MICHELLE SHERO, PH.D.
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Presentations

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Invited Speaker at TEDxFairbanks April 2017. Video is available here.

*I have over 40 national and international conference abstracts.

Select Meeting Presentations

Shero, M.R., G.P. Adams, R.B. McCorkell, A.L. Kirkham, and J.M. Burns. 2016. Do Weddell seals “freeze” pregnancy? Intra-specific variation in gestation of a top Antarctic predator. XXXIV Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research Open Science Conference, August 2016 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (oral presentation). *Received a best oral presentation award for early career researchers
Shero, M.R., K.T. Goetz, D.P. Costa, and J.M. Burns. 2015. Weddell seal overwinter dive behavior in the Ross Sea: Do foraging efforts increase to support gestation? The 52nd Annual Conference of the Animal Behavior Society, Anchorage, Alaska (*Symposium Speaker, oral presentation).
Shero, M.R., K.T. Goetz, L.E. Pearson, P.W. Robinson, L.A. Hückstädt, D.P. Costa, and J. M. Burns. 2013. Aerobic capacities and seasonal differences in diving behavior of Weddell seals. The Society for Experimental Biology Annual Main Meeting, Valencia, Spain. 

Societies Presented at:

PicturePresenting at the International Congress on Animal Reproduction in Tours, France.
American Physiological Society Intersociety Meeting  2010, 2014
Animal Behavior Society  2015
Biology of Marine Mammals  2011, 2015, 2017
Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting  2015 *best poster
International Congress on Animal Reproduction  2016
International Bio-logging Science Symposium  2014
Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research  2012, 2013, 2016, 2017
Society for Experimental Biology  2013
Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology  2010, 2013, 2018

Invited Presentations

​Duke University, Ecology Program seminar series, Durham, NC. December 2018 TBD.
​Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA. Presented “From cells to behavior of marine mammal life history: Finding ‘tipping points’ in a changing world.” 2018
The 18th International Congress on Animal Reproduction, in Tours, France. Presented “Ultrasonography reveals a pinniped that may not have an embryonic diapause” 2016
McMurdo Station Sunday Science Lecture Series. "The Cost of a New Fur Coat: Interactions between Molt and Reproduction in the Weddell seal." ​2016
The Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Center for Species Survival, presented “Reproductive ecology of Weddell seals in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica.” ​2015
University of Saskatchewan’s One Reproductive Health seminar series, presented “Reproductive biology of Weddell seals in Antarctica.” ​2015
Matanuska-Susitna College (part of the Univ. of Alaska system) wildlife lecture series to all age groups. “Fur seals and Weddell seals: From Open Oceans to Icy Shores.” ​2015
​Presented on-going research on Northern fur seals and Weddell seals, to an adult education group (Opportunities for Lifelong Education) in Anchorage, Alaska. ​2014
“Weddell seal morphometrics” activity for a teacher workshop focusing on “real-word” mathematical examples in collaboration with Ms. Lynn Reed, Einstein Fellow in NSF Polar Programs. 2013
“Weddell seal research in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica,” Lecture for Pribilof Marine Science Camp children, St. George Island, Alaska. ​2012
“How do Weddell seals dive and stay warm in the Antarctic?”. Workshop for Women of Science & Technology Day, Anchorage, Alaska. ​2012

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