178Thayer, V., McLellan, W., Pabst, D., Potter, C., Barco, S., Lovewell, G., McFee, W., Piscitelli, M., Bogardus, M.,
Clark, K., Byrd, B., Rittmaster, K., Harms, C., and A. Hohn, A. North Carolina delphinid strandings diversity
from 1992-2009. Southeast and Mid-Atlantic Marine Mammal Symposium, 26-28 March 2010.
2009
Bagge, L.E., McLellan, W.A., Koopman, H.N., McAlarney, R.J., Nilsson, P.B., Blum, J.E., Pabst, D.A. Thermal
properties of the blubber of adult female short-finned pilot whales (Globicephala macrorhynchus). 18th Biennial
Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals. Quebec City, Canada. October 12-16, 2009.
Bagge, L.E., McLellan, W.A., Koopman, H.N., McAlarney, R.J., Nilsson, P.B., Blum, J.E., and D.A Pabst. Thermal
properties of the blubber of adult female short-finned pilot whales (Globicephala macrorhynchus). SEAMAMMS,
UNCW, April 3-5, 2009.
Bagge, L.E., McLellan, W.A., Koopman, H.N., McAlarney, R.J., Nilsson, P.B., Blum, J.E., and D.A Pabst. Thermal
properties of the blubber of adult female short-finned pilot whales (Globicephala macrorhynchus). Darwin’s Legacy
Meeting, UNCW, March 19-21, 2009.
Costidis, A. M., Piscitelli, M.A. Rommel, S.A., Harms, C. A., McLellan, W.A., Rotstein, D.S., and D.A. Pabst.
Elaborate venous structures in the thorax of Kogiids, Physeteriids and Ziphiids. 18th Biennial Conference on the
Biology of Marine Mammals. Quebec City, Canada. October 12-16, 2009.
McAlarney, R.J., Johnston, J., McLellan, W.A., Nilsson, P.B., Pabst, D.A., Read, A.J., Urian, K., Waples, D. and L.
Williams. Aerial and Vessel-based Monitoring of the proposed Undersea Warfare Training Range site alternative in
Onslow Bay, NC. SEAMAMMS, UNCW, April 3-5, 2009.
Nilsson P.B., McAlarney R.J., Johnston D.J., McLellan W.A., Urian K.W., Waples D., Laura A., Dunn .J, Pabst
D.A., and A.J. Read. Aerial and vessel surveys of the Undersea Warfare Training Range site alternative in Onslow
Bay, NC, USA. 18th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals. Quebec City, Canada. October 12-
16, 2009.
Pabst, D.A., Taylor, C., Zani, M., Glass, A., Knowlton, A., Khan, C., McAlarney, R.J. and W.A. McLellan. Atlantic
right whale (Eubalaena glacialis) sightings in the US mid-Atlantic and southeast Atlantic Bight (Virginia through
South Carolina) from 2001-2008. 18th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals. Quebec City,
Canada. October 12-16, 2009.
Piscitelli, M.A, McLellan, W.A., Rommel, S.A., Blum, J.E., Barco, S.G., and D.A. Pabst. Do deep diving cetaceans
have small lungs? 18th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals. Quebec City, Canada. October 12-
16, 2009.
Piscitelli, M.A., McLellan, W.A. Rommel, S.A., Blum, J.E., Barco, S.G., Pabst, D.A. Lung size in shallow
(Tursiops truncatus) and deep (Kogia spp.) diving cetaceans. Southeast Region Marine Mammal Stranding
Network Biennial Conference, September 2-5, 2009, St. Augustine, FL.
Piscitelli, M.A., McLellan, W.A., Rommel, S.A. and D. A. Pabst. Comparing lung size in shallow (Tursiops
truncatus) and deep diving (Kogia breviceps) cetaceans. SEAMAMMS, UNCW, April 3-5, 2009. (Best MS
student Oral Presentation Award)
Piscitelli, M.A., McLellan, W.A., Rommel, S.A. and D. A. Pabst. Comparing lung size in shallow (Tursiops
truncatus) and deep diving (Kogia breviceps) cetaceans. Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, Boston,
MA, January 3-7, 2009.
Rommel, S.A., Costidis, A.M., McLellan, W.A., Cranford, T.W., and D.A. Pabst. Vascular structures associated
with the air sacs and fatty bodies in the ventral head of Tursiops truncatus, Kogia spp., and Ziphius cavirostris.
18 th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals. Quebec City, Canada. October 12-16, 2009.
2008
Piscitelli, M.A., McLellan, W.A., Rommel, S.A. and D. A. Pabst. A plan to compare thoracic morphology in a
shallow (Tursiops truncatus) and deep diving (Kogia breviceps) cetacean. SEAMAMMS, Charleston, SC, March
28 - 30, 2008. (Best MS student Poster Award)
Personius, C. , McLellan, W.A., Rommel, S.A., Lovewell, G., McFee, W. and D.A. Pabst. A morphometric analysis
of kogiids in the mid-Atlantic. SEAMAMMS, Charleston, SC, March 28-30, 2008. (Only undergraduate poster
presented at conference)
Rotstein, D., Pabst, D.A., McLellan,W.A., Bogomolni, A., Pugliares, K., Kania, S., Brahmbhatt, R. and F.
Townsend. Womb of Doom: Examples of uterovarian disease among small cetaceans and pinnipeds from the Gulf
of Mexico and eastern seaboard. SEAMAMMS, Charleston, SC, March 28-30, 2008.
Harms, C., Maggi, R. G., Breitschwerdt, E. B., Clemons-Chevis, C.L., Solangi, M., Fair, P.A., Hansen, L.J., Hohn,
A.A., Lovewell, G.G., McLellan, W.A., Pabst, D.A., Rowles, T.K., Schwacke, L.H., Townsend, F.I., and