Courtney Endres

 

endres@email.unc.edu

 

Education:
 

B.S. degree in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology : Princeton University

 

Research Interests:

 

Chemosensory biology

Magnetic field perception

Behavior and sensory ecology of sea turtles

Nest site selection and nesting physiological ecology

Conservation biology

 

 

 

 

Left: a green turtle on a black-sand beach in Hawaii.

 

Right: a juvenile loggerhead turtle.

 

 

Professional Experience

 

Sensory Ecology graduate class; Lund University; Lund, Sweden (Autumn, 2008)

Max Planck Institute research assistant, Isla Boca Brava, Panama (March-June, 2006).

Sea turtle research assistant, Buck Island Reef National Monument, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands (2005).

Sea turtle intern, The Conservancy of Southwest Florida, Naples, Florida  (2005).

Hawksbill turtle monitor, National Park Service, Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, Hawaii (summers 2003, 2004).

Avian field research intern, U.S. Geological Survey, Hawaii Volcanoes National Park (2004).

Primate research assistant in Kenya, Princeton University (2002-2003)

  

 

Publications:

 

Endres, C. S., Putman, N. F., and K. J. Lohmann.  Perception of airborne odors by sea turtles.  Journal of Experimental Biology.  In press.

 

Lohmann, K.J., Lohmann, C.M.F., and Endres, C.S. 2008. The sensory ecology of ocean navigation. Journal of Experimental Biology. 211: 1719-1728.  [Download pdf]

 

Gesquiere L. E., Altmann J., Khan M. Z., Couret J., Yu J. C., Endres C. S., Lynch J. W., Ogola P., Fox E. A., Alberts S. C., and Wango E. O.  2005.  Coming of age: steroid hormones of wild immature baboons.  American Journal of Primatology  67: 83-100.

 

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