Kristen Gorman

Kristen Gorman

Assistant Professor

Marine Biology


College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences
Office: Irving II 230
Lab: O'Neill 141
Fairbanks, AK 99775
907-474-5930
kbgorman@alaska.edu

 
Education

Simon Fraser University
Ph.D. Biological Sciences
2015

Simon Fraser University
M.S. Biological Sciences
2005

Dickinson College
B.S. Biology
1996

 

 

Selected Publications

Hasan, E.L., K.B. Gorman, H.A. Colletti, and B.H. Konar. 2024. Species distribution modeling of northern sea otters (Enhydra lutris kenyoni) in a data-limited ecosystem. Ecology and Evolution 14(3):e11118.

Porter, D.E., J.M. Morris, M.P. Trifari, M.J. Wooller, P.A.H. Westley, K.B. Gorman, and B.D. Barst. 2023. Acute toxicity of copper to three species of Pacific salmon fry in water with low hardness and low dissolved organic carbon. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 42(11): 2440–2452.

Iken, K. C.D. Amsler, K.B. Gorman, A.G. Klein, A.W.E. Galloway, M.O. Amsler, S. Heiser, R. Whippo, A.T. Lowe, J.B. Schram, Z.X. Schneider, and J.B. McClintock. 2023. Macroalgal input into the coastal food web along a gradient of seasonal sea ice cover along the Western Antarctic Peninsula. Marine Ecology Progress Series 718:1–22.  

Schaefer, A.L., K.B. Gorman, and M.A. Bishop. 2022. Light-level geolocation reveals the short-distance non-breeding movements and distribution of tufted puffins throughout the Northeast Pacific Ocean. Frontiers in Marine Science 9:999461.

Horst, A.M., A.P. Hill, and K.B. Gorman. 2022. Palmer Archipelago Penguins Data in the palmerpenguins R Package - An Alternative to Anderson’s Irises. The R Journal 14(1):244-254.

Guo, C., B.H. Konar, K.B. Gorman, and C.M. Walker. 2022. Environmental factors important to high-latitude nearshore estuarine fish community structure. Deep-Sea Research II 201:105109.

Gorman, K.B., K.E. Ruck, T.D. Williams, and W.R. Fraser. 2021. Advancing the sea ice hypothesis: Trophic interactions among breeding Pygoscelis penguins with divergent population trends throughout the western Antarctic Peninsula. Frontiers in Marine Science 8:526092.

Specialties

  • Integrative ecology
  • Evolutionary and behavioral ecology
  • Molecular and physiological ecology
  • Food webs and trophic interactions
  • Demography and population structure
  • Marine fish and bird populations
  • High latitude marine ecosystems

 

Current Research Projects

  • Evaluating factors related to in river adult mortality in Copper River sockeye salmon. Funded by ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ Sustainable Salmon Fund, 2021-2022
  • Are expanding pink salmon populations in the Arctic produced from regional watersheds? Funded by Coastal Marine Institute/BOEM, 2020–2023
  • Using otolith geochemistry to understand the ocean ecology of a changing ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥n salmon system. Funded by National Science Foundation, 2020–2021
  • Implications of a declining trend in body size and condition on abundance of sockeye salmon in the Copper River, ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥. Funded by North Pacific Research Board, 2019–2021
  • Resolving the annual pelagic distribution of Tufted Puffins: Associations with oceanographic features and isotopic niche. Funded by North Pacific Research Board, 2018–2021

 

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