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Media Appearances

2024
2023
  • 2023. Montreal Science Centre “Inspiring Nature, Inspired Techno-Biomimicry and Transport

  • 2023. Contributor to the book, “The P Word”

2022
2021
2020
  • 2020. Videos of shrimpfish posted on Twitter by Cool Science Videos@GeoBeats, “This fish didn’t get the message”, August 11 at https://twitter.com/GeoBeats/status/1293191246626856960

  • 2020. Highlighted in the book Innovative Wind Turbines: An Illustrated Guidebook by Vaughan Nelson, CRC Press.

2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
  • 2013. Featured in the Brazilian blog Biodiversa, “Como se coloca uma baleia em um ventilador?”

  • 2013. Bloomberg. 14 smart inventions inspired by nature: biomimicry, Fin to the wind.

  • 2013. Interviewed for magazine article “Evolution of the Whale” by Brian Gregory in Untamed.

  • 2013. “Tubercle Effect” in Wikipedia

2012
  • 2012. “Whale Bumps for Power”. National Geographic Daily News.

  • 2012. Robotic manta ray. ABC News.

  • 2012. Interviewed for article “Shake, Rover…Shake” in the Philadelphia Inquirer, September 3, pages C1-C2.

  • 2012. Highlighted in TEDx Talk entitled “Does our future require us to go back to nature?” by Dr. Ashok Goel of the Georgia Institute of Technology.

  • 2012. Interviewed in Discovery News article “Largest predator performs acrobatics to feed”

  • 2012. Interviewed in Nature article “Blue whales pirouette for food

  • 2012. Featured in West Chester University Magazine, “Testing a robot ray”, Fall 2012, p. 6.

  • 2012. Featured in “How Whales Fly?” in website Scitable.

2011
  • 2011. Featured by Smithsonian Science, “Narwhal flukes help compensate for drag caused by tusk”

  • 2011. Featured in West Chester University Magazine, “Mimicking Nature’s Designs”, Winter/Spring 2011, p. 15.

  • 2011. Featured in Conservation, “Whale flippers jump the gap”, Spring 2011, p. 63.

  • 2011. Featured in Mechanical Engineering, “from whales to fans”, May 2011, 133(5): 24-29.

  • 2011. Featured in Science, “Manta Machines”, 27 May 2011, Vol. 332: 1028-1029.

  • 2011. Highlighted in Reader’s Digest, “Back to Nature”, June/July 2011: 166-171.

  • 2011. Quoted in “A Fish of an Idea” by Catherine Clabby in American Scientist, September-October 2011, Vol. 99: 382.

  • 2011. Quoted in “How Sharks Go Fast” by Elizabeth Pennisi in Science Now.

  • 2011. Quoted in “Baby Bumps Slow Dolphins Down” by Gisela Telis in Science Now.

  • 2011. Project WhaleWatch, Youth Design Team Digital Task Force Fall 2011 program at the Field Museum in Chicago.

  • 2011. “A Whale of a Good Idea” by Brian Clark Howard

2010
  • Holtcamp, W., "Mimicking Mother Nature" National Wildlife, December/January 2010: 46-51.

  • Highlighted in advertisement for West Chester University, which was placed in The Chronicle of Higher Education, February 5, 2010, Vol. LVI, Number 21, p. A19.

  • Interviewed on the Naked Scientist Radio Show and Podcast, based at the University of Cambridge and broadcast on BBC radio (2/21/10).

  • Contributor to the television show Richard Hammond’s Invisible Worlds, which aired on March 16, 2010 on BBC1.

  • Whirl-y-bird vs. Whale-y-bird

  • Featured in BBC television production "Bang Goes the Theory", series 2, episode 4 (2010).

  • Featured in Biomimicry Stories for NOAA Auditorium Program, Monterey Bay Aquarium (2010).

  • Interviewed for article “Dunk the Giraffe” by Helen Fields in Science Vol. 328: 1617, 25 June 2010.

  • 2010. Featured in a 15-minute live program, “Whales to windmills: Inventions inspired by the sea” that will run on a continuous basis at the Monterey Bay Aquarium.

  • 2010. Consultant for BBC production “Invisible Worlds: Speed Limits”

  • 2010. Featured in “A Fish Story” in Entrepreneur magazine.

2009
2008
  • Science News: Gator Aids: Gators squish lungs around to dive and roll (2008)

  • Research highlighted in the April 2008 issue of National Geographic for his work on the application of the geometry of the humpback whale flipper for wind turbine design in the article "Biomimetics: design by nature". (2008)

  • Christian Science Monitor, “Whales inspire better blade designs” May 15, 2008.

