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Current Students:
Wendy Dow
Caroline Good
Catherine McClellan
Lesley Thorne
Lynne Williams
-- Read Lab
Graduates --

Dr. Leigh Torres (2007)
Dissertation Title:
Top Predator Distribution and Foraging Ecology in Florida Bay, Florida
Post-Doctoral Seabird Ecologist
National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA)
Wellington, New Zealand
email: l.torres@niwa.co.nz
Leigh's Bio and CV

Dr. Vicky Thayer (2007)
Dissertation Title:
Life History Parameters and Social Associations of Female Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) off North Carolina, USA
email: vgt@duke.edu
Vicky's Bio
Dr. Ari Friedlaender (2006)
Dissertation Title:
Spatial Ecology of Humpback and Minke Whales off the Western Antarctic Peninsula (pdf not available yet)
Post-Doctoral Research Associate
Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab
Duke University Marine Lab (through the NSF Office of Polar Programs)
email: asf7@duke.edu
Dr. Andrew Westgate (2005)
Dissertation Title:
Population structure and life history of short-beak common dolphins (Delphinus delphis) in the North Atlantic
(pdf not available yet)
Post-Doctoral Scientist
Mote Marine Lab, Sarasota, FL
and Adjunct Faculty, UNC Wilmington
email: westgate@duke.edu
Dr. Dave
Johnston (2004)
Dissertation Title:
Fine scale oceanographic features and foraging marine predators: The ecology and conservation of an island wake in the Bay of Fundy, Canada
(pdf)
Cetacean Biologist
Protected Species Division
NOAA Fisheries Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center
Honolulu, Hawaii
email:
dave.johnston@noaa.gov

Dr. Caterina
D'Agrosa (2004) Dissertation Title: The application of spatial analytical techniques toward the ocnservation of long-lived marine vertebrates: the pelagic longline fishery as a case study (pdf)
Postdoctoral Fellow
Arizona State University
email: Caterina.Dagrosa@asu.edu
website

Dr. Tara
Cox (2003) Dissertation Title:
Evaluation of strategies to reduce bycatch of harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) (pdf)
Assistant Professor
Department of Marine Science
Savannah State University
email: coxt@savstate.edu

Dr. Damon
Gannon (2003) Dissertation Title:
Behavioral ecology of an acoustically mediated predator-prey system: bottlenose dolphins and sciaenid fishes (pdf)
Staff Scientist
Mote Marine Laboratory
Sarasota, FL
email: damon@mote.org
 
Dr.
Heather Koopman (2001) Dissertation Title:
The structure and function of the blubber of odontocetes (pdf)
Assistant Professor
Biology Department
University of North Carolina at Wilmington
Wilmington , NC
koopmanh@uncw.edu
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