Marine Mammal Institute

Lavín, M. F., Fiedler, P. C., Amador, J. A., Ballance, L. T., Färber-Lorda, J., & Mestas-Nuñez, A. M.. (2006). A review of eastern tropical Pacific oceanography: Summary. Progress in Oceanography, 69(2-4), 391 - 398. doi:10.1016/j.pocean.2006.03.005

Womble, J. N., & Sigler, M. F.. (2006). Seasonal availability of abundant, energy-rich prey influences the abundance and diet of a marine predator, the Steller sea lion. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 325, 281-293.

Freshwater, D. W., Greene, J. K., & Hamner, R. M.. (2006). Seasonality of the invasive seaweed Gracilaria vermiculophyla along the south eastern coast of North Carolina. Journal of the North Carolina Academy of Science, 122, 49-55.

Etnoyer, P., Canny, D., Mate, B. R., Morgan, L. E., Ortega-Ortiz, J. G., & Nichols, W. J.. (2006). Sea-surface temperature gradients across blue whale and sea turtle foraging trajectories off the Baja California Peninsula, Mexico. Deep Sea Research Part II, 53, 340-358.

Pitman, R. L., van Helden, A. L., Best, P. B., & Pym, A. (Tony). (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. doi:10.1111/j.1748-7692.2006.00066.x

Sekiguchi, K., Olavarria, C., Morse, L., Olson, P., Ensor, P., Matsuoka, K., et al.. (2006). The spectacled porpoise (Phocoena dioptrica) in Antarctic waters. Journal of Cetacean Research and Management, 8(3), 265-271.

Pendleton, G. W., Pitcher, K. W., Fritz, L., Raum-Suryan, K. L., Loughlin, T., Calkins, D., et al.. (2006). Survival of Steller sea lions in Alaska: a comparison of increasing and decreasing populations. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 84, 1162-1172.

Redfern, J. V., Ferguson, M. C., Becker, E. A., Hyrenbach, K. D., Good, C. P., Barlow, J., et al.. (2006). Techniques for cetacean-habitat modeling. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 310. doi:10.3354/meps310271

Redfern, J. V., Ferguson, M. C., Becker, E. A., Hyrenbach, K. D., Good, C., Barlow, J., et al.. (2006). Techniques for cetacean-habitat modeling. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 310, 271 - 295. doi:10.3354/meps310271

Womble, J. N., & Sigler, M. F.. (2006). Temporal variation in Steller sea lion diet at a seasonal haulout in southeastern Alaska. In A. W. Trites, Atkinson, S., DeMaster, D. P., Fritz, L., Gelatt, T., Rea, L. D., & Wynne, K. M. (Eds.), Sea Lions of the World. Alaska Sea Grant College Program, University of Alaska Fairbanks.

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.

Petrauskas, L., & Atkinson, S.. (2006). Variation of fecal corticosterone concentrations in captive Steller sea lions (Eumetopias jubatus) in relation to season and behavior. Aquatic Mammals, 32, 168-174.

Willson, M. F., & Womble, J. N.. (2006). Vertebrate exploitation of pulsed marine prey: a review and the example of spawning herring. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries, 16, 183-200.

Friedlaender, A., Halpin, P. N., Qian, S. S., Lawson, G. L., Wiebe, P. H., THIELE, D., & Read, A. J.. (2006). Whale distribution in relation to prey abundance and oceanographic processes in shelf waters of the Western Antarctic Peninsula. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 317, 297 - 310. doi:10.3354/meps317297

Eguchi, T., Gerrodette, T., Pitman, R. L., Seminoff, J. A., & Dutton, P. H.. (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. doi:10.3354/esr003191

Robineau, D., Goodall, R. N. P., Pichler, F. B., & C. Baker, S.. (2007). Description of a new subspecies of Commerson's dolphin, Cephalorhynchus commersonii (Lacépède, 1804), inhabiting the coastal waters of the Kerguelen Islands. Mammalia, 71, 172-180.

Plankis, B., Horning, M., Ponto, N., & Brown, L.. (2007). Designing a dependable and fault-tolerant semiautonomous distributed control data collection network with opportunistic hierarchy. IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, 32(2), 400-407.

Womble, J. N., Gende, S. M., & Blundell, G. M.. (2007). Dive behavior of a harbor seal in the presence of transient killer whales in Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska. Marine Mammal Science, 23, 203-208.

Dalebout, M. L., C. Baker, S., Steel, D. J., Robertson, K. M., Chivers, S. J., Perrin, W. F., et al.. (2007). A divergent mtDNA lineage among Mesoplodon beaked whales: Molecular evidence for a new species in the tropical pacific?. Marine Mammal Science, 23, 954-966.

Pitman, R. L., Perryman, W. L., LeRoi, D., & Eilers, E.. (2007). A Dwarf Form of Killer Whale in Antarctica. Journal of Mammalogy, 88(1), 43 - 48. doi:10.1644/06-MAMM-A-118R1.1

C. Baker, S., Cooke, J., Lavery, S., Dalebout, M. L., Ma, Y. -un, Funahashi, N., et al.. (2007). Estimating the number of whales entering trade using DNA profiling and capture-recapture analysis of market products. Molecular Ecology, 13, 2617-2626.

Mate, B. R., Mesecar, R., & Lagerquist, B. A.. (2007). The evolution of satellite-monitored radio tags for large whales: One laboratory's experience. Deep Sea Research II, 54, 224-247. doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2006.11.021

Turvey, S. T., Pitman, R. L., Taylor, B. L., Barlow, J., Akamatsu, T., Barrett, L. A., et al.. (2007). First human-caused extinction of a cetacean species?. Biology Letters, 3(5), 537 - 540. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2007.0292

Tollit, D. J., Heaslip, S. G., Barrick, R. L., & Trites, A. W.. (2007). Impact of diet-index selection and the digestion of prey hard remains on determining the diet of the Steller sea lion (Eumetopias jubatus). Canadian Journal of Zoology, 85(1), 1 - 15. doi:10.1139/z06-174

Campbell, R., Gales, N. J., Lento, G. M., & C. Baker, S.. (2007). Islands in the sea: extreme female natal site fidelity in the Australian sea lion, Neophoca cinerea. Biology Letters, 4(1), 139 - 142. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2007.0487