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Andrews KS, Williams GD, Levin PS (2010) Spatial Patterns of Movement in Sixgill Sharks: Changes with Season and Ontogeny. PLoS ONE. In press.
Chittenden CM, Biagi C, Davidsen JG, Davidsen AG, Kondo H, et al. (2010) Genetic versus Rearing-Environment Effects on Phenotype: Hatchery and Natural Rearing Effects on Hatchery- and Wild-Born Coho Salmon. PLoS ONE 5(8): e12261. Open-access manuscript here.
Chittenden CM, Jensen J, Ewart D, Anderson S, Balfry S, et al. (2010) Recent Salmon Declines: A Result of Lost Feeding Opportunities Due to Bad Timing? PLoS ONE 5(8): e12423. Open-access manuscript here.
Chittenden CM, Melnychuk MC, Welch DW, McKinley RS (2010) An investigation into the poor survival of an endangered coho salmon population. PLoS ONE 5(5): e10869. Open-access manuscript here.
Jorgensen SJ, Reeb CA, Chapple TK, Anderson S, Perle C, et al. (2010) Philopatry and migration of Pacific white sharks. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 277: 679-688. Manuscript here.
Melnychuk MC, Walters CJ (2010) Estimating detection probabilities of tagged fish migrating past fixed receiver stations using only local information. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 67: 641-658. Manuscript here.
Melnychuk MC (2010) Effects of acoustic tag strength variation on detection probabilities of migrating fish: Recommended measurements prior to tagging. American Fisheries Society Symposium, “Advances in Fish Tagging and Marking Technology”. In press.
Moore ME, Berejikian BA, Tezak EP (2010) Early Marine Survival and Behavior of Steelhead Smolts through Hood Canal and the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 139: 49-61. Abstract here.
Payne JC, Andrews KS, Chittenden CM, Crossin GT, Goetz FA, et al. (2010) Tracking Fish Movements and Survival on the Northeast Pacific Shelf. In: McIntyre, AD, editor. Life in the World's Oceans: Distribution, Diversity and Abundance. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd. In press.
Pincock D, Welch D, McKinley S, Jackson G (2010) Acoustic telemetry for studying migration movements of small fish in rivers and the ocean -- Current capabilities and future possibilities. In: Wolf KS, O’Neal JS, editors. Tagging, Telemetry and Marking Measures for Monitoring Fish Populations -- A compendium of new and recent science for use in informing technique and decision modalities: Pacific Northwest Aquatic Monitoring Partnership Special Publication 2010-002. In press.
Rechisky EL (2010) Migration and survival of juvenile spring chinook and sockeye salmon determined by a large-scale telemetry array. University of British Columbia Ph.D. thesis. 246p. Manuscript here.
Rechisky EL, Welch DW (2010) Surgical implantation of acoustic tags: Influence of tag loss and tag-induced mortality on free-ranging and hatchery-held spring Chinook (O. tschawytscha) smolts. In: Wolf KS, O’Neal JS, editors. Tagging, Telemetry and Marking Measures for Monitoring Fish Populations -- A compendium of new and recent science for use in informing technique and decision modalities: Pacific Northwest Aquatic Monitoring Partnership Special Publication 2010-002. In press.
Reynolds BF, Powers SP, Bishop MA (2010) Application of Acoustic Biotelemetry to Assess Quality of Created Habitats for Rockfish and Lingcod in Prince William Sound, Alaska. PLoS ONE 5(8): e12130. Open access manuscript here.
Seitz AC, Norcross BL, Payne JC, Kagley AN, Meloy B, et al. (2010) Feasibility of Surgically Implanting Acoustic Tags into Pacific Herring. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 139: 1288-1291. Abstract here.
2009
Andrews KS, Williams GD, Farrer D, Tolimieri N, Harvey CJ, et al. (2009) Diel activity patterns of sixgill sharks, Hexanchus griseus: the ups and downs of an apex predator. Animal Behaviour 78: 525-536. Abstract here.
Chittenden CM, Butterworth KG, Cubitt KF, Jacobs MC, Ladouceur A, et al. (2009) Maximum tag to body size ratios for an endangered coho salmon (O. kisutch) stock based on physiology and performance. Environmental Biology of Fishes 84: 129-140. Abstract here.
Chittenden CM, Beamish RJ, McKinley RS (2009) A critical review of Pacific salmon marine research relating to climate. ICES Journal of Marine Science 66: 2195-2204. Abstract here.
