Ph.D. Graduates
Athena Rycyk
Dissertation Title: Manatee Behavioral Response to Approaching Boats
University Professor, Natural Sciences Collegium, Eckerd College
Email: rycykam@eckerd.edu
Rachel Wilson
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)
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
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
Dissertation Title: Passive Acoustics: A Multifaceted Tool for Marine Mammal Conservation
Email: goldie.phillips@duke.edu
Matthew Bowers
Dissertation Title: Behavioral Ecology of the Western Atlantic Short-finned Pilot Whale (Globicephala macrofhynchus)
Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Oregon State University
Joy Stanistreet
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
Amanda sails along the western Antarctica peninsula.
Dissertation Title:
Postdoctoral Research Scientist,