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Education & Conservation Award Winners

2012
1st Place: Animals-Trainers-Veterinarians: An Indispensable Trio! Where Do We Come From and Where Do We Go?. Marine Mammal Veterinary Services. Dr. Geraldine Lacave.

2nd Place: The "New" Dolphin Point: Creating a Multi-Dimensional Interactive Area. SeaWorld San Diego. David Roberts and Jennifer Leach.

2011
1st Place: Response to Entangled Bottlenose Dolphins within the Southeastern United States Region. Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institue. Stephen McCulloch.

2nd Place: When Should Your Seal or Sea Lion have Cataract Surgery. Aquatic Animal Eye Care. Carmen Colitz.

2010
1st Place: Safety and Responsibility in Zoological Environments. Precision Behavior. Thad Lacinak.

2nd Place: Ophthalmic Lesions and Associated Clinical Signs Seen in Bottlenose Dolphins Under Human Care. Aquatic Animal Eye Care. Carmen Colitz.
 

2009
1st Place: Characterization of "Sea Lion Keratitis" in Captive Zalophus californianus, Preliminary Report. Animal Eye Specialty Clinic & Aquatic Animal Care. Carmen Colitz.

2nd Place: The Story of Tuuch: The Rescue and Rehabilitation of a Two-Day-Old Orphaned West Antillean Manatee (Trichechus manatus manatus). Dolphin Discovery. Manuel Garduno.
 

2008
1st Place: Outreach Tools to Minimize Human Impacts on Wild Bottlenose Dolphins in Florida.  Mote Marine Laboratory.  Jessica Powell, Randall Wells, Robin Perrtree and Kim Bassos-Hull.

2nd Place:  Use of Rebound Tonometry as a Diagnostic Tool to Diagnose Glaucoma in the Captive California Sea Lion.  Mississippi State University.  Johanna Mejia-Fava, Skip Jack, Connie Clemons-Chevis, Maya Rodriguez, Michael Renner, Todd Schmitt, Leslie Dalton, Steve Osborn, Scott Gearhart, Lara Croft, Christopher Dold and Carmen Colitz.


2007 
1st Place: West Nile Virus Infection in an Adult California Sea Lion.  Oceans of Fun.   Shelley Ballmann and Michael Briggs, DVM.

2nd Place: Antepartum and Pastpartum Preparations for a Pacific Walrus.  New York Aquarium. Jo Anne Bassinger, Hans Walters, Paul Moylett, Stephanie Mitchell, Nicole Piscotta, Lora Murphy, and Jaclyn Mazza.

We Need Your Suggestions!

If you have a Research & Conservation Workshop suggestion or ideas of how to help IMATA Go Green, please contact Debi Luke, Committee Chair at ResearchConservation@imata.org.