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

Prey preferences of sympatric fin (Balaenoptera physalus) and humpback (Megaptera novaeangliae) whales revealed by stable isotope mixing models
Conor Ryan, Simon D. Berrow, Brendan Mchugh, Ciarán O'Donnell, Clive N. Trueman, Ian O'Connor
25/4/2013 | Article | DOI: 10.1111/mms.12034
Stable isotope analysis of baleen reveals resource partitioning among sympatric rorquals and population structure in fin whales
Conor Ryan, Brendan McHugh, Clive N. Trueman, Richard Sabin, Robert Deaville, Chris Harrod, Simon D. Berrow, Ian O'Connor
8/4/2013 | Article | DOI: 10.3354/meps10231
Accounting for the effects of lipids in stable isotope (δ <sup>13</sup>C and δ<sup>15</sup>N values) analysis of skin and blubber of balaenopterid whales
Conor Ryan, Brendan McHugh, Clive N. Trueman, Chris Harrod, Simon D. Berrow, Ian O'Connor
15/12/2012 | Article | DOI: 10.1002/rcm.6394
Discrete or not so discrete Long distance movements by coastal bottlenose dolphins in UK and Irish waters
Kevin P. Robinson, Joanne M. O'Brien, Simon D. Berrowi, Barbara Cheney, Marina Costa, Sonja M. Eisfeld, Damien Haberlin, Laura Mandleberg, Mairéad O'Donovan, Machiel G. Oudejans, Conor Ryan, Peter T. Stevick, Paul M. Thompson, Pádraig Whooley
1/12/2012 | Article | DOI:

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