Elizabeth F. Edwards, Ph.D.: Selected Publications
Noren, S.R., G. Biedenbach, G., Redfern, J.V., and E.F. Edwards. 2008. Hitching a Ride: the formation locomotion strategy of dolphin calves. Functional Ecology. 22:278-283.
Edwards, E.F. 2007. Fishery Effects on Dolphins Targeted by Tuna Purse-seiners in the Eastern Tropical Pacific Ocean. International Journal of Comparative Psychology 20(2): 217-227.
Wright, A. J., Aguilar, Soto, N., Baldwin, A. L., Bateson, M., Beale, C., Clark, C. et al. 2007a. Anthropogenic Noise as a Stressor in Animals: A Multidisciplinary Perspective. International Journal of Comparative Psychology 20(2): 250-273.
Wright, A. J., Aguilar, Soto, N., Baldwin, A. L., Bateson, M., Beale, C., Clark, C. et al. 2007b. Do marine mammals experience stress related to anthropogenic noise? International Journal of Comparative Psychology 20(2): 274-316.
Noren, S.R. and E.F. Edwards. 2007. Physiological and behavioral development of delphinid calves: implications for calf separation and mortality due to tuna purse-seine sets. Marine Mammal Science 23(1):15-29.
Noren, S.R., G. Biedenbach and E.F. Edwards. 2006. Ontogeny of swim performance and mechanics in bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus). Journal of Experimental Biology 209: 4724-4731.
Edwards, E.F. 2006. Duration of unassisted swimming activity for spotted dolphin (Stenella attenuata) calves: implications for mother-calf separation during tuna purse-seine sets. Fishery Bulletin 104:125-135.
Edwards, E. F. 2002. Behavioral contributions to separation and subsequent mortality of dolphin calves chased by tuna purse-seiners in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean. NMFS Southwest Fisheries Science Center Administrative Report LJ-02-28. 33 p.
Edwards, E. F. 2002. Energetics consequences of chase by tuna purse-seiners for spotted dolphins (Stenella attenuata) in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean. NMFS Southwest Fisheries Science Center Administrative Report LJ-02-29. 32 p.
Perkins, P.C. and E. F. Edwards. 1998. Capture rate as a function of school size in pantropical spotted dolphins, Stenella attenuata, in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean. Fish. Bull. 97:542-554.
Edwards, E. F. and P. C. Perkins. 1998. Estimated tuna discard from log, school, and dolphin sets in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean: 1989-1992. Fish. Bull. 96:210-222.
Perkins, P. and E. Edwards. 1995. "A mixture model for estimating tuna bycatch from data with many zero observations; tuna bycatch in the eastern tropical pacific Ocean". Fish. Bull. 94(2):330-340.
Edwards, E. F. and C. Perrin. 1993. Effects of dolphin group type, percent coverage, and fleet size on estimates of dolphin mortality derived from 1987 U.S. tuna-vessel observer data. Fish Bull. 91:628-640.
Edwards, E. F. 1993. Allometry of Energetics Parameters in Spotted Dolphin (Stenella attenuata) from the Eastern Tropical Pacific Ocean. Fish. Bull. 91:428-439.
Edwards, E. 1992. Energetics of Associated Tunas and Dolphins in the Eastern Tropical Pacific Ocean: a Basis for the Bond. Fish. Bull. 90:678-690.
Edwards, E. and P. Perkins. 1992. Power to Detect Linear Trends in Dolphin Abundance: Estimates from Tuna-vessel Observer Data 1975-1989. Fish. Bull. 90:625-631.
Lavigne, D. M., S. Innes, G. A. J. Worthy, and E. F. Edwards. 1990. Lower critical temperature of Blue Whales (Balaenoptera musculus). J. Theor. Biol. 144:249-257.
Worthy, G. A. J. and E. F. Edwards. 1990. Morphometric and Biochemical Factors affecting heat loss in a small temperate cetacean (Phocena phocena) and a small tropical cetacean (Stenella attenuata). Physiological Zoology. 63(2):432-442.
