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Dr. Stefanie K Gazda<\/h2>\n\n\n
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Associate Instructional Professor, Biology Online Education Coordinator<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Current\/Future\/Current Undergraduate\/Graduate\/Employees Click Here!<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Areas of Interest\/Research<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
  • Advance the education of students with student-centered pedagogy<\/li>\n
  • Promote a culture of inclusion and diversity within classes<\/li>\n
  • 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<\/li>\n
  • The application of the One Health Initiative to estuarine systems to monitor regime change and ecosystem health through sentinel species<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    Background<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
    • 2015:\u00a0Ph.D., Marine Science and Technology Intercampus Marine Sciences Graduate Program<\/span>\n
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      • Intercampus Marine Sciences Graduate Program, University of Massachusetts Boston,\u00a0<\/span>Boston, MA<\/li>\n
      • 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<\/em>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>
      • 2002:\u00a0M.S., Marine Biology<\/span>\n
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        • University of Massachusetts Dartmouth,\u00a0North Dartmouth, MA<\/li>\n
        • Thesis:\u00a0Evidence of role specialization among foraging bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus<\/em>) off Cedar Key, Florida<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>
        • 2000:\u00a0B.S., Marine and Freshwater Biology\n
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          • University of New Hampshire,\u00a0<\/span>Durham, NH<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>
          • 1998\u20131999:\u00a0National Exchange Program,\n
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            • University of California at Santa Cruz,\u00a0Santa Cruz, CA<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

              Contact Information:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

              Email:<\/strong> stefanie.gazda@ufl.edu
              \nPhone:<\/strong> (352)\u00a0273.0114
              \nOffice:<\/strong> 522A Carr Hall<\/p>\n\n\n\n

              Mailing Address:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

              Department of Biology
              \nUniversity of Florida
              \nPO Box 118525
              \nGainesville, FL\u00a0 32611-8525<\/p>\n\n\n\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1360,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/stefanie-gazda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/stefanie-gazda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/stefanie-gazda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/stefanie-gazda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1360"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/stefanie-gazda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/stefanie-gazda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/stefanie-gazda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/stefanie-gazda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}