Wendy Dow Receives Award for Best Student Paper at International Sea Turtle Symposium

Contact: Tim Lucas, 919-681-8084, tdlucas@duke.edu

BEAUFORT, N.C. – Wendy Dow, a doctoral student at the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University, was awarded the Archie Carr Award for best student paper at the 2009 International Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation.

Dow, a PhD student at the Duke University Marine Laboratory in Beaufort, N.C., was recognized for her presentation, “In-water and In-air Hearing Sensitivity of the Juvenile Green Sea Turtle (Chelonia mydas).”

Dow’s co-authors were David Mann of the University of South Florida, T. Todd Jones of the University of British Columbia, Craig Harms of North Carolina State University, and Scott A. Eckert, director of science for the Wider Caribbean Sea Turtle Conservation Network (WIDECAST) and research scientist at the Duke Marine Lab.

The symposium was held in Brisbane, Australia, in February.

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