Stacie
Hooper
Ph.D. Candidate
| Graduate Student Researcher Ecology Graduate Group Department of Population Health and Reproduction 1001 Haring Hall |
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Email: slhooper@ucdavis.edu |
Handling
one of my study subjects, Dana Meadows, Yosemite NP, August 2003 |
| Education
1994: B.S.
in Zoology,
McCowan Lab of Behavioral Management Research Interests |
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 My research involves both exploring the use
of bioacoustics as a conservation and management tool, the impacts of noise
on communication and the ability of species to compensate for these impacts.
Individual, age and sex-related variation in acoustic structure of vocalizations
has been shown in a large variety of species. Because of this bioacoustics
has great potential to be used to track and monitor individuals and populations.
Additionally, the traits that contribute to this variation are often polygenic,
and therefore it may be possible to use acoustic diversity among individuals
as a surrogate measure of genetic diversity in a population. Noise also
has great potential to interfere with communication which in turn may affect
survival, reproductive success, and population dynamics. While the behavioral
responses of animals to noise and the physiological impacts of exposure
to dangerous noise levels have been well explored, little work has been
done as yet on how noise exposure affects signal production and structure.
Even less work has been done investigating the ways in which animals may
be able to compensate for noise interference on immediate, ontogenetic,
and evolutionary time scales. I am investigating these issues using Belding’s
ground squirrels and golden-mantled ground squirrels as models. I collected
my data during the summer of 2002 in the White Mountains of California,
and during the summer of 2003 in Tuolumne and Dana Meadows in
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Publications & Presentations |
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Gubbins, C. M., McCowan, B., Lynn, S., Hooper, S.L. and Reiss, D. 1999. Developmental changes in mother-infant spatial relations in captive bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus). Marine Mammal Science, 15:751-765. McCowan, B. and Hooper, S.L. 2002. Individual
acoustic variation in Belding’s ground squirrel alarm chirps in the High
Sierra Nevada. Journal of the Acoustical Society of
Rabin,
Hooper, S.L. 2004. Impacts and applications: Assessing the effect of highway
noise on a mammalian communication system and exploring the use of “acoustic
fingerprints” as a conservation tool. Presented as a
talk for Yosemite Forum,
Randall, J., Collins, K., McCowan,
B., Hooper, S.L., and Rogovin, K. 2005. Alarm signals of the great gerbil: acoustic
variation by predator context, sex, age, individual and family group. Journal
of the Acoustical Society of
Hooper, S.L., Reiss, D., Carter, M.R., and McCowan, B. 2006. Importance of contextual saliency on vocal imitation by bottlenose dolphins. International Journal of Comparative Psychology, 19: 116-128. Presented as a poster for the Society of Marine Mammalogy 16th biennial conference, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Hooper, S.L., Meyer, N., and McCowan, B. 2006. Exploring the feasibility of bioacoustics as a wildlife management and conservation tool: Searching for acoustic distinctiveness in an asocial rodent, the golden-mantled ground squirrel (Spermophilus lateralis). Submitted to Animal Conservation. Presented as a poster at the 2006 annual Animal Behavior Society conference, Snowbird, Utah. Hooper, S.L. 2006. Voices in the wilderness: developing a bioacoustic tool for conservation and management. Presented as a talk for the Undergraduate Conservation Biology Seminar,
Society for Conservation Biology,
Hooper, S.L. 2006. Impacts and applications: Vocal communication applied to conservation. Presented as a talk to spring semester undergraduate Animal Behavior class at Holy Names College, Oakland, California. Hooper, S.L. 2008. Pump up the volume: Effects of anthropogenic noise on wildlife. Presented as a talk for the Society for the Conservation Biology Annual Symposium, Davis Student Chapter. |
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