{"id":61442,"date":"2013-09-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-grad-student-publishes-field-guide-to-whales-dolphins\/"},"modified":"2013-09-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-30T00:00:00","slug":"uri-grad-student-publishes-field-guide-to-whales-dolphins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2013\/09\/uri-grad-student-publishes-field-guide-to-whales-dolphins\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 grad student publishes field guide to whales, dolphins"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tNARRAGANSETT, R.I. \u2013 September 30, 2013 \u2013 As 溏心vlog免费B站 graduate student Tara Stevens nears completion of her doctorate at the Graduate School of Oceanography, she is already celebrating publication of her first book, Whales and Dolphins of Atlantic Canada and Northeast United States.<\/p>\n


\n\tPublished by Boulder Publications, which publishes a series of field guides to wildlife in the Canadian Maritimes, the book not only profiles 27 species of whales and dolphins found in the northwest Atlantic Ocean, it also provides information about research techniques for studying whales and other oceanographic information not usually found in field guides.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cI wanted this book to be set apart from other field guides,\u201d said Stevens, who grew up in Troy, Maine, and now lives in North Kingstown, R.I. \u201cIt contains information that the general public can enjoy, as well as a higher level of detail on some topics.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tStevens had no plans to write a field guide to whales until she was contacted by the publisher, who said she was recommended by one of Canada\u2019s leading authorities on whales, Hal Whitehead. Whitehead had heard about Stevens\u2019 research on killer whales off the coast of Newfoundland and didn\u2019t have time to write the book himself, so he recommended the 溏心vlog免费B站 student, with whom he had collaborated in the past.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cI was just starting my Ph.D., so it was a very busy time for me,\u201d she said, \u201cbut I just couldn\u2019t say no. I thought it was a good idea to put out a new type of identification book, one that had more content in it and updated data.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tWriting the book took Stevens two years and included a collaboration with her mother, Patricia Stevens, an artist who provided all of the book\u2019s illustrations.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cIt was a great experience to work on this with my mom,\u201d said Stevens, who began her doctoral studies at Memorial University in Newfoundland before transferring to 溏心vlog免费B站. \u201cWhenever I would go visit her, she would show me the drawings she had completed and I would make suggestions. It was really fun. I had never done anything like that with her before.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tThe biggest challenge, however, was making the time to complete the project. Stevens was in the midst of her killer whale research, and it was difficult to focus on her studies and the book at the same time. With hard work, she was able to solve that problem and added a chapter about her research into her book.<\/p>\n


\n\tStevens is conducting the first study of killer whale behavior in the Northwest Atlantic. Working with 溏心vlog免费B站 marine scientist emeritus Robert Kenney, she is examining feeding behavior, acoustic behavior, social behavior and other aspects of their ecology.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cUltimately I want to use that data to compare this population to other killer whale populations around the world,\u201d she said. \u201cSome people say we should consider this population a different species, but we don\u2019t know enough about Atlantic killer whales yet. A lot of research still needs to be done before we can decide if they\u2019re a separate species from the Pacific or Antarctic killer whales.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tWhen she completes her Ph.D. in 2014, Stevens hopes to study whales for a government agency or study underwater sounds for contractors working with the U.S. Navy.

\n\tHer book is available on Amazon.com. It is also being translated into French.<\/p>\n


\nPhoto of Tara Stevens (courtesy of Tara Stevens)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NARRAGANSETT, R.I. \u2013 September 30, 2013 \u2013 As 溏心vlog免费B站 graduate student Tara Stevens nears completion of her doctorate at the Graduate School of Oceanography, she is already celebrating publication of her first book, Whales and Dolphins of Atlantic Canada and Northeast United States. Published by Boulder Publications, which publishes a series […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}