Gretchen Lovewell

Title: Staff Scientist; Program Manager — Stranding Investigations Program

Phone: 941-388-4441
Email: 
Education

B.S. Marine Biology, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Wilmington, NC

Awards
  • Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies Atlantic Large Whale Disentanglement Level 3 Apprenticeship Training
  • Oil Spill HAZCOM Training
  • USCG’s National Incident Management System (NIMS) Incident Command System ICS-100 Basic ICS
  • United States Power Squadron’s America’s Boating Course
  • Marine Mammal Health and Stranding Response Program Database training
  • Media Training by Conservation Communications Inc. and Public Communications Inc.
Publications

Delynn, R. A., Lovewell, G. N., Wells, R. S., and Early, G. Congenital Scoliosis in a Bottlenose Dolphin.  Journal of Wildlife Diseases.  In Press. 2011

Spencer E. Fire, Zhihong Wanga, Tod A. Leighfield, Steve L. Morton, Wayne E. McFee, William A. McLellan, R. Wayne Litaker, Patricia A. Tester, Aleta A. Hohn, Gretchen Lovewell, Craig Harms, David S. Rotstein, Susan G. Barco, Alex Costidis, Barbara Sheppard, Gregory D. Bossart, Megan Stolen, Wendy Noke Durden, Frances M. Van Dolah. Domoic acid exposure in pygmy and dwarf sperm whales (Kogia spp.) from southeastern and mid-Atlantic U.S. waters. Harmful Algae 8 658-664, 2009.

Harms, C. A., Maggi, R. G., Breitschwerdt, E. B., Clemons-Chevis, C. L., Solangi, M., Rotstein, D. S., Fair, P. A., Hansen, L. J., Hohn, A. A., Lovewell, G. N., McLellan W. A., Pabst, D. A., Rowles, T. K., Schwacke, L. H., Towsend, F. I., and Wells, R. S. Bartonella species detection in captive, stranded and free-ranging cetaceans. Veternary Research 39:59, 2008.

Byrd, B.L., Hohn, A.H., Munden, F.H., Lovewell, G.N., and LoPiccolo, R.L. Changes in Commercial Fishing Regulations Affect Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) Strandings. Fishery Bulletin 106:72-81 January 2008.

Harms, C.A., Lovewell, G.N., Rotstein, D.S.,  Hyperglycemic Cataracts in a Live-Stranded Minke Whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) Calf. Marine Mammal Science. Dec 2007.

Rotstein, D.S., Harms, C.A., Lovewell, G.N., Hohn, A.H. Gastric leiomyoma in a free-living Atlantic bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus). The Veterinary Record, January 2007; 160: 130-131.

 


Department: Directorate of Marine Biology & Conservation




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