Mariel ten Doeschate

Mariel T.I. ten Doeschate

T: 07990 513589
E: m.ten-doeschate.1@research.gla.ac.uk

Work Address:

Scottish Marine Animal Stranding Scheme (SMASS)
Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health & Comparative Medicine
University of Glasgow | Glasgow | G12 8QQ

ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-9377-1282

Research title: Pathology of Strandings Surveillance Data

Research Summary

Background

The marine environment is rapidly changing, most notably following developments in renewable energy industry and perennial pressures from fisheries, which befall against a backdrop of climate change that is occurring at a rate faster than previously recorded. The need to assess, quantify, and mitigate specifically anthropogenic pressures and impacts on marine ecosystems is therefore ever more pressing.

Marine mammals are charismatic megafauna which are recognised as useful indicator species, representing general ecosystem and ocean health. Surveillance of marine mammal species at sea is however notoriously difficult, with even the most basic population metrics being largely hidden from direct observation. A number of the animals that die at sea end up stranding on the shore, making the coastline a very powerful vantage point from which to undertake surveillance.

The problem

While information acquired through strandings surveillance often can not be gathered by any other means, strandings data is generated through a complex function of biological, physical, and social processes which are all interlinked and introduce varying levels of bias. As a consequence, there is still a lot of uncertainty around the extent to which you can use information obtained through examinations of stranded individuals to make population level inferences, and how representative the strandings surveillance datasets are of at sea mortality.  This hinders progress and makes that strandings datasets are currently underutilised in the context of evidence-based population management and the development of policy.

My research

My research will focus on improving the statistical modelling techniques for strandings data to facilitate their use for population monitoring. I am hoping to develop a modelling framework that is able to better account for the biases associated with the strandings process, and reduce uncertainty in quantifying anthropogenic impacts on marine populations. Through this I hope that we can expand the use of strandings datasets for population ecology and conservation management – and guide future surveillance and management of marine ecosystems.

While this research will focus on marine strandings, my wider interest concerns the development of quantitative methods to maximise information from opportunistically collected datasets, to address questions in complex biological systems.

Publications

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Number of items: 37.

2025

Lennon, Rachel L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3511-6487, Williams, Rosie S., Allan, Kathryn J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6612-889X, ten Doeschate, Mariel T. I. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9377-1282, Davison, Nicholas J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7286-1836, Babayan, Simon A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4949-1117 and Brownlow, Andrew C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9885-7480 (2025) An approach to using stranding data to monitor cetacean population trends and guide conservation strategies. Scientific Reports, 15, 28417. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-12928-1)

Williams, R. S. et al. (2025) Sea temperature and pollution are associated with infectious disease mortality in short-beaked common dolphins. Communications Biology, 8(1), p. 557. (doi: 10.1038/s42003-025-07858-7) (PMID:40217089) (PMCID:PMC11992094)

Davison, Nicholas J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7286-1836, Dagleish, Mark P., Foster, Geoffrey, Ridley, Anne, ten Doeschate, Mariel ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9377-1282 and Brownlow, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9885-7480 (2025) Fatal systemic bacterial infections in two harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) secondary to bite wounds from grey seals (Halichoerus grypus). Journal of Comparative Pathology, 216, pp. 50-56. (doi: 10.1016/j.jcpa.2024.12.002)

2024

Wessels, Mark E., ten Doeschate, Mariel T.I. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9377-1282, Fox, Richard, Squirrell, Elise and Brownlow, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9885-7480 (2024) Intravascular central nervous system T-cell lymphoma in a common dolphin (Delphinus delphis) with cerebral infarction. Journal of Comparative Pathology, 215, pp. 37-41. (doi: 10.1016/j.jcpa.2024.09.004)

Favilla, A. B. et al. (2024) Examining Bergmann's rule in a cosmopolitan marine mammal, the bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops spp.). Marine Mammal Science, 40(4), e13130. (doi: 10.1111/mms.13130)

