Selected Grants
Cuvier's beaked whale integrated ecosystem study: Systematic use of novel eDNA methodology to characterize and compare beaked whale populations and their associated prey community across regions
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Kelp Marine Research · 2023 - 2027Atlantic Behavioral Response Study II 2024 - Continuously Active Sonar
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by HDR, Inc. · 2023 - 2026Defining the molecular physiologic impacts of stress on beaked whale hypoxia tolerance: implications for behavioral response
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 2022 - 2025Photo Identification Analysis Across the AFTT Area
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by HDR, Inc. · 2024 - 2025A novel methodology to assess small cetacean bycatch and characterize the tuna drift gillnet fleet in the Arabian Sea: A Pakistan Case Study
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by World Wildlife Fund · 2022 - 2025REU Site: Undergraduate Research in Estuarine and Coastal Marine Systems
ResearchSenior Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2021 - 2025Reducing marine mammal bycatch in Arabian Sea gillnetfisheries: A Pakistani case study
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Geographic Society · 2022 - 2025Determining the energetic cost of locomotion in pilot whales and killer whales
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 2020 - 2024Photo Identification Analysis Across the AFTT Area
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by HDR, Inc. · 2023 - 2024Vital rates of Cuvier's beaked whales: A multi-regional comparative assessment
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Marine Ecology and Telemetry Research · 2021 - 2024NARW SURVEYS (Task 2) + JACKSONVILLE SURVEYS (Task 3)
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by HDR, Inc. · 2021 - 2024Atlantic Behavioral Response Study
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by HDR, Inc. · 2021 - 2023Behavioral Response of Humpback Whales to Vessel Traffic
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by HDR, Inc. · 2021 - 2023A portable ultrasonic spirometer to enhance diagnostic capacity and studies on respiratory physiology of marine mammals in the field
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 2022 - 2023Photo Identification Analysis Across the AFTT Area
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by HDR, Inc. · 2021 - 2022Acoustic Startle Responses as Aversive Reactions and Hearing Indicators in Cetaceans
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by University of St. Andrews · 2016 - 2021Behavioral Response of Humpback Whales to Vessel Traffic
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by HDR, Inc. · 2020 - 2021Atlantic Behavioral Response Study
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by HDR, Inc. · 2020 - 2021Testing the applicability of sensory-based bycatch reduction technologies to reduce sea turtle bycatch in North Carolina coastal gillnet and pound net fisheries
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration · 2019 - 2021Photo Identification Analysis Across AFTT Study Area
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by HDR, Inc. · 2019 - 2020Atlantic Behavioral Response Study
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by HDR, Inc. · 2019 - 2020Developing move-on rules to mitigate odontocete depredation and bycatch in pelagic longline fisheries
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration · 2017 - 2020Behavioral reactions of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) to approaching ships in Virginia Beach, VA
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Geographic Society · 2019 - 2020Jacksonville Vessel Surveys and Marine Mammal Tagging - AFTT
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by HDR, Inc. · 2018 - 2020Behavioral Response of Humpback Whales to Vessel Traffic
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by HDR, Inc. · 2018 - 2020Continuing Monitoring of Protected Species for Atlantic Fleet Training and Testing - Aerial
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by HDR, Inc. · 2017 - 2019Aerial Survey Baseline Monitoring of Protected Species
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by HDR Engineering, Inc. · 2016 - 2019Pursuing Ecosystem-Based Management in the Southern Ocenas:
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Geographic Society · 2017 - 2019Atlantic Behavioral Response Study
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by HDR, Inc. · 2017 - 2018Deep Diving Odontocete Tagging off Cape Hatteras, NC
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by HDR Engineering, Inc. · 2016 - 2018Development of an Analytical Tool to Allow Fishermen to Reduce Bycatch of Short-Finned Pilot Whales in the Mid-Atlantic Bight
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Stony Brook University · 2015 - 2017LTER Palmer, Antartica (PAL): Land Shelf Ocean Connectivity, Ecosystem Resilience and Transformation
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by Oregon State University · 2014 - 2017Passive Acoustic Monitoring for Marine Protected Species for Atlantic Fleet Training and Testing (AFTT) - HARPs + MARUs
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by HDR Engineering, Inc. · 2016 - 2017Vessel Survey Baseline Monitoring - Atlantic Fleet Training and Testing (AFTT)
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by HDR Engineering, Inc. · 2015 - 2017Passive Acoustic Monitoring for Marine Protected Species for Atlantic Fleet Training and Testing (AFTT) - HARPs + MARUs
