Ph.D. Graduates
Athena Rycyk![](https://sites.nicholas.duke.edu/nowacek/files/2011/02/Athena-150x150.jpg)
Dissertation Title: Manatee Behavioral Response to Approaching Boats
University Professor, Natural Sciences Collegium, Eckerd College
Email: rycykam@eckerd.edu
Rachel Wilson![](https://sites.nicholas.duke.edu/nowacek/files/2011/02/Wilson-RM-150x150.jpg)
Dissertation Title: Using Chemical Tracers to Evaluate Feeding Habits in Coastal Marine Ecosystems: Stable Isotopes and Organic Contaminants
Research Associate, EOAS Oceanography, Florida State University
Email: rachelmywilson@gmail.com
Anna McGregor (Nousek)![](https://sites.nicholas.duke.edu/nowacek/files/2011/02/anna-150x150.jpg)
Dissertation Title: The Cost of Locomotion in North Atlantic Right Whales Eubalaena glacialis
University Teacher, School of Life Sciences, University of Glascow
Email: Anna.Mcgregor@glasgow.ac.uk
Reny Tyson![Reny Tyson](https://sites.nicholas.duke.edu/nowacek/files/2011/04/TysonR-150x150.jpg)
Dissertation Title: Fine-Scale Foraging Ecology of Humpback Whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) in the Near-Shore Waters of the Western Antarctic Peninsula
Staff Scientist, Chicago Zoological Society’s Sarasota Dolphin Research Program, Sarasota FL
Email: reny.tyson@duke.edu
Goldie Phillips![](https://sites.nicholas.duke.edu/nowacek/files/2011/02/PhillipsG-150x150.jpg)
Dissertation Title: Passive Acoustics: A Multifaceted Tool for Marine Mammal Conservation
Email: goldie.phillips@duke.edu
Matthew Bowers![](https://sites.nicholas.duke.edu/nowacek/files/2011/02/Bowers_profile-150x150.png)
Dissertation Title: Behavioral Ecology of the Western Atlantic Short-finned Pilot Whale (Globicephala macrofhynchus)
Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Oregon State University
Joy Stanistreet![](https://sites.nicholas.duke.edu/nowacek/files/2011/02/joystanistreet1-150x150.jpg)
Dissertation Title: Ecology of Beaked Whales and Sperm Whales in the Western North Atlantic Ocean: Insights from Passive Acoustic Monitoring
Email: joy.stanistreet@duke.edu
Ashley Blawas
Dissertation Title:
Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University
Jillian Wisse
Dissertation Title:
Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Duke University
Amanda Lohmann
![](https://sites.nicholas.duke.edu/nowacek/files/2020/06/P1170172-300x200.jpg)
Amanda sails along the western Antarctica peninsula.
Dissertation Title:
Postdoctoral Research Scientist,