Leigh Torres
An Evaluation of Methods for Modeling Dolphin Habitat Selection: A Case Study in Florida Bay, Florida
Best Student PhD Oral Presentation
2007 Southeast and Mid-Atlantic Marine Mammal Symposium
Duke University Marine Laboratory, March 16 - 18, 2007.

Erika Zollett
Depredation by Bottlenose Dolphins on the King Mackrel
Troll Fishery in Florida

Fred Fairfield Memorial Award Runner-Up for Innovative Marine Mammal Research
16th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals
San Diego, CA. December 12-16 2005

Kim Goetz
Summer habitat preference of Cook Inlet beluga whales (Delphinapterus leucus ) using spatially explicit statistics
Runner-Up Best Student MSc Oral Presentation
12th Annual Southeast and Mid-Atlantic Marine Mammal Symposium
UNCW, March 18 - March 20, 2005

Catherine McClellan
Sea turtle interactions with an inshore gillnet fishery: A novel approach
Archie Carr Award, Best Conservation Paper
25th Annual Sea Turtle Symposium Savannah , Georgia USA 16 - 22 January 2005

Dave Johnston
Island in the Stream:
Integrating physical oceanography and remote sensing to examine habitat use of marine mammals in an island wake in the Bay of Fundy, Canada
Fred Fairfield Memorial Award for Innovative Marine Mammal Research
15th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals
Greensboro NC. December 14-19 2003

Dave Johnston
Island in the Stream: Marine Mammals Forage in an Island Wake in the Bay of Fundy, NB Canada
Best Student Oral Presentation
17th Annual Conference of the European Cetacean Society
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. March 9 -13, 2003.

Erin Vos
Exhibit design at the Gaskin Museum of Marine Life, New Brunswick Canada
Best Student Poster Presentation
10th Annual Southeast and Mid-Atlantic Marine Mammal Symposium
Christopher Newport University, VA. March 28 -30, 2003.

Leigh Torres
Improving management of overlapping bottlenose dolphin ecotypes through spatial analysis and genetics
Best Student MSc Oral Presentation
14th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals
Vancouver Aquarium Marine Science Centre,
November 28 - December 3, 2002.

Leigh Torres
Linking spatial analysis and genetics to examine distribution of bottlenose dolphin ecotypes in the NW Atlantic: A step towards better management
Best Student MSc Oral Presentation
8th Annual Southeast and Mid-Atlantic Marine Mammal Symposium
Duke University Marine Laboratory, March 30 - April 01, 2001.

Heather Koopman
The influence of phylogeny, thermal regime and body size on the structure of blubber in odontocetes.
Shedd Award for Best Overall Student Presentation
13th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals,
Maui, Hawaii, November 28 - December 3, 1999.


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