Kevin C. Weng, PhD

Program Manager, Pelagic Fisheries Research Program

Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research

School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Honolulu, Hawaii 96822

USA

Research Interests

· Behavior, migration and habitat use of marine vertebrates

· Biology of fishes and sharks

· Management and conservation of marine vertebrates and their habitats

· Marine Reserves

· Oceanography of the focal areas of marine animals

· Use of animal-borne sensors to measure the marine environment

Current Projects

· Home range and movement of deep-water snappers in relation to fishery closed areas (NOAA PIRO).

· Environmental impacts of ocean energy development (US DOE/HNEI).

· Ecology and conservation of juvenile white sharks (Monterey Bay Aquarium).

· Habitat and behavior of seamount-associated pomfrets/monchong (NOAA PIFSC).

· Movement and mixing of tunas in the Hawaii region (PFRP).

Publications

	Weng, KC, M Stokesbury, A Boustany, A Seitz, S Teo, S Miller, B Block, 2009. Habitat and behavior of yellowfin tuna Thunnus albacares in the Gulf of Mexico determined using pop-up satellite archival tags. Journal of Fish Biology 74, 1434–1449
	Weng, KC, D Foley, J Ganong, C Perle, G Shillinger, B Block 2008. Migration of a high trophic level predator between distant ecoregions Marine Ecology Progress Series 372: 253–264
	Boustany A, Weng K, Anderson S, Pyle P, Block B. 2008. White Shark Movements in the North Pacific Pelagic Ecosystem. In: Camhi M, Pikitch EK, Babcock EA (eds) Sharks of the Open Ocean. Blackwell, Oxford
	Weng K, Boustany A, Pyle P, Anderson S, Brown A, Block B. 2007. Migration and Habitat of White Sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) in the Eastern Pacific Ocean Supplementary Information Marine Biology DOI 10.1007/s00227-007-0739-4
	Weng, K, J O’Sullivan, C Lowe, C Winkler, H Dewar and B Block 2007. Movement, behavior and habitat of juvenile white sharks in the eastern Pacific as revealed by electronic tags Marine Ecology Progress Series 338: 211–224
	Weng, KC, PC Castilho, JM Morrissette, A Landiera, DB Holts, RJ Schallert, KJ Goldman and BA Block, 2005. Satellite tagging and cardiac physiology reveal niche expansion in salmon sharks Science 310: 104-106 Supplementary Information
	Stevenson, C, L Katz, F Micheli, B Block, K Heiman, C Perle, K Weng, R Dunbar and J Witting, 2007. High apex predator biomass on remote Pacific islands Coral Reefs 26: 47-51 DOI 10.1007/s00338-006-0158-x
	Teo SLH, Boustany A, Dewar H, Stokesbury MJW, Weng KC, Beemer S, Seitz AC, Farwell CJ, Prince ED, Block BA, 2007. Annual migrations, diving behavior, and thermal biology of Atlantic bluefin tuna, Thunnus thynnus, on their Gulf of Mexico breeding grounds Marine Biology 151: 1-18 DOI 10.1007/s00227-006-0447-5
	Block, BA, SLH Teo, A Walli, A Boustany, MJW Stokesbury, CJ Farwell, KC Weng, H Dewar, and TD Williams, 2005. Electronic tagging and population structure of Atlantic bluefin tuna Nature 434: 1121-1127
	Weng, K and B Block. 2004. Diel vertical migration of the bigeye thresher shark (Alopias superciliosus), a species possessing orbital retia mirabilia Fishery Bulletin 102: 221-229
	Teo, S, A Boustany, S Blackwell, A Walli, K Weng, and B Block, 2004. Validation of geolocation estimates based on light level and sea surface temperature from electronic tags Marine Ecology Progress Series 283: 81-98
	Block B, Boustany A, Teo S, Walli A, Farwell C, Williams T, Prince E, Stokesbury M, Dewar H, Seitz A & Weng K 2003. Distribution of Western Tagged Atlantic Bluefin Tuna Determined From Archival and Pop-Up Satellite Tags. Col. Vol. Sci. Pap. ICCAT 55, 1127-1139.
	Seitz, A, K Weng, A Boustany, and B Block, 2002. Behavior of a sharptail mola in the Gulf of Mexico Journal of Fish Biology 60: 1597-1602
	Weng, K. 2007. Movement, Thermal Niche and Cardiac Function in Lamniform Sharks – Implications for Ecology and Evolution PhD Thesis, Stanford University. In preparation.
	Weng, K, 1999. Analysis of the Fisheries for Two Pelagic Carangids in Hawaii MSc Thesis, University of Hawaii at Manoa. 78 pp.