Sascha Hooker

"Journals: Where to Publish?" - presentation at the Student Workshop, World Marine Mammal Science Conference 1998.

CURRENT WEBSITE: "http://www.smru.st-and.ac.uk/skh/"

This has details of my current position and research with the Sea Mammal Research Unit, University of St Andrews, Scotland (2001).

DALHOUSIE WEBSITE

This website now only contains details of the work I carried out while I was doing my PhD research at Dalhousie University. I was based in Hal Whitehead's research group at Dalhousie for my PhD research (1994 - 1999), funded by a Canadian Commonwealth Scholarship.

PhD thesis: Hooker, S.K. 1999. Resource and habitat use of northern bottlenose whales in the Gully: ecology, diving and ranging behaviour. Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada. PhD: Abstract, Table of Contents and downloadable electronic copy (.pdf)

During my PhD, I was fortunate to be involved in a variety of projects. In addition to my own, which gave me a wealth of experience with skippering a sailboat for offshore research, I spent some time helping with Jenny Christal's research on sperm whale social organisation in the Galapagos Islands, and with Robin Baird's research on killer whale diving behaviour in the San Juan Islands.

Publications resulting from my time at Dalhousie

Hooker, S.K., H. Whitehead, and S. Gowans. 2002. Ecosystem consideration in conservation planning: energy demand of foraging bottlenose whales (Hyperoodon ampullatus) in a marine protected area. Biological Conservation 104: 51-58. Adobe PDF file
Hooker, S.K., and H. Whitehead. 2002. Click characteristics of northern bottlenose whales (Hyperoodon ampullatus). Marine Mammal Science 18: 69-80.
Hooker, S.K., H. Whitehead, S. Gowans, and R.W. Baird. 2002. Fluctuations in distribution and patterns of individual range use of northern bottlenose whales. Marine Ecology Progress Series 225: 287-297. Adobe PDF file
Hooker, S.K., S.J. Iverson, P. Ostrom, and S.C. Smith. 2001. Diet of northern bottlenose whales inferred from fatty-acid and stable-isotope analyses of biopsy samples. Canadian Journal of Zoology 79: 1442-1454. Adobe PDF file
Baird, R.W., A.D. Ligon, S.K. Hooker, and A.M. Gorgone. 2001. Subsurface and nighttime behaviour of pantropical spotted dolphins in Hawai'i. Canadian Journal of Zoology 79: 988-996. Adobe PDF file
Dalebout, M.L., S.K. Hooker, and I. Christensen. 2001. Genetic diversity and population structure among northern bottlenose whales, Hyperoodon ampullatus, in the western North Atlantic Ocean. Canadian Journal of Zoology 79: 478-484. Adobe PDF file
Gowans, S., H. Whitehead, and S.K. Hooker. 2001. Social organization in northern bottlenose whales (Hyperoodon ampullatus): not driven by deep water foraging? Animal Behaviour 62: 369-377.
Hooker, S.K., R.W. Baird, S. Al-Omari, S. Gowans, and H. Whitehead. 2001. Behavioral reactions of northern bottlenose whales to biopsy darting and tag attachment procedures. Fishery Bulletin 99(2): 303-308. Adobe PDF file
Hooker, S.K., and R.W. Baird. 2001. Diving and ranging behaviour of odontocetes: a methodological review and critique. Mammal Review 31(1): 81-105.Adobe PDF file
Baird, R.W., and S.K. Hooker. 2000. Ingestion of plastic and unusual prey by a juvenile harbour porpoise. Marine Pollution Bulletin 40: 719-720. Adobe PDF file
Gowans, S., M.L. Dalebout, S.K. Hooker, and H. Whitehead. 2000. Reliability of photographic and molecular techniques for sexing northern bottlenose whales (Hyperoodon ampullatus). Canadian Journal of Zoology 78: 1224-1229. Adobe PDF file, nb. 3MB!
Gowans, S., H. Whitehead, J. Arch, and S.K. Hooker. 2000. Population size and residency patterns of northern bottlenose whales (Hyperoodon ampullatus) using the Gully. Journal of Cetacean Research and Management 2: 201-210. Adobe PDF file
Lucas, Z.N., and S.K. Hooker. 2000. Cetacean strandings on Sable Island, Nova Scotia, 1970-1998. Canadian Field-Naturalist 114: 45-61.
Hooker, S.K., H. Whitehead and S. Gowans. 1999. Marine protected area design and the spatial and temporal distribution of cetaceans in a submarine canyon. Conservation Biology 13: 592-602. Adobe PDF file
Hooker, S.K., and R.W. Baird. 1999. Observations of Sowerby's beaked whales (Mesoplodon bidens) in the Gully, Nova Scotia. Canadian Field-Naturalist 113: 273-277.
Hooker, S.K., and R.W. Baird. 1999. Deep-diving behaviour of northern bottlenose whales, Hyperoodon ampullatus (Cetacea: Ziphiidae). Proceedings of the Royal Society, London B. 266: 671-676. Adobe PDF file
Hooker, S.K. 1998. Extensive scarring observed on female or juvenile male sperm whales off the Galápagos Islands. Mammalia 62: 134-139.
Hooker, S.K., and R.W. Baird. 1997. A Fea's Petrel (Pterodroma feae) off Nova Scotia: the first record for Canada. Birders Journal 6: 245-248.

Non peer-reviewed publications

(no abstract) Whitehead, H., W.D. Bowen, S.K. Hooker and S. Gowans. 1998. Marine mammals. pp 186 -221 In: The Gully: a scientific review of its environment and ecosystem. (Eds: Harrison, W.G. and Fenton, D.G.) Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Ottawa. Canadian Stock Assessment Secretariat Research Document 98/83.
Hooker, S.K., R.W. Baird and M.A. Showell. 1997. Cetacean strandings and bycatches in Nova Scotia, Eastern Canada, 1991 - 1996. Paper SC/49/O5 presented to the IWC Scientific Committee, September 1997.
Lucas, Z.N. and S.K. Hooker. 1997. Cetacean strandings on Sable Island, Nova Scotia, 1990 - 1996. Paper SC/49/O6 presented to the IWC Scientific Committee, September 1997.
Baird, R.W., S.K. Hooker, H. Whitehead and R. Etcheberry. 1997. A review of records of striped dolphins (Stenella coeruleoalba) from Canadian waters. Paper SC/49/SM4 presented to the IWC Scientific Committee, September 1997.


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