Seals and Walrus

A new study by Tange Olsen and colleagues, titled “Complex origins and history of the relict Fennoscandian ringed seals”, was published in Ecology and Evolution in April 2025. The study explores [...]

A new study by Postel and colleagues, titled “Highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (H5N5) detected in an Atlantic walrus (Odobenus rosmarus rosmarus) in the Svalbard Archipelago, Norway, [...]

A recent study by McCarthy and colleagues, titled “Circumpolar Population Structure, Diversity and Recent Evolutionary History of the Bearded Seal in Relation to Past and Present [...]

A recent review by Kuletz and colleagues, titled “A review of climate change impacts on migration patterns of marine vertebrates in Arctic and Subarctic ecosystems”, was published in [...]

A recent study by Kovacs and colleagues, titled “Climate warming impacts on ringed seal breeding habitat in Svalbard”, was published in Ecological Modelling in July 2024. In this [...]

A new article by Hamilton and colleagues, titled “Large decline in hooded seal (Cystophora cristata) pup production off of northeastern Newfoundland in 2012 and 2017”, has been [...]

A new note by Metić and Garagouni, titled “Estimates of Pinniped abundance in the North Atlantic of relevance to NAMMCO”, has been published in the NAMMCO Scientific Publications [...]

A recent study by Cubaynes and colleagues, titled “Walruses from space: walrus counts in simultaneous remotely piloted aircraft system versus very high-resolution satellite imagery”, [...]

A recent study by Nater and colleagues, titled “Harvest sustainability assessments need rethinking under climate change: A ringed seal (Pusa hispida) case study from Svalbard, [...]

A recent study by Vacquié‐Garcia and colleagues, titled “Foraging habits of Northwest Atlantic hooded seals over the past 30 years: Future habitat suitability under global warming” [...]