American Cetacean Society
9th International Conference - Learning from Whales
Education - Inspiration - Action ! -- November 12-14, 2004 - Long Beach, California
ACS 2004 Conference Poster Contest
Thank You to our Poster Presenters.
The poster presentation event included a student poster contest open to undergraduate, masters, or Ph.D students. Potential entrants were required to submit a clear and concise abstract, 300 words or less, dealing with cetacean research, conservation or education.
The winners of the 2004 student poster contest were:
- FIRST PLACE: Weiss, Jessica and Andrew J. Read, & Randall S. Wells: Foraging Ecology and Maternal Transmission of
Foraging Specializations in Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) View Abstract
- SECOND PLACE: Kearney, Julianne: Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) Site Fidelity on Jeffreys Ledge: Biological and Physical Influences View Abstract
- THIRD PLACE: Cartwright, Rachel & Matthew Sullivan: Habitat Preferences in Humpback Whale Mother
and Calf Pairs in Nursery Waters. View Abstract
Additional (both student, and professional) poster presentations were:
- Ballenas, Vanessa: Effect of Surface Temperature on Marine Mammals on Jeffreys Ledge, Gulf of Maine. View Abstract
- Hanser, Sean, and Fred Sharpe, Laurance Doyle, Pieter Folkens, & Brenda McCowan: Feeding Calls
and Social Foraging of Humpback Whales (Megaptera novaeagliae) in Chatham Strait and
Frederick Sound, Southeast Alaska View Abstract
- Kelly, Dennis L.: The Night Watch Project View Abstract
- Lin, Ya-Jung and Lien-Siang Chou, & Ming-Hua Lee: Whale Watching in Taiwan View Abstract
- Louton, Rachael: Effect of Lunar Cycles on Sightings and Behavior of Whales on Jeffreys Ledge, Gulf of Maine, 1996-2003 View Abstract
- Lueck, Ph.D. Michael: Tourists Learning About Flipper and Friends - But is That All They Want to Know? View Abstract
- Sanford, Sara E. and Monika Wieland, Loryn D. Ohlaug, & Robert E. Otis: Breaching in Southern Resident Killer Whales: Relationships With Boats, Tidal Direction, and Spread-Out View Abstract
- Sassu, Roberta & Bruno Cozzi: The Role of the Corpus Cavernosum: An Erectile-Muco Secernent
Tissue Inside the Odontocete (Stenella coeruleoalba) Middle Ear. View Abstract
- Schulte, Dianna W. & Jennifer L. Kennedy: Recurrence of Finback and Humpback Whales on
Jeffreys Ledge, Gulf of Maine, 1996-2003 View Abstract
- Weinrich, Mason & Katherine Sardi: Surveys for North Atlantic Right Whales on Jeffreys Ledge -
Evidence of an Important Fall Habitat View Abstract
- Wieland, Monika & Robert E. Otis: J-Pod and the S4 Vocalization: Relationships to Tidal
Directions, Surface Percussives, Number of Boats, and Spreadout Time View Abstract
|
