Dr. Victoria Todd

OSCis a technology-focused marine science company involved principally in providing environmental services worldwide, with a special focus on marine mammal monitoring, underwater acoustics, sound measurement and noise-field propagation modelling.

Publishing papers from previous work, core studies lecturing, seminars, M.Sc. supervision & collaborative research within the Department.

• Acoustic Harassment Device (AHD) sound propagation and potential effects on Scottish marine wildlife (Dr. K. D. Black). • The impact of the Loch Linnhe artificial reef on harbour porpoises (Dr. M. D. J. Sayer). • Rearing protocols for Atlantic Halibut larvae during transition from endogenous to exogenous nutrition (Dr. R. S. Batty).

Sole researcher for BBC ‘Wildlife on One Special: Spy in the Den - Lions of the Serengeti (Boulder-cam episode). Worked also on the ‘Supernatural’ series.

• Research: the occurrence of stereotyped call sequences in a captive killer whale’s (Orcinus orca) repertoire, in relation to wild killer whale pod-specific calls (PI: Prof. William Watkins). • Aboard Leg 2: US Navy-funded Low Frequency Active (LFA) research project in Central California which assessed the effects of naval low frequency submarine detection sonar on the behaviour of grey whales, Eschrichtius robustus, (PI: Dr. Chris Clark, Cornell).

• Based on Skomer Island, Pembrokeshire, South Wales. • Research: the effects of the Sea Empress oil spill on the breeding ecology of kittiwakes, Rissa tridactyla, (Dr. Keith Hamer). Funding: Dyfed Wildlife Trust and Texaco Oil.

• Museum work: a complete taxonomic revision of the fish specimens in the CDRS museum. • Marine biodiversity cruises aboard RV Beagle. • Scientific Observer on RV Seward Johnson (Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution, FL). • Filming/diving with Discovery Channel team with Al Giddings (National Geographic).

The Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS) or “Bonn Convention”. Detailed review of the status of small cetaceans in the Baltic (e.g. ASCOBANS). Preparation of various Memoranda of Understanding for protected bird species.

Compiled technical reports such as the status of harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) in the Baltic, general biological translation work etc. Occasional office work for the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW).

Based in Mediterranean (Ligurian) Sea on board ‘Song of the Whale’. Research: monitoring of fin (Balaenoptera physalus) & sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) (PI: Dr. Jonathan Gordon).

Aspects of the ecology of Daubenton’s bat (Myotis daubentonii), the common pipistrelle (Pipistrellus pipistrellus), the soprano pipistrelle (P. pygmaeus) and their potential prey in relation to altitude.

Acoustics of the killer whale, Orcinus orca.

Interspecific and intraspecific aggression in the sea anemones of the British Isles (published in MEPS).