Lauren Rust

Lauren Rust

Executive Director - Lowcountry Marine Mammal Network (Non-Profit)

Education

B.S. , MSc.

Research Interests

  • Marine mammals life history
  • Marine mammals strandings
  • Strand feeding
  • Human impacts on marine mammals
  • Marine mammal ecology

Publications

  • Rust, L. B., and W. McFee. 2026. “Overview of Strand Feeding Behaviors by Estuarine Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops erebennus) in Captain Sams Inlet, South Carolina.” Marine Mammal Science 42, no. 3: e70209. https://doi.org/10.1111/mms.70209.
  • Elliser, C.R., C. Edison, K. MacIver, and L. B. Rust: 2022. Kleptoparasitic interactions by bald eagles (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) during marine mammal foraging events. Behaviour 159 (2022): 1387-1399.
  • Rust, L. B., K. Danil, S. R. Melin, and B. Wilkerson. 2019. Accuracy and precision of age determination using growth layer groups for California sea lions (Zalophus californianus) with known ages. Marine Mammal Science: 35(4): 1355-1368.
  • Whitaker DM, Reichley SR, Griffin MJ, Prager K, Richey CA, Kenelty KV, Stevens BN, Lloyd-Smith JO, Johnson CK, Duignan P, Johnson S, Rios C, DeLong R, Halaska B, Rust L, Byrne BA, Struve C, Barnum S, Soto E. 2018. Hypermucoviscous klebsiella pneumoniae isolates from stranded and wild-caught marine mammals of the us pacific coast: prevalence, phenotype, and genotype. Journal of Wildlife Diseases: 54(4):659-670.
  • Rust, L, F. Gulland, E. Frame, and K. Lefebvre. 2013. Domoic acid in milk of free-living California marine mammals indicates lactational exposure occurs. Marine Mammal Science 30(3): 1272-1278.