Scott A. Eckert

Ph.D. Students Supervised   

• Kelly Stewart   
  Duke University: “Establishment and Growth of a Sea Turtle Rookery: The Population Biology of the Leatherback in Florida”.
• Rhema K. Bjorkland   
  Duke University: “An Ecosystem-Based Assessment of Sea Turtle, Marine Mammal and Seabird Bycatch in the Wider Caribbean Region”.
• Shelayla Kelaz   
  Duke University: Title to be determined.
• Mike James   
  Dalhousie University: "Habitat use and movements of the leatherback sea turtle in Atlantic Canada".

Current Graduate Students   

• Anne-Marie Maraj   
  University of Central Florida: “A Comparison of the hatching success of the leatherback turtle (Dermochelys coriacea) with the loggerhead and green turtle on central and south Brevard County beach, Florida”.
• Michelle Seigle Coghill   
  University of San Diego "An Examination of Optimal Egg Size (OES) Theory in the Olive Ridley Sea Turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea)".
• Jon Nelson   
  University of San Diego "Local habitat distribution and utilization by whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) in Bahia de Los Angeles, Gaja California Norte, Mexico".

Other   

• Christina Hodge   
  MEM Student, Duke University: “Statistical sampling technique for estimating the population size of nesting".
• Cassandra Marichal   
  MEM Student, Duke University: "Manual de Educación Ambiental para las Tortugas Marinas: Pre-Escolar y Jardin de Ninos" [Environmental and Sea Turtle Education Curriculum for Cipara, Venezuela].
• Elizabeth Fetherston   
  MEM Student, Duke University: "Sustainability certification in community-based fisheries”.
• Erika Robbins   
  MEM Student, Duke University: "The Effects of Marine Protected Areas on Coastal Fish Populations".
• Kimberly Maison   
  MEM Student, Duke University: "Spatial distribution, hatching success and identification of impacts resulting".
• Jordan Gass   
  MEM Student, Duke University: "Understanding Leatherback Sea Turtle Entanglement in Trinidad's Coastal Gillnet ".
• Jennifer LaLiberte   
  MEM Student, Duke University: “State of the Parks Report: Natural Resource Assessment of Cumberland".
• Andrew DiMatteo   
  MEM Student, Duke University: “National Parks Conservation Association Natural Resource Assessment for Fort Pulaski National Monument".
• Danielle Buotantony   
  MEM Student, Duke University: in process.
• Jake Sobin   
  MEM Student, Duke University: in process.