Edwards, E. F. and P. M. Kleiber. 1990. Effects of Nonrandomness on Line Transect Estimates of Dolphin School Abundance. Fish. Bull. 87(4):859-876.
Edwards, E. F. and B. A. Megrey. 1989. Mathematical Analysis of Fish Stock Dynamics. American Fisheries Society Symposium 6. 214 p.
Paul C. Fiedler, Ph.D.: Selected Publications
Fiedler, P. C., R. Mendelssohn, D. M. Palacios, and S. J. Bograd. 2013. Pycnocline variations in the eastern tropical and North Pacific, 1958–2008. J. Climate 26:583–599.
Fiedler, P. C. 2010. Comparison of objective descriptions of the thermocline. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods, 8:313-325.
Fiedler, P. C. 2009. The Ocean Environment. Pages 792-797 in: Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals, 2nd ed. W.F. Perrin, B. Würsig and J.G.M. Thewissen (eds.) Academic Press, San Diego.
Fiedler, P. C. and L. D. Talley. 2006. Hydrography of the eastern tropical Pacific: A review. Progress in Oceanography, 69(2-4):143-180.
Fiedler, P. C. 2002. Environmental change in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean: Review of ENSO and decadal variability. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 244, 265-283.
Fiedler, P. C. 2002. The annual cycle and biological effects of the Costa Rica Dome. Deep-Sea Research I, 49, 321-338.
Fiedler, P. C., S. Reilly, R. P. Hewitt, D. Demer, V. A. Philbrick, S. Smith, W. Armstrong, D. A. Croll, B. R. Tershey and B. R. Mate. 1998. Blue whale habitat and prey in the Channel Islands. Deep Sea Research II, 45, 1781-1801.
Fiedler, P. C. , J. Barlow and T. Gerrodette. 1998. Dolphin prey abundance determined from acoustic backscatter data in eastern Pacific surveys. Fishery Bulletin, U. S., 96, 237-247.
Fiedler, P. C. 1994. Seasonal and interannual variability of coastal zone color scanner phytoplankton pigments and winds in the eastern tropical Pacific. Journal of Geophysical Research, 99, 18,371-18,384.
Fiedler, P. C. and S. B. Reilly. 1994. Interannual variability of dolphin habitats in the eastern tropical Pacific. II: Effects on abundances estimated from tuna vessel sightings, 1975-1990. Fishery Bulletin, U. S., 92, 451-463.
Reilly, S. B. and P. C. Fiedler. 1994. Interannual variability of dolphin habitats in the eastern tropical Pacific. I: Research vessel surveys, 1986-1990. Fishery Bulletin, U. S., 92, 434-450.
Fiedler, P. C., F. P. Chavez, D. W. Behringer and S. B. Reilly. 1992. Physical and biological effects of Los Niños in the eastern tropical Pacific, 1986-1989. Deep-Sea Research, 39, 199-219.
Fiedler, P. C., V. Philbrick and F. P. Chavez. 1991. Oceanic upwelling and productivity in the eastern tropical Pacific. Limnology and Oceanography, 36(8), 1834-1850.
Robert L. Pitman: Selected Publications
Morin, P. A., F. I. Archer, A. D. Foote, M. Thomas, P. Gilbert, E. E. Allen, P. Wade, J. Durban, K. Parsons, R. Pitman, L. Li, P. Bouffard, J. Vilstrup, S. A. Nielsen, E. Willerslev and T. Harkins. (In press). Complete mitochondrial genome analysis of killer whales (Orcinus orca) indicates multiple species. Genome Research.
Durban, J., D. Ellifrit, M. Dahlheim, J. Waite, C. Matkin, L. Barrett-Lennard, G. Ellis, R. L. Pitman, R. LeDuc and P. Wade. (In press). Photographic mark-recapture analysis of clustered mammal-eating killer whales around the Aleutian Islands and Gulf of Alaska. Marine Biology.
Feeney, R. F., R. J. Lavenberg, and R. L. Pitman. 2010. Description of a larval Liopropoma (Actinopterygii: Epinephelidae) from the Gulf of California. Ciencias Marinas. 36:83-89.
