Publications

Oestreich, WK, Oliver, RY, Chapman, MS, Go, M, McKenna, MF (2024). Listening to animal behavior to understand changing ecosystems. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. *Journal cover article*

Press: Interesting Engineering

Oestreich, WK, Benoit-Bird, KJ, Abrahms, B, Margolina, T, Joseph, JE, Zhang, Y, Rueda, CA, Ryan, JP (2024). Evidence for seasonal migration by a cryptic top predator of the deep sea. Movement Ecology.

Press: MBARI | NPR (KQED) | SFGate | Monterey County Weekly | Monterey Herald

Dodson, S*, Oestreich, WK*, Savoca, M, Hazen, EL, Bograd, S, Ryan, JP, Fiechter, J, Abrahms, B (2024). Long-distance communication can enable collective migration in a dynamic seascape. Scientific Reports. *co-first authorship 

Beltran, RS, Kilpatrick, AM, Picardi, S, Abrahms, B, Barrile, GM, Oestreich, WK, Smith, JA, Czapanskiy, MF, Favilla, AB, Reisinger, RR, Kendall-Bar, JM, Payne, AR, Savoca, MS, Palance, DG, Andrzejaczek, S, Shen, DM, Adachi, T, Costa, DP, Storm, NA, Hale, CM, Robinson, PW (2024). Maximizing biological insights from instruments attached to animals. Trends in Ecology & Evolution.

Gaynor, KM, Abrahms, B, Manlove, KR, Oestreich, WK, Smith, JA (2024). Anthropogenic impacts at the interface of animal spatial and social behaviour. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.

Pearson, Eˆ*, Oestreich, WK*, Ryan, J, Haver, SM, Gedamke, J, Dziak, RP, Wall, CC (2023). Widespread passive acoustic monitoring reveals spatio-temporal patterns of blue and fin whale song vocalizations in the Northeast Pacific Ocean. Frontiers in Remote Sensing. ˆundergraduate mentee; *co-first authorship

Barlow, D, Bierlich, KC, Oestreich, WK, Chiang, G, Durban, JW, Goldbogen, JA, Johnston, DW, Leslie, MS, Moore, M, Ryan, JP, Torres, GL (2023). Shaped by their environment: Comparing blue whale morphology, life history, and regional oceanography in three productive coastal ecosystems. Integrative Organismal Biology.

Kim, EB, Frasier, KE, McKenna, MF, Kok, ACM, Peavey-Reeves, LE, Oestreich, WK, Arrieta, G, Wiggins, S, Baumann-Pickering, S (2023). SoundScape Learning: an automatic method for separating fish chorus in marine soundscapes. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.

Oestreich, WK, Aiu, KMˆ, Crowder, LB, McKenna, MF, Berdahl, AM, Abrahms, B (2022). The influence of social cues on timing of animal migrations. Nature Ecology and Evolution. ˆundergraduate mentee

Oestreich, WK, Abrahms, B, McKenna, MF, Goldbogen, JA, Crowder, LB, Ryan, JP (2022). Acoustic signature reveals blue whales tune life history transitions to oceanographic conditions. Functional Ecology.

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              Press: MBARI | SF Chronicle | Monterey County Weekly | Good Times Santa Cruz

Ryan, JP, Benoit-Bird, K, Oestreich, WK, Leary, P, Smith, K, Waluk, C, Cade, D, Fahlbusch, J, Southall, B, Joseph, J, Margolina, T, Calambokidis, J, DeVogelaere, A, Goldbogen, JA (2022). Oceanic giants dance to atmospheric rhythms: Ephemeral wind-driven resource tracking by blue whales. Ecology Letters. *Journal cover article*

              Press: MBARI | Eos | Monterey County Weekly

Blondin, H, Armstrong, K, Hazen, E, Santos, BS, Oestreich, WK, Haulsee, D, Mikles, CS, Knight, C, Bennett, A, Crowder, LB (2022). Land-dependent marine species face climate-driven impacts on land and at sea. Marine Ecology Progress Series.

Segre, PS, Gough, WT, Roualdes, EA, Cade, DE, Czapanskiy, MF, Fahlbusch, J, Kahane-Rapport, SR, Oestreich, WK, Bejder, L, Bierlich, KC, Burrows, JA, Calambokidis, J, Chenoweth, EM, di Clemente, J, Durban, JW, Fearnbach, H, Fish, FE, Friedlaender, AS, Hegelund, P, Johnston, DW, Nowacek, DP, Oudejans, MG, Penry, GS, Potvin, J, Simon, M, Stanworth, A, Straley, JM, Szabo, A, Videsen, SKA, Visser, F, Weir, CR, Wiley, DN, Goldbogen, JA (2022). Scaling of maneuvering performance in baleen whales. Journal of Experimental Biology.

Chapman, MS*, Oestreich, WK*, Frawley, TH, Boettiger, C, Diver, S, Santos, BS, Scoville, C, Armstrong, K, Blondin, H, Chand, K, Haulsee, DE, Knight, CJ, Crowder, LB (2021). Promoting equity in the use of algorithms for high seas conservation. One Earth. *co-first authorship

Cade, DE, Fahlbusch, JA, Oestreich, WK, Ryan, J, Calambokidis, J, Findlay, KP, Friedlaender, AS, Hazen, EL, Seakamela, SM, Goldbogen, JA (2021). Social exploitation of extensive, ephemeral, environmentally controlled prey patches by super-groups of rorqual whales. Animal Behaviour.

