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Investigating the effect of oil spills
on the environment and public health.

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Karlina Merkens

University of California San Diego

Scripps Institution of Oceanography

UC San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla , CA 92093

karlina.merkens@noaa.gov

Project List:

Center for Integrated Modeling and Analysis of Gulf Ecosystems (C-IMAGE)

Year 2-4 Consortia Grants (RFP-I)Role: GoMRI Scholar, Graduate Student - PhD Level

Publications & Presentations:

Journal Articles - 2
2019
Hildebrand, J. A., Frasier, K. E., Baumann-Pickering, S., Wiggins, S. M., Merkens, K. P., Garrison, L. P., et al. (2019). Assessing Seasonality and Density From Passive Acoustic Monitoring of Signals Presumed to be From Pygmy and Dwarf Sperm Whales in the Gulf of Mexico. Front. Mar. Sci., 6, Article 66.
2015
Hildebrand, J. A., Baumann-Pickering, S., Frasier, K. E., Trickey, J. S., Merkens, K. P., Wiggins, S. M., et al. (2015). Passive acoustic monitoring of beaked whale densities in the Gulf of Mexico. Sci. Rep., 5, 16343.
Conference Presentations - 6
2014
Frasier, K., Wiggins, S. M., Marques, T. A., Merkens, K. P., Harris, D., Thomas, L., et al. (2014). Passive acoustic monitoring of sperm whales in the GoM: From detection to density estimation. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2014. Mobile, AL: 01/26/14-01/30/14: Poster.
Merkens, K. P., McDonald, M. A., Baumann-Pickering, S., Frasier, K. E., & Hildebrand, J. A. (2014). Deep-diving cetaceans and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. In Ocean Sciences Meeting 2014. Honolulu, HI : 02/23/14-02/28/14: Poster.
2013
Frasier, K., Merkens, K., Wiggins, S., Marques, T., Harris, D., Thomas, L., et al. (2013). Effects of acoustic propagation on echolocation click detectability in the marine environment. In International Workshop on Detection, Classification, Localization and Density Estimation of Marine Mammals using Passive Acoustics. University of St. Andrews, Scotland, June 12-15, 2013: Poster.
Frasier, K., Merkens, K., McDonald, M., Soldevilla, M., Garrison, L., Wiggins, S., et al. (2013). Long-term monitoring of dolphins in the Gulf of Mexico. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2013. New Orleans, LA: 01/21/2013-01/23/2013: Poster.
Hildebrand, J., Merkens, K., Frasier, K., McDonald, M., Baumann-Pickering, S., Wiggins, S., et al. (2013). Monitoring deep-diving cetaceans during and after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2013. New Orleans, LA: 01/21/2013-01/23/2013.
Merkens, K., McDonald, M., Baumann-Pickering, S., Frasier, K., Wiggins, S., & Hildebrand, J. (2013). Deep-diving cetaceans and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. In Acoustical Society Of America. San Francisco, CA, December, 5, 2013.