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Stephen Dunbar, PhD
Associate Professor, Earth and Biological Sciences School of Public Health
Member, Biology, SST, Faculty of Graduate Studies

Research & Grantsmanship Funded Research Project (PI)

A Series of School Visits to Commence the "Turtle Nesting Hotline''s Turtle Art and Jingle Challenge" in the Bay Islands, Honduras; An Education and Awareness Initiative. State of the World''''s Sea Turtle (SWOT) Outreach Grant. ( 6/2008 - 11/2008 )

Hawksbill Sea Turtle Nesting Beach Reconnaissace on Roatan, Honduras. United States Fish and Wildlife Services - Marine Turtle Conservation Fund. ( 8/2007 - 8/2008 )

Two Workshops to Facilitate Positive Change Among Indigenous Fishers of the Bay Islands, Honduras. State of the World''s Sea Turtles (SWOT) Outreach Grant. ( 4/2007 - 9/2007 )

Roatan Rapid Assessment Project for the Queen Conch, Strombus gigas, and the Common Hermit Crabs of the Bay Islands, Honduras. United States Agency for International Development (USAID). ( 10/2005 - 11/2005 )

Roatan Rapid Assessment Project for the Spiny Lobster, Panulirus argus, Bay Islands, Honduras. United States Agency for International Development (USAID). ( 10/2005 - 11/2005 )

Non-Funded Research Project

ProTECTOR National Nesting Beach Monitoring Network ( 9/2007 - Present )
Turtle Awareness and Protection Studies (TAPS) Program ( 3/2006 - Present )

Abstracts Reporting Research -- Peer Reviewed

Shives, J.A., Dunbar, S.G., Nyborg, T.G.. "Why the paucity of hermit crabs in situ in the fossil record?." The Crustacean Society . (2007): 64-. ( 1/2007 )

Sjoboen, A.D., Dunbar, S.G., Boskovic, D.S.. "Seasonal fatty acid fluctuations of Pachygrapsus crassipes in Southern California." The Crustacean Society . (2007): 65-. ( 1/2007 )

Dunbar, S.G. and Sjoboen, A. . "The Roatan Rapid Assessment Project for Spiny Lobster, Panulirus argus of Roatan, Bay Islands, Honduras." IX Congreso Sociedad Mesoamericana Para La Biologia Y La Conservacion. (2005): 181-181. ( 12/2005 )

Dunbar, S. G. and Perumal, V.. "The Roatan Rapid Assessment Project for Queen Conch, Strombus gigas of Roatan, Bay Islands, Honduras." IX Congreso Sociedad Mesoamericana Para La Biologia Y La Conservacion. (2005): 181-181. ( 12/2005 )

Dunbar, S. G.. "The Roatan Rapid Assessment Project for the common hermit crabs of Roatan, Bay Islands, Honduras." IX Congreso Sociedad Mesoamericana Para La Biologia Y La Conservacion. (2005): 180-180. ( 12/2005 )

Abstracts Reporting Research -- Non-Peer Reviewed

Dunbar, S.G., Salinas, L., and Berube, M.D. Activities of the Turtle Awareness and Protection Studies (TAPS) program under the Protective Turtle Ecology Center for Training, Outreach, and Research, Inc. (ProTECTOR) in Roatan, Honduras. 2007 - 2008 Annual Report to the Ministry of Environment, Honduras.

( 9/2008 - 1/2009 )

Activities of the Protective Turtle Ecology Center for Training, Outreach, and Research, Inc. (ProTECTOR) in Punta Raton, Honduras; 2007 - 2008 Annual Report to the Ministry of Environment, Honduras. ( 9/2008 - 12/2008 )

Hawksbill sea turtle nesting beach reconnaissance Roatan, Honduras. 2008 Final Report to United States Fish and Wildlife Services. ( 7/2008 - 11/2008 )

A proposal for a series of school visits to commence the "Turtle Nesting Hotline''s Turtle Art and Jingle Challenge" in the Bay Islands, Honduras; An education and awareness initiative. Final Report to the State of the World''s Sea Turtles. October 31, 2008. ( 8/2008 - 10/2008 )

Final Report on a Proposal for Two Workshops to Facilitate Positive Change Among Indigenous Fishers of the Bay Islands, Honduras. State of the World''s Sea Turtles (SWOT). October 1, 2007. ( 7/2007 - 10/2007 )