Publications supported by whole animals and tissues from incidental take events
Genetics:
Cammen KM, Schultz TF, D.W. Bowen, Hammill MO, Puryear WB, Runstadler J, Wenzel FW, Wood SA, Kinnison M. 2018. Genomic signatures of population bottleneck and recovery in Northwest Atlantic pinnipeds. June 2018. Ecology and Evolution 8(12). DOI: 10.1002/ece3.4143
Cammen et al. 2018. Genetic diversity from pre-bottleneck to recovery in two sympatric pinniped species in the Northwest Atlantic. Conservation Genetics 19(3). DOI: 10.1007/s10592-017-1032-9.
Rosel, P. E., Hansen, L. J., & Hohn, A. A. (2009). Restricted gene flow along the coat of the southeastern United States among adjacent populations of coastal bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus). Conservation Genetics, 10(4), 1029–1043.
Tolley, K. A., Vikingsson, G. A., & Rosel, P. E. (2001). Mitochondrial DNA variation and stock structure of harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) in the North Atlantic. Marine Mammal Science, 17(1), 18–31.
Life History:
Charapata, P., et al. (2018). Age, growth, and maturity of male common dolphins (Delphinus delphis) in the Western North Atlantic. Journal of Mammalogy, 99(6), 1320–1332.
Craddock JE, Polloni PT, Hayward B, Wenzel F (2009) Food habits of Atlantic white-sided dolphins (Lagenorhynchus acutas) off the coast of New England. Fish Bull 107:384–394
Craddock, J. E., Pollock, N. W., & Polloni, P. T. (2009). Diet of short-finned pilot whales (Globicephala macrorhynchus) off the northeastern coast of the United States. Northeast Fisheries Science Center Reference Document.
Gannon, D.P., J.E. Craddock and A.J. Read. 1998. Autumn food habits of harbor porpoises, Phocoena phocoena, in the Gulf of Maine. July 1998. Fishery Bulletin- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. 96(3):428-437.
Ketten, D.R., S.H. Ridgway and G. Early. 1995. Apocalyptic hearing: Aging, injury, disease, and noise in marine mammal ears. Eleventh Biennial Conference on Marine Mammals. Society for Marine Mammalogy.
Kroeger, J., Wenzel, F., Craddock, J. E., Gannon, D., Pabst, D. 2015. Diet analysis of harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) in the U.S. Mid-Atlantic. Poster presentation at the SEAMAMMS Conference, Charleston, N.C. March 2015
Lesage, V., Hammill, M. O., & Kovacs, K. M. (2001). Marine mammals and the community structure of the Estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence, Canada: evidence from stable isotope analysis. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 210, 203–221.
Lyssikatos MC and Wenzel FW (2024) What bycatch tells us about the diet of harbor and gray seals and overlap with commercial fishermen. Front. Conserv. Sci. 5:1377673. doi: 10.3389/fcosc.2024.1377673
Lyssikatos MC and Wenzel FW (2024) What bycatch tells us about the diet of harbor and gray seals and overlap with commercial fishermen. Front. Conserv. Sci. 5:1377673. doi: 10.3389/fcosc.2024.1377673
Moore, M.J., Rowles, T.K. and Early, G., 2020. Dead Cetacean? Beach, Bloat, Float, Sink. Frontiers in Marine Science, 7, p.333.
Orphanides, C.D., F. W. Wenzel and J.S. Collie. 2020. Diet of harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) on the continental shelf off southern New England. June 2020. Fishery Bulletin- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 118(2):184-197.
Read, A. J., & Hohn, A. A. (1995). Life in the fast lane: the life history of harbor porpoises from the Gulf of Maine. Marine Mammal Science, 11(4), 423–440.
Smith, K.J., C.N. Trueman, C.A.M. France, J.P. Sparks, A.C. Brownlow, M. Dahne, N.J. Davison, G. Gudmundsson, K. Khidas, A.C. Kitchener, B.W. Langeveld, V. Lesage, H.J.M. Meijer, J.J. Ososky, R.C. Sabin, Z.L. Timmons, G.A. Vikingsson, F.W. Wenzel and M.J. Peterson. 2021. Stable Isotope Analysis of Specimens of Opportunity Reveals Ocean-Scale Site Fidelity in an Elusive Whale Species. Front. Conserv. Sci., 25 May 2021 (2) https://doi.org/10.3389/fcosc.2021.653766
Vollmer, N., V. Gonzalez, V. Lesage, C.W. Potter, P. Rosel and F.W. Wenzel. 2015. Detection of fine-scale population structure of the Atlantic white-sided dolphin (Lagenorhynchus acutus) in the western North Atlantic using RAD-seq data. Society for Marine Mammalogy Conference, San Francisco, Ca. Dec. 2015.
