Dolphins in the News

Major milestone🐬: Galveston Bay Dolphin Research Program catalogs 1,000th distinct bottlenose dolphin

GALVESTON, Texas – A major milestone has been reached for the program that works to better understand bottlenose dolphins in Galveston Bay.

Galveston Bay Foundation receives rapid response funding to study Harvey’s effect on bay’s dolphins

The Galveston Bay Dolphin Research and Conservation Program (GDRCP) is ramping up its dolphin surveys with the help of rapid response funding from Texas Sea Grant, through the Gulf of Mexico Alliance (GOMA).

Interview with dolphin researchers Vanessa Mintzer and Kristi Fazioli

Vanessa Mintzer of the Galveston Bay Foundation and Kristi Fazioli from the Environmental Institute of Houston (at the University of Houston-Clear Lake) are studying dolphins in upper Galveston Bay.

Galveston’s bottlenose dolphins have puzzling ailments since Harvey

Much debris has been cleared out, but three months after Harvey’s landfall, the ecological damage is still being assessed.

Galveston Bay dolphins struggle to recover from Hurricane Harvey

Kristi Fazioli first spotted the pair of dolphins swimming behind a shrimp trawler near Morgan’s Point, eager to get a mouthful of breakfast.

Six years after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, scientists still know little about Gulf dolphins

Kristi Fazioli slowed the Boston Whaler and cut the engine when a fin finally emerged where the Houston Ship Channel passes Bolivar Peninsula. At the bow, Sherah Loe, a graduate student, readied her camera.