Cipriani, Paolo, Palomba, Marialetizia, Giulietti, Lucilla, Aco-Alburqueque, Renato, Andolfi, Roberta, ten Doeschate, Mariel ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9377-1282, Brownlow, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9885-7480, Davison, Nick J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7286-1836 and Mattiucci, Simonetta (2024) Anisakid parasite diversity in a pygmy sperm whale, Kogia breviceps (Cetacea: Kogiidae) stranded at the edge of its distribution range in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean. Parasite, 31, 43. (doi: 10.1051/parasite/2024042) (PMID:39082879) (PMCID:PMC11290333)

Suárez-Menéndez, M. et al. (2024) Baleen whale microsatellite panel for individual identification and parentage assignment in Mysticeti. Global Ecology and Conservation, 51, e02947. (doi: 10.1016/j.gecco.2024.e02947)

Gose, M.-A. et al. (2024) Population genomics of the white-beaked dolphin (Lagenorhynchus albirostris): Implications for conservation amid climate-driven range shifts. Heredity, 132(4), pp. 192-201. (doi: 10.1038/s41437-024-00672-7) (PMID:38302666) (PMCID:PMC10997624)

von Hellfeld, Rebecca, Gade, Christoph, ten Doeschate, Mariel ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9377-1282, Davison, Nicholas J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7286-1836, Brownlow, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9885-7480, Mbadugha, Lenka, Hastings, Astley and Paton, Graeme (2024) High resolution visualisation of tiemannite microparticles, essential in the detoxification process of mercury in marine mammals. Environmental Pollution, 342, 123027. (doi: 10.1016/j.envpol.2023.123027) (PMID:38016588)

2023

Williams, R.S. et al. (2023) Spatiotemporal trends spanning three decades show toxic levels of chemical contaminants in marine mammals. Environmental Science and Technology, 57(49), pp. 20736-20749. (doi: 10.1021/acs.est.3c01881) (PMID:38011905) (PMCID:PMC10720377)

Plint, Tessa, ten Doeschate, Mariel T.I. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9377-1282, Brownlow, Andrew C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9885-7480, Davison, Nicholas J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7286-1836, Hantke, Georg, Kitchener, Andrew C., Longstaffe, Fred J., McGill, Rona A.R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0400-7288, Simon-Nutbrown, Cornelia and Magill, Clayton R. (2023) Stable isotope ecology and interspecific dietary overlap among dolphins in the Northeast Atlantic. Frontiers in Marine Science, 10, 1111295. (doi: 10.3389/fmars.2023.1111295)

Gose, M.-A. et al. (2023) Stranding collections indicate broad-scale connectivity across the range of a pelagic marine predator, the Atlantic white-sided dolphin (Lagenorhynchus acutus). ICES Journal of Marine Science, 80(4), pp. 1120-1128. (doi: 10.1093/icesjms/fsad050)

Kitchener, Andrew C., Herman, Jeremy S., ten Doeschate, Mariel ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9377-1282, Davison, Nicholas J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7286-1836, Brownlow, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9885-7480, Schwarz, Tobias, Kinze, Carl Chr. and Hantke, Georg (2023) The prevalence of vestigial teeth in two beaked whale species from the North Atlantic. Mammalia, 87(2), pp. 190-200. (doi: 10.1515/mammalia-2022-0099)

Williams, R. S. et al. (2023) Evaluation of a marine mammal status and trends contaminants indicator for European waters. Science of the Total Environment, 866, 161301. (doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.161301) (PMID:36592909)

2021

IJsseldijk, L. L. et al. (2021) Nutritional status and prey energy density govern reproductive success in a small cetacean. Scientific Reports, 11, 19201. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-98629-x) (PMID:34725464) (PMCID:PMC8560860)

Williamson, Michael J., ten Doeschate, Mariel T.I. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9377-1282, Deaville, Rob, Brownlow, Andrew C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9885-7480 and Taylor, Nicola L. (2021) Cetaceans as sentinels for informing climate change policy in UK waters. Marine Policy, 131, 104634. (doi: 10.1016/j.marpol.2021.104634)

Williams, R. S. et al. (2021) Polychlorinated biphenyls are associated with reduced testes weights in harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena). Environment International, 150, 106303. (doi: 10.1016/j.envint.2020.106303) (PMID:33454091)

