Emslie Lab

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