Selected Conference Presentations

Shyan-Norwalt, M. (2008). Charles C. Hunter Series Lecturer: Invited Speaker, National American Association For Laboratory Animal Science Meeting, Indianapolis, IN. Nov 10.

Shyan-Norwalt, M. (2007). Case Study: Behavior modification for a deaf dalmatian puppy.  Interdisciplinary Forum on Applied Animal Behavior, New Orleans, LA, Mar 1-4.

Shyan-Norwalt, M (2006). The Impact of Maternal & Post-Weaning Dietary DHA, (Docosahexaenoic Acid) on Puppy Trainability, Interdisciplinary Forum on Applied Animal Behavior, Los Vegas, NV. Mar 3-5.

Shyan-Norwalt, M (2006). Caregiver Perceptions of What Indoor Cats Do "For Fun," Interdisciplinary Forum on Applied Animal Behavior, Los Vegas, NV.

Shyan-Norwalt, M. R. (2005). An Assessment Tool to Evaluate DOgs' Social Adaptations (Comfort to Work, Play, and Socialize with People), in the Kennel Environment.  The 7th International Conference on Animal Enrichment, New York, NY, Jul 31-Aug 5.

Shyan-Norwalt, M.R. (2004). Environmental Enrichment for Kenneled Companion Animals: Going Beyond the Standard. The 6^th Annual Humane Education Seminar, University of Illinois, Champaigne, IL (Mar 27).

Shyan, M.R. (2002). Comparing communication signals in dogs, cats, and humans. Sixth Interdisciplinary Forum on Applied Animal Behavior (March 1-3), Tampa, FL.

Shyan, M.R. (2001). Follow-up on use of time-out procedures during multi-cat introductions. Fifth Interdisciplinary Forum on Applied Animal Behavior (March 2-4) Newcastle, NY.

Shyan, M.R. (2000). Use of time-out procedures during multi-cat introductions to reduce aggression. Fourth Interdisciplinary Forum for Applied Animal Behavior, Pittsburgh, PA.(?), March 3-5.

Shyan, M.R., Dale, R.H.I., Peterson, J., Milankow, B., & Staggs, T. (1997). Preliminary findings on the visual acuity of an African elephant. The 38^th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Philadelphia, PA.

Shyan, M.R., Dale, R.H.I., Peterson, J., Milankow, B., & Staggs, T. (1997). Preliminary findings on the visual acuity of an African elephant. The 2^nd Annual Elephant Research Symposium, Pittsburgh, PA. July 25-27.

Shyan, M.R. (1996). Behavioral and vision studies with elephants: what questions do we ask? The 1^st  Annual Elephant Research Symposium, Indianapolis, IN, June 2-3.

Shyan, M. R. & Dale, R. (1991)."Captive African Elephants Produce the Same Estrous Vocalizations as Wild African Elephants." The 1991 American Psychological Society Conference, Washington, D.C.

Shyan, M. R., Critser, J., Dale, R., Olson, D. (1990). Pachedermy 402: Students, Research, and Zoos." The 1990 Annual National Conference of the American Association of Zoological Parks and Aquaria, Indianapolis, IN.

Shyan, M. R., Wright, A. A., and Jitsumori, M. (1990). "Auditory Same/Different Concept Learning by Two Rhesus Monkeys." Poster at the 2^nd Annual Conference of the American Psychological Society, Dallas, TX.

Shyan, M. R., Wright, A. A., Jitsumori, M., and Cook, R. G. (1989) Language effects on information processing and abstract concept learning in monkeys, dolphins, and humans. The Animal Language Workshop, the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI.

 

Invited Speaker Presentations

 

Shyan-Norwalt, M. (2008). Charles C. Hunter Series Lecturer: Invited Speaker, National American Association For Laboratory Animal Science Meeting, Indianapolis, IN. Nov 10.

Shyan-Norwalt, M. (2008). Invited Speaker: Lilly Pharmaceutical Pet Owners Club, “The Truth about Cats and Dogs,” Indianapolis, IN. Aug 14,

Shyan-Norwalt, M. (2008). Invited Speaker: The Truth About Cats and Dogs: (Social Signals that is). Distinguished Speaker Series, Bartholomew County Library, Columbus, IN. May 12,

Shyan-Norwalt, M. (2007). Keynote Address “The Human-Animal Bond: Or Are We All Secret Dr. Dolittles?” Merck laboratories “Tribute to Animals” Celebration. Sept 13.

Shyan-Norwalt, M. (2007). Dogs that Bite and Apologize Later: What's really going on? Indiana University East, President's Inaugural Celebration Week presentations, Sept 25.

