Dissertation: "Linking Ecosystem-Based Management to Conservation: Understanding and Mitigating Bycatch of Small Cetaceans in Artisanal Fisheries." My fieldwork focuses on four populations of Irrawaddy dolphins in the Philippines, Thailand, and Indonesia
Proximate and ultimate explanations for how human activity and marine megafauna overlap in space and time, including ecological, socioeconomic, and cultural factors.
Conservation of marine tetrapods, with a focus on coastal species in tropical developing nations.
Behavioral ecology, with a focus on habitat use and ecological determinants of sociality of marine tetrapods.
Ecosystem-based management of artisanal fisheries in tropical developing nations.
Macroecology of open-ocean ecosystems
Honors and Awards:
Fulbright U.S. Student Program Scholarship for the Philippines, 2011.
Friends of the UCSD International Center Ruth Newmark Scholarship, 2011.
National Geographic Society-Waitt Grants Program Research Grant, 2011.
Mia J. Tegner Fellowship, 2010.
Friends of the UCSD International Center Fellowship, 2010.
Duff Family Fellowship, 2007-2009.
San Diego Diversity Fellowship, 2007-2009.
Sigma Xi Associate Member, 2005-Present.
Undergraduate Award: Award for Senior Thesis poster, Princeton University Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. 2005. "Parasite loads in zebras: The influence of sociality, life history, and ecology."
National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Fellow.
NSF Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT) Associate, Marine Biodiversity & Conservation Program. Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation at Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
Mailing Address:
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla CA, 92093
Mail Code: 0208
Mangel, J., Whitty, T.S, Medina-Vogel, G., Alfaro-Shigueto, J., Caceres, C., Godley, B.J. (In Press). Latitudinal variation in diet and patterns of human interaction in the marine otter. Marine Mammal Science.
Larney, E., Whitty, T., Gibson L, Yarnee, A., Pesek, D., Whitman, B., Bprasapmu, A., Nueorngshiyos, W. 2008. Successful release of two wild Phayre’s leaf monkey infants to their group in Phu Khieo Wildlife Sanctuary, Thailand. Natural History Bulletin of the Siam Society.
Book Review:
Ballance, L.T., Whitty, T.S. (In press). Review of K. McLeod and H. Leslie, Ecosystem-Based Management for the Oceans (2009) in Restoration Ecology.
Book Review: Benham, C., Cawood, A.M., Cook, G.S., Darnell, A., Davison, P.C., Goldstein, M.C., Johnson, A.E., Konotchick, T.,
Maldonado, E.M., Pasulka, A.L., Prairie, J.S., Moseman, S.M., Tai, V., Tanner, C.A., Vardi, T., Whitty, T.S., Levin, L.A. 2008. Review of J.P. Kritzer and P.F. Sale, Marine Metapopulations (2006) in Marine Ecology 29(2): 319.