Peavey, L., B. Pitman, S. Benson, J. Harvey, B. Watson, T. Graham, and K. Kopitsky. 2010. Big eyes, big boats and home videos: studying sea turtles at sea. SWOT Report 5:9-12.
Pitman, R. L., and J. W. Durban. 2009. Save the seal! Natural History Magazine Nov 2009:48.
Pitman, R.L. 2009. Mesoplodont whales (Mesoplodon spp.). Pages 721-726 in: Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals, Second Edition. W.F. Perrin, B. Würsig and J.G.M. Thewissen (eds.) Elsevier, San Diego.
Pitman, R.L. 2009. Indo-Pacific beaked whale (Indopacetus pacificus). Pages 600-602 in: Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals, Second Edition. W.F. Perrin, B. Würsig and J.G.M. Thewissen (eds.) Elsevier, San Diego.
Pitman, R.L. 2009. Book review: Albatross. Their world, their ways. Wilson Bulletin 121(1):217-218.
Weimerskirch, H. M. Le Corre, C.A. Bost, L.T. Ballance, and R.L. Pitman. 2009. L’avifaune et l’écologie des oiseaux marin. Pages 381-392 in: Clipperton, environnement et biodiversité d’un microcosme océanique. L. Charpy (ed.). Patrimones Naturels 68. MNHN, Paris; IRD, Marseille.
Pitman, R.L. 2008. Killer snowballs. Natural History December 2008/January 2009:56.
Andrews, R.D., R.L. Pitman and L.T. Ballance. 2008. Satellite tracking reveals distinct movement patterns for Type B and Type C killer whales in the southern Ross Sea, Antarctica. Polar Biology 31:1461-1468.
Krahn, M.M., R.L. Pitman, D.G. Burrows, D.P. Herman, and R.W. Pearce. 2008. Use of chemical tracers to assess diet and persistent organic pollutants in Antarctic Type C killer whales. Marine Mammal Science 24(3):643-663.
LeDuc, R.G., K.M. Robertson, and R.L. Pitman. 2008. Mitochondrial sequence divergence among Antarctic killer whale ecotypes is consistent with multiple species. Biology Letters 4:426-429.
Zhao, X., J. Barlow, B. L. Taylor, R. Pitman, K. Wang, Z. Wei, B. S. Stewart, S. T. Turvey, T. Akamatsu, R. R. Reeves, and D. Wang. 2008. Abundance and conservation status of the Yangtze finless porpoise in the Yangtze River, China. Biological Conservation 141:3006-3018.
Eguchi, T. T. Gerrodette, R.L. Pitman, J.A. Seminoff, and P.H. Dutton. 2007. At-sea density and abundance estimates of the olive ridley turtle Lepidochelys olivacea in the eastern tropical Pacific. Endangered Species Research 3:191-203.
Jefferson, T.A., M. A. Webber, and R. L. Pitman. 2007. Marine Mammals of the World. Academic Press, San Diego, CA. 573 pp.
Pitman, R.L. and L. Rojas-Bracho. 2007. How Now, Little Cow? Natural History July/August:28-32.
Pitman, R.L., W.L. Perryman, D. LeRoi, and E. Eilers. 2007. A dwarf form of killer whale in Antarctica. Journal of Mammalogy 88(1):43-48.
Pitman, R.L. 2006. A fellow mammal leaves the planet. New York Times, 26 December.
Pitman, R.L. 2006. Killer Whale. Pages 570-572 in: Encyclopedia of the Antarctic, Beau Riffenburgh (ed.), Routledge: New York.
Pitman, R.L. 2006. Mom’s the word. Sea Stories, Autumnal Issue. www.seastories.org.
Pitman, R.L., A. L. van Helden, P.B. Best, and A. Pym. 2006. Shepherd’s Beaked Whale (Tasmacetus shepherdi): information on appearance and biology based on strandings and at-sea observations. Marine Mammal Science 22(3):744-755.
Pitman, R.L., L.T. Ballance, and C. Bost. 2005. Clipperton Island: Pig sty, rat hole and booby prize. Marine Ornithology 33:193-194.
