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The North Atlantic Marine Mammal Commission (NAMMCO), based in Tromsø in northern Norway, has an opening for a Scientific Secretary as soon as possible at the earliest convenience of the [...]

Polar Research, the scientific journal of the Norwegian Polar Institute, has published their new volume “Beluga whales: knowledge from the wild, human care and Traditional Ecological Knowledge”. [...]

It is with great pleasure that NAMMCO welcomes a new member to its Scientific Committee – Dr. Guðjón Már Sigurðsson from the Marine and Freshwater Research Institute in Iceland. Every [...]

NAMMCO is please to announce that the deadline for submissions for publication in Volume 12 of the NAMMCO Scientific Publication series has been extended to December 31st 2021. About NAMMCO [...]

The IUCN World Conservation Congress has officially been opened today in Marseille. At this event, scientists, business leaders and policy experts from around the globe come together to set [...]

We are happy to welcome our new intern, Martin Binachon, to the NAMMCO Secretariat! Martin is a French student and recent graduate from the Polar Law M.A. at the University of Akureyri. Initially [...]

NAMMCO is pleased to announce its participation at the upcoming   #IUCNCongress. The IUCN World Conservation Congress is where the world comes together to set priorities and drive conservation [...]

The North Atlantic and the North Pacific abounds in whales, but for most of them, we know very little about their migration patterns and wintering grounds. The fast-moving rorquals (the fin, sei, [...]

Background My name is Nicolai Pilgård Scherdin and I have had the pleasure of spending the past 6 months as an intern at the NAMMCO Secretariat. Being a Danish Biology MSc student, I had first [...]

We are pleased to welcome our new Assistant Scientific Secretary, Heleen Middel, to the NAMMCO Secretariat. As Assistant Scientific Secretary, Heleen will be supporting the work of the NAMMCO [...]