Chittenden CM, Beamish RJ, Neville CM, Sweeting RM, McKinley RS (2009) The use of acoustic tags to determine the timing and location of the juvenile coho salmon migration out of the Strait of Georgia, Canada. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 138: 1220–1225. Abstract here.
Crossin GT, Hinch SG, Welch DW, Cooke SJ, Patterson DA, et al. (2009) Physiological profiles of sockeye salmon in the Northeast Pacific Ocean and the effects of exogenous GnRH and testosterone on rates of homeward migration. Marine and Freshwater Behaviour and Physiology 42: 89-109. Abstract here.
Crossin GT, Hinch SG, Cooke SJ, Cooperman MS, Patterson DA, et al. (2009) Mechanisms influencing the timing and success of reproductive migration in a capital-breeding, semelparous fish species: the sockeye salmon. Physiological & Biochemical Zoology 82: 635–652. Abstract here.
Greene CH, Block BA, Welch DW, Jackson G, Lawson GL, et al. (2009) Advances in Conservation Oceanography: New Tagging and Tracking Technologies and their Potential for Transforming the Science Underlying Fisheries Management. Oceanography 22: 210-223. Manuscript here.
Haggan N, Jackson GD, Lacroix P (2009) Salmon and Eulachon in Ecosystem Space and Time: A Plea for Wider Collaboration and Data Integration. In: Haro A, Smith KL, Rulifson RA, Moffitt CM, Klauda RJ, et al, editors. Challenges for Diadromous Fishes in a Dynamic Global Environment. Bethesda: American Fisheries Society Symposium 69. Book here.
Melnychuk MC (2009) Estimation of survival and detection probabilities for multiple tagged salmon stocks with nested migration routes, using a large-scale telemetry array. Marine & Freshwater Research 60: 1231-1243. Abstract here.
Melnychuk MC (2009) Mortality of migrating Pacific salmon smolts in southern British Columbia, Canada. University of British Columbia Ph.D. thesis. 452p. Manuscript here.
Melnychuk MC, Christensen V (2009) Methods for estimating detection efficiency and tracking acoustic tags with mobile transect surveys. Journal of Fish Biology 75: 1773-1794. Abstract here.
Rechisky EL, Welch DW, Porter AD, Jacobs MC, Ladouceur A (2009) Experimental measurement of hydrosystem-induced delayed mortality in juvenile Snake River spring Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) using a large-scale acoustic array. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 66: 1019-1024. Manuscript here.
Stokesbury MJW, Dadswell MJ, Holland KN, Jackson GD, Bowen WD, et al. (2009) Tracking of Diadromous Fishes at Sea using Hybrid Acoustic and Archival Electronic Tags. In: Haro A, Smith KL, Rulifson RA, Moffitt CM, Klauda RJ, et al, editors. Challenges for Diadromous Fishes in a Dynamic Global Environment. Bethesda: American Fisheries Society Symposium 69. Book here.
Welch DW, Melnychuk MC, Rechisky E, Porter AD, Jacobs MC, et al. (2009) Freshwater and marine migration and survival of endangered Cultus Lake sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) smolts using POST, a large-scale acoustic telemetry array. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Science 66: 736-750. Manuscript here.
2008
Chittenden CM (2008) Migratory behaviour and survival of wild and hatchery coho salmon. University of British Columbia Ph.D. thesis. 150p. Manuscript here.
Chittenden CM, Sura S, Butterworth, KG, Cubitt KF, Plantalech N, et al. (2008) Riverine, estuarine and marine migratory behaviour and physiology of wild and hatchery reared coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) smolts descending the Campbell River, BC. Journal of Fish Biology 72: 614-62. Abstract here.
Cooke SJ, Hinch SG, Farrell AP, Patterson DA, Miller-Saunders, K, et al. (2008) Developing a mechanistic understanding of fish migrations by linking telemetry with physiology, behavior, genomics and experimental biology: an interdisciplinary case study on adult Fraser River sockeye salmon. Fisheries 33: 321-338. Manuscript here.
Crossin GT, Hinch SG, Cooke SJ, Welch DW, Patterson DA, et al. (2008) Exposure to high temperature influences in the behaviour, physiology, and survival of sockeye salmon during spawning migration. Canadian Journal of Zoology 86: 127-140. Manuscript here.
