Tom O'Shea - Volunteer

Trust Species & Habitats

Scientist

Duty Station:
Fort Collins Science Center
2150 Centre Ave
Bldg C
Fort Collins, CO 80525

Phone: 970-226-9397
Fax: 970.226.9230
Email: osheat@usgs.gov

Current Research

• Bat Use of Coniferous Forests at Mesa Verde National Park
• Ecology of Virus Transmission in Commensal Bats
• Bat Species of Concern: An Ecological Synthesis for Resource Managers
• Pacific Sheath-tailed Bat Assessments on Aguiguan and Tinian, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands

Products

Data

Total Records:1

• USGS Bat Population Database for the United States and Trust Territories

Publications

Total Records:125

• Broadening the focus of bat conservation and research in the USA for the 21st century
• Following Sirenia’s song: The meritorious journey of research zoologist Thomas J. O’Shea
• Climate change: The science of impacts
• Large-scale marine ecosystem change and the conservation of marine mammals
• The urban whale: North Atlantic right whales at the crossroads, by S.D. Kraus and R.M. Rolland (eds.). [Book Review]
• Evaluation of morphological indices and total body electrical conductivity to assess body composition in big brown bats
• A comparison of conventional capture versus PIT reader techniques for estimating survival and capture probabilities of big brown bats (Eptesicus fuscus)
• Detection of group 1 coronaviruses in bats in North America
• Urban maternity-roost selection by big brown bats in Colorado
• Factors influencing movement probabilities of big brown bats (Eptesicus fuscus) in buildings
• Ectoparasites in an urban population of big brown bats (Eptesicus fuscus) in Colorado
• Lack of association between ectoparasite intensities and rabies virus neutralizing antibody seroprevalence in wild big brown bats (Eptesicus fuscus), Fort Collins, Colorado
• Molecular ecology of the big brown bat (Eptesicus fuscus): Genetic and natural history variation in a hybrid zone
• History of the Fort Collins Science Center U.S. Geological Survey
• Aspects of underwater sound communication in Florida manatees (Trichechus manatus latirostris)
• Ecology of commensal bats in relation to rabies transmission: summary of the Fort Collins study, 2001-2005
• Sampling Blood from big brown bats (Eptesicus fuscus) in the field with and without anesthesia: Impacts on survival
• Autumn migration and selection of rock crevices as hibernacula by big brown bats in Colorado
• Nonlinear dynamics in manatee vocalizations
• Foreword
• Assessing impacts of environmental contaminants
• Anesthesia and blood sampling of wild big brown bats (Eptesicus fuscus) with an assessment of impacts on survival
• Survival and condition of big brown bats (Eptesicus fuscus) after radiotagging
• Genetic divergence of rabies viruses from bat species of Colorado, USA
• Marine mammals and environmental contaminants in the Pacific Ocean: current knowledge and frontiers for research
• Survival estimation in bats: historical overview, critical appraisal, and suggestions for new approaches
• Rabies in a captive colony of big brown bats (Eptesicus fuscus)
• Flying by night: USGS scientists put technology to work on bats
• Introduction
• Western crevice and cavity roosting bats
• Seasonal movements, migratory behavior, and site fidelity of West Indian manatees along the Atlantic coast of the United States
• Existing data on colonies of bats in the United States: summary and analysis of the U.S. Geological Survey's Bat Population Database
• Monitoring trends in bat populations of the United States and territories: problems and prospects
• Toxicology of sirenians
• Persistent ocean contaminants and marine mammals: a retrospective overview
• Conclusions and perspectives for the future
• Toxicology of marine mammals
• Monitoring trends in bat populations of the United States and territories: status of the science and recommendations for the future
• An overview of contaminants and bats, with special reference to insecticides and the Indiana bat
• Toxicology
• Cetaceans and sirenians
• Bat use of a high-plains urban wildlife refuge
• Cyclodiene insecticide, DDE, DDT, arsenic and mercury contamination of big brown bats (Eptesicus fuscus) foraging at a Colorado Superfund site
• Marine Mammals: sirenians
• Florida manatees: perspectives on populations, pain and protection
• Cause of seal die-off in 1988 is still under debate
• Impacts of mine-related contaminants on bats
• PCBs not to blame
• Procedures for the salvage and necropsy of the dugong (Dugong dugon)
• Toxicology in marine mammals
• Environmental contaminants and marine mammals
• Marine mammals and persistent ocean contaminants
• Population changes in bats from Central Arizona: 1972 and 1997
• West Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus)
• California sea lion (Zalophus californianus) populations and EDDT contamination