Wenzel, F.W., P. T. Polloni, J. E. Craddock, D. P. Gannon, J. R. Nicolas, A. J. Read, P. E. Rosel. 2013. Food habits of Sowerby’s beaked whales, Mesoplodon bidens, taken in the western North Atlantic pelagic drift gillnet fishery. Fishery Bulletin 111(4):381-389.
Wenzel et al. 2017. What does stomach content analysis tell us about the diet of gray seals (Halichoerus grypus atlantica) incidentally caught in fisheries off the northeast United States? October 2017. Conference: Society for Marine Mammalogy Conference, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Wenzel, F.W., A. Martins, J. E. Craddock, G. Early, E. Josephson, B. Lentell, P. Polloni, W. Greer and G. Waring. 2015 “Long term study on the feeding ecology of U.S. northwest Atlantic harbor seals (Phoca vitulina concolor)” Abstract/Poster at Society for Marine Mammalogy Conference, San Francisco, Ca. Dec. 2015.
Wenzel et al. 2015. Long term study on the feeding ecology of U.S. northwest Atlantic harbor seals (Phoca vitulina concolor). December 2015. Conference: Society for Marine Mammalogy. San Francisco, Calif
Wenzel et al. 2015. Long term study on the feeding ecology of U.S. northwest Atlantic harbor seals (Phoca vitulina concolor). Northwest Atlantic Seal Research Consortium, Seals and Ecosystem Health Conference, May 1 and 2, 2015, Salem, Ma. USA. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.1.1520.1440.
Wenzel, F.W., G. Early, E. Josephson, B. Greer, B. Lentell, P. Polloni, J. E. Craddock, K. Ampela, A. Peoples, and G. T. Waring. 2017. What does stomach content analysis tell us about the diet of gray seals (Halichoerus grypus atlantica) incidentally caught in fisheries off the northeast United States? Abstract/Poster at Society for Marine Mammalogy Conference, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Dec. 2017.
Westgate, AJ and A.J. Read. 2007. Reproduction in short-beaked common dolphins (Delphinus delphis) from the western North Atlantic. Marine Biology. 150: 1011 – 1034. DOI:10.1007/S00227-006-0394-1
Epigenetics, Aging, & Biomarker Development
Beaudry, C. N., et al. (2021). Epigenetic clocks for age estimation in North Atlantic harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena). Molecular Ecology Resources, 21(8), 2682–2695.
Polanowski, A. M., et al. (2022). DNA methylation-based age estimation in North Atlantic common dolphins (Delphinus delphis). Conservation Genetics Resources, 14(3), 301–311.
Physiology:
Fahlman, A. S., H. Loring; M. Ferrigno; C. Moore; G. Early; M. Niemeyer; B. Lentell; F. Wenzel; R. Joy and M. J. Moore. 2011. Static inflation and deflation pressure-volume curves from excised lungs of marine mammals. Journal of Experimental Biology 214(Pt 22):3822-8. DOI: 10.1242/jeb.056366
Moore MJ, Bogomolni AL, Dennison SE, Early G,Garner MM, Hayward BA, Lentell BJ, Rotstein DS. 2009. Gas bubbles in seals, dolphins, and porpoises entangled and drowned at depth in gillnets. Vet Pathol. 2009 May; 46(3):536-47. Epub 2009 Jan 27
Health:
Bernaldo de Quiros Y, Hartwick M, Rotstein DS, Garner MM, Bogomolni A, William Greer W, Niemeyer ME, Greg Early G, Wenzel F.W., Moore M. 2018. Discrimination between bycatch and other causes of cetacean and pinniped stranding. Dis Aquat Org. 127(2): 83-95. DOI: 10.3354/dao03189
Bogomolni AL, Gast RJ, Ellis JC, Dennett M, Pugliares KR, Lentell BJ, Moore MJ. Victims or vectors: a survey of marine vertebrate zoonoses from coastal waters of the Northwest Atlantic. Dis Aquat Organ. 2008 Aug 19;81(1):13-38. doi: 10.3354/dao01936. PMID: 18828560; PMCID: PMC5452619.