Farrell AP, Hinch SG, Cooke SJ, Patterson DA, Crossin GT, et al. (2008) Pacific salmon in hot water: applying metabolic scope models and biotemetry to predict the success of spawning migrations. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 81: 697-709. Abstract here.
Lindley ST, Moser ML, Erickson DL, Belchik M, Welch, DW, et al. (2008) Marine Migration of North American Green Sturgeon. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 137: 182-194. Abstract here.
Muthukumarana S, Schwarz CJ, Swartz TB (2008) Bayesian analysis of mark-recapture data with travel time-dependent survival probabilities. Canadian Journal of Statistics 36: 5-28. Abstract here.
Welch DW, Rechisky EL, Melnychuk MC, Porter AD, Walters CJ, et al. (2008) Survival of Migrating Salmon Smolts in Large Rivers With and Without Dams. PLoS Biology 6(10): e265. Open-access manuscript here.
2007
Crossin GT, Hinch SG, Cooke SJ, Welch DW, Batten SD, et al. (2007) Behaviour and physiology of sockeye salmon homing through coastal waters to a natal river. Marine Biology 152: 905-918. Abstract here.
Melnychuk MC, Welch DW, Walters CJ, Christensen V (2007) Riverine and early ocean migration and mortality patterns of juvenile steelhead trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) from the Cheakamus River, British Columbia. Hydrobiologia 582: 55-65. Abstract here.
Muthukumarana, S (2007) Bayesian modeling and software development for the POST Project. Simon Fraser University M.Sc. thesis. 53p. Manuscript here.
Payne J, O’Dor R (2007) Comparing squid optimal cost of transport speeds to actual field migrations: new data from 40-g Loligo opalescens. In: Olson RJ, Young JW, editors. The role of squid in open ocean ecosystems: Report of a GLOBEC-CLIOTOP/PFRP workshop, 16-17 November 2006, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. Plymouth: GLOBEC Report 24. pp16-18. Manuscript here.
Welch DW, Batten SD, Ward BR (2007) Growth, Survival, and Rates of Tag Retention for Surgically Implanted Acoustic Tags in Steelhead Trout (O. mykiss). Hydrobiologia 582: 289-299. Abstract here.
2006
Heupel MR, Semmens J, Hobday JA (2006) Automated acoustic tracking of aquatic animals: scales, design and deployment of listening station arrays. Marine and Freshwater Research 57: 1-13. Abstract here.
Welch DW, Turo S, Batten SD (2006) Large-scale Marine and Freshwater Movements of White Sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus). Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 135: 140-143. Abstract here.
2005
Stark K, Jackson GD, Lyle J (2005) Tracking arrow squid movements with an automated acoustic telemetry system. Marine Ecology Progress Series 299: 167-177. Manuscript here.
2004
Welch DW, Ward B, Batten S (2004) Early ocean survival and marine movements of hatchery and wild steelhead trout (Oncorhyncus mykiss) determined by an acoustic array: Queen Charlotte Strait, British Columbia. Deep-Sea Research Part II 51: 897-909. Abstract here.
Welch DW, Kristianson G, Tsang P (2004) Report on the 2004 Pacific Ocean Shelf Tracking (POST) Project – Objectives, Goals & Initial Results. North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission, Document No. 81. 8p. Manuscript here.
2003
Welch DW, Boehlert GW, Ward BR (2003) POST–the Pacific Ocean salmon tracking project. Oceanologica Acta 25: 243-253. Abstract here.
2001
Musyl MK, Brill RW, Curran DS, Gunn JS, Hartog JR, et al. (2001) Ability of archival tags, submerged at varying depths on a stationary mooring line in the Pacific Ocean, to provide estimates of geographical position based on light intensity. In: Sibert JR, Nielsen JL, editors. Electronic Tagging and Tracking in Marine Fisheries. Dordrecht: Springer. pp. 343-367. Book here.
Welch DW, Eveson JP (2001) Recent Progress in Estimating Geoposition using Daylight. In: Sibert JR, Nielsen JL, editors. Electronic Tagging and Tracking in Marine Fisheries. Dordrecht: Springer. pp. 369-384. Book here.
2000
Eveson JP, Welch DW (2000) Evaluation of techniques for attaching archival tags to Salmon: Influence on growth and survival. Advances in Fish Telemetry: Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Fish Telemetry in Europe. pp. 29-35.