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


Yikes! I can see the Galapagos...!

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


Comon...quit joking...there are marine mammals out here right?

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


go ahead...make my day...

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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