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by HDR Engineering, Inc. · 2015 - 2017Deep Diving Odontocete Tagging off Cape Hatteras, NC
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by HDR, Inc. · 2015 - 2016Technical Proposal for further Monitoring of Protected Species in Atlantic Fleet Training and Testing (AFTT) Sites
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by HDR Engineering, Inc. · 2015 - 2016Marine Protected Species Baseline Monitoring for Atlantic Fleet Training and Testing (AFTT)
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by HDR Engineering, Inc. · 2015 - 2016Hoike A Maka: Hawaiian monk seal crittercam project
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Marine Mammal Commission · 2013 - 2016Spatial Analysis of U.S. Fishing Activity in the Atlantic Ocean
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Pew Charitable Trusts · 2014 - 2016Delphinid Cetaceans: Quantifying Behavioral Ecology and Response to Predators Using a Multi-Species Approach
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Strategic Environmental Research & Development Program · 2011 - 2016A Field Test of Interactive Dolphin Dissuasion Devices in the North Carolina Pelagic Longline Fishery
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by NC Sea Grant · 2012 - 2016Marine Protected Species Baseline Monitoring for Atlantic Fleet Training and Testing (AFTT)
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by HDR Engineering, Inc. · 2014 - 2015A moored system for measuring the temporal variability of prey fields of deep diving predators off Cape Hatteras and response to Gulf Stream fronts
EquipmentCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 2013 - 2015Faculty for the Future
FellowshipPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Schlumberger Foundation · 2014 - 2015Marine Protected Species Baseline Monitoring for Atlantic Fleet Training and Testing (AFTT) - HARPS
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by HDR Engineering, Inc. · 2014 - 2015Deep Diving Odontocete Tagging off Cape Hatteras, NC
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by HDR Engineering, Inc. · 2014 - 2015NMFS Population Dynamics Sea Grant Graduate Fellowship - An assessment of pelagic predator populations
FellowshipPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by NC Sea Grant · 2012 - 2015Protecting Beaches and Turtles: An Economic and Ecological Analysis of Beach Nourishment on Sea Turtle Nesting
FellowshipPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by NC Sea Grant · 2014 - 2014Scope of Work for Occurrence, Distribution, & Density of Marine Mammals Near NSN FY12-14
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by HDR, Inc. · 2012 - 2014Stock Discrimination of Bottlenose Dolphins along the Outer Banks of North Carolina; Implications for the Risk of Entanglement in Coastal Gill Net Fisheries
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by NC Sea Grant · 2011 - 2013Quantifying the effects of human interactions on spinner dolphins in resting bays in Hawaii
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration · 2009 - 2013Prey Fields and habitats of deep diving odontocetes: 3D characterization and modeling of beaked and sperm whale foraging areas in the Tongue of the Ocean
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 2008 - 2012Developing the Next Generation Marine Mammal Information Center for Integrated Ocean Observing: OBIS-SEAMAP 2.0
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2007 - 2011Foraging behavior of pilot whales in the Cape Hatteras Special Research Area
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by NC Sea Grant · 2009 - 2011Foraging behavior of pilot whales in the Cape Hatteras Special Research Area
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Marine Fisheries Service · 2009 - 2010An uncertainty analysis to assess relative risk of marine mammal stocks to indirect effects of fishing
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Marine Mammal Commission · 2008 - 2010Use of multi-frequency acoustics to study cetacean foraging ecology
EquipmentCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 2008 - 2010A pilot study to test the efficacy of pingers as a deterrent to bottlenose dolphins in the Spanish mackerel gillnet fishery
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by NC Sea Grant · 2008 - 2010Estimating abundance of bottlenose dolphins in North Carolina
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by NC Sea Grant · 2006 - 2009Interactions Between Pilot Whales and the NC Pelagic Longline Fishery
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Marine Fisheries Service · 2008 - 2008Predictive Modeling of Right Whale Distribution off New England
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration · 2004 - 2008Behavior of Green Turtles in Shallow Water Gill Net Fishing Grounds
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by NC Sea Grant · 2005 - 2008Documenting Interactions between Pilot Whales and the Pelagic Longline Fishery
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by North Carolina State University · 2006 - 2007Monitoring By-catch in the North Carolina Stop Net Fishery
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Marine Fisheries Service · 2005 - 2007Hypoxia, Fish & Fisheries in the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration · 2003 - 2007Will Acoustic Deterrents Reduce Depredation by Bottlenose Dolphins in the Spanish Mackerel Gill Net Industry?
