Guilherme Frainer

Trindade Island, Brazil. Photo: H Entringer.

PERSONAL INFORMATION
Name: Guilherme Laizola Frainer Correa
Date of birth: 05.08.1987
Contact: (+27) 068 3330404 / gui.frainer@gmail.com
Research unique identifier: Google Scholar, ORCID, Lattes

EDUCATION
2015-2019 / PhD / Postgraduate Program in Animal Biology/Department of Zoology, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul/ Institute of Biosciences, Brazil. Thesis: “The sound generating structures in dolphins: functional anatomy, ontogeny and evolution [O órgão produtor de som dos golfinhos (Odontoceti: Delphinida): funcionalidade, ontogenia e evolução]”
2011-2013 / Magister Scientiae / Postgraduate Program in Animal Biology/Department of Zoology, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul/ Institute of Biosciences, Brazil. Dissertation: “The development of the Franciscana’s Pontoporia blainvillei (Odontoceti: Pontoporiidae) biosonar [O desenvolvimento do biosonar da toninha, Pontoporia blainvillei (Odontoceti: Pontoporiidae)]”
2006-2010 / Bachelor of Science / Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul/ Institute of Biosciences, Brazil. Dissertation: “Description of a new genus and two new Characid species (Teleostei: Characiformes) from Alto rio Tocantins Basin, Central Brazil [Descrição de um gênero novo e duas espécies novas de Characidae (Teleostei: Characiformes), da Bacia do Alto Rio Tocantins, Brasil Central]”

SKILLS
2006 Class B driver license
2011 Level 2 Open Water Diver (PADI) - Autonomous diving standard
2018 Amateur skipper and amateur motor boat driver license (Brazilian Maritime Authority - Brazilian Navy)

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
2019 Passive Acoustic Monitoring Course - PAM level 1 (Certificate no 190604, Seiche Training Ltd.)
2019 Basic Offshore Safety and Emergency Training (Shelter Cursos em Proteção e Segurança Marítima Ltda.)
2019 Helicopter Underwater Escape Training - HUET (Shelter Cursos em Proteção e Segurança Marítima Ltda.)
2020 Distance Sampling Training - 20h (Centre for Research into Ecological & Environmental Modelling - CREEM - University of St. Andrews)

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
2015 Award received from "Associação de Fotógrafos da Natureza" (Association for Nature Photographers) for the first place (fauna) at the I Contest for Nature Photography (BRA)
2016 Science Without Borders (Ciências sem Fronteiras) fellowship from the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) (BRA), as Sandwich Doctorate Scholarship (Grant number: 201709/2015-5)
2016 Grants in aid of research from the Society for Marine Mammalogy (USA)
2019 Award received from the Society for Marine Mammalogy and the European Cetacean Society for the best student presentation (South America) in the 2nd World Marine Mammal Conference in Barcelona (December 9 - 12, WMMC'19)
2021 Grants in aid of research from Microsoft Azure as part of the AI for Earth program (USA)

MOBILITY
2014 Oceanographic Institute/Universidade Federal de Rio Grande/Brazil
Fisheries Observer
2015-2016 Department II of Anatomy/Universitätsklinikum, University of Cologne/Germany
Visiting Researcher
2019 Oceanographic Institute/Universidade Federal de Rio Grande/Brazil
Fisheries Observer
2020 Ecology and Environment do Brasil/Brazil
PAM operator
2021-present Department of Statistical Sciences/University of Cape Town/South Africa
Postdoctoral fellow

ORGANISATION OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS
2014 Organizer and scientific committee of the "IV Simpósio de Biologia Marinha" (Marine Biology Symposium)/ 240 participants/ Brazil
2022 Organizer and scientific committee of the “III African Bioacoustics Community Conference”/ 100 participants/ South Africa

COMMISSIONS OF TRUST
2015-present Marine Mammal Science/Society for Marine Mammalogy/U.S.A.
Reviewer
2017-present Revista CEPSUL: Biodiversidade e Conservação Marinha/Brazil
Reviewer
2020-present Iheringia Série Zoologia/Museu de Ciências Naturais/Brazil
Reviewer

MEMBERSHIPS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES
2016-present Society for Marine Mammalogy

