Graduate students, thesis publications and publications from work completed while in the Crocker lab.

Gitte McDonald

Graduated in 2003. Currently in the doctoral program at UCSC.

McDonald, B.I., D.E. Crocker, J.M Burns, and D.P. Costa. 2008. Body condition as an index of winter foraging success in crabeater seals (Lobodon carcinophaga). Deep Sea Research II. 55:515-522.

McDonald, B.I. and D.E. Crocker. 2006. Maternal physiology and behavior impact lactation efficiency in northern elephant seals. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 79(3):484-496.

Tremblay, Y., S.A. Shaffer, S.L. Fowler, C.E. Kuhn, B.I. McDonald, M.J. Weise, C. Bost, H. Weimerskirch, D.E. Crocker, M.E. Goebel, and D.P. Costa. 2006. Interpolation of animal tracking data in a fluid environment. Journal of Experimental Biology. 209: 128-140.

Kuhn, C.E., B.I. McDonald, S.A. Shaffer, J. Barnes, D E. Crocker, J. Burns, D.P. Costa. 2006. Diving physiology and winter foraging behavior of a juvenile leopard seal (Hydrurga leptonyx). Polar Biology. 29(4):303-307.

 

Burns, J.M. D. P. Costa, M. A. Fedak, C. J. A. Bradshaw, M. A. Hindell, N. Gales, B.I. McDonald, S. J. Trumble, D. E. Crocker. 2004. Winter habitat use and foraging behavior of crabeater seals along the Western Antarctic Peninsula. Deep-Sea Research II 51:2279–2303.

Jason Hassrick

Graduated in 2004. Currently in the doctoral program at UCSC.

Hassrick, J.L., D.E. Crocker, R.L. Zeno, S.B. Blackwell, D.P. Costa, and B.J. Le Boeuf. Swimming speed and foraging strategies of northern elephant seals. Deep Sea Research II. 54:369-383.

 

Zeno, R.L., D.E. Crocker, J.L. Hassrick, S.A. Allen, and D.P. Costa. Development of foraging behavior in juvenile northern elephant seals. Journal of Zoology. 274: 180-187.

Ramona Zeno

Graduated in 2004.

Zeno, R.L., D.E. Crocker, J.L. Hassrick, S.A. Allen, and D.P. Costa. Development of foraging behavior in juvenile northern elephant seals. Journal of Zoology. 274: 180-187

Hassrick, J.L., D.E. Crocker, R.L. Zeno, S.B. Blackwell, D.P. Costa, and B.J. Le Boeuf. Swimming speed and foraging strategies of northern elephant seals. Deep Sea Research II. 54:369-383.

Cory Champagne

Graduated in 2005. Currently in the doctoral program at UCSC.

Fowler, M.A., C.D. Champagne, D.S. Houser, and D.E. Crocker. 2008. Hormonal regulation of glucose clearance in lactating northern elephant seals (Mirounga angustirostris). Journal of Experimental Biology. 211:2943-2949.

Houser, D.S., C.D. Champagne, and D.E. Crocker. 2007. Lipolysis and glycerol gluconeogenesis in simultaneously fasting and lactating northern elephant seals. American Journal of Physiology: Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology. 293:R2376-R2381.

Champagne, C.D., D.S. Houser, D.E. Crocker. 2006. Glucose metabolism during lactation in a fasting animal, the northern elephant seal. American Journal of Physiology: Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology. 291:R1129-R1137.

Champagne, C.D. D.S. Houser and D.E. Crocker. 2005. Glucose production and substrate cycle activity in a fasting adapted animal, the northern elephant seal. Journal of Experimental Biology. 208:859-868.

Melinda Fowler

Graduated in 2006. Currently in the doctoral program at UCSC.

Fowler, M.A., C.D. Champagne, D.S. Houser, and D.E. Crocker. 2008. Hormonal regulation of glucose clearance in lactating northern elephant seals (Mirounga angustirostris). Journal of Experimental Biology. 211:2943-2949.

 

Nate Kofahl

Graduated in 2006.

Crocker, D.E., N. Kofahl, G.D. Fellers, N.B.Gates and D.S. Houser. High rates of energy expenditure and water flux in free ranging Pt. Reyes mountain beavers. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology. 80(6): 635-642.

Brian Wenzel

Graduated in 2008.

Glucose production during fasting in adult male northern elephant seals.

Lovisa Sonnerstedt

Graduated in 2009.

Life history strategies and breeding behavior in female northern elephant seals.

Amy Norris

Graduated in 2009.

Thermoregulation and heat flux in breeding adult male northern elephant seals.

Betsy Kelso

Sex differences in fuel use and metabolism during development in fasting northern elephant seals.

Segal Boaz

Vitamin homeostasis during extended fasts in developing and lactating northern elephant seals.

Mike Tift

Development of diving physiology in juvenile northern elephant seals.