The Cetacean Ecology Research Group (CERG), known formally as the Coastal-Marine Research Group or C-MRG, was established at Massey University, Albany, New Zealand in 2000. Now under the auspices of the School of Natural and Computational Sciences (SNCS), CERG undertakes a wide array of marine mammal research within and beyond New Zealand. Our team of staff and postgraduate students investigate la
rgely conservation and management orientated questions. Research foci include health and anthropogenic impacts affecting cetacean populations, strandings causation and response investigations and biology and life history studies. While long-term research programmes focus on common dolphins and long-finned pilot whales, the team also works on elusive Southern Ocean species including the hourglass dolphin and spectacled porpoise.