Davison, Nicholas J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7286-1836, Brownlow, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9885-7480, Ten Doeschate, Mariel ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9377-1282, Dale, Emma-Jane, Foster, Geoffrey, Muchowski, Jakub, Perrett, Lorraine L., Rocchi, Mara, Whatmore, Adrian M. and Dagleish, Mark P. (2021) Neurobrucellosis due to Brucella ceti ST26 in three Sowerby's beaked whales (Mesoplodon bidens). Journal of Comparative Pathology, 182, pp. 1-8. (doi: 10.1016/j.jcpa.2020.10.005) (PMID:33494901)

Davison, Nicholas J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7286-1836, Dagleish, Mark P., Dale, Emma-Jane, ten Doeschate, Mariel ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9377-1282, Muchowski, Jakub, Perrett, Lorraine L., Rocchi, Mara, Whatmore, Adrian M. and Brownlow, Andrew C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9885-7480 (2021) First confirmed reports of the isolation of Brucella ceti from a Risso’s dolphin Grampus griseus and a killer whale Orcinus orca. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms, 145, pp. 191-195. (doi: 10.3354/dao03612) (PMID:34263734)

Davison, Nicholas J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7286-1836, Dagleish, Mark P., ten Doeschate, Mariel ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9377-1282, Muchowski, Jakub, Perrett, Lorraine L., Rocchi, Mara, Whatmore, Adrian M. and Brownlow, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9885-7480 (2021) Meningoencephalitis in a common minke whale Balaenoptera acutorostrata associated with Brucella pinnipedialis and gamma-herpesvirus infection. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms, 144, pp. 231-235. (doi: 10.3354/dao03590) (PMID:34042070)

2020

IJsseldijk, L. L. et al. (2020) Spatiotemporal mortality and demographic trends in a small cetacean: strandings to inform conservation management. Biological Conservation, 249, 108733. (doi: 10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108733)

ten Doeschate, Mariel Tineke Irene ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9377-1282, Maclennan, Ellie, Walters, Alice, Dyke, Katie and Brownlow, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9885-7480 (2020) SMASS/WDC Marine Forum 2020 Proceedings Report. Other. Scottish Marine Animal Stranding Scheme, Inverness. (doi: 10.31219/osf.io/83vtj).

Derous, Davina, ten Doeschate, Mariel ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9377-1282, Brownlow, Andrew C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9885-7480, Davison, Nicholas J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7286-1836 and Lusseau, David (2020) Toward new ecologically relevant markers of health for cetaceans. Frontiers in Marine Science, 7, 367. (doi: 10.3389/fmars.2020.00367)

Williams, Rosie, ten Doeschate, Mariel ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9377-1282, Curnick, David J., Brownlow, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9885-7480, Barber, Jonathan L., Davison, Nicholas J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7286-1836, Deaville, Robert, Perkins, Matthew, Jepson, Paul D. and Jobling, Susan (2020) Levels of polychlorinated biphenyls are still associated with toxic effects in harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) despite having fallen below proposed toxicity thresholds. Environmental Science and Technology, 54(4), pp. 2277-2286. (doi: 10.1021/acs.est.9b05453) (PMID:32009388)

IJsseldijk, L. L. et al. (2020) Fatal attraction: The death of a solitary-sociable bottlenose dolphin due to anthropogenic trauma in the Netherlands. Lutra, 63(1-2), pp. 17-32.

2019

Foster, G. et al. (2019) Forensic microbiology reveals that Neisseria animaloris infections in harbour porpoises follow traumatic injuries by grey seals. Scientific Reports, 9, 14338. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-50979-3) (PMID:31605019) (PMCID:PMC6789040)

Coombs, E. J. et al. (2019) What can cetacean stranding records tell us? A study of UK and Irish cetacean diversity over the past 100 years. Marine Mammal Science, 35(4), pp. 1527-1555. (doi: 10.1111/mms.12610)

2018

IJsseldijk, Lonneke L., ten Doeschate, Mariel T.I. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9377-1282, Davison, Nicholas J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7286-1836, Gröne, Andrea and Brownlow, Andrew C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9885-7480 (2018) Crossing boundaries for cetacean conservation: setting research priorities to guide management of harbour porpoises. Marine Policy, 95, pp. 77-84. (doi: 10.1016/j.marpol.2018.07.006)

