Dr Gill Braulik

Lecturer

Researcher profile

Email

gtb7@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Research areas

Gill Braulik has been involved in research and conservation of marine mammals, in South, Southeast Asia and Africa, for around the last 25 years. Her primary work goal is to lead and catalyse conservation science on the most endangered species of marine mammal in order to help prevent their extinction. She is currently a Senior Lecturer/Principle Research Fellow in the Scottish Oceans Institute at the University of St Andrews, UK.  She was a Marie-Curie Research Fellow from 2020-2024, and a Pew Marine Fellow from 2013-2016.  Gill's work increasingly involves providing technical support, training and mentoring to researchers in Asia and Africa leading conservation networks including Steering Committee Member and Founding Member of the Indian Ocean Humpback Dolphin Conservation Network (HuDoNet).  A large focus of her early work was on river dolphins in Asia, especially the Indus and Ganges River dolphins, endangered subspecies of dolphin that occur in Pakistan and India. In addition to Gills river dolphin work, she is also part of the team leading the Global Cetacean Red List Assessment on behalf of the IUCN Cetacean Specialist Group, and is Deputy Chair of the Important Marine Mammal Area Secretariat designating IMMAs globally and working to ensure their application and effectiveness. She continues to lead work in Tanzania using networks of acoustic recorders to document the occurrence of fishing with explosives and studying endangered humpback dolphins around Pemba Island and along the coast of Tanga.  Gill has two PhD students, one from Pakistan and one from India, and supports two Masters students in Tanzania. 

PhD supervision

• Muhammad Asif
• Sohini Dudhat

Selected publications

• Open access

  Abundance of the endangered Indus River dolphin Platanista minor

  Aisha, H., Khan, U., Arshad, M., Noureen, U., Akram, U., Mahar, J., Farooque, M., Usman, M., Brohi, M. & Braulik, G., 20 Nov 2025, In: Endangered Species Research. 58, p. 315-329 15 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Atlantic and Indian Ocean humpback dolphins Sousa teuszii (Kükenthal, 1892) and S. plumbea (Cuvier, 1829)

  Collins, T., Jog, K., Plön, S. & Braulik, G., 17 Jan 2025, Coastal dolphins and porpoises. Jefferson, T. A. (ed.). 1st ed. Amsterdam: Academic Press/Elsevier , p. 109-154 46 p. (Ridgway and Harrison's handbook of marine mammals; vol. 1).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Indian Ocean humpback dolphin (Sousa plumbea) surveys in the Tanga-Shimoni seascape of Tanzania and Kenya: final report

  Braulik, G., Ellis, G., Hashir, A., Kavishe, L., Boehme, L., Wyles, H., Attwell, S., Gridley, T., Elwen, S., Dines, S., Mwango'mbe, M. & Collins, T., 15 Aug 2025, 94 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Other report