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by North Carolina State University · 2004 - 2006Habitat use of sea turtles in relation to fisheries interactions.
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by NC Sea Grant · 2002 - 2004Interactions between bottlenose dolphins and the spanish mackerel gill net fishery in NC
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by NC Sea Grant · 2003 - 2004Abundance of bottlenose dolphins along the Outer Banks, North Carolina.
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by NC Sea Grant · 2002 - 2003Chair of Small Cetaceans Sub-Committee
Public ServicePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration · 2003 - 2003Small Cetaceans Sub-committee of the Scientific Committee of the International Whaling Commission
ConferencePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Marine Fisheries Service · 2002 - 2003Will Acoustically Reflective Gillnets Reduce the Bycatch of Bottlenose Dolphins?
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by NC Sea Grant · 2002 - 2002Collection of tissue samples from harbour porpoises in the Bay of Fundy.
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Marine Fisheries Service · 2000 - 2002Life History of Common Dolphins in the Northwest Atlantic
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Marine Fisheries Service · 2000 - 2002Will Pingers Reduce the Bycatch of Bottlenose Doplhins in NC Gill Net Fisheries?
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by NC Sea Grant · 2001 - 2001Status of Dall's Porpoises in the North Pacific.
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration · 2001 - 2001Monitoring Harbor Porpoises in the Gulf of Maine Using Satellite Telemetry
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Marine Fisheries Service · 2000 - 2001Development of a Conservation Plan for the Atlantic Coastal Stock of Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Marine Fisheries Service · 1998 - 2001Liaison for Mid-Atlantic Observer Program
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration · 1999 - 2001Mark-recapture Survey of Bottlenose Dolphins in the Bays and Sounds of North Carolina
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Fos-Fish, Inc · 2000 - 2000Spatial and Temporal Variation in an Eutropic Coastal River: Impacts on Fish and Marine Mammals
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by Environmental Protection Agency · 1997 - 2000Respond to Marine Mammal Stranding Events from Bogue Banks to Northern North Carolina
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration · 1999 - 2000Mid-Atlantic Observer Program
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration · 1999 - 2000Examine the Reproduction, Calf Survival Rates and Association Patterns of Known Female Bottlenose Dolphins that Utilize the Beaufort Area 1999
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration · 1999 - 1999Vital Rates and Fisheries Interactions of Atlantic Migratory Stock Bottlenose Dolphins
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration · 1996 - 1999Examine the Reproduction, Calf Survival Rates and Association Patterns of Known Female Bottlenose Dolphins that Utilize the Beaufort Area.
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration · 1999 - 1999Interactions between Fisheries and Bottlenose Dolphin along the Coast of North Carolina
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration · 1998 - 1999Biological Modeling and SABRE Synthesis
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by NC Sea Grant · 1995 - 1999Characterizing Conditions Under Which Fisheries Interactions Occur
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration · 1996 - 1998Documenting Signs of Entanglement
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Marine Fisheries Service · 1997 - 1998Vital Rates and Fisheries Interactions of Atlantic Migratory Stock of Bottlenose Dolphins
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration · 1996 - 1997External Relationships
- U.S. Marine Mammal Commission
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