The University of Southern Mississippi |
AA/EOE/ADAI |
Please address comments or questions to: Dr. Stan Kuczaj |
| Laboratory Director | ||
| Dr. Stan Kuczaj | B.A. University of Texas | s.kuczaj@usm.edu |
Ph.D. University of Minnesota |
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| Research Interests: Comparative cognition, marine mammal behavior and cognition, play. | ||
| Graduate Students | ||
| Kelly Caffery | B.S. Pennsylvania State University | kaceyu2@aol.com |
M.A. Sunny College at Buffalo |
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| Research Interests: Environmental enrichment, social play, tactile behavior, animal cognition. | ||
| Tina Horback | B.A. University of California San Diego | km.horback@gmail.com |
| Research Interests: Comparative cognition, gestural communication, tool use in cetaceans. | ||
| Rachel Kristiansen | B.S. Southhampton College of Long Island | rachel.krist@gmail.com |
M.A. University of Southern Mississippi |
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| Research Interests: Social interactions between Bottlenose and Tucuxi dolphins in Manzanillo, Costa Rica. | ||
| Natalija Lace | B.S. Riga Technical University | kodzaks@yahoo.com |
| Research Interests: Bioacoustics. | ||
| Angela Mackey | B.S. San Diego State University | angmack@gmail.com |
| Research Interests: Episodic memory, polar bear cognition, development of play in bottlenose dolphins. | ||
| Lauren Miller | B.S. Hillsdale College | lm.miller@usm.edu |
| Research Interests: Tactile behavior, reconciliation, object play, social behavior, match-to-sample tasks, novelty preference. | ||
| Shaun Perisho | B.S. California State Polytechnic University | sperisho@gmail.com |
| Research Interests: Acoustics, cetacean communication, biophysics. | ||
| Briana Seay | B.A. Eckerd College | Seay.Briana@gmail.com |
| Research Interests: Animal cognition, ceatcean culture, environmental enrichment, deception in animals. | ||
| Courtney Smith | B.S. Eckerd College | Smith.court.e@gmail.com |
| Research Interests: Behavioral ecology, conservation biology, comparative cognition, socioecology and acoustics. | ||
| Peter Sugarman | B.A. Rutgers University | petersu@msn.com |
M.S. Florida State University, M.S. Western Washington University |
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| Research Interests: Acoustic communication of dolphins, discrimination and categorization of dolphin whistles. | ||
| Christina Toms | B.A. University of Hawaii, Hilo | toms.christinan@gmail.com |
| Research Interests: Behavioral ecology, dolphin cognition, animal personality, population ecology, anthropogenic impacts. |