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João Victor Silva do Valle Pereira, Honours student
2017-2018, Supervised undergraduate student Honours thesis: Assortivity of dolphins around foraging tactics Institution: Undergraduate course in Biological Sciences, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil Funding: PIBIC-UFSC Honours scholarship from CNPq (Brazil) Congrats on having the project selected! What is he up to? João is doing his honours project with the bottlenose dolphins of Laguna. His main goal is to estimate how much the frequency of engaging in the cooperative foraging behaviour with artisanal fishermen drives the association patterns among dolphins. He will use some tools from network theory to explore how this complex systems is organized. |
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Jack Peter Ford, international exchange student
2017-2018, Supervised undergraduate student Institution: Undergraduate in Zoology, Cardiff University, Wales, UK What is he up to? Jack is very interested in social systems, communication and learning in cetaceans and like to investigate the debate of cetacean culture. In Wales, he has spent a lot of time studying harbour porpoises as well as monitoring populations of bottlenose and common dolphins through photo-identification and ferry transects. Jack is spending his Professional Training Year (PTY) at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (Florianopolis, Brazil) to experience the exciting project on the Bottlenose dolphins that cooperatively forage with artesanal fishermen in Laguna. |
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Bianca Perez
2018, Supervised undergraduate student Institution: Undergraduate in Biological Sciences, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil What is she up to? Bianca has great interest in the area of sociobiology of cetaceans, as well as dedicating herself to education and environmental conservation. Starting her career in this area, she is developing her undergraduate research training with a project analyzing aspects of the cooperative behaviour of the Bottlenose dolphin population with artesanal fishermen in Laguna. |
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Estela Dibo Soares
2018-2020, Co-supervised graduate student Institution: Graduate Program in Coastal and Oceanic Systems, Centro de Estudos do Mar, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brazil Master's dissertation: Guiana dolphin (Sotalia guianensis) interactions within the port of Paranaguá What is she up to? Estela always liked the ocean and the animals that are living in that environment and she is interested in work with marine mammals, researching mainly behavior and ecology, in order to understand more about these animals and the environment where they live, analyzing the anthropic impacts for contribute to the preservation of these individuals and through this information contribute for the research too. Through her master degree in Centro de Estudos do Mar of UFPR, with the professor Camila Domit and the co-advisor Mauricio Cantor, she is having the opportunity that she always dreamed. |
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Alexandre Marcel da Silva Machado, MSc candidate
2016-208, Co-supervised graduate student (Supervisor: Prof. Fabio Daura-Jorge) Master's dissertation: Individual traits affect the society of bottlenose dolphins that forages cooperatively with artisanal fishermen Institution: Graduate Programme in Ecology, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, UFSC, Brazil Funding: CAPES M.Sc. scholarship (Brazil) and small grants by the Society for Marine Mammalogy (USA) and the Animal Behaviour Society (USA). Congrats on getting these! What is he up to? Alê has just earned his Master's degree in Ecology studying the bottlenose dolphin population of dolphins that forage with artisanal fishermen. Laguna’s bottlenose dolphin population is structured into distinct social modules of dolphins that interact or not wth fishermen. His main goal was to tease apart the contributions of biological, ecological and behavioral traits of the individuals in shaping the society into these modules, which can lend support for the hypothesis that social learning of this cooperative foraging tactic may be the primary mechanism underpinning this modular social structure. More info: Twitter, ResearchGate |
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Luiza Beirão-Campos, MSc
2013-2015, Co-supervised graduate student (Supervisor: Prof. Paulo C. Simões-Lopes) Master's dissertation: Do space use influence social relationships of Guiana dolphins? Institution: Graduate Programme in Ecology, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, UFSC, Brazil Funding: CAPES M.Sc. scholarship (Brazil) Publications:
What is she up to? Luiza has a bachelor's degree in Biology and a Master's in Ecology, during which she studied the social structure of the Guiana Dolphins. She worked as a cetacean researcher at the Instituto Boto Cinza, and other marine conservation NGOs in Brazil. Nowadays Luiza is a marine scientist at Oceana. More info: ResearchGate Wilfried Beslin, MSc candidate
2013, volunteer research assistant during the project "Galápagos sperm whales" Institution: Dalhousie University, Canada Activities: Wilfried was one of the brave and hard working volunteers who helped me identify thousands of sperm whale codas from our expeditions off the Galápagos Islands in 2013 and 2014. We spent several hours listening to the whales and marking their social sounds, which later on were found to be from different vocal clans than we expected in the area. What is he up to? Wilfried is finishing up his Master's thesis on bioacoustics of sperm whales, in which he is developing his own programs to automatically count and measure sperm whales from their echolocation clicks using only one hydrophone. Wilfried works under the supervision of Dr. Hal Whitehead at Dalhousie University, and in collaboration with Dr. Shane Gero who leads the Dominica Sperm Whale Project. You can reach him by email. |
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Brooke Santiago, High school student
2015-2017, Mentored high school student Research project 1: Correlating different sized sperm whale groups to their amount of coda production Research Project 2: Characterizing Sequences of Codas Produced by Sperm Whales from Different Clans Institution: East Hampton High School, New York, US What is she up to? Brooke is a very keen high school student who has helping us to analyze coda production by sperm whales off Galápagos during our 2013-14 expeditions. My colleague Ana Eguiguren and I have been mentoring her while she carries out her own research projects on sperm whale bioacoustics. Recently, her project won a High Honours Award at the Long Island Science Congress competition!! |
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Undergraduate research training
Josh Madin, Elizabeth Hurley, Madison Evans, Hujo Arriojas 2014-2016, Mentored undergraduate students on the research project of Sperm whales off the Galápagos Institution: Dalhousie University, Canada |
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