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, MA, United States
Co-Chair:  Daniel M Palacios, Oregon State University, Marine Mammal Institute and Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Corvallis, OR, United States
Moderators:  Daniel M Palacios, Oregon State University, Marine Mammal Institute and Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Corvallis, OR, United States and Mark Baumgartner, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Biology Department, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Student Paper Review Liaison:  Daniel M Palacios, Oregon State University, Marine Mammal Institute and Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Corvallis, OR, 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 Edman2, Ashley Shaw2 and Walter Bubley2, (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, 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, Camille Pagniello1, Ed Parnell1, Jules S Jaffe2 and Ana Sirovic1, (1)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (2)University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
Insights into blue and fin whale acoustic behavior from fixed passive acoustic recorder and tag data (304489)
Ana Sirovic, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, Leah A Lewis, Scripps Insitution of Oceanography, UCSD, CA, United States, Goldie T Phillips, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, CA, United States and John Calambokidis, Cascadia Research Collective, Olympia, WA, 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, United States and Ying-tsong Lin, Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Fine-scale locomotion patterns of the veined squid, (Loligo forbesi), measured using a novel bio-logging tag (313371)
T Aran Mooney1, Genevieve E. Flaspohler2, Francesco Caruso1, Kakani Katija3, Jorge Fontes4, Pedro Afonso5 and K. Alex Shorter6, (1)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Biology, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (2)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (3)Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, Monterrey, CA, United States, (4)Institute of Marine Research, University of the Azores, Oceangraphy and Fisheries, Portugal, (5)Institute for Marine Research, University of the Azores, Portugal, (6)University of Michigan, Mechanical Engineering, MI, United States

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