SEMINAR: Seminar: Dr. Tristan Guttridge, Tuesday Oct 9, at 12:00 pm, SLAB Seminar Room S/A 103

[Neil Hammerschlag <nhammerschlag@rsmas.miami.edu>]

RJ Dunlap Marine Conservation Program Presents:

Tristan Guttridge, Ph.D.

Director, Bimini Biological Field Station Foundation

 

Group living in sharks:

mechanisms, functions, analyses and conservation implications

 

Tuesday, October 9, 2012

12noon

  RSMAS campus, S/A 103

 

Dr. Tristan Guttridge is a Behavioral Marine Ecologist specializing in group living of elasmobranch fishes. He hails from Cambridgeshire in the UK and completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Leeds in Zoology (2001-2004).  He began his doctoral research at Leeds in 2006 and conducted his three-year field project at the Bimini Biological Field Station Foundation, Bahamas (2006-2009), studying social organization and behavior of juvenile lemon sharks. Dr. Guttridge completed recent post-doctoral research at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia (2011) on learning and memory in the Port Jackson shark. Currently Dr. Guttridge works closely with Emeritus Professor Samuel Gruber and presently holds the position of director at the Bimini Biological Field Station Foundation and is research associate in the Biology Faculty at Cardiff University, UK. Tristan's research focuses on functions and mechanisms of group formation in sharks using network theory and recently developed proximity receivers.  He is also examining the role that learning plays in behavioral processes.