The University of Southern Mississippi |
AA/EOE/ADAI |
Please address comments or questions to: Dr. Stan Kuczaj |
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Dr. Stan Kuczaj
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B.A. University of Texas Ph.D. University of Minnesota Research interests: comparative cognition, marine mammal behavior and cognition, play |
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Graduate Students:
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Natalia Botero Acosta
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B. S. Universidad de Antioquia. Medellín, Colombia. |
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Research interests: Behavioral ecology and social structure of marine mammals, female reproductive ecology, animal communication, social bounding and group formation/stability. The use of molecular and acoustic methods in combination with behavioral sampling for the elucidation of ecological aspects and for the improvement of conservation efforts |
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Beri Brown
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B.A. Boston University Research interests: environmental enrichment, marine mammal behavior, play, cognition and comparative cognition, conservation, and acoustics |
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Kelly Caffery
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B.S. Pennsylvania State University M.A. Sunny College at Buffalo Research interests: environmental enrichment, social play, tactile behavior, animal cognition |
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Pepper Hanna
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B.S. Loyola University
Research interests: marine mammal cognition and social behavior |
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Tina Horback
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B.A. University of California San Diego M.A. University of Southern Mississippi
Research interests: cognitive ethology, behavioral neuroscience, and gestural communication |
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Natalija Lace
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B.S. Riga Technical University M.A. University of Southern Mississippi Research interest: bioacoustics |
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Angela Mackey
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B.S. San Diego State University M.A. University of Southern Mississippi
Research interests: episodic memory, polar bear cognition, development of play in bottlenose dolphins |
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Shauna McBride
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B.A. Agnes Scott College Research interests: social behavior, behavioral ecology, and conservation |
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Shaun Perisho
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B.S. California State Polytechnic University
Research interests: acoustics, cetacean communication, biophysics |
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Christina Perazio
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B.S. University of New England |
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Research interests: cetacean acoustic communication, social structure, and conservation |
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Briana Seay
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B.A. Eckerd College
Research interests: animal cognition, cetacean culture, environmental enrichment, deception in animals |
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Courtney Smith
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B.S. Eckerd College
Research interests: behavioral ecology, population dynamics, conservation biology, social and vocal learning processes |
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