  • Canadian Broadcasting Corporation radio interview on “Quirks and Quarks” (2008).

  • Philadelphia Inquirer (2008)

  • Bumpy Whale Fins Outperform Smooth Turbines (2008)

  • Deutschlandradio Kultur, Deutschlandfunk: (2008)

  • MSNBC.com: Scientists tap motion in the ocean for energy (2008)

  • The Flying Circus of Physics: Alligator death roll (2008)

  • Discover: Wind Turbine That Imitates Flippers Could Increase Efficiency(2008)

  • EARTH (formerly GEOTIMES) magazine: "A whale of a wind turbine" (September 2008)

  • Science News: "Built for speed" (August 16, 2008).

  • “A Whale of a Turbine” in The Daily Planet Book of Cool Ideas: Global Warming and What People Are Doing About It, Jay Ingram, Penguin Canada.(2008)

  • “Fabulous flippers: Dolphins have quite the kick” (2008)

  • 'Gray's Paradox' solved: Researchers discover secret of speedy dolphins. EurkAlert (2008)

  • Dolphins’ tails give them their kick. USA Today 11/25/08, p. 6D. (2008)

  • Dolphin Kick Three Times More Mighty Than Olympians. Discovery Channel. (2008)

  • Fabulous flippers: Dolphins have quite the kick. WTOP.com. (2008)

  • Researchers Determine Force Of Dolphins’ Thrust. Red Orbit. (2008)

  • Why Michael Phelps Will Never Swim Faster Than a Dolphin. Discover. (2008)

  • Dolphin power is triple that of Olympic swimmer. News.scotsman.com.(2008)

  • US scientists calculate power of dolphins. International Herald Tribune. (2008)

  • Fabulous flippers: Dolphins have quite the kick. Yahoo News. (2008)

  • 'Gray's Paradox' solved: Researchers discover secret of speedy dolphins. E! Science News. (2008)

  • 'Top secret' technology to help US swimmers trim times at Beijing Olympics. E! Science News. (2008)

2007
2006
  • Highlighted in an article in the Educator Spotlight in the Chester County Neighbors section of the Philadelphia Inquirer , January 1, 2006.

  • Featured in an article “The Physics of Swimming: Faster Than They Should Be” in Discover magazine, February 2006: 22-23.

  • ScienceNow Daily News- New twist on an old spin, 2/8/2006

  • Ocean Indigo (Italy)- Delfini, svelato il segreto delle piroette (indigo.splinder.com), 2/9/2006

  • KOMPAS Cyber Media (Indonesia)- Rahasia Tarian Lumba-lumba (2006)

  • New Scientist- Dolphin does the twist to hit the sir spinning, 2/14/2006

  • www.biomachinations.com- Aerial Spinner (2006)

  • News ITALIA PRESS- Perchè I delfini fanno le piroette? (2006)

  • Galileo: Giornale di scienza e problemi globali- Delfini, svelato il segreto delle piroette (2006)

  • LiveScience (2006)

  • Israel High-Tech & Investment Report, April 2006

  • Whale and Dolphin Magazine: Spin doctors, May/June 2006.

  • TEKNOLOJI (Turkey)- Yunuslar suda nasil ziplar? (2006)

  • Anders Fernsehen- Delfine beginnen ihre Pirouetten bereits unter Wasser, 6/2/06

  • Scientists Studied Spinner Dolphins

  • Interviewed in an article “Flippered robot mimics sea creatures” in Discovery Channel News Feature. (2006)

  • Interviewed for article “Marine technology inspired by dolphins’ speed” for PHYORG.COM (https://phys.org/news/2006-06-marine-technology-dolphins.html) (2006)

2004
  • Publication of the letter "Fish Knows" in the Annals of Improbable Research 9(6): 2. (2004)

  • Mimicking Humpback Whale Flippers May Improve Airplane Wing Design

  • Science: Flipper Flight, 304: 1106. (2004)

  • Scientific American: Bumpy Flying, August 2004: 18-20. (2004)

  • Natural History: As the Whale Turns, June 2004: 24-25. (2004)

  • Science Daily: Mimicking Humpback Whale Flipper May Improve Airplane Wing Design (2004), www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/05/040512044455.htm

  • Vancouver Aquarium Aquanews: New Airplane Wing Mimics Humpback Whale Flippers (2004)

  • Netzeitung Wissenschaft: Fliegen wie ein Buckelwal schwimmt. (2004)

  • Herald Sun: Humpback whale flippers inspire engineers to improve airplane wings, May 25, 2004.

  • Science News: Marvels of Engineering, September 4, 2004: 154-156.

