Graduate Students (M.S. and Ph.D. degrees):

Terri Maness (1997-2000):           Effect of Genotoxins on Royal Terns (M.S. completed spring 2000)
                                                           
Ellen Wambach (1998-2000):       Foraging Ecology of Royal Terns (M.S. completed fall 2000)

Tom McGinnis (1999-2000):         Foraging Ecology of Royal and Sandwich Terns (M.S. completed fall 2000)                                                         

Jenny McDaniel (1999-2001):      Adélie Penguin diet and climate change in Antarctica (M.S. completed fall    
                                                            2001)                                                       

Jason Minton (2000-2002):           Habitat relationships of cranes in northeast Asia (M.S. completed spring
                                                            2002)                                                          

Carlos Zavalaga (2001- 2008):    The Blue-footed booby as an indicator of anchovy availability in the northern
                                                             coast of Peru (M.S. completed fall  2003)
                                                            
                                                          Diving behavior and at-sea movements of three species of boobies
                                                             (Sula spp.) in relation to sex and body size (Ph.D. completed
                                                             December 2008)

Deniz Aygen (2003-2005):            Royal Tern chick diet and growth as indicators of forage fish stocks in the
                                                              Chesapeake Bay (M.S. completed spring 2005)                                                            

Ed Cavallerano (2003-2005):       Temporal dietary fluctuations in Adélie Penguin populations using stable isotope
                                                               analysis (M.S. completed spring 2005)                                                             

Marcela Liljesthrom (2003-2005):   Avian predation at a Southern Rockhopper Penguin colony on Staten Island,
                                                              Argentina (M.S. completed December 2005)

Adriane Michaelis (2006- ):            Winter ecology of Nelson's (Ammodramus nelsoni) and Saltmarsh
                                                             (A. caudacutus) Sharp-tailed Sparrows in southeastern North Carolina

*Michael Polito (2006- ):                   Ecological segregation among brush tail penguins (Pygoscelis spp.) in the
                                                              Antarctic Peninsula region as inferred from stable isotopes (M.S. transition 
                                                              to Ph.D., fall 2008)

 Virginia Winder (2008- ):                Mercury contamination in wintering populations of Nelson's (Ammodramus nelsoni)
                                                              and Saltmarsh (A. caudacutus) Sharp-tailed Sparrows in North Carolina

*continuing studies at UNCW with Dr. Emslie in the Ph.D. program in Marine Biology