The Namibian Dolphin Project | Student Profiles
Student Profiles
Meet the students who are and have worked on Namibian Dolphin Project data
Publications
Morgan Martin
PhD Candidate: Mammal Research Institute, University of Pretoria
PhD title: Cetacean abundance and distribution in the Namibian Islands Marine Protected Area using visual and acoustic surveys.
Agnès Torres Ramis
Intern / student 2017
Degree project title: The effects of tour boats on the behavior of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in Walvis Bay, Namibia
Anja Badenas-Krakauer
Msc student - Erasmus Mundus University - 2016
Project title: Factors Influencing the Vocal Production of Common Bottlenose Dolphins of Walvis Bay, Namibia
Darren de Silva
BSc student - University of Leeds
BSc Fourth Year Project: Investigating extreme shallow water habitat use in common bottlenose dolphins
Pauline Glotin
MSc student 2016 – University Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris
MSc Oceanography and Marine Environments – Project title: Occurrence and distribution of cetaceans in coastal and offshore Namibia
Jeffrey Slater
BTech student – Cape Peninsula University of Technology - 2015
Jeffrey’s project focused on the acoustics of Heaviside’s dolphins
Julia Heiler
MSc student – Erasmus Mundus University - 2015
Julia’s MSc project is focused on the signature whistles of Namibian bottlenose dolphins
Etienne Pouplard
MSc student – European institute for marine Studies (IUEM, Brest, France) - 2015
MSc project title: The social structure of Namibian bottlenose dolphins
Titus Shaanika
University of Namibia - Honours - 2014
Titus is investigating boat avoidance behaviour of Heaviside’s dolphins in Luderitz and Walvis Bay for his 4th year project
Gemma Louise Rashley
MSc student – University of Cape Town - 2014
MSc student 2014-2015- Project title: Investigating the potential of signature whistles for acoustic mark-recapture of bottlenose dolphins
Sara Golaski
University of Pretoria 2013-2014
For her MSc thesis, Sara will be analysing 5 years of photo-ID data on Heaviside’s dolphins to investigate abundance, trends and population structure of this species in Namibia.
Xela Indurkhya
University of Osnabrück - MSc - 2012
Xela interned with the project in 2011 and is now working with us as a MSc student
Justina Shihepo
University of Namibia - 2010
Justina joined the NDP in 2010 where she looked at “Seasonal trends and total abundance of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in Walvis Bay, Namibia” for her honours project work at the University of Namibia.
Theo Meyer
University of Pretoria - 2009
Theo did his honours project at the University of Pretoria in 2009 entitled: “Managing human-dolphin conflict through the investigation of critical habitats of Tursiops truncatus (the bottlenose dolphin)”
Joaquina Eduardo
University of Namibia - 2008
The NDP’s first student, Joaquina worked with us during the pilot study in 2008 and investigated the “Abundance of bottlenose dolphins in Walvis Bay, Namibia”
Hannah Kriesell
Georg-August University (DE) & Lincoln University (NZ)
Hannah will be describing the whistle characteristics of bottlenose dolphins and investigating the use of signature whistles