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Professor CONNOR, RICHARD (Dartmouth)
Assistant Professor

    Phone: (508) 999-8221
    Email: rconnor@umassd.edu
    Website: http://www.umassd.edu/cas/biology/connor.cfm

**Disclaimer: Condensed CVs for the School of Marine Sciences. For a full CV, please contact the professor.**

Education:
Ph.D. 1990 University of Michigan

B.A. 1982 University of California at Santa Cruz (Highest Honors in Biology; College Honors)

Professional History:
1990 - 1991 Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University
1991 - 1992 Postdoctoral Fellow, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
1993 - 1996 Assistant Professor, Biology Department/ Junior Fellow, Michigan Society of Fellows, University of Michigan
1994 - 1995 Honorary Visiting Research Fellow, University of Western Australia
1994 - 1995 Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
1996 - 2001 Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth
1998 - present Adjunct researcher, Mystic Aquarium
1998 - present Co - director: Shark Bay Dolphin Research Project
1999 Visiting Professor, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, Department of Cognitive Psychology, (one month)
2003 Adjunct Associate Professor, Brown University
2002 - present Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth
2003 - present Visiting Research Fellow, University of New South Wales

Current Research Support:
2003 Healy Foundation Grant, UMD, Synchrony and Social Bonds in bottlenose dolphins: a preliminary study.$2500
2003 - 2008 National Science Foundation: Co - PI w Janet Mann. Long - term study of bottlenose dolphin life history and social ecology $298,052

Selected Publications:
1998. Connor, R.C.; Mann, J; Tyack, P.L. and Whitehead, H. Quantifying brain - behavior relationships in cetaceans: a reply. TREE, 13: 408.
1999. Connor, R.C.; Heithaus, R.M. and Barre, L.M. Superalliance of bottlenose
dolphins. Nature, 371: 571 - 572. .
1999. Corkeron, P.J. and R.C. Connor. Why do baleen whales migrate? Marine
Mammal Science. 15: 1228 - 1245.
2000. Connor, R.C.; J. Mann, P.L. Tyack and H.Whitehead. Introduction: The social lives of whales and dolphins. In: Cetacean Societies: Field studies of whales and dolphins, eds: J. Mann; R.Connor, P.Tyack, and H. Whitehead. University of Chicago Press, pp1 - 6.
2000. Connor, R.C.,R. Wells, J.Mann, and A. Read. The bottlenose dolphin: social relationships in a fission - fusion society. In: Cetacean Societies: Field studies of whales and dolphins, eds: J. Mann; R.Connor, P.Tyack, and H. Whitehead.University of Chicago Press, pp 91 - 126.
2000. Connor, R.C. Group living in whales and dolphins. In: Cetacean Societies: Field studies of whales and dolphins, eds: J. Mann; R.Connor, P.Tyack, and H. Whitehead. University of Chicago Press, pp199 - 218.
2000. Connor, R.C.; A. Read and R.W. Wrangham. Male reproductive strategies and social bonds In: Cetacean Societies: Field studies of whales and dolphins, eds: J. Mann; R.Connor, P.Tyack, and H. Whitehead. University of Chicago Press, pp 247 - 269.
2000. Tyack, P.L. ; R.C. Connor; J. Mann and H. Whitehead. The future of research on cetaceans in the wild. In: Cetacean Societies: Field studies of whales and dolphins, eds: J. Mann; R.Connor, P.Tyack, and H. Whitehead. University of Chicago Press, pp333 - 339.
2000. Mann, J.; Connor, R.C., Barre, L.M. and M.R. Heithaus. Female
Reproductive Success in Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops sp.): life history, habitat, provisioning, and group size effects. Behav. Ecol. 11:210 - 219.
2000. Connor, R.C., Heithaus, M.R., Berggren, P. and J.L. Miksis. Kerplunking': Surface fluke - splashes during shallow water bottom foraging by bottlenose dolphins Mar. Mamm. Sci. 16: 646 - 653.
2001. Connor, R.C. Social relationships in a big - brained aquatic mammal. In:
Model Systems in Behavioral Ecology (ed. L.A. Dugatkin). Princeton University Press, Princeton.
2001. Connor, R.C. & Corkeron, P. Predation past and present: killer whales
and baleen whale migration. Marine Mammal Science, 17:.
2001. Connor, R.C. Ecology of group living and social organization. In:
Evolutionary biology of marine mammals (ed. A.R. Hoelzel). Blackwell.
2001. Connor, R.C., Heithaus, M.R. & Barre, L.M. Complex social structure, alliance stability and mating access in a bottlenose dolphin 'super - alliance'. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B. 268: 263 - 267.
2001. Connor, R.C. Individual foraging specializations in marine mammals: culture and ecology. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 24:329 - 330.
2001. Miksis, J.L., Grund, M.D., Nowacek, D.P., Connor, R.C. & Tyack, P.L. Cardiac Responses to Acoustic Playback Experiments in the Captive
Bottlenose Dolphin, Tursiops truncatus. J. Comp. Psych. 115: 227 - 332.
2001. Krützen M, Valsecchi, E.A. Connor, R.C. Sherwin W.B.
Characterization of microsatellite loci in Tursiops aduncus. J. Molecular
Ecology.
2003. Connor, R.C & M. Krützen. Levels and patterns in dolphin alliance formation. In: Animal Social Complexity Intelligence, Culture, and Individualized Societies (eds, Frans B. M. de Waal & Peter L. Tyack), Harvard University Press.
2003. Liemar, O. & R. Connor. Byproduct benefits, reciprocity and pseudo - reciprocity in mutualism. In: Hammerstein, P., ed. Genetic &
Cultural Evolution of Cooperation, Dahlem Workshop Report 90, MIT Press.
2003. C.T. Bergstrom, J.L. Bronstein, R. Bshary, R.C. Connor, M. Daly, S.A.
Frank,H. Gintis, L. Keller, O. Leimar, R. Nöe, and D.C. Queller. Interspecific mutualism: Puzzles and predictions. In: Hammerstein, P., ed. Genetic & Cultural Evolution of Cooperation, Dahlem Workshop Report 90, MIT Press.
2003. Krützen, M; W. B. Sherwin, R. C. Connor, L.M. Barré, T. Van de Casteele, J. Mann, R. Brooks. Contrasting relatedness patterns in bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops sp.) with different alliance strategies. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B.

2003. Fedorowicz, S.M., Beard, D. & R.C. Connor. Food Sharing in wild bottlenose dolphins. Aquatic Mammals. In press.