Pitman, R.L. and P.H. Dutton. 2004. Killer whale predation on a leatherback turtle in the northeast Pacific. Pacific Science 58(3):497-498.
Pitman, R.L., W.A. Walker, W.T. Everett, and J.P. Gallo-Reynoso. 2004. Population status, foods and foraging of Laysan Albatrosses Phoebastria immutabilis, nesting on Guadalupe Island, Mexico. Marine Ornithology 32:159-165.
Pitman, R.L. 2003. Good whale hunting. Natural History December 2003/January 2004:24-28.
Pitman, R.L. and P. Ensor. 2003. Three forms of killer whales in Antarctic waters. Journal of Cetacean Research and Management 5(2):131-139.
Pitman, R.L., S. O’Sullivan, and B. Mase. 2003. Killer whales (Orcinus orca) attack a school of pantropical spotted dolphins (Stenella attenuata) in the Gulf of Mexico. Aquatic Mammals 29(3):321-324.
Pitman, R.L. 2002. Alive and whale: a missing species of whale resurfaces in the tropics. Natural History 111(7):32-36.
Pitman, R.L. 2002. Mesoplont whales (Mesoplodon spp.). Pages 738-742 in: Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals. W.F. Perrin, B. Würsig and J.G.M. Thewissen (eds.) Academic Press, San Diego.
Pitman, R.L. 2002. Indo- Pacific Beaked Whale (Indopacetus pacificus). Pages 615-617 in: Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals. W.F. Perrin, B. Würsig and J.G.M. Thewissen (eds.) Academic Press, San Diego.
Pitman, R.L. and L.T. Ballance. 2002. The changing status of marine birds breeding at San Benedicto Island, Mexico. Wilson Bulletin 114(1):11-19.
Pitman, R. L. and C. Stinchcomb. 2002. Rough-toothed dolphins (Steno bredanensis) as predators of mahimahi (Coryphaena hippurus). Pacific Science 56(4):447-450.
Pitman, R.L. and M. S. Lynn. 2001. Biological observations of an unidentified mesoplodont whale in the eastern tropical Pacific and probable identity: Mesoplodon peruvianus. Marine Mammal Science 17(3):648-657.
Pitman, R.L., L.T. Ballance, S. L. Mesnick, and S. J. Chivers. 2001. Killer whale predation on sperm whales: observations and implications. Marine Mammal Science 17(3):494-507.
Pitman, R.L., D.M. Palacios, P.L.R. Brennan, B.J. Brennan, K.C. Balcomb, and P. Miyashita. 1999. Sightings and possible identity of a bottlenose whale in the tropical Indo-Pacific: Indopacetus pacificus? Marine Mammal Science 15:531-549.
Pitman, R.L. and S.J. Chivers. 1998/1999. Terror in black and white. Natural History 107:26-29.
Pitman, R.L. and J.R. Jehl. 1998. Geographic variation and reassessment of species limits in “Masked” Boobies of the eastern Pacific. Wilson Bulletin 110:155-170.
Pitman, R.L. 1996. Almost atoll. Natural History 105:60-64.
Pitman, R.L., L.B. Spear, and M.P. Force. 1995. The marine birds of Malpelo Island, Colombia. Colonial Waterbirds 18:113-119.
Pitman, R.L. 1993. Seabird associations with marine turtles in the eastern Pacific. Colonial Waterbirds 16(2):194-201.
Pitman, R.L., and L.T. Ballance. 1992. Parkinson's Petrel distribution and foraging ecology in the eastern Pacific: Aspects of an exclusive feeding relationship with dolphins. Condor 94:825-835.
Pitman, R.L., and L.T. Ballance. 1990. Daytime feeding by Leach's Storm-Petrel on a midwater fish in the eastern tropical Pacific. Condor 92:524-527.
Jessica V. Redfern, Ph.D.: Selected Publications
Redfern, J. V., J. Barlow, L. T. Ballance, T. Gerrodette, and E. A. Becker. 2008. Absence of scale dependence in dolphin-habitat models for the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 363:1-14.
