Marine Mammal Institute

Waite, J. N., Schrader, W. J., Mellish, J. - A. E., & Horning, M.. (2007). Three-dimensional photogrammetry as a tool for estimating morphometrics and body mass of Steller sea lions (Eumetopias jubatus). Canadian Journal of Fisheries & Aquatic Sciences, 64, 296-303.

Cornick, L. A., & Horning, M.. (2003). A test of hypotheses based on optimal foraging considerations for a diving mammal using a novel experimental approach. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 81, 1799-1807.

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.

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

Maresh, J. L., Adachi, T., Takahashi, A., Naito, Y., Crocker, D. E., Horning, M., et al.. (2015). Summing the strokes: energy economy in northern elephant seals during large-scale foraging migrations. Movement Ecology, 3(22), 1-16. doi:10.1186/s40462-015-0049-2

Horning, M., & Mellish, J. - A. E.. (2009). Spatially explicit detection of predation on individual pinnipeds from implanted post-mortem satellite data transmitters. Endangered Species Research, 10, 135-143. doi:10.3354/esr00220

Willis, K., Horning, M., Rosen, D. A. S., & Trites, A. W.. (2005). Spatial variation of heat flux in Steller sea lions: evidence for consistent avenues of heat exchange along the body trunk. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 315, 163-175.

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.

Williams, T. M., Davis, R. W., Fuiman, L. A., Francis, J., Le Boeuf, B. J., Horning, M., et al.. (2000). Sink or swim: strategies for cost-efficient diving by marine mammals. Science (New York, N.Y.), 288(5463), 133-6.

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.

Ancel, A., Horning, M., & Kooyman, G. L.. (1997). Prey ingestion revealed by oesophagus and stomach temperature recordings in cormorants. The Journal of Experimental Biology, 200(Pt 1), 149-54.

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

Horning, M., & Mellish, J. - A. E.. (2012). Predation on an Upper Trophic Marine Predator, the Steller Sea Lion: Evaluating High Juvenile Mortality in a Density Dependent Conceptual Framework. PLoS ONE, 7(1): e30173. doi:doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0030173

Shuert, C., Mellish, J., & Horning, M.. (2015). Physiological predictors of long-term survival in juvenile Steller sea lions (Eumetopias jubatus ). Conservation Physiology, 3(1), cov043. doi:10.1093/conphys/cov043

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.

Kooyman, G. L., Kooyman, T. G., Horning, M., & Kooyman, C. A.. (1996). Penguin dispersal after fledging.

Horning, M., & Trillmich, F.. (1997). Ontogeny of diving behaviour in the Galapagos fur seal. Behaviour, 134, 1211-1257.

Willis, K., & Horning, M.. (2005). A novel approach to measuring heat flux in swimming animals. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 315, 147-162.

Allen, K. N., Vázquez-Medina, J. Pablo, Lawler, J. M., Mellish, J. - A. E., Horning, M., & Hindle, A. G.. (2019). Muscular apoptosis but not oxidative stress increases with old age in a long-lived diver, the Weddell seal. The Journal of Experimental Biology, 222(12), jeb200246. doi:10.1242/jeb.200246

Hindle, A. J., Lawler, J. M., Campbell, K. L., & Horning, M.. (2009). Muscle senescence in short-lived wild mammals, the soricine shrews Blarina brevicauda and Sorex palustris. Journal of Experimental Zoology. Part A, Ecological Genetics and Physiology, 311(5), 358-67.

Hindle, A. J., Lawler, J. M., Campbell, K. L., & Horning, M.. (2010). Muscle aging and oxidative stress in wild-caught shrews. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology. Part B, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, 155(4), 427-34.

Davis, R. W., Hagey, W., & Horning, M.. (2004). Monitoring the behavior and multi-dimensional movements of Weddell seals using an animal-borne video and data recorder. Memoirs of the National Institute of Polar Research (Japan), Special Issue 58, 148-154.

Petrauskas, L., Atkinson, S., Gulland, F., Mellish, J. - A. E., & Horning, M.. (2008). Monitoring glucocorticoid response to rehabilitation and research procedures in California and Steller sea lions. Journal of Experimental Zoology. Part A, Ecological Genetics and Physiology, 309(2), 73-82. doi:10.1002/jez.435

Horning, M., & F, T.. (1999). Lunar cycles in diel prey migrations exert stronger effect on diving of juveniles than adult Galápagos fur seals. Proceedings of the Royal Society (London), B-266 (1424), 148-154.

Womble, J. N., Blundell, G. M., Gende, S. M., Horning, M., Sigler, M. F., & Csepp, D. J.. (2014). Linking marine predator diving behavior to local prey fields in contrasting habitats in a subarctic glacial fjord. Marine Biology, 161(6), 1361 - 1374. doi:10.1007/s00227-014-2424-8