Research
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The Nova Scotia Leatherback Turtle Working Group conducts research in distribution and movement, genetics, necropsy, and histopathology. 

Researchers

Distribution and movement
Mike James, 
Hon. B.Sc., B.Ed., M.Sc., 
PhD (in progress) 
Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia

Necropsy and histopathology
Chris Harvey-Clark, D.V.M.
University Director of Animal Care
Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia

Population Biology
Ransom Myers, Ph.D.
Killam Chair in Oceanography
Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia

Collaborators

Genetics
Peter H. Dutton, Ph.D.
Southwest Fisheries Science Center
La Jolla, California

Movement and feeding ecology
Scott A. Eckert, Ph.D.
WIDECAST Director of Science
Nicholas School Marine Laboratory at Duke University
Beaufort, North Carolina

Oceanography
Ken Drinkwater, Ph.D.
Ocean Sciences Division
Bedford Institute of Oceanography
Dartmouth, Nova Scotia

 

 


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