Current Projects

Current Staff Projects

Food habit studies of stranded dolphins and sea turtles.

Cause of mortality in offshore cetaceans stranded near Sarasota County.

Dolphin/stingray interactions in Sarasota Bay.

Cholestyramine treatment for brevitoxicosis in sea turtles and sea birds.

Rate of epiphyseal plate fusion of known-aged Sarasota Bay dolphins.

Social science surveys of angler opinions and attitudes towards sea turtles at Venice Municipal Fishing Pier.

Identifying vessel-strike prone areas for sea turtles along Sarasota's inshore coastline: a spatial and temporal analysis.

Graduate Student Research Support

James Powell (Portland State-PhD): Bone mineral density of the bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus: a model for assessing dolphin and ecosystem health.

Krystan Wilkinson (UF-MS): An analysis of shark bite scars on the Sarasota Bay resident bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) community and its implications for home range selection.

Mackenzie Russel (UNCW-MS): Skeletal Fractures Resulting From Blunt Force Trauma In Bottlenose Dolphins, Tursiops truncatus.