Marine Mammal Institute

Meck, S., Jensen, E., Bonn, W. V., & Fradkin, J.. (1998). Health risks associated with pica: a craving for, and possible ingestion of, unnatural articles as food. IMATA Journal of Marine Mammals: Public Display and Research.

Meck, S., Kastak, D., & Brill, R.. (2000). Utilizing free contact techniques with an aggressive California sea lion (Zalophus californianus) to establish hearing thresholds in the open ocean environment. IMATA Soundings, 25, 24-27.

Mellish, J. - A. E., Thomton, J., & Horning, M.. (2007). Physiological and behavioral response to intra-abdominal transmitter implantation in Steller sea lions. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 351, 283-293.

Mellish, J. - A. E., Tuomi, P. A., & Horning, M.. (2004). Assessment of ultrasound imaging as a non-invasive measure of blubber thickness in pinnipeds. Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine, 35, 116 - 118.

Mellish, J. - A. E., Tuomi, P. A., Hindle, A. J., & Horning, M.. (2010). Chemical immobilization of Weddell seals (Leptonychotes weddellii) by ketamine/midazolam combination. Veterinary Anaesthesia and Analgesia, 37(2), 123-31.

Mellish, J. - A. E., Calkins, D. G., Christen, D. R., Horning, M., Rea, L. D., & Atkinson, S.. (2006). Temporary captivity as a research tool: Comprehensive study of wild pinnipeds under controlled conditions. Aquatic Mammals, 32, 58-65.

Mellish, J. - A. E., Hindle, A. J., & Horning, M.. (2010). A preliminary assessment of the impact of disturbance and handling on Weddell seals of McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. Antarctic Science, 22(01), 25. doi:10.1017/S0954102009990447

Mellish, J. - A., Hindle, A., Skinner, J., & Horning, M.. (2015). Heat loss in air of an Antarctic marine mammal, the Weddell seal. Journal of Comparative Physiology B, 185(1), 143-152. doi:10.1007/s00360-014-0868-2

Mellish, J. - A. E., Hindle, A. J., & Horning, M.. (2011). Health and condition in the adult Weddell seal of McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. Zoology, 114, 177-183.

Mellish, J., Nienaber, J., Polasek, L., & Horning, M.. (2013). Beneath the surface: Profiling blubber depth in pinnipeds with infrared imaging. Journal of Thermal Biology, 38(1), 10 - 13. doi:10.1016/j.jtherbio.2012.09.003

Mellish, J. - A. E., Tuomi, P. A., Hindle, A. J., Jang, S., & Horning, M.. (2010). Skin microbial flora and effectiveness of aseptic technique for deep muscle biopsies in Weddell seals (Leptonychotes weddellii ) in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 46(2), 655-8.

Mellish, J. - A. E., Hennen, D., Thomton, J., Petrauskas, L., Atkinson, S., & Calkins, D.. (2007). Permanent marking in an endangered species: physiological response to hot branding in Steller sea lions (Eumetopias jubatus). Wildlife Research, 34, 43-47.

Mellish, J. - A. E., Horning, M., & York, A. E.. (2007). Seasonal and spatial blubber-depth changes in captive harbor seals (Phoca vitulina) and Steller’s sea lions (Eumetopias jubatus). Journal of Mammalogy, 88, 408-414.

Mendelssohn, R., Bograd, S. J., Schwing, F. B., & Palacios, D. M.. (2005). Teaching old indices new tricks: A state-space analysis of El Niño related climate indices. Geophysical Research Letters, 32(7). doi:10.1029/2005GL022350

Mizroch, S. A., Tillman, M. F., Jurasz, S., Straley, J. M., von Ziegesar, O., Herman, L. M., et al.. (2010). Long-term survival of humpback whales radio-tagged in Alaska from 1976 through 1978. Marine Mammal Science, 27(1), 217 - 229. doi:10.1111/j.1748-7692.2010.00391.x

Morin, P. A., C. Baker, S., Brewer, R. S., Burdin, A. M., Dalebout, M. L., Dines, J. P., et al.. (2016). Genetic structure of the beaked whale genus Berardius in the North Pacific, with genetic evidence for a new species. Marine Mammal Science. doi:10.1111/mms.12345

Morin, P. A., Archer, F. I., Foote, A. D., Vilstrup, J., Allen, E. E., Wade, P., et al.. (2010). Complete mitochondrial genome phylogeographic analysis of killer whales (Orcinus orca) indicates multiple species. Genome Research, 20(7), 908 - 916. doi:10.1101/gr.102954.109

Morin, P. A., Martien, K. K., Archer, F. I., Cipriano, F., Steel, D. J., Jackson, J., & Taylor, B. L.. (2010). Applied Conservation Genetics and the Need for Quality Control and Reporting of Genetic Data Used in Fisheries and Wildlife Management. Journal of Heredity, 101(1), 1 - 10. doi:10.1093/jhered/esp107

Morin, P. A., Foote, A. D., C. Baker, S., Hancock-Hanser, B. L., Kaschner, K., Mate, B. R., et al.. (2018). Demography or selection on linked cultural traits or genes? Investigating the driver of low mtDNA diversity in the sperm whale using complementary mitochondrial and nuclear genome analyses. Molecular Ecology, 27(suppl. 1), 2604-2619. doi:10.1111/mec.14698

Muñoz-Hincapié, M. F., Mora-Pinto, D. M., Palacios, D. M., Secchi, E. R., & Mignucci-Giannoni, A. A.. (1998). First osteological record of the dwarf sperm whale in Colombia, with notes on the zoogeography of Kogia in South America. Revista de la Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, 22(84), 433-444.

Nelms, S. E., Alfaro-Shigueto, J., Arnould, J. P. Y., Avila, I. C., S Nash, B., Campbell, E., et al.. (2021). Marine mammal conservation: over the horizon. Endangered Species Research, 44, 291 - 325. doi:10.3354/esr01115

Nienaber, J., Thomton, J., Horning, M., Polasek, L., & Mellish, J. - A. E.. (2010). Surface temperature patterns in seals and sea lions: A validation of temporal and spatial consistency. Journal of Thermal Biology, 35, 435-440. doi:10.1016/j.jtherbio.2010.09.005

Norman, S. A., Bowlby, C. E., Brancato, M. S., Calambokidis, J., Duffield, D., Gearin, P. J., et al.. (2004). Cetacean strandings in Oregon and Washington between 1930 and 2002. Journal of Cetacean Research and Management, 6, 87-99.

Norman, S. A., Flynn, K. R., Zerbini, A. N., Gulland, F. M. D., Moore, M. J., Raverty, S., et al.. (2017). Assessment of wound healing of tagged gray (Eschrichtius robustus) and blue (Balaenoptera musculus) whales in the eastern North Pacific using long-term series of photographs. Marine Mammal Science, 33(3). doi:10.1111/mms.12443

Norman, S. A., Huggins, J., Carpenter, T. E., Case, J. T., Lambourn, D. M., Rice, J. M., et al.. (2011). The application of GIS and spatiotemporal analyses to investigations of unusual marine mammal strandings and mortality events. Marine Mammal Science. doi:10.1111/j.1748-7692.2011.00507.x