NICHOLAS SCHOOL FACULTY division of Marine Science & Conservation

Curriculum Vitae

Douglas P. Nowacek

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Duke University Marine Lab
135 Duke Marine Lab Rd
Beaufort, NC 28516

252-504-7566 (office)

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Education

PhD	Joint Program: Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution	1999
BA	Ohio Wesleyan University	1991

Areas of Research: Marine mammals, technology development, bioacoustics, behavioral ecology, foraging ecology.

Recent Grant Support

Updating, Testing and Verification of Dolphin Real-time Detection Unit, Tetra Tech, Inc., NAFAC-PO 1074560, 2011/08-2012/08.
HDR - Hatteras, HDR Engineering, Inc., 2010/11-2012/04.
HDR - Hatteras, HDR Engineering, Inc., 2010/09-2012/04.
Investigating the Foraging Behaviour of Fin Whales Foraging in an Island Wake, National Geographic Society, 8242-07, 2011/03-2012/02.
Collaborative Research: The ecological role of a poorly studied Antarctic krill predator: the humpback whale/Megaptera novaeangliae, National Science Foundation, ANT-0739483-002, 2008/09-2011/08.
Behavioral Ecology, Prey Fields and Reactions to Sound of Cetaceans off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, A100715, 2010/05-2011/04.
DUML iRobot Research Collaboration, iRobot Corporation, 2010/01-2010/12.
Real-Time Acoustic Monitoring of Bottlenose Dolphins in and around the Brant Island Shoal Bombing Target (BT-9) and the Piney Island Bombing Range (BT-11), MCAS Cherry Point Environmental Affairs, N40085-06-C-4360, 2006/07-2010/09.
Collaborative Research: The ecological role of a poorly studied Antarctic krill predator: the humpback whale/Megaptera novaeangliae, National Science Foundation, ANT-0739483, 2008/09-2010/08.
Prey Fields and habitats of deep diving odontocetes: 3D characterization and modeling of beaked and sperm whale foraging areas in the Tongue of the Ocean, Office of Naval Research, N00014-08-1-1162, 2008/09-2010/08.
Prey Fields and habitats of deep diving odontocetes: 3D characterization and modeling of beaked and sperm whale foraging areas in the Tongue of the Ocean, Office of Naval Research, N00014-08-1-1162-02, 2008/09-2010/08.
Prey Fields and habitats of deep diving odontocetes: 3D characterization and modeling of beaked and sperm whale foraging areas in the Tongue of the Ocean, Office of Naval Research, N00014-08-1-1162, 2008/09-2010/08.
Beaked and Sperm Whale Foraging Ecology and Habitat Characterization Acoustic Localization, Tagging and Tracking of Whales, Prey Field Mapping and Spatial Modeling, Florida State University, R01019, 2008/09-2010/07.
Use of multi-frequency acoustics to study cetacean foraging ecology, Office of Naval Research, N00014-08-1-1222, 2008/08-2010/07.
Construction of Deep Towed Body for Echosounder Deployment, Florida State University, R01062, 2008/09-2009/12.
A review of literature to estimate PCAD related transfer functions, Florida State University, 2008/12-2009/08.
Beaked and Sperm Whale Foraging Ecology and Habitat Characterization Acoustic Localization, Tagging and Tracking of Whales, Prey Field Mapping and Spatial Modeling, Florida State University, R01019, 2008/09-2009/08.

Professional Service

DUS: Marine Science and Conservation, 2011 - present; Marine Science and Conservation, 2011 - present

Mentoring: Mentoring, July 01, 2008 - present

Other Review or Advisory Panel: Chair of Membership Committee, Society for Marine Mammalogy, 2006- present; Cetacean Specialist Group, International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), 2010 - present; Acoustical Society of America, Animal Bioacoustics Committee, 2010 - present; Western Gray Whale Advisory Panel, International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), 2008 - present; Atlantic Scientific Review Panel, 2008 - present

Editorial Board: Associate Editor, Marine Mammal Science, 2008 - present; Invited Guest Editor, Marine Ecology Progress Series, January 1, 2008 - present

Community Service: Board of Directors, Tiller Charter School, 2010 - present; Environmental Education, January 2010

Other: Chair, North Atlantic Right Whale Consortium, December 15, 2010 - December 15, 2013

School: Chair, Education Committee, 2011 - present; Chair, NSE Education Committee, 2011 - present; Faculty Council, 2010 - 2011; Duke Chair, Duke-WHOI Fellowship Program, January 1, 2010 - present; Curriculum review committee, Chair, Marine Laboratory, October 15, 2010 - February 1, 2011

Selected Recent Invited Talks: Prey mapping and efforts to integrate foraging ecology in AUTEC and SOCAL and overlap with ongoing Hatteras BRS work, Tampa, FL, November, 2011; Krill super aggregations in the embayments of western Antarctic Peninsula, Proceedings from the 2010 AGU Ocean Sciences Meeting, February, 2010; Echolocation and Acoustic Ecology of Cetaceans, University of North Carolina, Wilmington, November 18, 2008

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Last modified: 2012/01/17

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Curriculum Vitae

Douglas P. Nowacek