SOEST
Young Investigator / Assistant Researcher School
of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology University
of Hawaii at Manoa USA
Kevin C. Weng, PhD
Honolulu, Hawaii 96822
Research
Interests
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Behavior, migration and habitat use of marine
vertebrates ·
Biology of pelagic fishes and sharks ·
Management and conservation of marine vertebrates
and their habitats ·
Oceanography of the focal areas of marine
animals ·
Use of animal-borne sensors to measure the
marine environment |
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Publications
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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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 |
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Weng, K. 2007. Movement,
Thermal Niche and Cardiac Function in Lamniform Sharks – Implications for
Ecology and Evolution PhD Thesis, Stanford University. In
preparation. |
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Weng, K, 1999. Analysis of the Fisheries for Two Pelagic
Carangids in Hawaii MSc Thesis, University of Hawaii at
Manoa. 78 pp. |
Service
Board
Member Community
Conservation Network
Peer
reviewer Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences
Journal of Animal Ecology
Aquatic Biology
Environmental Biology of Fishes
Fish and Fisheries
Fisheries Oceanography
Marine and Freshwater Research
Oryx
Outreach
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My research has been
communicated to the public via the Discovery
Channel website, ABC
News, The Associated
Press, Daily
India, the Monterey
Herald, The Santa
Cruz Sentinel, the Stanford
University News Service, the outreach component of the TOPP program, the Monterey Bay Aquarium, and
the School
of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology at the University of Hawaii at
Manoa. |
Links
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I did my PhD at Stanford University, where I was based at
Hopkins Marine Station, and a
member of the Tuna Research and
Conservation Center. My research
was a component of the Tagging of Pacific
Predators Program (TOPP), part of the Census
of Marine Life. I was also
supported by the Monterey Bay Aquarium,
and collaborated with MBA staff and the CSULB Shark Lab to study
juvenile white sharks. My adult white
shark research relied heavily on the field efforts of PRBO Conservation Science at the
Farallon Islands, while salmon shark research was conducted aboard the
vessels of the Alaska Department of
Fish and Game. I was also an
active field researcher in the Tag-A-Giant
Program, in which I conducted numerous surgeries to implant archival tags
into Atlantic bluefin tuna. At the University of Hawaii I am working
with scientists in the Oceanography
Department, the Pelagic
Fisheries Research Program, the Hawaii Institute of Marine
Biology and the Hawaii
Undersea Research Laboratory. |
7 August 2008
shark
sharks
fish
fishes
marine vertebrate
mola
great white shark
salmon shark
mackerel shark
mako shark
porbeagle shark
tuna
bluefin tuna
yellowfin tuna
albacore tuna
bigeye tuna
swordfish
marlin
pelagic
nekton
elasmobranch
chondrichthes
migration
migratory
breeding
sex
male
female
feeding
foraging
behavior
ethology
scuba diving
dive
freedive
fishing