• Open access

  Vulnerability of marine megafauna to global at‐sea anthropogenic threats

  VanCompernolle, M., Morris, J., Calich, H. J., Rodríguez, J. P., Marley, S. A., Pearce, J. R., Abrahms, B., Abrantes, K., Afonso, A. S., Aguilar, A., Agyekumhene, A., Akamatsu, T., Åkesson, S., Alawa, N. G., Alfaro‐Shigueto, J., Anderson, R. C., Anker‐Nilssen, T., Arata, J. A., Araujo, G. & Arostegui, M. C. & 290 others, Arrizabalaga, H., Arrowsmith, L. M., Auger‐Méthé, M., Avila, I. C., Bailleul, F., Barker, J., Barlow, D. R., Barnett, A., Barrios‐Garrido, H., Baylis, A. M. M., Bearzi, G., Bejder, L., Belda, E. J., Benson, S. R., Berumen, M. L., Bestley, S., Bezerra, N. P. A., Blaison, A. V., Boehme, L., Bograd, S. J., Abimbola, B. D., Bond, M. E., Borrell, A., Bouchet, P. J., Boveng, P., Braulik, G., Braun, C. D., Brodie, S., Bugoni, L., Bustamante, C., Campana, S. E., Cárdenas‐Alayza, S., Carmichael, R. H., Carroll, G., Carter, M. I. D., Ceia, F. R., Cerchio, S., Ferreira, L. C., Chambault, P., Chapple, T. K., Charvet, P., Chavez, E. J., Chevallier, D., Chiaradia, A., Chilvers, B. L., Cimino, M. A., Clark, B. L., Clarke, C. R., Clay, T. A., Cloyed, C. S., Cochran, J. E. M., Collins, T., Cortes, E., Cuevas, E., Curnick, D. J., Dann, P., de Bruyn, P. J. N., de Vos, A., Derville, S., Dias, M. P., Diaz‐Lopez, B., Dodge, K. L., Dove, A. D. M., Doyle, T. K., Drymon, J. M., Dudgeon, C. L., Dutton, P. H., Ellenberg, U., Elwen, S. H., Emmerson, L., Eniang, E. A., Espinoza, M., Esteban, N., Mul, E., Fadely, B. S., Fayet, A. L., Feare, C., Ferguson, S. H., Feyrer, L. J., Finucci, B., Florko, K. R. N., Fontes, J., Fortuna, C. M., Fossette, S., Fouda, L., Frere, E., Fuentes, M. M. P. B., Gallagher, A. J., Borboroglu, P. G., Garrigue, C., Gauffier, P., Gennari, E., Genov, T., Germanov, E. S., Giménez, J., Godfrey, M. H., Godley, B. J., Goldsworthy, S. D., Gollock, M., Carman, V. G., Gownaris, N. J., Grecian, W. J., Guzman, H. M., Hamann, M., Hammerschlag, N., Hansen, E. S., Harris, M. P., Hastie, G., Haulsee, D. E., Hazen, E. L., Heide‐Jørgensen, M. P., Hieb, E. E., Higdon, J. W., Hindell, M. A., Hinke, J. T., Hoenner, X., Hofmeyr, G. J. G., Holmes, B. J., Hoyt, E., Huckstadt, L. A., Hussey, N. E., Huveneers, C., Irvine, L. G., Jabado, R. W., Jacoby, D. M. P., Jaeger, A., Jagielski, P. M., Jessopp, M., Jewell, O. J. D., Alvarado, D. J., Jordan, L. K. B., Jorgensen, S. J., Kahn, B., Karamanlidis, A. A., Kato, A., Keith‐Diagne, L. W., Kiani, M. S., Kiszka, J. J., Kock, A. A., Kopf, R. K., Kuhn, C., Kyne, P. M., Laidre, K. L., Lana, F. O., Lander, M. E., Corre, M. L., Lee, O. A., Leeney, R. H., Levengood, A. L., Levenson, J. J., Libertelli, M., Liu, K., Mendilaharsu, M. L., Loveridge, A., Lowe, C. G., Lynch, H. J., Macena, B. C. L., Mackay, A. I., Madrigal‐Mesén, J., Mallory, M. L., Mangel, J. C., Mansfield, K. L., March, D., Marcoux, M., Marsh, H., Marshall, A. D., Mattern, T., Maxwell, S. M., McGuire, R. L., McLeay, L., McMahon, C. R., Methion, S., Meyers, E. K. M., Michelot, C., Masere, C., Minton, G., Morales‐Vela, B., Mucientes, G., Murua, H., Nicoll, M. A. C., Niella, Y., Notarbartolo Di Sciara, G., Oppel, S., Orgeret, F., Oswald, J. N., Owen, E., Pacoureau, N., Paiva, V. H., Palacios, D. M., Panigada, S., Papastamatiou, Y. P., Parra, G. J., Parsons, S. K., Patterson‐Fraser, D. L., Peckham, S. H., Petersen, S. D., Pichegru, L., Pierce, S. J., Pipa, T., Pirotta, E., Pistorius, P., Pollom, R. A., Prieto, R., Prosdocimi, L., Pütz, K., Queiroz, N., Quinn, J. L., Ramos, J. A., Raudino, H. C., Recalde‐Salas, A., Rees, A. F., Reina, R. D., Reisinger, R. R., Reynolds, S. D., Richardson, A. J., Riddoch, N. G., Riet‐Sapriza, F. G., Robbins, J. R., Robinson, D. P., Rodríguez, A., Rogers, T. L., Rohner, C. A., Rojas‐Cañizales, D., Ruhomaun, K., Kent, C. S., Sato, K., Scales, K. L., Scheidat, M., Schofield, G., Serena, F., Setyawan, E., Shaffer, S. A., Shea, B. D., Shearer, L., Sheaves, M., Sherley, R. B., Shillinger, G. L., Shimada, T., Silva, M. A., Skomal, G., Smith, R. A., Smoothey, A. F., Soldo, A., Southall, E. J., Steinfurth, A., Stewart, D. B., Stewart, J. D., Takahashi, A., Tatayah, V., Thalmann, S., Thiebot, J., Tomás, J., Torres, L. G., Trathan, P. N., Trillmich, F., Ueda, K., Vandeperre, F., Vanstreels, R. E. T., Vedor, M., Villegas‐Amtmann, S., Waller, L. J., Waller, M., Wanless, S., Waples, K., Watt, C. A., Wege, M., Weir, C. R., Wells, R. S., Wensveen, P. J., White, T. D., Whiting, S. D., Wiig, Ø., Wildermann, N. E., Wiley, D. N., Williams, J. L., Williams, R. S., Wilson, K., Witt, M. J., Womersley, F. C., Yurkowski, D. J., Zhang, J., Costa, D. P., Duarte, C. M., Meekan, M. G., Harcourt, R., Sims, D. W., Hays, G. C., Pattiaratchi, C., Eguíluz, V. M. & Sequeira, A. M. M., 14 Nov 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Conservation Biology. Early View, p. 1-25 25 p., e70147.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• A review of the status, threats and management priorities of a remnant population of Indus River dolphins in the Beas River, India

