Publications & Reports

The following scientific publications & reports are available online or in PDF/paper form on request:

Berrow, S.D., Holmes, B. & Kiely, O.R. 1996. Distribution and abundance of bottle-nosed dolphins Tursiops truncatus (Montagu) in the Shannon Estuary. Biology and Environment, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 96B, No. 1: 1-9.

Rogan, E.R., Baker, J.R., Jepson, P.D., Berrow, S. & Kiely, O. 1997. A mass stranding of white-sided dolphins (Lagenorhyncus acutus) in Ireland: biological and pathological studies. J. Zool. Lond. 242: 217-227.

Kiely, O. & Myers, A.A. 1998. Grey seal (Halichoerus grypus) pup production at the Inishkea island group, Co. Mayo and the Blasket Islands, Co. Kerry. Biology and Environment, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 98B, No. 2: 113-122.

Kiely, O., Lidgard, D.C., McKibben, M., Baines, M.E. & Connolly, N. 2000. Grey Seals: Status & Monitoring in the Irish & Celtic Seas. Maritime Ireland/Wales INTERREG Report no. 3. Marine Institute, 80 Harcourt St., Dublin 2.

Lidgard, D.C., Kiely, O., Rogan, E. & Connolly, N. 2001. The status of breeding grey seals (Halichoerus grypus) on the east and south-east coast of Ireland. Mammalia 65 (3): 283-294.

Ó Cadhla, O., Borchers, D.L., Burt, M.L. & Rogan, E. 2001. Summer distribution and abundance of cetaceans in western Irish waters and the Rockall Trough. International Whaling Commission Scientific Committee paper SC/53/O15.

Ó Cadhla, O. & Mackey, M. 2002. Out of sight, out of mind? Marine mammals and seabirds on Ireland’s Atlantic Margin. In F. Convery & J. Feehan (eds.) Achievement and Challenge - RIO +10 and Ireland. Environmental Institute, University College, Dublin. p. 423-426.

Rogan, E. & Ó Cadhla, O. 2003. Seals, salmon and knowledge. In Seals/Atlantic Salmon Interaction Workshop: A recent Irish review of the evidence. P.Boylan, W.W.Crozier, P.McGinnity & N. Ó Maoiléidigh (eds.) Loughs Agency, Derry. p. 20-29.

Ó Cadhla, O. 2003. Walrus Odobenus rosmarus (L.) at the Great Blasket Island, Co. Kerry. Ir. Nat. J. 27: 212.

Ó Cadhla, O., Englund, A., Philpott, E., Mackey, M. & Ingram, S. 2003. Marine mammal monitoring in the waters of Broadhaven Bay & northwest Mayo: 2001-2002. Report to Enterprise Energy Ireland, Ltd. Coastal & Marine Resources Centre, University College, Cork. 74pp.

Ó Cadhla, O. & Strong, D. 2003. Grey seal population status at islands in the Inishkea Group, as determined from breeding ground surveys in 2002. Report to the National Parks & Wildlife Service, Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Dublin, Ireland. Coastal & Marine Resources Centre, University College Cork. 7pp.

Mackey, M., Ó Cadhla, O., Kelly, T.C., Aguilar de Soto, N. & Connolly, N. 2004. Cetaceans and Seabirds of Ireland’s Atlantic Margin. Volume I – Seabird distribution, density & abundance. Report on research conducted under the 1997 Irish Petroleum Infrastructure Programme (PIP): Rockall Studies Group (RSG) projects 98/6, 99/38 and 00/13.

Ó Cadhla, O., Mackey, M., Aguilar de Soto, N., Rogan, E. & Connolly, N. 2004. Cetaceans and Seabirds of Ireland’s Atlantic Margin. Volume II – Cetacean distribution & abundance. Report on research conducted under the 1997 Irish Petroleum Infrastructure Programme (PIP): Rockall Studies Group (RSG) projects 98/6, 99/38 and 00/13.

Aguilar de Soto, N., Rogan, E., Ó Cadhla, O., Gordon, J.C.D., Mackey, M. & Connolly, N. 2004. Cetaceans and Seabirds of Ireland’s Atlantic Margin. Volume III – Acoustic surveys for cetaceans. Report on research conducted under the 1997 Irish Petroleum Infrastructure Programme (PIP): Rockall Studies Group (RSG) projects 98/6, 99/38 and 00/13.

