Elisabeth Slooten is a New Zealand zoology academic. She is currently a full professor at the University of Otago.^[1]

Biography

After secondary school in the Netherlands and a BSc and MSc in marine biology at the University of Auckland, Slooten completed a 1990 PhD from the University of Canterbury entitled Population biology, social organization and behaviour of Hector's Dolphins.^[2] Moving to the University of Otago for an extended period, she rose to the rank of full professor in 2015.^[1][3]

In 2004, Slooten and Stephen Michael Dawson won the Charles Fleming Award for environmental achievement from the Royal Society of New Zealand.^[4][5] In 2017, Slooten was selected as one of the Royal Society Te Apārangi's "150 women in 150 words", celebrating the contributions of women to knowledge in New Zealand.^[6]

Slooten has a partner, Steve Michael Dawson, also a professor of marine biology at Otago.^[7]

Selected works

• Lusseau, David; Slooten, Liz; Currey, Rohan J. C. (2006). "Unsustainable Dolphin-watching Tourism in Fiordland, New Zealand". Tourism in Marine Environments. 3 (2): 173–178. doi:10.3727/154427306779435184.
• Rayment, W.; Dawson, S.; Slooten, L. (2009). "Use of T-PODs for acoustic monitoring of Cephalorhynchus dolphins: A case study with Hector's dolphins in a marine protected area". Endangered Species Research. 10: 333–339. doi:10.3354/esr00189.
• Rayment, William; Dawson, Steve; Slooten, Liz (2009). "Trialling an automated passive acoustic detector (T-POD) with Hector's dolphins (Cephalorhynchus hectori)". Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 89 (5): 1015–1022. Bibcode:2009JMBUK..89.1015R. doi:10.1017/S0025315409003129. S2CID 86074302.
• Shephard, Kerry; Harraway, John; Lovelock, Brent; Skeaff, Sheila; Slooten, Liz; Strack, Mick; Furnari, Mary; Jowett, Tim (2014). "Is the environmental literacy of university students measurable?". Environmental Education Research. 20 (4): 476–495. doi:10.1080/13504622.2013.816268. hdl:10523/7640. S2CID 54776882.
• Jowett, Tim; Harraway, John; Lovelock, Brent; Skeaff, Sheila; Slooten, Liz; Strack, Mick; Shephard, Kerry (2014). "Multinomial-Regression Modeling of the Environmental Attitudes of Higher Education Students Based on the Revised New Ecological Paradigm Scale". The Journal of Environmental Education. 45 (1): 1–15. Bibcode:2014JEnEd..45....1J. doi:10.1080/00958964.2013.783777. S2CID 143645420.
• Shephard, Kerry; Harraway, John; Jowett, Tim; Lovelock, Brent; Skeaff, Sheila; Slooten, Liz; Strack, Mick; Furnari, Mary (2015). "Longitudinal analysis of the environmental attitudes of university students". Environmental Education Research. 21 (6): 805–820. doi:10.1080/13504622.2014.913126. hdl:10523/7641. S2CID 146242061.