Current Program: M.S. in Biology
Bachelors in Aquatic Biology, University of Buenos Aires, 2005
My interests are related to different aspects of the biology of elasmobranchs. Five years of volunteering at the Museum of Natural Science “Bernardino Rivadavia”, Argentina helped me acquire knowledge in several aspects of their life history, reproduction and diet. Lately my own thesis project is more focused in the functional morphology area, the relation of form and function, especially in jaw and tooth morphology and its relation to feeding habits. My research project involves the theoretical measure of bite force in two different fishes, the bull shark (Carcharhinus leucas) and the great barracuda (Sphyraena barracuda) during ontogeny. Time permitting, I will be able to compare these measurements with in situ bite force.
November 2004-November 2005. Project leader; reproductive biology and stomach content analysis in the Angel shark, Squatina punctata in Puerto Quequen, Argentina; Ichthyology Division of the Museum of Natural Sciences “Bernardino Rivadavia”. Supervisor Lic. Gustavo Chiaramonte.
November 2004-November 2005. Volunteer work in stomach content analysis of saltwater sting rays of Puerto Quequen, Argentina; Ichthyology Division of the Museum of Natural Sciences “Bernardino Rivadavia”. Supervisor Lic. Gustavo Chiaramonte.
March 2003- March 2004. Volunteer work “Incidental capture of Sea Birds Surveys in Coastal Fisheries”. Project Sea Birds 2003. British Petrol Program; Ichthyology Division of the Museum of Natural Sciences “Bernardino Rivadavia”. Supervisor Lic. Leandro Tamini.
March 2003 and February 2004. Volunteer work Bimini Biological Field Station, Bahamas.
Conservation and biology of the lemon shark, Negaprion brevirostris. Supervisor Dr. Samuel Gruber.
Sidders, Matias A.; Habegger, Maria L.; Navarro, Carolina; Estalles, Maria L.; Alescio, Nadia S.; Tamini, Leandro L.; Perez, Jorge E.; Chiaramonte, Gustavo E. Reproductive biology of Mustelus schmitti Springer, 1939 (Triakidae: Carcharhiniforms) from Buenos Aires province, Argentina.American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists meeting. 11-15 July, 2005. Tampa, Florida. United States.
Tamini, Leandro L.; Eugenio G. Coconier; Jorge E. Perez; Ana S. Barreira; Matias Sidders; Maria Laura Habegger. Incidental capture of seabirds survey in Argentinean coastal fisheries. XIX Annual Meeting of Society for Conservation Biology. 15-19 July, 2005. Brasilia, Brasil.
Tamini, Leandro L.; Barreira A.S.; Sidders M.; Habegger M. L.; Perez J. E and E.G. Coconier 2004. Incidental capture of seabirds in coastal fishing vessels at Buenos Aires province, Argentina. Third International Albatross and Petrel Conference, IAPC. 23-27 August, 2004. Montevideo, Uruguay.
