Mann Laboratory
Marine Sensory Biology
Students
Post-Doctoral Investigators
Eric Montie:
1)Effects of domoic acid on sea lion hippocampus.
2)Effects of anthropogenic chemicals and marine toxins on fish and dolphin hearing.
James Locascio (with E. Peebles): Goliath grouper spawning and advanced fish tag development.
Ph.D. Students
Peter Simard: DEVO project: Dolphin distributions on the West Florida Shelf
Carrie Wall: Mapping red grouper spawning sites using multi-beam sonar and passive acoustics
Christin Murphy: Hydrodynamic signal detection in marine animals
Danielle Greenhow: Measurement of echolocation beam patterns in freely swimming dolphins
Kathy Guindon (FWRI): Tarpon physiology
Joseph Gaspard (Mote Marine Laboratory and University of Florida--R. Reep major professor): Auditory and tactile sensitivity of the manatee.
M.S Students
Kelly Martin: Sea turtle hearing and using bioacoustic tags to record exposure of sea turtles to boats
Former Students
Marcus Lindeman (M.S. 2003) Mudskipper hearing
Sarah Egner (M.S. 2004); Hearing in juvenile and adult sergeant majors
Randy Hill (M.S. 2005): Ground truthing AEP's in goldfish with behavioral audiograms
Heather Broadbent (M.S. 2005): Development of a MEMS CTD sensor
Bryan Nichols (M.S. 2005): Sound production by rockfishes
Sarah Walters (M.S. 2005): Mapping sound production by spotted seatrout in Tampa Bay
Mandy Hill Cook (Ph.D. 2006): Hearing in wild dolphins
Brandon Casper (Ph.D., 2006): Hearing in sharks
Debi Colbert (Ph.D., 2007; co-advised with Toru Shimizu): Florida manatee directional hearing abilities
Jessica Powell (MS 2009, co-advised with Randy Wells): Dolphin depredation and passive acoustics to monitor dolphin presence at a fishing pier
James Locascio (PhD 2010): Sound production and hearing in Sciaenid fishes (black drum, sand seatrout, spotted seatrout, silver perch)
Misty Nelson (MS 2010): Red grouper reproductive behavior and sound production