Dr Conor Ryan


        Conor Ryan with sunglasses on his head on a research ship

Honorary Research Fellow

After completing my PhD on the ecology of baleen whales using stable isotope analysis and persistent organochlorine pollutants, my interests broadened to include acoustic and visual cetacean surveys. I am interested in understanding cetacean migrations through non-invasive means and in generating baseline data on the historical distribution and occurence of cetaceans, e.g. from whaling records. My recent research also focuses on ethics in marine mammal science.

website: conorryan.photography

twitter: @whale_nerd

instagram: @whale_nerd

Conor.Ryan@sams.ac.uk

SAMS Research Outputs

Minke whales Balaenoptera acutorostrata avoid a 15 kHz acoustic deterrent device (ADD)
Oliver Boisseau, Tessa McGarry, Simon Stephenson, Ross Compton, Anna Christina Cucknell, Conor Ryan, Richard McLanaghan, Anna Moscrop
10/6/2021 | Article | DOI: 10.3354/meps13690
Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) in the cape verde islands Migratory patterns, resightings, and abundance
Frederick W. Wenzel, Fredrik Broms, Pedro López-Suárez, Katia Lopes, Nadia Veiga, Kate Yeoman, Manuel Simão Delgado Rodrigues, Judy Allen, Thomas W. Fernald, Peter T. Stevick, Lindsey Jones, Beatrice Jann, Laurent Bouveret, Conor Ryan, Simon Berrow, Peter Corkeron
1/5/2020 | Article | DOI: 10.1578/AM.46.1.2020.21
Fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus) mitogenomics A cautionary tale of defining sub-species from mitochondrial sequence monophyly
Andrea A. Cabrera, Jeroen P.A. Hoekendijk, Alex Aguilar, Susan G. Barco, Simon Berrow, Dorete Bloch, Asunción Borrell, Haydée A. Cunha, Luciano Dalla Rosa, Carolina P. Dias, Pauline Gauffier, Wensi Hao, Scott Landry, Finn Larsen, Vidal Martín, Sally Mizroch, Tom Oosting, Nils Øien, Christophe Pampoulie, Simone Panigada, Rui Prieto, Christian Ramp, Vania Rivera-Léon, Jooke Robbins, Conor Ryan, Elena Schall, Richard Sears, Mónica A. Silva, Jorge Urbán, Frederick W. Wenzel, Per J. Palsbøll, Martine Bérubé
11/3/2019 | Article | DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2019.02.003

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