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of the copepod, Calanus finmarchicus from the Bay of Fundy, Canada. 2009 SEAMAMMS

meeting (Southeast and Mid-Atlantic Marine Mammal Symposium), Wilmington, North

Carolina, April 3-5, 2009.

2007 Swaim, Z. T., Westgate, A. J., Koopman, H. N., Rolland, R. M., and Kraus, S. D. A wax

ester digester? Comparing the lipid content and composition of right whale fecal material to

those of their copepod prey. North Atlantic Right Whale Consortium Annual Meeting, New

Bedford, MA.

2007 Swaim, Z. T., Westgate, A. J., Koopman, H.N., Rolland, R., Kraus, S. Waxing poetic:

comparing the lipid content and composition of right whale fecal material to those of their

copepod prey. Southeast and Mid-Atlantic Marine Mammal Symposium, Beaufort, NC.

Awarded Best Oral Presentation by an M.Sc. Student.

Scientific Funding

2012 Nitrogen solubility in adipose tissues of diving animals: implications for human divers and

for modeling diving physiology. $446,553. PIs: Koopman , H.N. and Westgate, A.J.

2012 Documenting migration patterns and abundance of Canadian Maritime basking sharks

(Cetorhinus maximus). PI AJ Westgate. Canadian Wildlife Federation. $19,500

2011 Critical habitat and migration patterns of Canadian Maritime basking sharks. Royal

Caribbean Ocean Fund. $38,875. PIs: Koopman, H. N., Westgate, A. J., Wong, S. N., and

Ronconi, R. A.

2010 Linking variation in egg quality to hatching success and larval survival in blue crabs. PI:

Koopman, H.N. CoPI: Posey, M., Alphin, T., Westgate, A. Funded by North Carolina Sea

Grant (two years for $18,355).

2010 Risk assessment, critical habitat and migration patterns of Canadian Maritime basking

sharks (Cetorhinus maximus). PI: A. J. Westgate. Funded by the Canadian Wildlife

Federation for $16,700.

2010 Monitoring the migration patterns of Bay of Fundy basking sharks. PI: A. J. Westgate. New

Brunswick Wildlife Trust Fund. Funded in the amount of $5,400.

2008 Development of an archival data logger tag for basking sharks. Westgate, A.J. PADI

Foundation. $4,000. June 2008-Jan 2009.

2008 Navigating to the most remote place on Earth: marine habitat use, migration patterns, and

seasonally variable niche partitioning of Atlantic shearwaters. Westgate, A.J., Ronconi,

R.A. National Geographic Society. $21,000 from Jan. 2008 to Jan 2010.

Graduate Student Committee Member*

*as a Research Professor, I am not eligible to be the Chair [official supervisor] of graduate student

committees, however I have been heavily involved in managing the projects and theses of Swaim,

McKinstry, McClelland, Siders, Lonati, and Gabler

Lisa Hollensend UNCW Ph.D

Molly Gabler UNCW Ph.D

Gina Lonati, UNCW, M. Sc.

Zach Siders, UNCW, M.Sc.

Sarah McClelland, UNCW, M.Sc.

Zachary Swaim, UNCW, M.Sc.

Caitlin McKinstry, UNCW, M.Sc.

James Casey, UNCW, M.Sc.

Jessica Snoddy, UNCW, M.Sc.

Brian Balmer, UNCW, Ph.D.