Lab members
Marcus Dostie
GIS analyst: Spatial decision-making in baboons and vervets (NSERC-funded)
Centre: Psychology & Geography, Lethbridge
Nic Ducheminsky
MSc topic: Natural history of alarm calls in vervet monkeys (NSERC-funded; Queen Elizabeth II Scholarship)
Centre: Psychology, Lethbridge
Fieldsite: Samara Game Reserve, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Alena Greene
MSc topic: Strategies for negotiating social space in vervet monkeys (Advantage Award; CRC allocation)
Centre: Psychology, Lethbridge
Eric Matlock
Field site manager (NSERC-funded)
Richard McFarland
Post-doctoral fellow: Thermoregulation in vervet monkeys (NRF-funded)
Centre: Physiology, Witwatersrand
Fieldsite: Samara Game Reserve, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Derek Murphy
PhD Topic: Social network structure in vervet monkeys (NERC-funded)
Centre: Biological Sciences, Aberdeen
Fieldsite: Samara Game Reserve, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Kerri Norman
MSc topic: The structure of dyadic play in domestic dogs (Keith & Hope Ferguson Memorial Scholarship)
Centre: Psychology, Lethbridge
Jess Sashaw
MSc topic: Maternal strategies in a seasonally breeding Old-World monkey (NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship; Queen Elizabeth II Scholarship)
Centre: Psychology, Lethbridge
Fieldsite: Samara Game Reserve, Eastern Cape, South Africa
April Takahashi
MSc topic: An embodied and situated approach to the negotiation of male-male interactions in vervet monkey males (NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship)
Centre: Psychology, University of Lethbridge
Fieldsite: Samara Game Reserve, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Brittany Thomas
MSc topic: Local decisions and the emergence of routes in vervet monkeys (Queen Elizabeth II Scholarship)
Centre: Psychology, Lethbridge
Honours, Independent & Applied Study Students
Sutherland Dube, Ryutaro Uchiyama
Alumni
Dr Alan 'No Relation' Barrett - PhD (2010). Currently post-doctoral fellow, University of South Africa
Dr Parry Clarke
Leakey Foundation and EU-funded post-doctoral fellow, 2007-2008. Currently post-doctoral fellow, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, UK
Natalie Freeman - MSc (2012)
Nicola Forshaw - MSc (2011)
Petra McDougall - MSc (2010). PhD Candidate, University of Calgary
Graham Pasternak - MSc (2011). University of Queensland Medical School
Dr Maria Stylianou
ESRC-funded post-doctoral fellow, 2007-2008
NSERC-Funded Assistants
Nicole Whale (2008), Ria Boner (2009-2010), Tricia Rubi (2010 - PhD Candidate, University of Minnesota), Bruce Raphael (2011), Tom Rutherford (2011), Jessica Parker (2011), Michael Amirault (2011)
Current collaborators
Professor Leslie Brown
Applied Behavioural Ecologyand Ecosystems Research Unit, University of South Africa
Project: Ecology of vervet monkeys
George Chaplin
Geography, Penn State
Project: Group coordination and distributed cognition in chacma baboons
Professor Andrea Fuller/Professor Duncan Mitchell
Physiology, University of the Witwatersrand Medical School
Project: The regulation of body temperature in free-ranging vervet monkeys
Dr Stefan Kienzle
Geography, University of Lethbridge
Project: Day range structure in chacma baboons and vervet monkeys
Dr David Lusseau
The Institute of Biological & Environmental Science, University of Aberdeen
Projects: Network structure and social niche construction in baboons and vervet monkeys
Dr Biren Patel
Biomedical Sciences, Ohio University
Project: Quadrupedal locomotion in baboons and vervets
Professor Sergio Pellis
Neuroscience, University of Lethbridge
Project: Play in domestic dogs
Dr Pamela Qualter
Psychology,
University of Central Lancashire
Project: Social engagement and cognition in children