General Response

• Live and Dead Large Whale Emergency Response Best Practices (Marine Mammal Health and Stranding Response Program (U.S.), 2022)

• Dwarf and Pygmy Sperm Whale (Kogia Spp.) Best Practices (Marine Mammal Health and Stranding Response Program (U.S.), 2022)

• Practical Guide for Authorised Field Responders to HPAI Outbreaks in Marine Mammals (World Organisation for Animal Health 2024)

• WhaleScale app - estimate the weight of stranded cetaceans (Harms 2024) - available in the App Store and Google Play

• Spanish - Guía para la atención de varamientos de mamíferos acuáticos en Colombia (Ministerio de Ambiente 2017)

Sample Datasheets

• Fresh Water Cetacean Field Post-Mortem Booklet

• Humpback Whale Data Sheets

Sample Collection and Curation Guides

• Best practices for collecting and preserving marine mammal biological samples in the ‘omics era (Van Cise et al. 2024)

• Collection, Storage, Retrieval, and Distribution of Biological Materials for Research (ISBER 2011)

• OECD Best Practice Guidelines for Biological Resource Centres (2007)

Sampling and Necropsies

• GSN Necropsy Supplies List (Basic) (Advanced)

• GSN Necropsy Sample Checklist (Basic) (Advanced)

• 4D Virtual Whale Necropsy (University of Alaska Southeast Whale Lab)

• ACCOBAMS ASCOBANS Best Practices for Cetacean Sampling (2019)

• Analysis of the Gastro-Intestinal Tract of Marine Mammals: A Multidisciplinary Approach with a New Multi-Sieves Tool (Corazzola et al. 2021)

• Basic Organ Identification in Cetaceans

• Basic Sampling Protocol for Decomposed Cetaceans

• Better Clinical & Post Mortem Photography: A Crash Course in Ten Technical Tips (Sadler 2019)

• Cetacean Ear Extraction & Fixation Protocol (Morell & Andre 2009)

• Killer Whale Necropsy and Disease Testing Protocol (Raverty et al. 2014)

• Marine Mammal Necropsy Introductory Guide (Pugliarese 2007)

• Novel Necropsy Findings Linked to Peracute Underwater Entrapment in Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) (Epple et al. 2020)

• Pinniped Necropsy & Tissue Collection Guide (Dierauf 1994)

• Standardized Necropsy Protocol for Cetaceans in South Africa (Plön et al. 2015)

• Spanish - Protocolo de necropsia ballena franca austral (Chirife et al. 2014)

• Spanish - Protocolo de necropsia y analisis de enfermedades en orcas (Raverty et al. 2014)

Carcass Disposal

• Marine Mammal Carcass Disposal Best Practices (Marine Mammal Health and Stranding Response Program (U.S.), 2022)

Postmortem Forensics and Pathology

• ACCOBAMS Guidelines for a Coordinated Cetacean Stranding Response during Mortality Events caused by Infectious Agents and Harmful Algal Blooms

• Case Definitions for Anthropogenic Trauma (Moore 2013)

• Challenges in the Assessment of Bycatch: Postmortem Findings in Harbor Porpoises (Phoecoena phocoena) Retrieved From Gillnets (IJsseldijk et al. 2021)

• Distinguishing Bycatch from the Other Causes of Stranding (DeQuiros 2018)

• Framework for Fishery Interaction (Life DELFI 2021)

• Insulated Isothermal PCV (iiPCR) for toxoplasma and morbillivirus infection in cetaceans (Instructional videos: Grind-N-Go DNA Extraction Set; POCKIT Micro Duo Nucleic Acid Analyzer; POCKIT Central Nucleic Acid Analyzer)