2011 Population Dynamics (of SDRP staff and students)

About the author

Randall Wells, PhD, is the Director of the Sarasota Dolphin Research Program (SDRP). He began studying bottlenose dolphins in Sarasota as a high school volunteer at Mote Marine Laboratory in 1970. He received his BA in Zoology from the University of South Florida in 1975, a Master’s in Zoology from the University of Florida in 1978, a PhD in Biology from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1986, and a Post-doctoral Fellowship in Biology from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in 1987. Employed by the Chicago Zoological Society since 1989, he is a Senior Conservation Scientist, and in this capacity he also manages Mote Marine Laboratory’s Dolphin Research Program. As a Professor of Ocean Sciences (adjunct) at the University of California, Santa Cruz, he serves as major advisor for MS and PhD students, and he is an adjunct Professor with the University of North Carolina, Wilmington, Duke Univeresity, and the University of Florida’s College of Veterinary Medicine. Wells was President of the Society for Marine Mammalogy (2010-2012).