Biology and Marine Biology Condensed Graduate Student Annual Report
2013-2014 Academic Year
Presentations at scientific meetings:
Sue Barco
Barco, S., Burt, L., Lockhart, G., D'Eri, L., DiGiovanni, R. Jr., DePerte, A., Boettcher, R. and M.
Swingle. Abundance estimates for sea turtle in Chesapeake Bay and offshore waters of
Virginia and Maryland. International Sea Turtle Symposium. April 2014.
Phillips, K., Lynott, M., Barco, S., Fauquier, D., Rotstein, D., DiGiovanni, R., Garron, M., and T.
Goldstein. Bring out your dead: Looking at Virginia’s 5-year average stranding trends in
relation to the 2013 mid-Atlantic Tursiops UME. Southeast and Mid-Atlantic Marine
Mammal Symposium. March 2014.
Mallette. S., Lockhart, G., Bort, J., Rabon, A., Pabst, D., McAlarney, R., Cummings,
E., McLellan, W. and S. Barco. A review of three years of large whale survey effort off
the coast of Virginia utilizing multiple research platforms. Southeast and Mid-Atlantic
Marine Mammal Symposium. March 2014.
Molly Gabler
Gabler, M.K., Gay, M. and Koopman, H.N. Microvascularization of the extra and intra
mandibular acoustic fat bodies in odontocetes. South-East Annual Marine Mammal
Society, March, 2014.
Gabler, M.K., Coughlin, D.J. and Fish, F.E. Pectoral fin muscular architecture in relation to
ecological lifestyle. Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, January, 2014.
Nathan Gavin
Gavin, N. and Durako, M. Population-based variation in hyposalinity resilience for the
threatened seagrass Halophila johnsonii Eiseman. Coastal and Estuarine Research
Federation, November, 2013.
Gavin, N. and Durako, M. Diurnal Variations in Photosynthesis of Co-occurring Thalassia
testudinum and Halophila johnsonii. Southeastern Phycological Colluquy, September,
2013.