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CB
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Federal, NOAA Fisheries
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Job Title:
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Research Fishery Biologist
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206-302-2439
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Email:
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NWFSC Publications
Curriculum Vita
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Background
Dawn Noren joined the Northwest Fisheries Science Center in May of 2003.
Previously, Dawn was a National Research Council (NRC) Postdoctoral
Research Associate at the National Marine Mammal Laboratory at the NOAA
NMFS Alaska Fisheries Science Center, Seattle, WA, where she conducted
research on Steller sea lion juvenile body condition, fasting physiology,
and diving. Dawn received a Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from
the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her dissertation focused on
elephant seal body condition, thermoregulation, and fasting physiology.
She also earned an M.S. in Marine Sciences from the University of
California, Santa Cruz. For her master's thesis, she investigated the
physiology of diving and thermoregulation in bottlenose dolphins. Dawn
earned her B.S. in Biological Sciences with and emphasis in Marine
Sciences from the University of Maryland.
Current Research
Dawn is a physiological ecologist whose primary research interests
include: 1) diving physiology, 2) energetics and metabolism, 3) the
assessment of body condition, and 4) how individual variation in condition
and physiology impacts animals' abilities to function in their
environment. She is currently studying the potential impacts of vessel
presence on Southern Resident killer whale behavior and energetics. In
order to assess this, she is collecting behavioral data from Southern
Resident killer whales in the San Juan Islands using a focal follow
approach. In addition, she is conducting energetics studies on trained
bottlenose dolphins and a killer whales to determine the metabolic costs
of surface active behaviors, which are sometimes attributed to
disturbance. Her data will help scientists understand stresses to killer
whales caused by frequent exposure to vessels. Finally, she is working on
a collaborative study with the Harmful Algal Bloom group at the NWFSC to
assess potential impacts to killer whales that consume salmon during a
harmful algal bloom.
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