IJsseldijk, L. L. et al. (2018) Beached bachelors: an extensive study on the largest recorded sperm whale Physeter macrocephalus mortality event in the North Sea. PLoS ONE, 13(8), e0201221. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0201221) (PMID:30086178) (PMCID:PMC6080757)

ten Doeschate, Mariel T.I. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9377-1282, Brownlow, Andrew C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9885-7480, Davison, Nicholas J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7286-1836 and Thompson, Paul M. (2018) Dead useful; methods for quantifying baseline variability in stranding rates to improve the ecological value of the strandings record as a monitoring tool. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 98(5), pp. 1205-1209. (doi: 10.1017/s0025315417000698)

Brownlow, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9885-7480, ten Doeschate, Mariel ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9377-1282 and Davison, Nick ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7286-1836 (2018) Scottish Marine Animal Stranding Scheme (SMASS) Annual Report 2018. Project Report. Scottish Marine Animal Stranding Scheme. (doi: 10.31219/osf.io/qkcwg).

IJsseldijk, Lonneke L., Brownlow, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9885-7480, Davison, Nicholas J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7286-1836, Deaville, Rob, Haelters, Jan, Keijl, Guido, Siebert, Ursula and ten Doeschate, Mariel T.I. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9377-1282 (2018) Spatiotemporal trends in white-beaked dolphin strandings along the North Sea coast from 1991–2017. Lutra, 61(1), pp. 153-163.

2017

Tierney, K. M. et al. (2017) Nuclear reprocessing-related radiocarbon (14C) uptake into UK marine mammals. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 124(1), pp. 43-50. (doi: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2017.07.002) (PMID:28693808)

Brownlow, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9885-7480, ten Doeschate, Mariel ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9377-1282 and Davison, Nick ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7286-1836 (2017) Scottish Marine Animal Stranding Scheme (SMASS) Annual Report 2017. Project Report. Scottish Marine Animal Stranding Scheme. (doi: 10.31219/osf.io/c2spr).

ten Doeschate, Mariëlle T. I. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9377-1282, IJsseldijk, Lonneke L., Hiemstra, Sjoukje, de Jong, Els A., Strijkstra, Arjen, Gröne, Andrea and Begeman, Lineke (2017) Quantifying parasite presence in relation to biological parameters of harbour porpoises Phocoena phocoena stranded on the Dutch coast. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms, 127(1), pp. 49-56. (doi: 10.3354/dao03182) (PMID:29256427)

2016

Davison, Nicholas J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7286-1836, ten Doeschate, Mariel T. I. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9377-1282, Dagleish, Mark P., Read, Fiona L., Reid, Robert J., Foster, Geoffrey, Brownlow, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9885-7480 and Barley, Jason (2016) Twin foetuses in an Atlantic white-sided dolphin (Lagenorhynchus acutus) stranded on the coast of Scotland, UK. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 96(4), pp. 841-844. (doi: 10.1017/s0025315415002246)

Jepson, P. D. et al. (2016) PCB pollution continues to impact populations of orcas and other dolphins in European waters. Scientific Reports, 6, 18573. (doi: 10.1038/srep18573) (PMID:26766430) (PMCID:PMC4725908)

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Articles

Lennon, Rachel L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3511-6487, Williams, Rosie S., Allan, Kathryn J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6612-889X, ten Doeschate, Mariel T. I. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9377-1282, Davison, Nicholas J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7286-1836, Babayan, Simon A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4949-1117 and Brownlow, Andrew C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9885-7480 (2025) An approach to using stranding data to monitor cetacean population trends and guide conservation strategies. Scientific Reports, 15, 28417. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-12928-1)

Williams, R. S. et al. (2025) Sea temperature and pollution are associated with infectious disease mortality in short-beaked common dolphins. Communications Biology, 8(1), p. 557. (doi: 10.1038/s42003-025-07858-7) (PMID:40217089) (PMCID:PMC11992094)

Davison, Nicholas J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7286-1836, Dagleish, Mark P., Foster, Geoffrey, Ridley, Anne, ten Doeschate, Mariel ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9377-1282 and Brownlow, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9885-7480 (2025) Fatal systemic bacterial infections in two harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) secondary to bite wounds from grey seals (Halichoerus grypus). Journal of Comparative Pathology, 216, pp. 50-56. (doi: 10.1016/j.jcpa.2024.12.002)