Shyan-Norwalt, M. (2005). “The Truth About Cats and Dogs.” Invited Speaker, District 6 American Association For Laboratory Animal Science meeting Dog and Cat Enrichment presentation.

Shyan-Norwalt, M.R. (2004). Plenary Session: Environmental Enrichment for Kenneled Companion Animals: Going Beyond the Standard. 2004 Conference on Homeless Animal Management Policy, Tampa, FL.

Shyan, M. R. (1993). Conservation Alert: Conservation of the African Elephant in Captivity--the More We Know." Indianapolis Zoo's Conservation Alert Program, Indianapolis, IN, September 24.

Shyan, M. R. (1993). Invited colloquium at IUPUI, Indianapolis, IN, "Culture, evolution, & the cosmic dolphin syndrome: A look at the relationships between humans & animals."

Shyan, M. R. (1992). Invited colloquium at Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI. "Elephants in Estrus Cycles: Singing that Old Love Song."

Shyan, M. R.(1992). "Behavioral, Vocal, and Hormonal Relationships in Five Captive African Elephants." The Zoo Members Lecture Series, The Indianapolis Zoo, IN, Sep 24.

 Shyan, M. R. (1989). Invited colloquium at Ohio State University, Columbus. "Gestural Determinants of Sign Recognition in Dolphins and Humans."

 

Selected Workshops and Seminars

 

Shyan-Norwalt, M., (2007). Two-day workshop, Merck Laboratory Animal Resources Division on animal welfare, dog and primate social signals, animal enrichment, training practices, and other activities. Sept 13-14.

Shyan-Norwalt, M.R. (2005). Workshop: Environmental Enrichment for Kenneled Companion Animals: Going Beyond the Standard. 2005, at the 2005 Conference on Homeless Animal Management Policy, Houston, TX.

Shyan-Norwalt, M. (2005) One-day workshop to Charles River Laboratories on animal welfare, dog social signals, animal enrichment, training practices, and other activities. June 14.

Borcehlt, P., Estep, D., Hetts, S., Nitschke, M.L., Shyan-Norwalt, M., Williiams, N., VOith, V. (2004). Panel on Growing the Field of Applied Animal Behavior, Interdiciplinary Forum on Applied Animal Behavior, Orlando, FL, Feb 27-29.

Shyan, M.R. et al. (1996). Spatial memory in African elephants at Zoo Atlanta: current status of the research. A Brown Bag Seminar at Zoo Atlanta, Atlanta, GA., Dec 12.

Shyan, M. R. (1993). Gambling, traffic lights, and training, Part I: How Trainers' and Keepers' praise and punishment affect behavior patterns in predictable ways; (& Lehnhardt, J.) Part II: active-participation seminar in reward and punishment schedules and their effects on behavior. The 14^th International Elephant Workshop, Vallejo, CA, Oct 17.

 

Selected Publications

 

Shyan-Norwalt, Shyan, M.R., Peterson, J., Milankow, B., Dale, R.H.I, and Staggs, T. (2009). Initial Findings on Visual Acuity Thresholds in an African Elephant (Loxodonta Africana).  Zoo Biology, Early View Online: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/122511707/abstract; DOI 10.1002/zoo.20259.

Shyan-Norwalt, MR. (2009). The human-animal bond with laboratory animals. Lab Animal: Europe, 9(5) May, 132-136.

Shyan-Norwalt, M.R. (2009). The human-animal bond in laboratory animals. Lab Animal, 38(4) April, 132-136.

Kelley, RL Lepine, AJ, Shyan-Norwalt. MR, Burr, JR and Reinhart, GA (2005). Impact of Maternal and Post-Weaning Nutrition on Puppy Trainability. Proceedings of the Breeding Better Dogs, 2005 Seminar.  B.E.I. Publications: Atlanta, GA.

Shyan-Norwalt, M.R. (2005). Caregiver Perceptions of What Indoor Cats Do "For Fun." Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science, 8(3), 199-209.

Shyan-Norwalt, M.R.(2005). An assessment tool to evaluate dogs' social adaptations (confort to work, play and socialize with people) in the kennel environment. Proceedings if the 7th Interntational Conference on Animal Enrichment, New York, NY, Jul 31-Aug 5.

Shyan-Norwalt, M.R. (2005). Workshop: Environmental Enrichment for Kenneled Companion Animals: Going Beyond the Standard. 2005, Proceedings of the 2005 Conference on Homeless Animal Management Policy, Houston, TX.

