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Douglas P. Nowacek

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Duke Univ 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
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.      
Professional Service

Duke Chair, Duke-WHOI Fellowship Program, January 1, 2010 - present  
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  
Publications (listed separately)
Last modified: 2012/02/29