Wessels, Mark E., ten Doeschate, Mariel T.I. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9377-1282, Fox, Richard, Squirrell, Elise and Brownlow, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9885-7480 (2024) Intravascular central nervous system T-cell lymphoma in a common dolphin (Delphinus delphis) with cerebral infarction. Journal of Comparative Pathology, 215, pp. 37-41. (doi: 10.1016/j.jcpa.2024.09.004)

Favilla, A. B. et al. (2024) Examining Bergmann's rule in a cosmopolitan marine mammal, the bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops spp.). Marine Mammal Science, 40(4), e13130. (doi: 10.1111/mms.13130)

Cipriani, Paolo, Palomba, Marialetizia, Giulietti, Lucilla, Aco-Alburqueque, Renato, Andolfi, Roberta, ten Doeschate, Mariel ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9377-1282, Brownlow, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9885-7480, Davison, Nick J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7286-1836 and Mattiucci, Simonetta (2024) Anisakid parasite diversity in a pygmy sperm whale, Kogia breviceps (Cetacea: Kogiidae) stranded at the edge of its distribution range in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean. Parasite, 31, 43. (doi: 10.1051/parasite/2024042) (PMID:39082879) (PMCID:PMC11290333)

Suárez-Menéndez, M. et al. (2024) Baleen whale microsatellite panel for individual identification and parentage assignment in Mysticeti. Global Ecology and Conservation, 51, e02947. (doi: 10.1016/j.gecco.2024.e02947)

Gose, M.-A. et al. (2024) Population genomics of the white-beaked dolphin (Lagenorhynchus albirostris): Implications for conservation amid climate-driven range shifts. Heredity, 132(4), pp. 192-201. (doi: 10.1038/s41437-024-00672-7) (PMID:38302666) (PMCID:PMC10997624)

von Hellfeld, Rebecca, Gade, Christoph, ten Doeschate, Mariel ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9377-1282, Davison, Nicholas J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7286-1836, Brownlow, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9885-7480, Mbadugha, Lenka, Hastings, Astley and Paton, Graeme (2024) High resolution visualisation of tiemannite microparticles, essential in the detoxification process of mercury in marine mammals. Environmental Pollution, 342, 123027. (doi: 10.1016/j.envpol.2023.123027) (PMID:38016588)

Williams, R.S. et al. (2023) Spatiotemporal trends spanning three decades show toxic levels of chemical contaminants in marine mammals. Environmental Science and Technology, 57(49), pp. 20736-20749. (doi: 10.1021/acs.est.3c01881) (PMID:38011905) (PMCID:PMC10720377)

Plint, Tessa, ten Doeschate, Mariel T.I. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9377-1282, Brownlow, Andrew C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9885-7480, Davison, Nicholas J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7286-1836, Hantke, Georg, Kitchener, Andrew C., Longstaffe, Fred J., McGill, Rona A.R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0400-7288, Simon-Nutbrown, Cornelia and Magill, Clayton R. (2023) Stable isotope ecology and interspecific dietary overlap among dolphins in the Northeast Atlantic. Frontiers in Marine Science, 10, 1111295. (doi: 10.3389/fmars.2023.1111295)

Gose, M.-A. et al. (2023) Stranding collections indicate broad-scale connectivity across the range of a pelagic marine predator, the Atlantic white-sided dolphin (Lagenorhynchus acutus). ICES Journal of Marine Science, 80(4), pp. 1120-1128. (doi: 10.1093/icesjms/fsad050)

Kitchener, Andrew C., Herman, Jeremy S., ten Doeschate, Mariel ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9377-1282, Davison, Nicholas J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7286-1836, Brownlow, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9885-7480, Schwarz, Tobias, Kinze, Carl Chr. and Hantke, Georg (2023) The prevalence of vestigial teeth in two beaked whale species from the North Atlantic. Mammalia, 87(2), pp. 190-200. (doi: 10.1515/mammalia-2022-0099)

Williams, R. S. et al. (2023) Evaluation of a marine mammal status and trends contaminants indicator for European waters. Science of the Total Environment, 866, 161301. (doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.161301) (PMID:36592909)

