{"id":13,"date":"2012-03-20T18:27:35","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T18:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/marquesas\/?page_id=13"},"modified":"2012-04-13T21:48:53","modified_gmt":"2012-04-13T21:48:53","slug":"dr-michael-poole","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/marquesas\/meet-the-research-team\/dr-michael-poole\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Michael Poole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/marquesas\/files\/2012\/03\/MPoole.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-54\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/marquesas\/files\/2012\/03\/MPoole-251x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"251\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/1083\/files\/2012\/03\/MPoole-251x300.jpg 251w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/1083\/files\/2012\/03\/MPoole-857x1024.jpg 857w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/1083\/files\/2012\/03\/MPoole.jpg 1068w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 251px) 100vw, 251px\" \/><\/a>Dr. Poole is presently the Director of The Marine Mammal Research Program on Moorea, French Polynesia. Over the past 25 years, much of Dr. Poole&#8217;s research has been on spinner dolphins and humpback whales in French Polynesia. He has also studied rough-toothed dolphins, pilot whales, and other species at eight islands. He is one of the founding members of the South Pacific Whale Research Consortium, and is the scientific advisor of\u00a0 Groupe d&#8217;\u00c9tude des Mammif\u00e8res Marins (GEMM). One of Dr. Poole&#8217;s largest contributions to marine mammal conservation in French Polynesia came in May 2002 when French Polynesia&#8217;s Government accepted his long-standing proposition and draft legislation to create a whale and dolphin sanctuary within all of the territory&#8217;s Exclusive Economic Zone, an area half the size of the USA.<\/p>\n<p><em>Dr. Michael Poole est le directeur du Programme de Recherche sur les Mammif\u00e8res Marins bas\u00e9 \u00e0 Noum\u00e9a, Polyn\u00e9sie Fran\u00e7aise. Au cours des 25 derni\u00e8res ann\u00e9es, la recherche du Dr. Poole s\u2019est concentr\u00e9e sur les dauphins \u00e0 long bec et les baleines \u00e0 bosse de cette r\u00e9gion. Il a \u00e9galement \u00e9tudi\u00e9 les dauphins \u00e0 bec \u00e9troit, les globic\u00e9phales tropicaux ainsi que d\u2019autres c\u00e9tac\u00e9s autour de huit diff\u00e9rentes iles. Il est l\u2019un des membres fondateurs du Groupe de Recherche sur les Baleines du Pacifique Sud et le conseiller scientifique du Groupe d\u2019\u00c9tude des Mammif\u00e8res Marins (GEMM). Une des principales contributions du Dr. Poole pour la conservation des mammif\u00e8res marins en Polyn\u00e9sie Fran\u00e7aise est l\u2019acceptation par le gouvernement en mai 2002 de la cr\u00e9ation d\u2019un sanctuaire pour les dauphins et baleines dans l\u2019ensemble de la zone \u00e9conomique exclusive du pays, soit une surface grande comme la moiti\u00e9 des USA.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Poole is presently the Director of The Marine Mammal Research Program on Moorea, French Polynesia. Over the past 25 years, much of Dr. Poole&#8217;s research has been on spinner dolphins and humpback whales in French Polynesia. He has also &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/marquesas\/meet-the-research-team\/dr-michael-poole\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3761,"featured_media":0,"parent":10,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"onecolumn-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/marquesas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/marquesas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/marquesas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/marquesas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3761"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/marquesas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/marquesas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/marquesas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions\/181"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/marquesas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/marquesas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}