Dear MARMAM subscribers, For those who may be interested, my PhD thesis entitled 'The role of juvenile foraging ecology and growth in the evolution of life history strategies for southern elephant seals' is now available as a PDF file on the web at the following web address: http://www.cdu.edu.au/ser/IainFieldProfile.htm#Theses (or http://adt.lib.utas.edu.au/public/adt-TU20051004.143116/) The main keywords for the thesis are ontogeny, intra-specific competition, life history and foraging ecology. Topics covered within this thesis are anaesthesia, foraging range and spatial/habitat use, diet, metabolic changes and growth of a large free-ranging marine mammal species, the southern elephant seal, in a dynamic environment. For any further inquiries or for reprints of publications from my thesis (listed below), please feel free to contact me directly at the following email address: Iain.Field@utas.edu.au Field IC, Bradshaw CJA, Burton HR, Hindell MA (2007) Differential resource allocation strategies for juvenile elephant seals in the highly seasonal Southern Ocean. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 331: 281-290 Field IC, Bradshaw CJA , van den Hoff J, Burton HR, Hindell MA (2007) Age-related shifts in the diet composition of southern elephant seals expand overall foraging niche. Marine Biology 150: 1441-1452 Field IC, Bradshaw CJA, Burton HR, Hindell MA (2005) Patterns of onshore mass change and metabolism in juvenile southern elephant seals. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 78(4):491-504 Field IC, Bradshaw CJA, Burton HR, Sumner MD, Hindell MA (2005) Resource partitioning through oceanic segregation of foraging juvenile southern elephant seals. Oecologia 142:127-135 Field IC, Bradshaw CJA, Burton HR, Hindell MA (2004) Seasonal use of oceanographic and fisheries management zones by juvenile southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) from Macquarie Island. Polar Biology 27:432-440 Field IC, McMahon CR, Bradshaw CJA, Harrington J, Burton HR (2002) Intravenous anaesthesia of elephant seals: effects of age, size, condition and function of haul-out. Veterinary Record, 151(8): 235-240 Also available is a PDF copy of my honours thesis titled 'Diving behaviour of the southern elephant seal Mirounga leonina from Macquarie Island in relation to water temperature'. Cheers for now, Iain Dr Iain Field CDU / AIMS Research Fellow Shark Tagging and Population Modelling Project School for Environmental Research Charles Darwin University Darwin, NT, 0909 http://www.cdu.edu.au/ser/MarineEcology.htm#sharks