IJsseldijk, L. L. et al. (2021) Nutritional status and prey energy density govern reproductive success in a small cetacean. Scientific Reports, 11, 19201. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-98629-x) (PMID:34725464) (PMCID:PMC8560860)

Williamson, Michael J., ten Doeschate, Mariel T.I. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9377-1282, Deaville, Rob, Brownlow, Andrew C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9885-7480 and Taylor, Nicola L. (2021) Cetaceans as sentinels for informing climate change policy in UK waters. Marine Policy, 131, 104634. (doi: 10.1016/j.marpol.2021.104634)

Williams, R. S. et al. (2021) Polychlorinated biphenyls are associated with reduced testes weights in harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena). Environment International, 150, 106303. (doi: 10.1016/j.envint.2020.106303) (PMID:33454091)

Davison, Nicholas J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7286-1836, Brownlow, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9885-7480, Ten Doeschate, Mariel ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9377-1282, Dale, Emma-Jane, Foster, Geoffrey, Muchowski, Jakub, Perrett, Lorraine L., Rocchi, Mara, Whatmore, Adrian M. and Dagleish, Mark P. (2021) Neurobrucellosis due to Brucella ceti ST26 in three Sowerby's beaked whales (Mesoplodon bidens). Journal of Comparative Pathology, 182, pp. 1-8. (doi: 10.1016/j.jcpa.2020.10.005) (PMID:33494901)

Davison, Nicholas J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7286-1836, Dagleish, Mark P., Dale, Emma-Jane, ten Doeschate, Mariel ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9377-1282, Muchowski, Jakub, Perrett, Lorraine L., Rocchi, Mara, Whatmore, Adrian M. and Brownlow, Andrew C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9885-7480 (2021) First confirmed reports of the isolation of Brucella ceti from a Risso’s dolphin Grampus griseus and a killer whale Orcinus orca. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms, 145, pp. 191-195. (doi: 10.3354/dao03612) (PMID:34263734)

Davison, Nicholas J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7286-1836, Dagleish, Mark P., ten Doeschate, Mariel ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9377-1282, Muchowski, Jakub, Perrett, Lorraine L., Rocchi, Mara, Whatmore, Adrian M. and Brownlow, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9885-7480 (2021) Meningoencephalitis in a common minke whale Balaenoptera acutorostrata associated with Brucella pinnipedialis and gamma-herpesvirus infection. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms, 144, pp. 231-235. (doi: 10.3354/dao03590) (PMID:34042070)

IJsseldijk, L. L. et al. (2020) Spatiotemporal mortality and demographic trends in a small cetacean: strandings to inform conservation management. Biological Conservation, 249, 108733. (doi: 10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108733)

Derous, Davina, ten Doeschate, Mariel ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9377-1282, Brownlow, Andrew C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9885-7480, Davison, Nicholas J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7286-1836 and Lusseau, David (2020) Toward new ecologically relevant markers of health for cetaceans. Frontiers in Marine Science, 7, 367. (doi: 10.3389/fmars.2020.00367)

Williams, Rosie, ten Doeschate, Mariel ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9377-1282, Curnick, David J., Brownlow, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9885-7480, Barber, Jonathan L., Davison, Nicholas J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7286-1836, Deaville, Robert, Perkins, Matthew, Jepson, Paul D. and Jobling, Susan (2020) Levels of polychlorinated biphenyls are still associated with toxic effects in harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) despite having fallen below proposed toxicity thresholds. Environmental Science and Technology, 54(4), pp. 2277-2286. (doi: 10.1021/acs.est.9b05453) (PMID:32009388)

IJsseldijk, L. L. et al. (2020) Fatal attraction: The death of a solitary-sociable bottlenose dolphin due to anthropogenic trauma in the Netherlands. Lutra, 63(1-2), pp. 17-32.

