PhD 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
MEM/CEM Graduates
Jaime Budzynkiewicz
Casey Dziuba
Lauren Latchford
Jordan Carduner
Kimberly Gordon
Jessica Richardson
Boyd Carnal
Jessica Bonamusa
Amy Wagner
Katherine Guttenplan
Avery Siciliano
Ellie Heywood
Nick Alcaraz
Brianna Elliott
Kayla Hartigan
Megan Nasgovitz