Joshua Smith – The Conversation

Ship strikes can be deadly, as shown by this blue whale off the US northwest. Craig Hayslip/Oregon State Univ./Flickr/Wikimedia Commons

November 30, 2016

As Australian shipping grows, how can we avoid collisions with marine animals?

David Peel, CSIRO and Joshua Smith, Murdoch University

Ships in Australian waters are getting bigger and more numerous all the time. We need a plan to help them avoid crashing into whales and other large sea creatures.

Humpback whale populations have leapt on both Australia’s east and west coasts. Ari S. Friedlaender (under NMFS permit)

July 25, 2015

The big comeback: it’s time to declare victory for Australian humpback whale conservation

Lars Bejder, Murdoch University; Ari Friedlaender, Oregon State University; David Johnston, Duke University, and Joshua Smith, Murdoch University

Chalk it up as a rare conservation win: humpback whales have bounced back so strongly since the whaling era that there is no longer a need to include them on Australia’s official threatened species list.

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