Foster, G. et al. (2019) Forensic microbiology reveals that Neisseria animaloris infections in harbour porpoises follow traumatic injuries by grey seals. Scientific Reports, 9, 14338. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-50979-3) (PMID:31605019) (PMCID:PMC6789040)

Coombs, E. J. et al. (2019) What can cetacean stranding records tell us? A study of UK and Irish cetacean diversity over the past 100 years. Marine Mammal Science, 35(4), pp. 1527-1555. (doi: 10.1111/mms.12610)

IJsseldijk, Lonneke L., ten Doeschate, Mariel T.I. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9377-1282, Davison, Nicholas J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7286-1836, Gröne, Andrea and Brownlow, Andrew C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9885-7480 (2018) Crossing boundaries for cetacean conservation: setting research priorities to guide management of harbour porpoises. Marine Policy, 95, pp. 77-84. (doi: 10.1016/j.marpol.2018.07.006)

IJsseldijk, L. L. et al. (2018) Beached bachelors: an extensive study on the largest recorded sperm whale Physeter macrocephalus mortality event in the North Sea. PLoS ONE, 13(8), e0201221. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0201221) (PMID:30086178) (PMCID:PMC6080757)

ten Doeschate, Mariel T.I. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9377-1282, Brownlow, Andrew C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9885-7480, Davison, Nicholas J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7286-1836 and Thompson, Paul M. (2018) Dead useful; methods for quantifying baseline variability in stranding rates to improve the ecological value of the strandings record as a monitoring tool. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 98(5), pp. 1205-1209. (doi: 10.1017/s0025315417000698)

IJsseldijk, Lonneke L., Brownlow, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9885-7480, Davison, Nicholas J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7286-1836, Deaville, Rob, Haelters, Jan, Keijl, Guido, Siebert, Ursula and ten Doeschate, Mariel T.I. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9377-1282 (2018) Spatiotemporal trends in white-beaked dolphin strandings along the North Sea coast from 1991–2017. Lutra, 61(1), pp. 153-163.

Tierney, K. M. et al. (2017) Nuclear reprocessing-related radiocarbon (14C) uptake into UK marine mammals. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 124(1), pp. 43-50. (doi: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2017.07.002) (PMID:28693808)

ten Doeschate, Mariëlle T. I. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9377-1282, IJsseldijk, Lonneke L., Hiemstra, Sjoukje, de Jong, Els A., Strijkstra, Arjen, Gröne, Andrea and Begeman, Lineke (2017) Quantifying parasite presence in relation to biological parameters of harbour porpoises Phocoena phocoena stranded on the Dutch coast. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms, 127(1), pp. 49-56. (doi: 10.3354/dao03182) (PMID:29256427)

Davison, Nicholas J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7286-1836, ten Doeschate, Mariel T. I. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9377-1282, Dagleish, Mark P., Read, Fiona L., Reid, Robert J., Foster, Geoffrey, Brownlow, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9885-7480 and Barley, Jason (2016) Twin foetuses in an Atlantic white-sided dolphin (Lagenorhynchus acutus) stranded on the coast of Scotland, UK. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 96(4), pp. 841-844. (doi: 10.1017/s0025315415002246)

Jepson, P. D. et al. (2016) PCB pollution continues to impact populations of orcas and other dolphins in European waters. Scientific Reports, 6, 18573. (doi: 10.1038/srep18573) (PMID:26766430) (PMCID:PMC4725908)

Research Reports or Papers

ten Doeschate, Mariel Tineke Irene ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9377-1282, Maclennan, Ellie, Walters, Alice, Dyke, Katie and Brownlow, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9885-7480 (2020) SMASS/WDC Marine Forum 2020 Proceedings Report. Other. Scottish Marine Animal Stranding Scheme, Inverness. (doi: 10.31219/osf.io/83vtj).

Brownlow, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9885-7480, ten Doeschate, Mariel ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9377-1282 and Davison, Nick ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7286-1836 (2018) Scottish Marine Animal Stranding Scheme (SMASS) Annual Report 2018. Project Report. Scottish Marine Animal Stranding Scheme. (doi: 10.31219/osf.io/qkcwg).

Brownlow, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9885-7480, ten Doeschate, Mariel ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9377-1282 and Davison, Nick ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7286-1836 (2017) Scottish Marine Animal Stranding Scheme (SMASS) Annual Report 2017. Project Report. Scottish Marine Animal Stranding Scheme. (doi: 10.31219/osf.io/c2spr).

