Education

B.S. (Zoology): SUNY College of Forestry and Environmental Science, 1972

Collection Management Responsibilities

Responsible for supervision of collection management activities relating to marine mammals, including accessions, specimen preparation, cataloging, specimen installations, curation, loans, information requests, and assisting visitors. Interests in staff supervision and collections management issues.

Recent Publications

Morgan, L., J. Musick, and C. Potter. 2002. Temporal and Geographic Occurrences of Cetacean Strandings and Manatee Sightings in Virginia, with Notes on Adverse Human-Cetacean Interactions, from 1983-1989. Journal of the North Carolina Academy of Science, 118(1): 12-26.

McLellan, W., A. Friedlaender, J. Mead, C. Potter, and D. A. Pabst. 2002. Analysing 25 Years of Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) Strandings along the Atlantic Coast of the USA: Do Historic Records Support the Coastal Migratory Stock Hypothesis. Journal of Cetacean Research and Management, 4(3): 297-304.

McLellan, W. A., H. N. Koopman, S. A. Rommel, A. J. Read, C. W. Potter, J. R. Nicolas, A. J. Westgate, and D. A. Pabst. 2002. Ontogenetic Allometry and Body Composition of Harbour Porpoises (Phocoena phocoena, L.) from the Western North Atlantic. Journal of Zoology, London, 257: 457-471.

Nicolas, J., D. C. Potter, C. W. Potter and P. E. Rosel. 2001. Results of a field collection of biopsy samples from coastal Bottlenose Dolphin in the Mid-Atlantic. Northeast Fisheries Science Center Reference Document:01-09, 9 pp.