LIST OF PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
G Frainer, S Huggenberger, IB Moreno (2015) Postnatal development of franciscana's (Pontoporia blainvillei) biosonar relevant structures with potential implications for function, life history, and bycatch Marine Mammal Science 31 (3), 1193-1212
G Frainer, NW Daudt, CJ Carlos (2015) Aberrantly plumaged White-chinned Petrels Procellaria aequinoctialis in the Brazilian waters, south-west Atlantic Ocean Marine Biodiversity Records 8, E103
G Frainer, VL Heissler, IB Moreno (2018) A wandering Weddell seal (Leptonychotes weddellii) at Trindade Island, Brazil: the extreme sighting of a circumpolar species Polar Biology 41 (3), 579-582
S Plön, G Frainer, A Wedderburn-Maxwell, G Cliff, S Huggenberger (2018) Dorsal fin and hump vascular anatomy in the Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin (Sousa plumbea) (Cuvier, 1829) and the Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops aduncus) (Ehrenberg, 1833) Marine Mammal Science 35(2), 684-695
G Frainer, S Plön, NB Serpa, IB Moreno, S Huggenberger (2019) Sound Generating Structures of the Humpback Dolphin Sousa plumbea (Cuvier, 1829) and the Directionality in Dolphin Sounds The Anatomical Record 302, 849-860
G Frainer, IB Moreno, N Serpa, A Galatius, D Wiedermann, S Huggenberger (2019) Ontogeny and evolution of the sound generating structures in the Infraorder Delphinida (Odontoceti: Delphinida) Biological Journal of the Linnean Society blz118
G Frainer (2019) Nariz para fazer som! [Nose to play sounds!] Ciência Hoje Crianças
Y Camargo, M Dal Forno, D. Dorneles, G Frainer, EB Ilha, CT Rigon, B dos Santos, ML dos Santos, N Serpa, TP Simas, CJ Carlos, IB Moreno (2020) Diagnóstico ambiental do estuário do rio Tramandaí, litoral norte do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil [Environmental disgnostics of the rio Tramandaí estuary, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil] Revista CEPSUL - Biodiversidade e Conservação Marinha 9: e2020002
G Frainer, S Huggenberger, IB Moreno, A Galatius (2021) Head adaptation for sound production and feeding strategy in dolphins (Odontoceti: Delphinida) Journal of Anatomy 238, 1070-108
G Frainer, FR Carvalho, VA Bertaco, LR Malabarba (2021) Museum specimens reveal a rare new characid fish genus, helping to refine the interrelationships of the Probolodini (Characidae: Stethaprioninae) Systematics and Biodiversity 19:8, 1135-1148
T Lamont, L Chapuis, B Williams, S Dines, T Gridley, G Frainer, J Fearey, P Maulana, M Prasetya, J Jompa, D Smith, S Simpson (2022) HydroMoth: testing a prototype low-cost acoustic recorder for aquatic environments Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation
G Frainer, S Elwen, S Dines, B James, E Vermeulen, G Penry, OA Vargas-Fonseca, S Atkins, D Conry, T Gridley (2022) Rostrum abnormalities in the endangered Indian Ocean humpback dolphin (Sousa plumbea) in South Africa Integrative Zoology 00, 1– 14
G Frainer, E Dufourq, J Fearey, S Dines, R Probert, S Elwen, T Gridley (in press) Automatic detection and taxonomic identification of dolphin vocalisations using convolutional neural networks for passive acoustic monitoring Ecological Informatics
N Serpa, G Frainer, B dos Santos, GA Bortolotto, IB Moreno (in review) Behavioral repertoire of Lahille’s bottlenose dolphins during the “cooperative fishing” with artisanal fishers Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
C Da Silva, T Samaai, S Kerwath, L Adams, K Watson, A Bernard, G van der Heever, A Angel, S Schoombie, G Frainer, ML Franken, A Rees, A Paterson (in review) Leaping into the future: Current application and future direction of computer vision and artificial intelligence in marine sciences in South Africa Research Outcomes and Ideas

LIST OF BOOK CHAPTERS
IB Moreno, KB do Amaral, Y Camargo, D Dorneles, G Frainer, V Heissler, E Ilha, C Rigon, J Wickert (2017) Cetáceos da Ilha da Trindade e Arquipélago de Martin Vaz in S Costa-Abrantes and M Sissini Protrindade: programa de pesquisas científicas na Ilha da Trindade. 10 anos de pesquisas vol. 1. SECIRM/Brasília, 201p. ISBN: 9788562033032
IB Moreno, G Frainer, K Christmann (2019) Botos e pescadores da barra do rio Tramandaí in D Castro Ciclo das águas na bacia hidrográfica do Rio Tramandaí. Via Sapiens, 176 p. ISBN: 978-85-61941-15-4
G Frainer, S Elwen (in press) Pygmy right whale Caperea marginata (J. E. Gray, 1846) in S Siciliano Mammals of Middle and South America: Cetacea and Sirenia. Springer
G Frainer, N Dellabianca (in press) Hourglass dolphin Sagmatias cruciger (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) in S Siciliano Mammals of Middle and South America: Cetacea and Sirenia. Springer
G Frainer (in press) Southern right-whale dolphin Lissodelphis peronii (Lacépède, 1804) in S Siciliano Mammals of Middle and South America: Cetacea and Sirenia. Springer

LIST OF CONFERENCE WORKS
G Frainer, S Siciliano, DC Tavares (2016) Franciscana calls for help: the short and long-term effects of Mariana's disaster on small cetaceans of South-eastern Brazil. In: Scientific Committee SC/66b, International Whaling Commission, 2016, Bled. Report of the Sub-Committee on Other Southern Hemisphere Whale Stocks, 2016. v. 66b
V Heissler, KB do Amaral, N Serpa, G Frainer, S Siciliano, E Secchi, IB Moreno (2016) Sei whales, Balaenoptera borealis, in the South-Western Atlantic Ocean: the discovery of a calving ground in Brazilian waters. In: Scientific Committee SC/66b, International Whaling Commission, 2016, Bled. Report of the Sub-Committee on Other Southern Hemisphere Whale Stocks, 2016. v. 66a
P Fruet, FG Daura-Jorge, P Laporta, M Coscarella, E Vermeulen, PH Ott, L Berninsone, RC Genoves, IB Moreno, M Failla, PAC Flores, M Iñíguez, DJ Pretto, R Machado, MS Perez, C Bezamat, ER Secchi, PV de Castilho, AS Barreto, M Carrion, G Frainer, L Dias, S Botta, T Nascimento, E Ilha, YR Camargo, JL Brito, B Manhães, L Von Fersen, JC Di Tullio (2022) Progress report on the research and conservation of Lahille’s bottlenose dolphins - 2022. In: Scientific Committee SC/69a/SM/05, International Whaling Commission, 2022, Bled.

LIST OF POPULAR SCIENCE AND USER ORIENTED DISSEMINATION
2018 Interview, National Geographic Magazine (online)
2021 Interview, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (online)
2022 Opinion, Daily Maverick (online)
2022 Opinion, University of Cape Town (online)
2022 Interview, The Marine Mammal Science Podcast (online)
2022 Interview, The Marine Mammal Science Podcast (online)

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