Research

RESEARCH INTERESTS

My research career has revolved around the management of wildlife-based tourism and recreation through research, capacity building, and science communication. 

I don't have any active scientific research projects at the moment (see completed here), but I provide advice and perspectives on these subjects, among others:

• Marine Wildlife Tourism

• Dolphin Biology and Ecology

• Marine Conservation

PUBLICATIONS

Scientific publications

• Fumagalli M, Guerra M, Brough T, Carome W, Constantine R, Higham J, Rayment W, Slooten E, Stockin K, Dawson S (2021) “Looking Back to Move Forward: Lessons From Three Decades of Research and Management of Cetacean Tourism in New Zealand”. Frontiers in Marine Science 8:7.

• Fumagalli M, Cesario A, Costa M, Notarbartolo di Sciara G, Harraway J, Slooten E. (2019) “Population ecology and the management of whalewatching operations on a data-deficient dolphin population”. Ecology and Evolution 9(18):10442-10456.

• Bertella G, Fumagalli M, Williams-Grey V. (2019) “Wildlife tourism through the co-creation lens”. Tourism Recreation Research 44(3):300-310. 

• Fumagalli M, Costa M, Cesario A. (2019) “Where dolphins sleep: resting areas in the Red Sea”. In: Rasul N and Stewart I (Eds) “Oceanography and environment of the Red Sea”. pp 305-326. Springer.

• Costa M, Fumagalli M, Cesario A. (2019) “Review of Cetaceans in the Red Sea”. In: Rasul N and Stewart I (Eds) “Oceanography and environment of the Red Sea”. pp 281-303. Springer.

• Fumagalli M, Cesario A, Costa M, Harraway J, Notarbartolo di Sciara G, Slooten E. (2018) “Behavioural responses of spinner dolphins to human interactions”. Royal Society Open Science 5: 172044.

Reports

• UNEP/CMS Scientific Council and Secretariat. (2021) “Species-specific guidelines for in-water recreational interactions with marine wildlife”. Convention on Migratory Species. 

• UNEP/CMS Scientific Council and Secretariat. (2019) “Recreational in-water interactions with aquatic species. Review of existing guidelines and issues of concern. UNEP/CMS/COP13/Doc.26.2.5/Annex 2”. In: “Marine Wildlife Watching. UNEP/CMS/COP13/Doc.26.2.5”. Convention on Migratory Species.

• Notarbartolo di Sciara G, Kerem D, Smeenk C, Rudolph P, Cesario A, Costa M, Elasar M, Feingold D, Fumagalli M, Goffman O, Hadar N, Mebrathu YT, Scheinin A. (2017) “Cetaceans of the Red Sea”. Convention on Migratory Species Technical Series 33. UNEP/CMS Secretariat.

• UNEP/CMS Aquatic Mammals Working Group of the Scientific Council. (2017) “Recreational in-water interaction with aquatic mammals. UNEP/CMS/COP12/Inf.13. Agenda item 24.2.5”. Convention on Migratory Species.

SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

• Frisch-Nwakanma H, Mancini A, Cesario A, Fumagalli M, Virtue M, Notarbartolo di Sciara G. (2019) “Policy approaches for more sustainable marine wildlife watching”. 2nd World Marine Mammal Conference. Barcelona, SP.

• Fumagalli M, Cesario A, Costa M, Slooten E, Higham J, Notarbartolo di Sciara G. (2018) “A combined social-ecological approach for the assessment of the Samadai Reef management plan”. 32nd Conference of the European Cetacean Society. La Spezia, IT.

• Fumagalli M, Cesario A, Costa M, Notarbartolo di Sciara G, Slooten E, Higham J (2015) “When inclusion in a national park limits conservation: spinner dolphin tourism in Egypt analysed in a social-ecological system framework” 21st Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals. San Francisco, US.

• Fumagalli M. (2015) “Songs, sponges and cultural behaviors in cetaceans” International Graduate Symposium “Forgetting/Remembering”, Department of Languages and Cultures, University of Otago. Dunedin, NZ.

OTHER

• The HEPCA Red Sea Dolphin Project blog (2010-2015)