University of Massachusetts Faculty Advisor

Robert M. Muth

Degree Program/Expected Graduation

Ph.D. (2009)

Research Interests

Working Title of Dissertation Proposal - "Cultural Meanings of an Urban River: Restoration & (Re) Interpretation of Community along the Lower Neponset River in Boston, Massachusetts" Integrating Ethnographic and Ecological Studies of Marine & Coastal Ecosystems Environmental Movements, Community Identities, and Institutional Controls in the U.S. and Central America

Recent Teaching Experience

NRC 409 Natural Resources Policy and Administration Teaching Assistant, Spring 2005 and 2006

Recent Research Projects

Neponset River Environmental Literacy Project, Massachusetts Riverways Program Research Assistant, Spring/Summer 2005

Recent Conference Presentations

Wilkinson, T., T. Agardy, S.L. Perry, L. Rojas, K. Morgan, D. Hyrenbach, D. Fraser, and H. de la Cueva. 2003. Marine Species of Common Conservation Concern - protecting species at risk across boundaries. Invited presenter at SAMPAA conference, Victoria, B.C. Perry, S.L. 2002. The MMPA Non-Fisheries Interaction Program. Various presentations targeted at the Acoustical Society of America (scientific, academic, and military stakeholders) and the Information Transfer Meeting of the Minerals Management Service (oil and gas industry stakeholders). Perry, S.L., D.P. DeMaster, T.M. Leschine, and W.S. Wooster. 1999. An integrated and risk-based approach to large whale status reviews. Oral presentation at the 13th Biennial Meeting of the Society of Marine Mammalogy, Maui, HI.

Recent Publications

DeMaster, D.P., C. Fowler, S.L. Perry, and M.F. Richlen. 2001. Predation and competition: the impact of fisheries on marine mammal populations over the next one hundred years. Journal of Mammalogy, Vol. 82, No. 3. Perry R., S. and D.P. DeMaster. 2001. Pinniped survival in captivity: annual survival rates of six species. Marine Mammal Science, Vol. 17, No. 2. Perry, S.L., D.P. DeMaster, G. Silber. 1999. The great whales: history and status of six species listed as endangered under the U.S. Endangered Species Act of 1973. 147 pp. + tables and figs. Marine Fisheries Review. Gerber, L., D.P. DeMaster, and S.L. Perry. 1999. The management of endangered large whales: a conservation success? American Scientist. Perry, S.L. 1998. Marine resource management and environmental protection, p. 63. In W.S. Wooster and W.T. Burke (eds) School of Marine Affairs 25th Anniversary Public Proceedings, Seattle, WA.