APPENDIX E 

 LIST OF INSTITUTIONS TO CONTACT REGARDING STRANDED CETACEANS 



The following list includes many of the institutions in the 

 area covered by this guide, which are likely to respond to 

 calls about stranded cetaceans. The institutions on the 

 mainland are listed roughly in order from north to south, 

 following the contour of the coast. Several island institutions 

 and organizations are also listed. 



These institutions are the ones that come to mind as 

 having taken an active interest in cetacean strandings in the 

 recent past. In addition to these, almost any university 

 biology or zoology department. State or Federal conserva- 

 tion agency or marine laboratory, or local natural history 

 museum or society can recommend an interested biologist if 

 no staff member is interested. Such organizations are widely 

 distributed on or near the coasts and are usually adequately 

 listed in local telephone directories. 



It should be obvious that organizations such as oceanaria 

 are the most likely ones to be interested in live animals on an 

 emergency basis. Even so, these organizations often 

 cooperate with biologists with whom they are familiar and so 

 will pick up dead animals for them as well. Conversely, 

 museums and the like are most interested in the dead animals 

 as they have no facilities for handling live ones. Nevertheless, 

 they often cooperate with institutions equipped to handle live 

 animals and will usually help in making arrangements for 

 picking up the live ones. Therefore, rather than the finder's 

 making a decision as to whether or not an institution should 

 be called because the animal is alive or dead, we would urge 

 that the nearest organization in the following list be contacted 

 under any circumstances. 



Space is provided at the end of the list for additions of 

 contacts inadvertently overlooked in compiling this list, or of 

 institutions which come into being after its publication. 



CANADA 



Massachusetts 



Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole. 

 New England Ai|uarium, Central Wharf, Boston. 

 Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 

 Cambridge. 



Rhode Island 



Narragansett Marine Laboratory, University of Rhode 

 Island, Kingston. 



Connecticut 



Mystic Marine Life Aquarium, Mystic. 



.New York 



New York Aquarium, Coney Island, Brooklyn. 

 American Museum of Natural History. Department of 

 Mammals, New York City. 



New Jersey 



Department of Biochemistry, Rutgers University, New 



Brunswick, 

 also see New York. 



Delaware 



see New York, 

 see New Jersey. 



Maryland 



Department of Pathobiology, Johns Hopkins University, 



Baltimore, 

 also see District of Columbia. 



District of Columbia 



Division of Mammals, United States National Museum. 



Newfoundland 



Department of Biology, Memorial University of New- 

 foundland, St. John's. 



Nova Scotia 



Bedford Institute, Dartmouth. 



Departments of Biology, Psychology and/or Physiology, 



Dalhousie University, Halifax. 

 Nova Scotia Museum, Halifax. 



Quebec 



Arctic Unit, Fisheries Research Board of Canada, Ste. 

 Anne de Bellevue. 



Ontario 



Department of Zoology, University of Guelph, Guelph. 



UNITED STATES 



Maine 



see Massachusetts. 



New Hampshire 



see Massachusetts. 



Virginia 



Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point. 

 also see District of Columbia. 



North Carolina 



Duke Marine Laboratory, Beaufort. 

 Institute of Fisheries Research, University of North 

 Carolina, Morehead City. 



South Carolina 



Charleston Museum, Charleston. 



Grice Marine Biological Laboratory, College of Charles- 

 ton, Charleston. 



Georgia 



The Georgia Conservancy, The Clusky Building, 127 



Abercorn Street, Savannah. 

 University of Georgia Marine Institute, Sapelo Island 



(Darien). 



Florida 



Marineland of Florida, St. Augustine 

 University of Florida Biocommunication and Marine 

 Mammal Research Facility, St. Augustine. 



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