McKenna, MF, Baumann-Pickering, S, Kok, ACM, Oestreich, WK, Adams, JD, Barkowski, J, Fristrup, K, Goldbogen, JA, Joseph, JE, Kim, EB, Kugler, A, Lammers, MO, Margolina, T, Peavey Reeves, LE, Rowell, TJ, Stanley, JA, Stimpert, AK, Zang, EJ, Southall, BL, Wall, CC, Van Parijs, S, Hatch, LT (2021). Advancing the interpretation of shallow water marine soundscapes. Frontiers in Marine Science.

              Press: NOAA National Marine Sanctuaries

Kitzes, J, Blake, R, Bombaci, S, Chapman, M, Duran, SM, Huang, T, Joseph, MB, Lapp, S, Marconi, S, Oestreich, WK, Rhinehart, TA, Schweiger, AK, Song, Y, Surasinghe, T, Yang, D, Yule, K (2021). Expanding the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) biodiversity surveys with new instrumentation and machine learning models. Ecosphere.

Cade, DE, Gough, WT, Czapanskiy, MF, Fahlbusch, JA, Kahane-Rapport, SR, Linsky, JMJ, Nichols, RC, Oestreich, WK, Wisniewska, DM, Friedlaender, AS, Goldbogen, JA (2021). Tools for integrating inertial sensor data with video bio-loggers, including estimation of animal orientation, motion, and position. Animal Biotelemetry.

Cade, DE, Seakamela, SM, Findlay, KP, Fukunaga, J, Kahane-Rapport, SR, Warren, JD, Calambokidis, J, Fahlbusch, JA, Friedlaender, AS, Hazen, EL, Kotze, D, McCue, S, Meyer, M, Oestreich, WK, Oudejans, MG, Wilke, C, Goldbogen, JA. (2021). Predator-scale spatial analysis of intra-patch prey distribution reveals energetic drivers of rorqual whale super-group formation. Functional Ecology.

Green, KM, Selgrath, JS, Frawley, TH, Oestreich, WK, Mansfield, EJ, Urteaga, J, Swanson, SS, Santana, FS, Green, SJ, Naggea, J, Crowder, LB (2021). How adaptive capacity shapes the Adapt, React, Cope Response to climate impacts: insights from small-scale fisheries. Climatic Change.

              Press: Stanford Earth

Oestreich, WK, Fahlbusch, JA, Cade, DE, Calambokidis, J, Margolina, T, Joseph, J, Friedlaender, AS, McKenna, MF, Stimpert, AK, Southall, BL, Goldbogen, JA, Ryan, JP (2020). Animal-borne metrics enable acoustic detection of blue whale migration. Current Biology.

              Press: NPR All Things Considered | Scientific American | MBARI | Stanford | Science News | Popular Science | UPI

Oestreich, WK, Chapman, MS, Crowder, LB. (2020). A comparative analysis of dynamic management in marine and terrestrial systems. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.

Haver, SM, Rand, Z, Hatch, LT, Lipski, D, Dziak, RP, Gedamke, J, Haxel, J, Heppell, SA, Jahncke, J, McKenna, MF, Mellinger, DK, Oestreich, WK, Roche, L, Ryan, JP, Van Parijs, SM (2020). Seasonal trends and primary contributors to the low frequency soundscape of the Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.

Oestreich, WK, Frawley, TH, Mansfield, EJ, Green, KM, Green, SJ, Naggea, J, Selgrath, JC, Swanson, SS, Urteaga, J, White, TD, Crowder, LB (2019). The impact of environmental change on small-scale fishing communities: Moving beyond adaptive capacity to community response Predicting Future Oceans.

Glover, DM, Doney, SC, Oestreich, WK, Tullo, A (2018). Geostatistical analysis of mesoscale spatial variability and error in SeaWiFS and MODIS/Aqua global ocean color data. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans.

Swain, TD, Vega-Perkins, JB, Oestreich, WK, Triebold, C, DuBois, E, Henss, J, Baird, A, Siple, M, Backman, V, Marcelino, L (2016). Coral Bleaching Response Index: a new tool to standardize and compare susceptibility to thermal bleaching. Global Change Biology.

              Press: Northwestern University | WTTW Chicago

Oestreich, WK, Ganju, NK, Pohlman, JW, Suttles, SE (2016). Colored dissolved organic matter in eutrophic estuaries: relationships between carbon sources and light attenuation. Biogeosciences.

Ryan, JP, Oestreich, WK, et al. Trophic ecology deciphered from the mysticete symphony: baleen whale song tracks foraging conditions in the northeastern Pacific. In revision at PLOS One.

Kendall-Bar, JM, et al. (including Oestreich, WK). How community, education, cyberinfrastructure, and visualization can help ecologists overcome barriers to AI-adoption. In revision at Methods in Ecology & Evolution.

Kim, EB, Kok, ACM, Beretta, E, Donahue, E, Hatch, LT, Joseph, JE, Margolina, T, Oestreich, WK,  Peavey Reeves, LE, Ryan, J, Baumann-Pickering, S. Fish Chorusing Patterns in California National Marine Sanctuaries. In review at Marine Ecology Progress Series.

Gough, WT, Czapanskiy, MF, Savoca, MS, Fahlbusch, J, Palacios, DM, Oestreich, WK, Hazen, EL, Calambokidis, J, Bejder, L, Goldbogen, JA. Baleen Whale Migration Speeds Optimize Year-round Energetic Budgets. In review at Current Biology.