Thorne Lab Happenings
Congrats to newly-minted MS, Julia Donaton!
Congratulations to Julia Donaton, who successfully defended her Master’s thesis, “Diet analysis of loggerhead sea turtle diet in New York waters”, on November 6! Julia’s presentation discussed her findings on changes to loggerhead diet over a 25-year period, and how...
read moreLesley and SoMAS professor Hyemi Kim receive NSF CAREER awards
Lesley and Hyemi Kim, an atmospheric scientist also at SoMAS, were both recently awarded prestigious NSF CAREER awards for their research: https://www.somas.stonybrook.edu/2017/11/10/two-somas-faculty-recipients-of-nsf-career-awards/
read moreMatt Fuirst presents at the Nantucket Biodiversity Initiative Conference
Matt presented preliminary data from his M.S. thesis on herring gull foraging ecology at the 6th Biannual Nantucket Biodiversity Initiative (NBI) Conference on Nantucket, Massachussets on November 4. The NBI conference brings together biologists and naturalists...
read morePress release for our collaborative work generating seasonal predictions of fish and marine mammal distributions
The Thorne Lab is starting a collaborative project with Janet Nye and Hyemi Kim's labs using climate models to generate seasonal predictions of fish and marine mammals. Check out the SBU press release about this work here:...
read moreThorne Lab at Biennial Society for Marine Mammalogy Conference
Lesley, Julia S, and Stephanie represented the Thorne Lab at the 22nd Biennial Conference of the Society for Marine Mammalogy in Halifax, Nova Scotia from October 22-27th. Lesley and Julia both presented work focused on pilot whale bycatch in the pelagic longline...
read moreTracking gulls along an urban gradient
This year I spent the months of April-July tagging herring gulls at several colonies for my M.S. thesis research. My fieldwork this season primarily involved capturing the gulls using noose carpets and deploying/recovering GPS tags to track foraging movements.
read moreJulia S. Defends Her Master’s Thesis!
Julia Stepanuk presented her M.S. research to her committee and the SoMAS community in May.
read moreMS Student Julia Stepanuk Heads to North Carolina to Tag Pilot Whales
Julia joined colleagues from Duke University and the Cascadia Research Collective in the field
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