  • Journal of Experimental Biology: Outside JEB: Humpback's Bumpy Flippers, 207(21): iv, 2004.

  • Prism (American Society of Engineering Education) 14(4):13, December, 2004.

2003
2002
  • Cover design of Integrative and Comparative Biology Volume 42 Number 1, (February 2002)

  • Research on humpback whales highlighted in NatureAustralia 27(6): 22-23. (2002)

2001
  • Research highlighted in the article: Le Page, M. 2001. Speed bumps give humpbacks a surprise boost. New Scientist, 13 January, p. 22. (2001)

  • Research highlighted in advertisement by Peak Performance Technologies Inc. (2001)

  • Research on energetics of platypus knuckle-walking highlighted on the Canadian television show @Discovery.ca in the Weird and Wonderful Science segment. (2001)

  • Interviewed by Outside magazine for the Wild File section. (March, 2001)

  • 2001- Research on humpback whales highlighted on the Animal Update segment of radio show Living on Earth. (March 9, 2001)

  • Interviewed by Muse magazine. (2001)

  • Interviewed for an article, "Children and courting pairs love return of firefly season" which appeared in the Daily Local News (July 2, 2001)

  • Interviewed for Science News article on buoyant balaenids. (2001)

  • Featured in PBS series Evolution: Great Transformations. (September 9, 2001)

  • Featured in the Daily Local News article “Fish Story”. (November 1, 2001)

  • Featured on the television show Walking with Prehistoric Beasts, which was produced by the BBC and aired on the Discovery Channel (December 9, 2001)

  • Highlighted in an article "A Whale of a Tale" in Machine Design for work on an animatronic Orca on exhibit in the Nagoya Port Public Aquarium in Japan. (December 13, 2001)

2000
  • Interviewed for news article “ Flipper’s Flippant Formula” which appeared in Newsday. (March 7, 2000)

  • Interviewed for news article “How whales, dolphins, seals dive so deep” which appeared in Science News 157(15): 230. (2000)

  • Interviewed for news article “In nature, animals that stop and start win the race” which appeared in Science 288: 83-85. (2000)

  • Interviewed for news article “Grebes propelled by fancy footwork” on Discovery.com News (October 5, 2000).

  • Radio interview by the Australian Broadcasting Company on ancient bacteria (October 18, 2000).

  • Interviewed for news article “WCU pair find oldest organism” which appeared in the Daily Local News (October 19, 2000).

  • Interviewed for Nature Science Update article “Stiff fish in a spin”. (2000)

  • Interviewed by Daily Local News for article “Science teachers ponder change in Pa. Treatment of evolution theory.” (2000)

1999
  • Interviewed for article " Shedding light on dolphins" in American Scientist 87: 216-217. (1999)

  • Interviewed for news article “Experts: Study fish to swim better” which appeared on the Associated Press Wire (April 2, 1999).

  • Interviewed for news article “Go Fish! Studying the critters makes for speedier swimmers” which appeared on HealthScout (www.healthscout.com). (April 13, 1999)

1998
  • Research highlighted in an article "Schnabeltiere als flotte Schwimmer" which was published in Natur and Wissenschaft section of the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. (March 11, 1998)

  • Featured in book, At the Water's Edge, by Carl Zimmer published by the Free Press. (1998)

1997
  • Cover of Journal of Experimental Biology Volume 200(8). (1997)

  • Featured in article "Ducklings and Dolphins and Fish- oh My!" in West Chester University Magazine (Summer 1997).

  • Cover of West Chester University Magazine (Summer 1997).

1996
  • Research on hydroplaning ducklings highlighted on the Canadian television show @Discovery.ca in the Weird and Wonderful Science segment. (1996)

  • Highlighted in article " Beastly Olympics" in August issue of Discover Magazine. (1996)

  • Interviewed by Outside magazine for the Wild File section. (1996)

1995
  • Interviewed for radio broadcast by American Institute of Physics Science Report on Physics and Animals. (1995)

  • Research on energetics of formation swimming highlighted on the Canadian television show @Discovery.ca in the Weird and Wonderful Science segment. (1995)

1994
  • Research on hydroplaning in ducklings highlighted in Discover Magazine. (1994)

1988
  • Research on jet-propelled frogfishes highlighted in the Tropical Fish Hobbyist. (1988)

1985
  • Research films were on display at the American Museum of Natural History in an exhibit entitled, "Captured Motion: Skeletal Studies by S. Harmsted Chubb." (1985)

CONTACT US

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Department of Biology

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730 South Church St.
West Chester, PA 19383, USA

Office: SCL 058
Phone: 610-436-2460
Email: ffish@wcupa.edu

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