Interim
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 USA
Kevin C. Weng, PhD
Honolulu, Hawaii 96822
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
Peer
reviewer National
Science Foundation
National
Geographic Society
Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences
Journal of Animal Ecology
Aquatic Biology
Environmental Biology of Fishes
Fish and Fisheries
Fisheries Oceanography
Fisheries Research
Fishery Bulletin
Marine Biology
Marine Ecology Progress Series
Marine and Freshwater Research
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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. |
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At the University of Hawaii I am in the Pelagic Fisheries Research Program,
and collaborate with scientists in the Oceanography Department,
the Hawaii Institute of Marine
Biology the Hawaii Undersea
Research Laboratory, the National
Marine Fisheries Service and the Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources. Our studies are funded by the NOAA Pacific Islands Regional Office,
the NOAA Pacific Island Fisheries
Science Center, Hawaii
Sea Grant, the NOAA Coral Reef
Program and the US Department of Energy
via the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute. I am also collaborating with
scientists at Stanford University’s Hopkins Marine Station in the Tagging of Pacific Predators Program (TOPP),
part of the Census of Marine Life. I work with the Monterey Bay Aquarium, the CSULB Shark Lab and the Southern California Marine Institute to study juvenile white
sharks. |
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