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Student Life - PhD Students -- Shaleyla Kelez Sara

KelezLSRC A253
Box 90328
Durham, NC 27708-0328
919.613.8050
Fax: 919.684.8741
E-mail: shaleyla.kelez@duke.edu

Research Interests:

  • Sea turtle biology and conservation
  • Conservation biology
  • Biological oceanography
  • Sustainable fisheries

Education:

  • B.S.in biology (Ecology orientation) at Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina (UNALM), Lima Peru

Bio: Shaleyla Kelez is a Peruvian biologist. She received her B.S. in 2000 from the Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molinaâ (Lima). Currently she is a second-year Ph.D. student at the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences at Duke University. She is also a Research Assistant in the Project Global at the Duke Center for Marine Conservation.

From 1999 to 2005, Kelez worked in several Non Governmental Agencies conducting research on sea turtles and by-catch. She worked mainly in Peru but also in Costa Rica and Puerto Rico. In Peru, Kelez also did research on penguins and marine protected areas.

Her professional interest is extending scientific understanding of how ecosystems function, particularly the marine ecosystem. Kelez wants to see economic activities like fisheries to sustainably develop while ensuring the preservation of species like sea turtles.

Kelez is a member of the UICN Sea Turtles Specialist Group and the International Sea Turtle Society.

Hobbies: Shaleyla's favorite activities are traveling, backpacking, dancing and playing volleyball among others. To delight her senses she likes to listen to a broad variety of music, watch lots of films, and read science fiction books.

Pubs:

Referreed publications:
Smith, A. C.; Kelez, S. & H. M. Buchanan-Smith. 2004. Factors affecting vigilance whiting wild mixed-species troops of saddleback (Saguinus fuscicollis) and moustached tamarins (Saguinus mystax). Behavioural Ecology & Sociobiology 56:18-25.

Kelez, S.; X. Velez-Zuazo & C. Manrique. 2003. New evidence on the Loggerhead Sea Turtle Caretta caretta (Linnaeus, 1758) in Peru. Revista de Ecologia Aplicada  2(1): 141-142.

Published abstracts:
Kelez, S.; C. Manrique & X. Velez-Zuazo. 2006. Shark longline fishery and sea turtles in Peruvian waters. In: Frick, M., A. Panagopoulou, A.F. Rees & K. Williams (compilers) Book of abstracts 26th annual symposium on sea turtle biology and conservation. p 262-263.

Manrique, C.; S. Kelez & X. Velez-Zuazo. 2006. Impact of the common dolphinfish longline fishery on sea turtles along the Peruvian coast between 2003 and 2005. In: Frick, M., A. Panagopoulou, A.F. Rees & K. Williams (compilers) Book of abstracts 26th annual symposium on sea turtle biology and conservation. p 236.

Velez-Zuazo, X.; S. Kelez & C. Manrique. 2006. Genetic composition of sea turtles bycatch from Peruvian fisheries inferred through mtDNA analysis. In: Frick, M., A. Panagopoulou, A.F. Rees & K. Williams (compilers) Book of abstracts 26th annual symposium on sea turtle biology and conservation. p 207.

Valqui, M.; A. Cruz, J. Alfaro-Shigueto, S. Kelez, M. Pajuelo, J. Mangel & P. Melly. 2006. First year results of the hook substitution experiment to reduce sea turtle bycatch in Peru. In: Frick, M., A. Panagopoulou, A.F. Rees & K. Williams (compilers) Book of abstracts 26th annual symposium on sea turtle biology and conservation. p 270-271.

Kelez, S.; C. Manrique; X. Velez-Zuazo & M. Williams de Castro. 2005. Green Turtle (Chelonia mydas agassizzi) Diet differences in two Peruvian Coastal Localities. In: M. Coyne & R.D. Clark (comps.) Proceedings of the twenty-first annual symposium on sea turtle biology and conservation, NOAA Tech. Memo. NMFS-SEFSC-528. p. 305-307.

Manrique, C.; S. Kelez; X. Velez-Zuazo & M. Williams de Castro. 2005. New Morphometric Data on Captured Sea Turtles at San Andres Inlet, Pisco Peru. In: M. Coyne & R.D. Clark (comps.) Proceedings of the twenty-first annual symposium on sea turtle biology and conservation, NOAA Tech. Memo. NMFS-SEFSC-528. p. 122-124.

Velez-Zuazo, X.; S. Kelez; C. Manrique & M. Williams de Castro. 2005. The Conservation of Inmature Marine Turtles in Peru. In: M. Coyne & R.D. Clark (comps.) Proceedings of the twenty-first annual symposium on sea turtle biology and conservation, NOAA Tech. Memo. NMFS-SEFSC-528. p..

Fallabrino, A; S. Gómez; C. Manrique; S. Kelez; L. Kinglet; J. Di Paola; E. Carabelli and A.M. Suarez. 2005. Importance of the capacitation of volunteers for Research and Conservation of Marine Turtles in Latin America. In: M. Coyne & R.D. Clark (comps.) Proceedings of the twenty-first annual symposium on sea turtle biology and conservation, NOAA Tech. Memo. NMFS-SEFSC-528. p. 367-368.

Kelez, S.; X. Velez-Zuazo & C. Manrique. 2003. Sea Turtles current Status in the Northern Coast of Peru, Preliminary Results. In: Seminoff, J.A. (compilator) Proceedings of the twenty-second annual symposium on sea turtle biology and conservation. NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SEFSC-503. p. 264-265.

Manrique, C.; X. Velez-Zuazo & S. Kelez. 2003. Hatchlings in Peru: The first headstarting experience. In: Seminoff, J.A. (compilator) Proceedings of the twenty-second annual symposium on sea turtle biology and conservation. NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SEFSC-503. p. 264-265.
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