Howard L. Rhinehart

TL;DR: A team of marine mammal veterinarians and biologists worked together to develop an objective, quantitative, replicable means of scoring the health of dolphins, based on comparison of 19 clinically diagnostic blood parameters to normal baseline values, which appears to roughly reflect dolphin health.

TL;DR: Long-term observational monitoring and periodic biological sampling provide a powerful, non-lethal approach to understanding relationships between organochlorine residue concentrations in tissues and reproductive parameters for coastal dolphins.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used satellite-linked transmitters to track rehabilitated adult male bottlenose dolphins in the waters off the southeastern United States, showing the success of rehabilitation efforts and illustrate the value of follow-up monitoring of rehabilitated and released cetaceans.

TL;DR: Serologic evidence of morbillivirus infection in eleven of fifteen species of odontocete cetaceans from the western Atlantic since 1986 is reported, which may potentially impact already threatened species such as the harbour porpoise and precipitate mass strandings of socially cohesive odontOCetes.

TL;DR: Vibrio alginolyticus and Vibrio damsela were the most commonly recovered bacteria from both anal/fecal and blowhole samples, and potential pathogens of significance to humans and other animals were recovered.