Dr. Stefanie K Gazda

Associate Instructional Professor, Biology Online Major Coordinator

Areas of Interest/Research

  • Advance the education of students with student-centered pedagogy
  • Promote a culture of inclusion and diversity within classes
  • The role of spatial structure and environmental variables that shape large predator and prey habitat usage, and how different spatial and temporal scales affect large predator and prey dynamics
  • The application of the One Health Initiative to estuarine systems to monitor regime change and ecosystem health through sentinel species

Background

  • 2015: Ph.D., Marine Science and Technology Intercampus Marine Sciences Graduate Program
    • Intercampus Marine Sciences Graduate Program, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA
    • Dissertation: Examining sociological differences and the influence of prey distribution and environmental variability in the distribution of a top marine predator, the bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus)
  • 2002: M.S., Marine Biology
    • University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, North Dartmouth, MA
    • Thesis: Evidence of role specialization among foraging bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) off Cedar Key, Florida
  • 2000: B.S., Marine and Freshwater Biology
    • University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
  • 1998–1999: National Exchange Program,
    • University of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA

Contact Information:

Email: stefanie.gazda@ufl.edu
Phone: (352) 273.0114
Office: 214A Bartram Hall

Mailing Address:

Department of Biology
University of Florida
PO Box 118525
Gainesville, FL  32611-8525