IS23A:
Advances in Approaches to Monitoring the Occurrence, Distribution, Behavior, and Ecology of Top Predators II


Session ID#: 37225

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:

Feeding behavior of blue and fin whales in southern California from multi-week dive behavior tags (326360)
Ladd M Irvine1, Daniel M Palacios2 and Bruce R Mate1, (1)Oregon State University, Marine Mammal Institute and Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Newport, OR, United States, (2)Oregon State University, Marine Mammal Institute and Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Corvallis, OR, United States
A Multi-Month, Satellite-Transmitting Tag for Monitoring the Movements, Diving, and Feeding Behavior of Large Whales (313124)
Daniel M Palacios1, Ladd M Irvine2 and Bruce R Mate2, (1)Oregon State University, Marine Mammal Institute and Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Corvallis, OR, United States, (2)Oregon State University, Marine Mammal Institute and Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Newport, OR, United States
Elemental patterns in shark vertebrae reflect age and upwelling histories (315442)
John Austin Mohan1, Nathan Ross Miller2, Sharon Z Herzka3, Oscar Sosa-Nishizaki3, Suzanna Kohin4, Heidi Dewar4, Micheal Kinney4 and R.J. David Wells1, (1)Texas A&M University at Galveston, Marine Biology, Galveston, TX, United States, (2)University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, (3)CICESE, Biological Oceanography, Ensenada, Mexico, (4)NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, La Jolla, CA, United States
Quantifying the Influence of Energy Windscapes on Seabird Distributions (324959)
Max Frank Czapanskiy1,2, Josh Adams1, Jon Felis1, Emma Kelsey1 and Ellen Hines2,3, (1)U.S. Geological Survey, Western Ecological Research Center, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (2)Romberg Tiburon Center for Environmental Studies, San Francisco State University, Tiburon, CA, United States, (3)San Francisco State University, Geography and Environment, San Francisco, CA, United States
Oceanographic drivers of the vertical distribution of a highly migratory, endothermic shark  (326402)
Daniel Coffey1, Aaron B Carlisle2, Elliott L. Hazen3 and Barbara Block2, (1)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, Kaneohe, HI, United States, (2)Stanford University, Hopkins Marine Station, Pacific Grove, CA, United States, (3)NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Environmental Research Division, Monterey, CA, United States
Role specializations in group foraging humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) in Tenakee Inlet, Alaska (302011)
Julia A Burrows, Duke University Marine Laboratory, Division of Marine Science and Conservation, Beaufort, NC, United States, David W Johnston, Duke University, Duke University Marine Lab, Beaufort, NC, United States, Jan Straley, University of Alaska Southeast, Department of Marine Biology, Sitka, AK, United States, Ellen M Chenoweth, University of Alaska Fairbanks, School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Stacy L DeRuiter, Calvin College, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Grand Rapids, MI, United States and Ari S Friedlaender, University of California Santa Cruz, Institute of Marine Science, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
Electronic Tags Permit Long-Term Monitoring and Mortality Estimates of Atlantic Bluefin Tuna (318703)
Barbara Block1, Rebecca Whitlock2, Mike Stokesbury3, Robert Schallert4 and Steve Wilson1, (1)Stanford University, Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford, CA, United States, (2)Stanford University, Hopkins Marine Station, Pacific Grove, CA, United States, (3)Acadia University, Biology, NS, Canada, (4)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States

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