chaos to sustainability, the management of dolphin tourism in Victoria. Abstract – Nature Tourism and the Environment, Fenner Conference, Australian Academy of Science, Canberra, Australia, September 2001. Download here …