• Estimates of annual survival probabilities for adult Florida manatees (Trichechus manatus latirostris)
• Population viability analysis of the Florida manatee, 1976-1992
• A study of bat populations at Los Alamos National Laboratory and Bandelier National Monument, Jemez Mountains, New Mexico
• Diversity and conservation of bats in North America
• Age determination in manatees using growth-layer-group counts in bone
• Can dugongs survive in Palau?
• Florida Manatees
• Population biology of the Florida manatee
• Integration of manatee life-history data and population modeling
• Estimation of survival of adult Florida manatees in the Crystal River, at Blue Spring, and on the Atlantic coast
• Reproduction and early age survival of manatees at Blue Spring, Upper St. Johns River, Florida
• Reproduction and mortality of radio-tagged and recognizable manatees on the Atlantic coast of Florida
• Introduction
• Population biology of the Florida manatee: An overview
• Waterborne recreation and the Florida manatee
• Organochlorine and metal contaminants in baleen whales: a review and evaluation of conservation implications
• Manatees
• Foreword
• El manati en la tradicion y folklore de Venezuela
• Florida manatee
• Book review of The Pinnipeds: Seals, Sea Lions, and Walruses
• Book Review of Conservation Biology and the Black-Footed Ferret
• An epizootic of Florida manatees associated with a dinoflagellate bloom
• Belize - a last stronghold for manatees in the Caribbean
• Nasitrema sp.-associated encephalitis in a striped dolphin (Stenella coeruleoalba) stranded in the Gulf of Mexico
• Xerus rutilus
• Regulation of PCBs [letter]
• Regional brain morphometry and lissencephaly in the Sirenia
• Myxomatous transformation of heart valves in Florida manatees (Trichechus manatus latirostris)
• Distribucion y abundancia del manati, Trichechus Manatus, en Venezuela
• Florida manatees: distribution, geographically referenced data sets, and ecological and behavioral aspects of habitat use
• Distribution and status of manatees (Trichechus manatus) in Panama
• Encephalization quotients and life-history traits in the Sirenia
• Three years operational use of satellite transmitters on Florida manatees: tag improvements based on challenges from the field
• Distribution, status, and biogeography of the West Indian manatee
• Sowerby's beaked whale (Mesoplodon bidens) in the Gulf of Mexico
• Distribution and mortality of the West Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus) in the southeastern United States: A compilation and review of recent information (2 volumes)
• The past, present, and future of manatees in the southeastern United States: Realities, misunderstandings and enigmas
• Genetic variability in the Florida manatee, (Trichechus manatus)
• Distribution, status, and traditional significance of the West Indian manatee Trichechus manatus in Venezuela
• Manatee research efforts underway on Florida's east coast
• Research on sirenians
• Mast foraging by West Indian manatees (Trichechus manatus)
• Does the manatee have a pineal body?
• Tolerance of West Indian manatees to capture and handling
• An analysis of manatee mortality patterns in Florida, 1976-1981
• Communication and behavior of whales [Review]
• The manatee's simple social life
• Contaminant concentrations in manatees in Florida
• Lead concentrations and reproduction in highway-nesting barn swallows
• Pathologic findings in manatees in Florida
• Antrozous pallidus
• Manual of procedures for the salvage and necropsy of carcasses of the West Indian Manatee (Trichechus manatus)
• Auditory evoked potentials in the West Indian Manatee (Sirenia: Trichechus manatus)
• Effects of dietary nickel on mallards
• Polychlorinated biphenyls in a wild mink population
• DDT contamination at Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge
• Phthalate plasticizers: Accumulation and effects on weight and food consumption in captive starlings
• Organochlorine pollutants in small cetaceans from the Pacific and South Atlantic Oceans, November 1968-June 1976
• Influence of a local source of DDT pollution on statewide DDT residues in waterfowl wings, Northern Alabama, 1978-79
• Ecological observations on an East African bat community
• Roosting, social organization and the annual cycle in a Kenya population of the bat Pipistrellus nanus
• Monitoring fish and wildlife for environmental pollutants
• Nocturnal and seasonal activities of the pallid bat, Antrozous pallidus
• Home range, social behavior, and dominance relationships in the African unstriped ground squirrel, Xerus rutilus
• Fat content in migratory central Arizona Brazilian free-tailed bats, Tadarida brasiliensis (Molossidae)
• Roosting ecology of the pallid bat, Antrozous pallidus
• Further comments on punch-marking bats
• Movements and behavior of bighorn sheep on summer ranges in Yellowstone National Park
• Two bighorn sheep-coyote encounters