IS21A:
Advances in Approaches to Monitoring the Occurrence, Distribution, Behavior, and Ecology of Top Predators I


Session ID#: 37219

Session Description:
Unlike most marine organisms, top predators can be monitored in the field as individuals, providing unique insight into behavioral strategies that influence the status and dynamics of populations. Tremendous technological and methodological progress has been made in marine animal detection, tagging, and tracking in the past decade, and this session seeks to gather researchers to share new insights into both top predator ecology and physiology gleaned from these state-of-the-art approaches. We encourage researchers working with autonomous platforms, passive acoustics, bio-logging, satellite telemetry, remote monitoring technologies, and other advanced methods to participate and present their latest results.
Primary Chair:  Mark Baumgartner, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Biology Department, Woods Hole, United States
Co-Chair:  Daniel M Palacios, Center for Coastal Studies, Provincetown, United States
Moderators:  Daniel M Palacios, Center for Coastal Studies, Provincetown, United States and Mark Baumgartner, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Biology Department, Woods Hole, United States
Student Paper Review Liaison:  Daniel M Palacios, Center for Coastal Studies, Provincetown, United States
Index Terms:

4259 Ocean acoustics [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4815 Ecosystems, structure, dynamics, and modeling [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]
4830 Higher trophic levels [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]
4894 Instruments, sensors, and techniques [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]
Cross-Topics:
  • ES - Ecology and Social Interactions
  • F - Fisheries
  • OD - Ocean Data Management

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Movement and Habitat Utilization Patterns of Tiger Sharks Off Western North Atlantic Coastal Waters (323102)
Gorka Sancho1, Bryan Frazier2, Robert Edman3, Ashley Shaw3 and Walter Bubley3, (1)College of Charleston, Department of Biology - Grice Marine Laboratory, Charleston, SC, United States, (2)South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, Marine Resources Division, Charleston, United States, (3)South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, Marine Resources Division, Charleston, SC, United States
Mesoscale Oceanography Influences Highly Migratory Shark Movements (305549)
Camrin Braun1,2, Peter Gaube3, Gregory Skomal4 and Simon Thorrold1, (1)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (2)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, (3)Applied Physics Laboratory at the University of Washington, Air-Sea Interaction and Remote Sensing, Seattle, WA, United States, (4)MA Division of Marine Fisheries, MA, United States
Sights and Sounds of the Kelp Forest: Exploration of Fish Community Dynamics Through Acoustic and Photographic Datasets (314159)
Jack Butler1, Dr. Camille Pagniello, PhD1, Ed Parnell1, Jules S Jaffe1 and Ana Sirovic2, (1)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (2)Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Department of Biology, Trondheim, Norway
Insights into blue and fin whale acoustic behavior from fixed passive acoustic recorder and tag data (304489)
Ana Sirovic, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Department of Biology, Trondheim, Norway, Leah A Lewis, Scripps Insitution of Oceanography, UCSD, CA, United States, Goldie Phillips, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, CA, United States and John Calambokidis, Cascadia Research Collective, Olympia, United States
Estimating Sea Turtle Exposures to Oil Spils (318737)
Bryan Wallace1,2, Brian Stacy3, Matthew Rissing4, Dave Cacela4, Lance Garrison5, George Graettinger6, James Holmes4, Trent McDonald7, Danya McLamb8 and Barbara Schroeder9, (1)United States, (2)Conservation Science Partners, Inc., Fort Collins, CO, United States, (3)NOAA, Gainesville, FL, United States, (4)Abt Associates Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)NOAA, Miami, FL, United States, (6)NOAA, Seattle, WA, United States, (7)West, Inc, WY, United States, (8)Industrial Economics, Inc., Cambridge, MA, United States, (9)NOAA, DC, United States
Hierarchies of Specialization: Inter- and Intra-Individual Variability in Foraging Trip Characteristics for the Pacific harbor seal (Phoca vitulina richardii) in Oregon (324703)
Sheanna Marie Steingass, Oregon State University, Newport, United States and Markus M Horning, Alaska SeaLife Center, Science, Seward, AK, United States
Marine mammal localization using unsynchronized passive acoustic arrays for PAM based species distribution models (322167)
Daniel P. Zitterbart, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, United States and Ying-tsong Lin, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States
Fine-scale locomotion patterns of the veined squid, (Loligo forbesi), measured using a novel bio-logging tag (313371)
T Aran Mooney, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Biology, Woods Hole, United States, Genevieve E. Flaspohler, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Francesco Caruso, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Biology, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Kakani Katija, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, United States, Jorge Fontes, Institute of Marine Research, University of the Azores, Oceangraphy and Fisheries, Portugal, Pedro Afonso, Institute for Marine Research, University of the Azores, Portugal and K. Alex Shorter, University of Michigan, Mechanical Engineering, MI, United States

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