Projects Share Copied to clipboard Status - Any - Ongoing In preparation Completed Region - Any - Baltic Sea Europe Project Type - Any - Title Start Date End Date Implementing Agency Status Region Coordination of the ASCOBANS Harbour Porpoise Action Plans 29 Jan 2018 Sea Watch Foundation/Peter Evans- Coalition Clean Baltic/Ida Carlén Ongoing Europe ASCOBANS Anniversary Publication 15 Dec 2017 15 Feb 2018 Sea Watch Foundation / Peter Evans Completed Europe Baltic Sea Harbour Porpoise Foraging Habitats (BALHAB) 01 Jan 2017 30 Nov 2017 Bioscience Aarhus University Completed Baltic Sea Update and Revision of the Recovery Plan for Baltic Harbour Porpoises (Jastarnia Plan) 01 Feb 2016 31 May 2016 AquaBiota Water Research ABWR AB Completed Baltic Sea Development of a fully costed proposal for a web-accessed database for cetacean stranding and necropsy data in the ASCOBANS region 01 Nov 2015 31 Oct 2016 Zoological Society of London Completed Europe Examine habitat exclusion and long term effect of pingers 07 Jan 2012 30 Jun 2014 Line Anker Kyhn / Aarhus University, Denmark, Completed Distribution and relative abundance of harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) over Dogger Bank and surrounding waters, Southern North Sea 15 Oct 2011 30 Apr 2012 Marine Conservation Research International Completed Effects of contaminants on reproduction, Phase II 01 May 2011 30 Sep 2011 Sinéad Murphy / University of St. Andrews Completed Pollutant exposure in coastal top predators: assessing current levels of exposure and toxic effects 15 Jan 2011 31 Dec 2013 The Zoological Society of London, Institute of Zoology, United Kingdom Completed Feasibility study on the creation of a web-accessed strandings database covering Agreement Party and Range States within the ASCOBANS region 15 Jan 2011 15 Feb 2012 Rob Deaville / Zoological Society of London Completed Analysis of New Data Sets for Risk Assessment of Potential Conflicts between Shipping and Cetaceans in the ASCOBANS Region 15 Jan 2011 30 Apr 2011 Sea Watch Foundation Completed Approaches to an Impact Indicator in the Light of Descriptor 11 (MSFD) 08 Jan 2011 15 Dec 2014 Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society (WDCS), München, Germany Completed Inventories of harbour porpoise Phocaena phocaena phocaena presence in Russian territorial waters of the Baltic Sea 05 Jan 2011 31 Oct 2011 Biologists for Nature Conservation Understanding harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) and fisheries interactions in the north-west Iberian Peninsula 02 Jan 2011 31 Jan 2012 Fiona Read / University of Aberdeen Completed Development of a co-ordinated reporting system and HELCOM/ASCOBANS database on Baltic Sea harbour porpoise sightings, by-catches and strandings 20 Dec 2009 20 Jun 2010 HELCOM Secretariat Completed Baltic Sea Risk Assessment of Potential Conflicts between Shipping and Cetaceans in the ASCOBANS Region and Analysis of New Data Sets for Risk Assessment of Potential Conflicts between Shipping and Cetaceans in the ASCOBANS Region 01 Apr 2009 01 Sep 2009 Peter Evans / Sea Watch Foundation Genetic structure of white-sided dolphin (Lagenorhynchus acutus) in the Eastern North Atlantic 10 Jan 2009 31 Mar 2010 Eulalia Banguera Hinestroza / University of Durham Completed Historic and present harbour porpoise populations in the Baltic region – geometric morphometrics analysis 10 Jan 2009 10 Jan 2010 Anders Galatius Jørgensen / University of Aarhus Effects of Contaminants on Reproduction in Small Cetaceans 01 Jan 2009 25 May 2009 Sinéad Murphy / University of St. Andrews Completed Enhanced detection of harbour porpoises prior to ramming, seismic blasts and ammunition clearance: design and construction of a PAL-porpoise detector (PPD) 01 Aug 2013 Boris Culik / F³: Forschung . Fakten . Fantasie. Completed