Nicole Duplaix

NICOLE DUPLAIX

Instructor, Affiliate Faculty

Year Hired: 2006

Organizations and Affiliations:

Founder and Deputy Chair - IUCN-SSC Otter Specialist Group
Co-Founder - IUCN-SSC TRAFFIC Specialist Group
Scientific Fellow - Zoological Society of London
Fellow - Linnaen Society
Society of Conservation Biology
Coordinator, Luckiamute Watershed Council

Contract photographer - National Geographic Society Image Collection

Scientific Advisor - The Oceanic Society

Specialty: Mammalogy, Ecology and Animal Behavior

Research Interests: Comparative ecology, behavior and conservation of otter species and other endangered carnivores, Phylogeny, evolution and behavior. Teaches a Neotropical ecology course in the Pantanal, Brazil every year to inventory endangered vertebrates and to monitor habitat change: http://www.extension.ucsb.edu/wildlands/brazil/

Research website: http://www.GiantOtterResearch.com

Office: 104 Nash Hall

Office Phone: 503-302-4913

Fax: 541-737-3590

Email: Nicole.Duplaix@oregonstate.edu

Address:

104 Nash Hall
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 97331-3803

Courses Taught:

FW325 Global Crises in Resource Ecology - Extended Campus

Degrees:

1962 BS, University of Caen, France
1968 MS, University of Paris (Cuvier), France
1981 PhD, University of Paris (Orsay), France

Personal Interests: Exploring Oregon, traveling to distant and uncomfortable places, photography

Hometown: New York, NY and Paris, France