I spent 3 days in Berlin at the [Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research](http://www.leibniz-izw.de/welcome.html) catching up with friends and colleagues (L. Marescot, S. Benhaim, S. Kramer-Schadt, A. Courtiol, H. Hofer).
My post-doc Sarah Cubaynes and I went to visit our colleague Jon Aars in Tromso, Norway. We are working together on the demography of polar bears using an amazing dataset the Norwegian Polar Institute has been collecting for decades. It was also the opportunity to catch up with Nigel (Gilles) Yoccoz who’s being very helpful with this project. Jon took us fishing; I was luckier than with fly-fishing ;-)
We visited our colleagues from Dolphin Biology and Conservation (Giovanni Bearzi, Silvia Bonizzoni, Nina Santostasi and Eva Greene). Lots of discussions on future projects about the estimation of striped, bottlenose and common dolphins abundance, their distribution in the gulf of Corinth (Greece) and their interactions with fishermen. Nina will be visiting us in October-March to work on the abundance project. We also went out for a survey and spotted several groups of striped dolphins, and two common dolphins. Thanks to Giovanni and Silvia for their hospitality and kindness. The beginning of a new adventure in Greece!