Shyan-Norwalt, M.R. (2004). Plenary Session: Environmental Enrichment for Kenneled Companion Animals: Going Beyond the Standard. 2004, Proceedings of the 2004 Conference on Homeless Animal Management Policy, Tampa, FL.

Shyan-Norwalt, M.R. (2004). Environmental Enrichment for Kenneled Companion Animals: Going Beyond the Standard. Proceedings of the 6^th Annual Humane Education Seminar, University of Illinois, Champaigne, IL (Mar 27).

Shyan-Norwalt, MR, Fortune, K, King, C. (2004). "Bark Parks"-A Study on Interdog Aggression in a Limited-Control Environment. ." Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science, 2003, 6(1), 25-32.

Shyan, M.R., & Merritt, D., Kohlmier, N, Barton, K, Tenge, J. (2002). Effects of Pool Size on Free-choice Selections by Atlantic Bottlenosed Dolphins At One Zoo Facility. Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science. 5(3), 215-225

Shyan, M.R. (2000). A Review of S. Hette’s Book “Pet Behavior Protocols” Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science (K.J. Shapiro & S.L. Zawistowski, eds) 3(3) 267-268.

Wright, A.A., Revera, J., Hulse, S., Shyan, M., Neiworth, J. (2000). Music perception and octave generalization in monkeys. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 129(3), 291-307.

Shyan, M.R., Barton, K. (2000). Exhaustive Ethogram for Elephants. In, Olson, D. (ed.), The Elephant Resource and Husbandry Manual, Indianapolis, IN.

Shyan, M.R. (1997). Spatial memory research with elephants at Zoo Atlanta. In Forthman, D. (ed.) The Ethogram, a behavioral husbandry and research news letter of Zoo Atlanta.

Shyan, M.R. (1997). Spatial memory research with elephants at Zoo Atlanta. In Forthman, D. (ed.) The Ethogram, a behavioral husbandry and research newsletter of Zoo Atlanta .

Shyan, M.R. (1995). Submissive Behavior in African Elephants. Jrnl of the Elephant Managers Assoc.

Shyan, M. R. and Wright, A. A. (1993). The effects of language on information processing and abstract concept learning in dolphins, monkeys, and humans. In Roitblat, H. L., Herman, L. M. and Nachtigall, P.(Eds.) Artificial Language Research: A Comparative Perspective, Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, 261-272.

Shyan, M. R. & Sanders, L. (1991). The laboratory animal dilemma: A reply to Devenport and Devenport. Psychological Science, 2, 2, 127-128.

Wright, A. A., Cook R. G., Rivera, J. J., Shyan, M. R., Neiworth, J. J., & Jitsumori, M. (1990). Naming, rehearsal, and interstimulus interval effects in memory processing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 16, 6, 1043-1059.

Wright, A. A., Shyan, M. R., & Jitsumori, M. (1990). Auditory Same/Different concept learning by monkeys. Animal Learning and Behavior, 18, 3, 287-294.

Shyan, M. R. and Herman, L. M. (1987). Determinants of recognition of gestural signs in an artificial sign language by Atlantic bottlenosed dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) and humans (Homo sapiens). Journal of Comparative Psychology, 101, 2, 112-125.

Shyan, M. R., Wright, A. A., Cook, R. G. and Jitsumori, M. (1987) Acquisition of the auditory Same/Different task in a Rhesus monkey. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 25, 1, 1-4.

Shyan, M. R. (1985). Methodological note: Analyzing signs for recognition and feature salience. Sign Language Studies, 46, 87-92.

 

Professional Reviewer/Editor

 

2007 - Present      Peer Reviewer: Animal Behaviour: companion animal behavior

2003 – 2005          Editorial Board, Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science.

Dec. 2001-2003    Section Editor (Wildlife and Conservation) for Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science, Kenneth Shapiro and Steve Zawistowski, Editors.

2001- present        Peer reviewer, Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science, Steve Zawistowski, Ed.

1999 – present      Peer Reviewer for National Geographic World, National Geographic Society.

1998 – present      Peer Reviewer for Zoo Biology, Executive Editor D. Wharton.

1994 - 1995          Contributing Editor, "From the Park: Have You Seen This?" (a Forum on Captive Elephant Natural Behavior) in, Olson, D. (ed.), Elephant Managers Association Newsletter ( now Journal of Professional Elephant Management)

Summer, 1994       Peer Reviewer for Center for Field Research (EarthWatch) Program proposals.

1992 - present       Peer Reviewer, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes.

1992 - present       Peer Reviewer for grant proposals for the National Institutes of Mental Health.

1989 - present       Peer Reviewer for grant proposals for the National Science Foundation.