SEMINAR PRESENTATIONS (1988 to date only)

2005 Meeting of the Animal Behavior Society, Snowbird, UT. Title: "Seasonal analysis of group movements by bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) near Chincoteague Inlet, Virginia, USA." (Beeching, Simon C., Answini, Albert F., Ryan, Wendy L., and Schofield, David.)

2004 Meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, New Orleans, LA. Title: "Group size, group composition, and behavioral correlates in bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) near Chincoteague Inlet, Virginia, USA." (Beeching, Simon C., Answini, Albert F., Ryan, Wendy L., and Schofield, David.)

2002 Meeting of the Animal Behavior Society at Indiana University, Bloomington, IN Title: "Seasonal demographic study on bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in the Assateague-Wallops Island, VA region." (Wack, C. L., Beeching, W. J., Beeching, Simon C., Answini, Albert F., Ryan, Wendy L., and Schofield, David.)

2002 Meeting of the Animal Behavior Society at Indiana University, Bloomington, IN Title: " Behavioral correlates of group size in Atlantic Coastal Migratory Dolphins, Tursiops truncatus . " (Beeching, Simon C., Answini, Albert F., Ryan, Wendy L., and Schofield, David.)

2000 Meeting of the Animal Behavior Society at Morehouse College, Atlanta, GA Title: Sex differences in mate size preference in the convict cichlid, Cichlasoma nigrofasciatum. (Simon C. Beeching, Amanda B. Hopp, Ginger L. Ruffner)

1999 Meeting of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists at the Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA Title: "Ontogeny of melanistic pattern elements in the convict cichlid, Cichlasoma nigrofasciatum" (Simon C. Beeching, Brent Holt and Michael Neiderer).

1998 Annual International Symposium, The Fisheries Society of the British Isles, University of Southampton, UK. Title: "Male mate choice and female aggression in the convict cichlid."

1996 Conference on Ecological and Evolutionary Biology of Fishes. University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Title: Sexual dichromatism in a Cichlid fish.

1995 Pennsylvania Aquarium. Color Pattern Signaling in a Cichlid Fish.

1994 Conference on the Evolutionary and Ecological Ethology of Fishes, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada. Title: Determination of Functional Groups in Cichlid Social Behaviour Using Multivariate Analysis of Dummy-elicited Activities.

1993 Meetings of the Animal Behavior Society, University of California at Davis. Title: Color Pattern and Inhibition of Aggression in a Cichlid Fish.

1992 Meetings of the Animal Behavior Society, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Title: Eyespots and Intraspecific Signaling in a Cichlid Fish.

1990 Meetings of the Animal Behavior Society, The state University of New York at Binghamton. Title: Behavioral Mechanisms Based on Body Size in the Oscar (Astronotus ocellatus).

1990 Conference on the Evolutionary and Ecological Ethology of Fishes, Northern Arizona State University, Flagstaff, Arizona. Title: Body Size Asymmetries and Assessment in Cichlid Encounters.

1989 Meetings of the Animal Behavior Society, Northern Kentucky University. TItle: Visual Cues as Proximal Mechanisms of Agonistic and Courtship Behavior in the Oscar, Astronotus ocellatus.