PhD student Georgia Novak, ATU, Ireland (2024-to present) 'Improving knowledge on the conservation status of small cetaceans'
IRC PhD student Sofia Albrecht, ATU, Ireland (2021-to present) 'Impacts of anthropogenic activities and environmental change on the foraging ecology and nutritional status of the common dolphin and its implications towards sustainable resource management'
MSc student Shannon Finnegan, IMBRSea Joint Master Programme, ATU, Ireland (2024-2025) 'Assessment of the pollutant burdens in marine mammals in Irish waters'
PhD student Kristina Steinmetz, GMIT, Ireland (2016-2022) ‘Population structure and habitat use of grey (Halichoerus grypus) and harbour (Phoca vitulina) seals in north western European waters’
PhD student James O’Connor, GMIT, Ireland (2017-2021) ‘Potential pathways, trophic transfer and bioindicators of microplastics within freshwater systems’
PhD student Andrew Power, GMIT, Ireland (2016-2021) ‘Contaminants in seabird eggs as a higher trophic level indicator of contaminants in Irish marine water’
Part-time PhD student Emma Betty, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand (2012-2019) ‘Pilot whales (Globicephala spp.) in New Zealand waters: Strandings, life history and conservation’
MSc student Tanushree Mundra, IMBRSea Joint Master Programme, ATU, Ireland (2023-2024) 'Pace-of-life (fast-slow) syndrome in cetaceans'
MSc student Georgia Novak, MSc in Applied Marine Conservation , ATU, Ireland (2023-2024) 'Gonadal development and the persistence and accumulation of ovarian corpora scars in short-beaked common dolphins (Delphinus delphis) in the Northeast Atlantic'
MSc student Claudia Medina, IMBRSea Joint Master Programme, ATU, Ireland (2022-2023) 'Assessment of the adrenal response in small cetaceans due to multiple stressors'
MSc student Sewwandi Alwis, IMBRSea Joint Master Programme, ATU, Ireland (2022-2023) 'An investigation of parasite infections of common dolphins, Delphinus delphis'
MSc student Kimberly Tuytens, IMBRSea Joint Master Programme, ATU, Ireland (2021-2022) 'Sexual development, and the effects seasonality on testicular function in the North-east Atlantic harbour porpoise'
MSc student Bianca Melita Palmas, IMBRSea Joint Master Programme, GMIT, Ireland (2020-2021) ‘Ovarian follicle counts as a potential reproductive toxicity endpoint in small cetaceans: an explorative study of the ovarian form and function in harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) and common dolphins (Delphinus delphis)'
MSc student Isabel De Block, IMBRSea Joint Master Programme, GMIT, Ireland (2020-2021) ‘Developmental and seasonal changes in testicular morphology of the North Eastern Atlantic short-beaked common dolphin'
MSc Student Clémence Finet, IMBRSea Joint Master Programme, GMIT, Ireland (2019-2020) ‘Use of invasive and non-invasive sampling techniques to assess physiological stress in marine mammals’
MSc Student Olivia O’Connor, IMBRSea Joint Master Programme, GMIT, Ireland (2019-2020) ‘Analysing mortality rates of small cetaceans using the harbour porpoise, Phocoena phocoena, as a case study.’
MSc Student Inês Costa, IMBRSea Joint Master Programme, GMIT, Ireland (2019-2020) ‘Harbour seals (Phoca vitulina), grey seals (Halichoerus grypus) and the 3R’s: Rescue, Rehabilitation and Release’
MSc student Marie Petitguyot, Pierre and Marie Curie University, France (2016-2017) ‘Assessing temporal trends in age and size at sexual maturity, growth parameters and body condition of harbour porpoises in the Northeast Atlantic’
MSc student Friederike Jordon, Massey University, New Zealand (2011-2012) ‘Skull morphometry of common dolphins (Delphinus sp.) from New Zealand waters’
MSc student Trevor Spradlin, University of St Andrews, UK (2007-2008) ‘Age-related mortality of Mediterranean monk seals (Monachus monachus) estimated from dental samples’