Gigliotti, A.K., W. D. Bowen M. O. Hammill, W. B. Puryear, J. Runstadler, F. W. Wenzel, and K. M. Cammen 2022. Sequence Diversity and Differences at the Highly Duplicated MHC-I Gene Refect Viral Susceptibility in Sympatric Pinniped Species. Journal of Heredity, 2022, XX, 1–13 https://doi.org/10.1093/jhered/esac030
Rose JM, Gast RJ, Bogomolni A, Ellis JC, Lentell BJ, Touhey K, Moore M. Occurrence and patterns of antibiotic resistance in vertebrates off the Northeastern United States coast. FEMS Microbiol Ecol. 2009 Mar;67(3):421-31. doi: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2009.00648.x. Epub 2009 Jan 28. PMID: 19187217; PMCID: PMC5444207.
Fisheries Interactions:
Nichols, O. C., Bogomolni, A. L., Bradfield, E. C., Early, G. A., Sette, L., & Wood, S. 2011. Gulf of Maine seals-fisheries interactions and integrated research: final report. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
Management:
Josephson, E. F.W. Wenzel and M.C. Lyssikatos. 2017.Northeast Fisheries Science Center Reference Document 17-15 Serious Injury Determinations for Small Cetaceans and Pinnipeds Caught in Commercial Fisheries off the Northeast U.S. Coast, 2011-2015. NOAA Technical Report, October 2017
Josephson, E., F.W. Wenzel and M.J. Lyssikatos 2019. Serious Injury Determinations for Small Cetaceans and Pinnipeds Caught in Commercial Fisheries off the Northeast U.S. Coast 2013-2017. NEFSC Ref Doc 19-17; 29 p. https://doi.org/10.25923/a1b7-6673
Waring GT, Wenzel F, Josephson E, Lyssikatos MC. 2014. Serious Injury Determinations for Small Cetaceans and Pinnipeds Caught in Commercial Fisheries off the Northeast U.S. Coast, 2007-2011. US Dept. Commer, Northeast Fish Science Center Ref Doc. 14-13; 26 p. Available from: National Marine Fisheries Service, 166 Water Street, Woods Hole, MA 02543-1026, or online at http://nefsc.noaa.gov/publications/
Waring GT, Josephson E, Lyssikatos MC, Wenzel FW. 2015. Serious injury determinations for small cetaceans and pinnipeds caught in commercial fisheries off the northeast U.S. coast, 2012. US Dept. Commer, Northeast Fish Sci Cent Ref Doc. 15-12; 19 p. Available from: National Marine Fisheries Service, 166 Water Street, Woods Hole, MA 02543-1026, or online at http://nefsc.noaa.gov/publications/
Wenzel F.W., Waring GT, Josephson, E, Lyssikatos MC, Byrd BL, Horstman SC, Powell, JR. 2015. Serious injury determinations for small cetaceans and pinnipeds caught in commercial fisheries off the northeast U.S. coast, 2013. US Dept. Commer, NOAA Tech. Memo 15; 37p.
Wenzel et al. 2016. Serious Injury Determinations for Small Cetaceans and Pinnipeds Caught in Commercial Fisheries off the Northeast US Coast, 2014. NOAA Technical Report. 16-01; 23 p.
Toxicology:
Becker, P.R., E.A. Mackey, R. Demiralp, R. Suydam, G. Early, B.J. Koster, S.A. Wise. 1995 Relationship of silver to selenium and mercury in the liver tissue of two species of toothed whales. Mar. Poll Bull. 30, 262-271.
Fire, S.E., A. Bogomolni, R.A. DiGiovanni…F.W. Wenzel 2021. An assessment of temporal, spatial and taxonomic trends in harmful algal toxin exposure in stranded marine mammals from the U.S. New England coast. January 2021. PLoS ONE 16(1):e0243570. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0243570
Robuck, A. R., et al. (2021). Legacy and emerging per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in shelf and slope marine mammals of the Western North Atlantic. Environmental Science & Technology, 55(14), 9845–9856.
