Dr Catriona Harris

Principal Research Fellow

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 1831

Email

Catriona.Harris@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Research areas

Research Interests

• Impact of anthropogenic noise on marine mammals and the development of methods for modelling the distribution of marine mammals across space for risk mitigation purposes, for quantitatively assessing cumulative risk associated with noise exposure, and for analysing behavioural responses to sound.
• Landscape, population and spatial ecology within the disciplines of marine mammal ecology, invasive species ecology and epidemiology.
• Development of spatially-explicit models for the prediction of spread of invasive species and diseases.

Selected publications

• Open access

  Marine mammals and sonar: dose-response studies, the risk-disturbance hypothesis and the role of exposure context

  Harris, C. M., Thomas, L., Falcone, E., Hildebrand, J., Houser, D., Kvadsheim, P., Lam, F.-P. A., Miller, P., Moretti, D. J., Read, A., Slabbekoorn, H., Southall, B. L., Tyack, P. L., Wartzok, D. & Janik, V. M., Jan 2018, In: Journal of Applied Ecology. 55, 1, p. 396-404

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

• Open access

  Dose response severity functions for acoustic disturbance in cetaceans using recurrent event survival analysis

  Harris, C. M., Sadykova, D., De Ruiter, S. L., Tyack, P. L., Miller, P., Kvadsheim, P., Lam, F.-P. & Thomas, L., 20 Nov 2015, In: Ecosphere. 6, 11, p. 1-14 14 p., 236.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  A decision framework to identify populations that are most vulnerable to the population level effects of disturbance

  Wilson, L. J., Harwood, J., Booth, C. G., Joy, R. & Harris, C. M., 4 Feb 2020, In: Conservation Science and Practice. 2, 2, 7 p., e149.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Behavioral responses of individual blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus) to mid-frequency military sonar

  Southall, B., DeRuiter, S., Friedlaender, A., Stimpert, A., Goldbogen, J., Hazen, E., Casey, C., Fregosi, S., Cade, D., Allen, A., Harris, C. M., Schorr, G., Moretti, D., Guan, S. & Calambokidis, J., Mar 2019, In: Journal of Experimental Biology. 222, 15 p., jeb190637.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Foraging behavior and disruption in blue, fin, and humpback whales in relation to sonar exposure: the challenges of generalizing responsiveness in species with high individual variability

  Harris, C. M., Burt, M. L., Allen, A., Wensveen, P. J., Miller, P. & Sivle, L., 11 Nov 2019, In: Aquatic Mammals. 45, 6, p. 646-660

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Changes in the spatial distribution of acoustically derived Minke whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) tracks in response to navy training

  Harris, C. M., Martin, S., Martin, C., Helble, T., Henderson, E., Paxton, C. G. M. & Thomas, L., 11 Nov 2019, In: Aquatic Mammals. 45, 6, p. 661-674

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Predator sound playbacks reveal strong avoidance responses in a fight strategist baleen whale

  Cure, C., Doksaeter-Sivle, L., Visser, F., Wensveen, P. J., Isojunno, S., Harris, C. M., Kvadsheim, P., Lam, F.-P. & Miller, P., 22 Apr 2015, In: Marine Ecology Progress Series. 526, p. 267-282

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  dsmextra: extrapolation assessment tools for density surface models

  Bouchet, P., Miller, D. L., Roberts, J., Mannocci, L., Harris, C. M. & Thomas, L., Nov 2020, In: Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 11, 11, p. 1464-1469 6 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

 

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