  Braulik, G., Kanwar, G., Nawab, A., Shahnawaz Kahn, M., Behera, S. & Rajkumar, B., Feb 2024, In: Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems. 34, 2, 14 p., e4087.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

• Open access

  Important marine mammal areas celebrated—yet some are now in danger

  Hoyt, E., Braulik, G., Lanfredi, C., Minton, G., Panigada, S., Politi, E., Zanardelli, M. & Notarbartolo Di Sciara, G., 25 Mar 2024, In: Oryx. 58, 2, p. 146-147

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review

• Open access

  Red-list status and extinction risk of the world’s whales, dolphins and porpoises

  Braulik, G., Taylor, B., Minton, G., di Sciara, G. N., Collins, T., Rojas-Bracho, L., Crespo, E. A., Ponnampalam, L. S., Double, M. C. & Reeves, R. R., 28 Sept 2023, In: Conservation Biology. 37, 5, 15 p., e14090.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Spatiotemporal trends in cetacean strandings and response in the southwestern Indian Ocean: 2000–2020

  Plön, S., Norman, S., Adam, P. A., Andrianarivelo, N., Bachoo, S., Braulik, G., Collins, T., Estrade, V., Griffiths, O., Inteca, G., Khan, N., Marinesque, S., Mederic, E., Mwang’ombe, M., Olbers, J., Ramoelintsalama, L., Reeve-Arnold, K., Rocha, D., Gullan, A. D. & Saloma, A. & 4 others, Vermeulen, E., Vitry, H., Wilkinson, C. & Dulau, V., 2 Aug 2023, In: Journal of Cetacean Research and Management. 24, 1, p. 95-119 25 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Abundance estimation, group dynamics, and residence patterns of Indian Ocean humpback dolphin (Sousa plumbea) in the Dayer-Nakhiloo Marine National Park, Northern Persian Gulf, Iran

  Mohsenian, N., Methion, S., Moshiri, H., Hassan, S. K., Afkhami, S., Tollab, M. A., Sadeh, M., Braulik, G. & López, B. D., 4 Mar 2022, In: European Journal of Wildlife Research. 68, 2, 11 p., 17.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Abundance, spatial distribution and threats to Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus) in an Important Marine Mammal Area in Tanzania

  Kasuga, M., Varisanga, M., Davenport, T., Jiddawi, N. & Braulik, G., 23 Aug 2022, In: Western Indian Ocean Journal of Marine Science. 21, 1, 14 p., 215382.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

 

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