The two Master’s students in the Read Lab, Dani Crain and Katie Sweeney, recently presented the results from their completed Master’s Project (MP) research at the Marine Lab. They will be graduating in Durham this weekend with a Master of Environmental Management (MEM) Degree. The abstracts from their MPs are […]
Yearly Archives: 2012
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Three graduate students in the Read Lab have recently received grants and fellowships. Joy Stanistreet received a prestigious National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship. This fellowship will support Joy for three years by covering her Ph.D. tuition and stipend. Two graduate students received Animal Behavior Society Grants: Kenady Wilson received […]
Read Lab Ph.D. student Wendy Dow Piniak is currently in Puerto Rico teaching DUML’s Biology and Conservation of Sea Turtles class. You can follow their adventures here: http://blogs.nicholas.duke.edu/seaturtleecology/
Wendy has been awarded a prestigious, university-wide Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. These awards are presented each year to graduate students who demonstrate best practices in undergraduate teaching. Graduate students are honored for creating learning environments that inspire and challenge their students to actively engage in the classroom experience. […]
January was an exceptional month for the AFAST (Atlantic Fleet Active Sonar Training) marine mammal and sea turtle survey team. In collaboration with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s Whale Acoustic lab, The University of North Carolina Wilmington, and the University of St. Andrews, our Duke team is responsible for vessel-based […]
Andy and eleven students in the Coastal Environmental Management Masters program are spending 10 days on Midway Atoll learning first-hand about the challenges of managing resources in the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. Check out the course blog to learn about our work with monk seals, green […]
In January, Andy joined colleagues from around the world to address the plight of Irrawaddy River dolphins (Orcaella breviorstris) in the Mekong River during a workshop in Kratie, Cambodia. Only 85 animals remain in this critically endangered population, threatened by by-catch in gill nets and an unknown source of mortality […]