Fadia Al Abbar- Msc. Marine resource management & Ecology
- PhD Student at Wageningen University & Research
Fadia Al Abbar
- Msc. Marine resource management & Ecology
- PhD Student at Wageningen University & Research
PhD student, Wageningen University, University of the Azores, Azores dephis project project leader
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Fadia Al Abbar is managing the Azores delphis project and is doing her PhD at Wageningen University of the Netherlands in collaboration with the University of the Azores. Her PhD topic is on common dolphin (Delphinus delphis) social mitigation strategies in response to tourism-induced disturbance in Sao Miguel, Azores, Portugal.
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February 2016 - October 2016
September 2014 - October 2016
February 2016 - present
Education
September 2014 - September 2016
February 2009 - June 2013
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Publications (7)
Photo-identification is a staple tool used in cetacean conservation studies since the 1970s to monitor individuals on a regional and ocean basin-wide scale to infer critical information about habitat use, suitability, and shifts. This technique has been extensively used on sperm whales globally since it was developed in 1982, initially using the ta...
We use machine learning object detection and drones to automatically track dolphins using an adapted algorithm for land mammals.
Preliminary results of the photo ID of common dolphins (Delphinus delphis) in Sao Miguel collected from the opportunistic platform of Futurismo.
The Cory’s Shearwater Calonectris borealis is the most abundant seabird in the Azores. It breeds along the coast of all islands and on most islets in the archipelago (Monteiro et al. 1996a). Birds attend colonies and adjacent waters from late February to late October (Monteiro et al. 1996b), when they can be seen daily around most islands. From mid...
The so-called FaunaGuard-PM (FG-PM) has been developed to deter harbour porpoises from localised offshore anthropogenic activities in order to minimize potential negative effects of these activities on porpoise hearing. The efficiency of the FG-PM was tested in a pool and the distance up to which it would deter porpoises in the field has been model...
The combined method of passive acoustic and visual monitoring has
proven successful for studying elusive harbour porpoises (Phocoena
phocoena). However, to convert the recorded numbers of
echolocation clicks to densities, detectability estimates are needed.
So far, the estimated best detection distance is between 22-107m
(Tougaard et al., 2006; Kos...