Cronin, M., Duck, C., Ó Cadhla, O., Nairn, R., Strong, D. & O’ Keeffe, C. 2004. Harbour seal population assessment in the Republic of Ireland: August 2003. Irish Wildlife Manuals No. 11. National Parks & Wildlife Service, Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Dublin. Ireland. 34 pp.

Mackey, M., Perales i Giménez, D. & Ó Cadhla, O. 2004. Strategic Environmental Assessment SEA678 Data Report for Offshore Cetacean Populations. Coastal & Marine Resources Centre, University College Cork.

Ó Cadhla, O., Strong D. & O’Donnell, G. 2005. Grey seal population status in the Slyne Head SAC/SPA and Hen Island, Co. Galway, as determined from breeding ground surveys in 2004. Report to the National Parks & Wildlife Service, Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Dublin, Ireland. Coastal & Marine Resources Centre, University College Cork. 10pp.

Roycroft, D., Cronin, M., Mackey, M. Ingram, S.N. & Ó Cadhla, O. 2006. Risk assessment for marine mammal and seabird populations in south-western Irish waters (R.A.M.S.S.I). Final report to the Higher Education Authority of Ireland. Coastal & Marine Resources Centre, University College Cork. 198pp.

Cronin, M.A., Duck C.D. & Ó Cadhla O. 2007. Aerial surveying of grey seal breeding colonies on the Blasket Islands, Co. Kerry, the Inishkea Group, Co. Mayo and the Donegal Coast, Ireland. J. Nature Conserv. 15: 73-83.

Cronin, M., Duck, C., Ó Cadhla, O., Nairn, R., Strong, D. & O’ Keeffe, C. 2007. An assessment of population size and distribution of harbour seals in the Republic of Ireland during the moult season in August 2003. J. Zool. 273 Issue 2: 131-139.

Ó Cadhla, O. 2007. Conservation assessment of the grey seal (Halichoerus grypus) in Ireland. Report to the National Parks & Wildlife Service, Department of the Environment, Heritage & Local Government. Coastal & Marine Resources Centre, University College Cork. 20pp.

Ó Cadhla, O. & Strong, D. 2007. Grey seal moult population survey in the Republic of Ireland, 2007. Report to the National Parks & Wildlife Service, Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Dublin, Ireland. Coastal & Marine Resources Centre, University College Cork. 22pp.

Ó Cadhla, O., Strong, D., O’Keeffe, C., Coleman, M., Cronin, M., Duck, C., Murray, T., Dower, P., Nairn, R., Murphy, P., Smiddy, P., Saich, C., Lyons, D. & Hiby, A.R. 2008. An assessment of the breeding population of grey seals in the Republic of Ireland, 2005. Irish Wildlife Manuals No. 34. National Parks & Wildlife Service, Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Dublin, Ireland. 60pp.

Cronin, M., & Ó Cadhla O. 2008. Recommendations for monitoring of the harbour seal (Phoca vitulina vitulina) & grey seal (Halichoerus grypus) populations in the Republic of Ireland. Report to the National Parks & Wildlife Service, Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Dublin, Ireland. Coastal & Marine Resources Centre, University College Cork. 47pp.

Pollock, C., Barton, C. & Ó Cadhla O. 2008. Scoping study for an Irish Network of Marine Observers (INEMO) and associated sea-going survey programme. Report to the Irish Shelf Petroleum Studies Group. Secretariat: CSA Group Ltd., Dundrum, Co. Dublin. Cork Ecology, Clonakilty, Co. Cork and Coastal & Marine Resources Centre, University College Cork. 37pp.

Oudejans, M.G., Ingram, S. & Ó Cadhla O. 2008. Bottlenose dolphins in northwest Ireland – a study to determine population size, habitat use and site fidelity in the coastal waters of County Mayo. Report to The Heritage Council, Kilkenny. 29pp.

Anderwald, P., Haberlin, M.D., Coleman, M., Ó Cadhla, O., Englund, A., Visser, F. & Cronin, M. 2012. Seasonal trends and spatial differences in marine mammal occurrence in Broadhaven Bay, north-west Ireland. J. Mar. Biol. Assoc. UK. 92 (Special Issue 8): pp 1757-1766.