Carey Kuhn
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Carey Kuhn
@careykuhn.bsky.social
Ecologist (tweets are my own) | Marine biologist, biologging, marine mammals, fur seals, movement & behavior | she/her/hers | Mom, dog-mom 🌊🤹‍
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It's time for an introduction! I'm Carey Kuhn and I study fur seals in Alaska . My research focuses on relating the fur seals behavior at sea, including diving, movements, and feeding, to changes in population trends. I work at the Alaska Fisheries Science Center based in Seattle, Washington.
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New paper alert!

Really excited to see this work from a postdoc with Steve Votier @heriotwattuni.bsky.social published in Ecology & Evolution!
In it, we use existing bio-logging data to study competition and facilitation in foraging gannets.

Link to paper here:

dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
Competition and Facilitation Influence Central Place Foraging Ecology in a Colonial Marine Predator
Analysis of combined deployments of GPS loggers with cameras or temperature–depth recorders reveals that despite experiencing intraspecific competition for food, northern gannets engage in dynamic, c...
dx.doi.org
November 25, 2024 at 12:43 PM
First time making a word cloud about my research on Google Scholar! What does yours look like? 🐋🦭
Try it at : scholargoggler.com
#GoogleScholar, #WordCloud, #MarMam, #MarineMammals
November 21, 2024 at 5:38 PM
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January 8, 2024 at 6:30 PM
Reposted by Carey Kuhn
Although their population is healthy, these are very concerning news for the Antarctic biodiversity 🦠🦭🐧

🧪🌏🦊🦑
Mass deaths of elephant seals recorded as bird flu sweeps across the Antarctic
Researchers warn of one of ‘largest ecological disasters of modern times’ if the highly contagious disease reaches penguin colonies
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2023 at 12:06 PM
It's time for an introduction! I'm Carey Kuhn and I study fur seals in Alaska . My research focuses on relating the fur seals behavior at sea, including diving, movements, and feeding, to changes in population trends. I work at the Alaska Fisheries Science Center based in Seattle, Washington.
November 20, 2023 at 5:09 PM