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Supervisors

Conferences

Conference Presentations – Oral

(co-authored presenations not included in list)

  • M.T.I ten Doeschate, N. J. Davison, R. Deaville, M. P. Dagleish, J. Barnett, J. Barber, R. Penrose, M. Perkins, P. D. Jepson, A. Brownlow. Dead useful; Separating the Signal From the Noise through Marine Mammal Strandings Surveillance. European Wildlife Diseases Association (EWDA) conference. Larissa, Greece 27th – 31st August 2018.
  • M.T.I ten Doeschate, A. Brownlow, N. J. Davison, R. Deaville, J. Barnett, J. Barber, R. Law, R. Penrose, M. Perkins, P. D. Jepson. Quantifying PCB’s in cetaceans populations; where is the solution…? Workshop on Effects of PCB exposure in killer whales and other threatened toothed whale species of the North Atlantic. European Cetacean Society Conference. Middlefart, Denmark, 29th April 2017.
  • M.T.I ten Doeschate, N. J. Davison, A. Brownlow. Eyes and Knives Everywhere; Citizen Science Strategies for Strandings Monitoring (video presentation). Society for Marine Mammal Conference. Halifax Nova Scotia, Canada 23rd – 27th October 2017.
  • M.T.I ten Doeschate, A. Brownlow, N.J. Davison, R. Deaville, P.J. Jepson, G. Pierce, F. Read, P. Thompson. The pathology of strandings data: methods to improve the ecological value of the strandings record as a monitoring tool. International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) Conference. Copenhagen, Denmark, 24th September 2015.

 

Conference Presentations – Poster

(co-authored posters not included in list)

  • M.T.I. ten Doeschate, A. Brownlow, N. J. Davison, R.Deaville, A. Galatius, A. Gröne, J. Haelters, P. D. Jepson, G. Keijl, C.C. Kinze, M. Tange Olsen, U. Siebert, C. Bie Thøstesen, H., L. L. IJsseldijk. SCANS of the beach; International assessment of harbour porpoise strandings along the North Sea coastline. World Marine Mammal Conference, Barcelona, Spain, 7th to 12th December 2019.
  • M.T.I. ten Doeschate, A., N.J. Davison, R. Deaville, P.J. Jepson, M. Perkins, L.L. IJsseldijk. Size matters: Assessing the ecological variability in strandings data at a relevant spatial scale. European Cetacean Society conference. Funchal, Madeira, Portugal. 14th – 16th March 2016.
  • M.T.I. ten Doeschate, E de Jong, S. Hiemstra, L. Begeman, A. Strijkstra, A. Kuiper, A. Gröne. Parasite Related Findings in Dutch Stranded Harbour Porpoises (Phocoena phocoena). European Cetacean Society Conference. Sétubal, Portugal 8th – 10th April 2013.

Additional Information

Education

  • MSc Applied Marine and Fisheries Ecology - University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK (2013 – 2014)
  • BSc Wildlife management – Van Hall Larenstein University of Applied Sciences, Wageningen University, Leeuwarden, the Netherlands (2007 – 2012)
    • Marine Living Resources (part of B.Sc Wildlife Management), Wageningen University, Wageningen, the Netherlands (2009 – 2010)

 

 

 Previous experiences and employment

  • Marine Strandings Data manager – Scottish Marine Animal Stranding Scheme (SMASS), University of Glasgow (2014 – 2021 as part of SRUC, since July 2021 within IBACHM at UoG)
  • Researcher; Data Analyst - External fixed term contract with Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, the Netherlands (2018)
  • Wildlife Tour Guide – Ecoventures Wildlife boat tours, Cromarty, Scotland (2014)
  • Animal Caretaker and team leader – SOS Dolphin Foundation, Harderwijk, the Netherlands (2013)
  • Research Assistant – Spinner Dolphin Acoustics Population Parameters and Human Impact Research Project, Murdoch University and Duke University, Kona, Hawaii (2012 – 2013)
  • Necropsy assistant – Harbour porpoise post mortem project at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, the Netherlands (2012 – 2013)
  • Research Assistant – Bottlenose dolphin research internship with Murdoch University’s Cetacean Research Unit, Bunbury, Australia (2011)
  • Research Assistant– Sea turtle Project research internship with St Eustatius National Parks Foundation, St. Eustatius, Dutch Caribbean (2009)

Photographing a white-beaked dolphin