Weisbrod, A. V., Shea, D., Moore, M. J., & Stegeman, J. J. (2001). Organochlorine exposure and bioaccumulation patterns in North Atlantic right whales and pilot whales. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 20(2), 331–339.
Westgate, A. J., & Tolley, K. A. (1999). Geographical variation in organochlorine contaminants in harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) from the western North Atlantic. Environmental Pollution, 104(2), 255–267.
Biorepository:
Becker, P. R., et al. (2000). The National Marine Mammal Tissue Bank and Quality Assurance Program: Comparison of contaminant levels in cetaceans and pinnipeds. NIST Special Publication / Environmental Science & Technology.
Kucklick, J. R., et al. (2011). Contemporary contaminants in marine mammals archived in the NIST Marine Environmental Specimen Bank. Marine Environmental Research, 71(3), 183–191.
Lynch JM, Ragland JM, Reagen WK, Wolf ST, Malinsky MD, Ellisor MB, Moors AJ, Pugh RS, Reiner JL. Feasibility of using the National Marine Mammal Tissue Bank for retrospective exploratory studies of perfluorinated alkyl acids. Sci Total Environ. 2018 May 15;624:781-789. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.11.299. Epub 2017 Dec 27. PMID: 29272847.
Pugh, R., Ellisor, M., Moors, A, Becker, P., Porter, B., Mackey, E , Schantz, M , Demiralp, R. and Wise, S. (2006), The National Marine Mammal Tissue Bank Specimen Inventory, NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR), National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD (Accessed February 17, 2023)
Pugh, R. S., et al. (2018). Trends in environmental specimen banking: Support for marine mammal health surveillance. Frontiers in Marine Science, 5, 288.
Weisbrod, A. V., Shea, D., Moore, M. J., & Stegeman, J. J. (2001). Organochlorine exposure and bioaccumulation patterns in North Atlantic right whales (Eubalaena glacialis) and pilot whales (Globicephala melas). Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 20(2), 331–339.
Westgate, A. J., & Tolley, K. A. (1999). Geographical variation in organochlorine contaminants in harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) from the western North Atlantic. Environmental Pollution, 104(2), 255–267.
Wise SA, Koster BJ, Langland JK, Zeisler R. Current activities within the National Biomonitoring Specimen Bank. Sci Total Environ. 1993 Nov 1;139-140:1-12. doi: 10.1016/0048-9697(93)90003-o. PMID: 8272819.
Museum Collections:
Mead, J. G., & Potter, C. W. (1995). Recognizing two species of beaked whales (Mesoplodon) in the Western North Atlantic using museum collections. Journal of Mammalogy, 76(4), 1145–1155.
Galatius, A., et al. (2020). Evolutionary divergence and morphological variation in Atlantic white-sided dolphins (Lagenorhynchus acutus). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 129(4), 892–906.
U.S. Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian, Washington, D.C.
Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, Maine
Northeastern University, Ctr for Vertebrate Studies, Boston, MA.
Supporting Numerous NOAA PSB publications regarding Stock Assessment reports, Take Reduction Teams, Bycatch analysis, etc. Numerous graduate students, NOAA Summer Hollings students, College/University classes on Marine Mammal Ecology.
Andrew Westgate, Duke University Dissertation on Life history of Common Dolphins, Delphinus delphis
P. Rosel NOAA genetics lab, Lafayette La. Supporting genetic stock structure for Long finned and short-finned pilot whales and harbor porpoise
Harbor Porpoise Case Study References
Orphanides, Christopher D., and Debra L. Palka. “Analysis of harbor porpoise gillnet bycatch, compliance, and enforcement trends in the US northwestern Atlantic, January 1999 to May 2010.” Endangered Species Research 20 (2013): 251-269.
Gaskin, D. E. 1984. The harbour porpoise Phocoena phocoena (L.): Regional populations, status and information on direct and indirect catches. Rept. Int. Whal. Commn 34: 569-586.
Gilbert, J. R., and K. M. Wynne. “Marine mammal interactions with New England gill net fisheries. Final Rep.” Contract No. NA-84-EAC00070, Natl. Mar. Fish. Serv., NEFC (1988).
McElderry, Howard Ingram, W. A. Karp, J. Twomey, M. Merklein, V. Cornish, and M. Saunders. “Proceedings of the First Biennial Canada/US Observer Program Workshop, Seattle, Washington, 10-12 March 1998.” (1999).