Redfern, J. V., M. C. Ferguson, E. A. Becker, K. D. Hyrenbach, C. Good, J. Barlow, K. Kaschner, M. F. Baumgartner, K. A. Forney, L. T. Ballance, P. Fauchald, P. Halpin, T. Hamazaki, A.J. Pershing, S.S. Qian, A. Read, S.B. Reilly, L. Torres, and F. Werner. 2006. Techniques for cetacean-habitat modeling. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 310:271-295.
Redfern, J. V., S. J. Ryan, and W. M. Getz. 2006. Defining herbivore assemblages in the Kruger National Park: A correlative coherence approach. Oecologia 146 (4): 632-640.
Redfern, J. V. and W. M. Getz. 2005. Surface water availability and the management of herbivore distributions in an African savanna ecosystem. Journal of Arid Environments 63: 406-424.
Gaylard, A., N. Owen-Smith, and J. Redfern. 2003. Surface water availability: Implications for heterogeneity and ecosystem processes. Pages 171-188 in J. du Toit, H. Biggs, and K. Rogers, editors. The Kruger Experience: Ecology and Management of Savanna Heterogeneity. Island Press, California, USA. 519pp.
Redfern, J. V., C. C. Grant, H. C. Biggs, and W. M. Getz. 2003. Surface water constraints on herbivore foraging in the Kruger National Park, South Africa. Ecology 84(8): 2092-2107.
Redfern, J. V., J. M. Kruger, P. C. Viljoen, and W. M. Getz. 2002. Biases in estimating population size from an aerial census: A case study in the Kruger National Park, South Africa. South African Journal of Science 98(9/10): 455-461.
R. Iliana Ruiz-Cooley, Ph.D.: Selected Publications
Ruiz-Cooley, R. I, D. T. Engelhaupt & J. G. Ortega-Ortiz. 2011. Contrasting C and N isotope ratios from sperm whale skin between the Gulf of Mexico and Gulf of California: effect of habitat. Marine Biology. DOI 10.1007/s00227-011-1795-3.
Ruiz-Cooley, R. I., K. Y. Garcia & E. D. Hetherington. 2011. Effects of lipid removal and preservatives on carbon and nitrogen stable isotope ratios of squid tissues: Implications for ecological studies. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 407: 101–107.
Staaf, D. J., R. I. Ruiz-Cooley, C. Elliger, Z. Lebaric, B. Campos, U. Markaida & W. F. Gilly. 2010. Ommastrephid squids in the Central and Eastern Pacific show a convergent biogeographic break but divergent population structures. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 418: 165-178.
Ruiz-Cooley R. I. & D. T. Engelhaupt. 2010. Trophic Aspects of Sperm Whales (Physeter macrocephalus) in the Northern Gulf of Mexico Using Stable Isotopes of Carbon and Nitrogen Report. U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Minerals Management Service, Gulf of Mexico OCS Region, New Orleans, LA, OCS Study MMS 2008-000, 21 pp.
Ruiz-Cooley, R. I., E. C. Villa & W. R. Gould. 2010. Ontogenetic variation of δ13C and δ15N recorded in the gladius of the jumbo squid Dosidicus gigas: geographic differences. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 399: 187-198.
Ruiz-Cooley, R. I. 2009. Insights into the trophic ecology of sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) and jumbo squid (Dosidicus gigas): geographic variation in stable isotopes. PhD dissertation, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, USA.
Ruiz-Cooley, R. I. & U. Markaida. 2007. Use of stable isotopes to examine the foraging ecology of jumbo squid Dosidicus gigas. The Role of Squid in Pelagic Marine Ecosystem, GLOBEC Report 24: 62-63 Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
Ruiz-Cooley, R. I., U. Markaida, D. Gendron & S. Aguiñiga. 2006. Stable isotopes in jumbo squid (Dosidicus gigas) beaks to estimate its trophic position: comparison between stomach content and stable isotopes. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 86: 437-445.
Ruiz-Cooley, R. I., D. Gendron, S. Aguiñiga & S. Mesnik. 2004. Trophic relationship between sperm whales and jumbo squid using stable isotopes of C and N. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 277:275-283.