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Tel. (919) 515-7866
E-mail: tom_wolcott@ncsu.edu
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Curriculum Vitae

B. A. (Zoology) magna cum laude, University of California, Riverside
(1 year study in Goettingen, W. Germany), 1966

PhD (Zoology), University of California, Berkeley
1971

TEACHING AND RESEARCH AREAS

Physiological ecology, particularly the role of physical environmental factors in limiting the range or distribution of marine invertebrates, and the energetic or reproductive advantages of adaptations to physical environments. Nitrogen, water and salt relations in herbivorous terrestrial crabs. Development of field instrumentation, including low-power microelectronics and radio- and ultrasonic telemetry of behavioral and physiological information from free-ranging animals.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Wolcott, T.G., and A.H. Hines. 1990. Ultrasonic telemetry of small-scale movements and microhabitat selection by molting blue crabs (Callinectes sapidus). Bulletin of Marine Science 46:83-94.

Shirley, M.A. and T.G. Wolcott. 1991. A telemetric study of microhabitat selection by premolt and molting blue crabs, Callinectes sapidus (Rathbun) within a subestuary of the Pamlico River, North Carolina. Marine Behavior and Physiology 19: 133-148.

Wolcott, T.G. and D.L. Wolcott. 1991. Ion conservation by reprocessing of urine in the land crab Gecarcinus lateralis (Freminville). Physiological Zoology 64: 344-361.

Hines, A.H., T.G. Wolcott, E. Gonzalez-Gurriaran, J.L. Gonzalez-Escalante, and J. Friere. 1995. Movement patterns and migrations in crabs: telemetry studies of juvenile and adult behaviour in Callinectes sapidus and Maja squinado. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the U.K. 75: 27-42.

Wolcott, T.G. 1995. New Options in Physiological and Behavioural Ecology Through Multichannel Telemetry. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 193: 257-275.