Publications

Friedland, K.D., E.M. Adams, C. Goetsch, J. Gulka, D.C. Brady, E. Rzeszowski, D.P. Crear, S. Gaichas, A. B. Gill, M.C. McManus, E.T. Methratta, J.L. Morano, M. D. Staudinger. 2023. Offshore wind energy areas represent core habitat for increasing fish and macroinvertebrate populations on the US Northeast Shelf ecosystem. Marine and Coastal Fisheries, 15.2, e10230. https://doi.org/10.1002/mcf2.10230

Mason, J. G., S.J. Weisberg, J.L. Morano, R.J. Bell, M. Fitchett, R.B. Griffis, E.L. Hazen, W.D. Heyman, K. Holsman, K.M. Kleisner, K. Westfall, M.K. Conrad, M. Daly, A.S. Golden, C.J. Harvey, L.A. Kerr, G. Kirchner, A. Levine, R.L. Lewison, S.M. Lucey, D.L. Stram. 2023. Linking knowledge and action for climate-ready fisheries: Emerging best practices across the US. Marine Policy, 155, 105758. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2023.105758

Thorson, J.T.; C. Barnes, S. Friedman, J.L. Morano, M. Siple. 2023. Spatially varying coefficient models can improve ecological inferences from species distribution models. Ecography, e06510. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.06510

Green, A. R., Murphy, A., Collison, B. R., Sánchez-Nivicela, M., Anderson, H., Morano, J. L., Williams, T. D., & Wilkinson, C. E. (2022). A response to Cafaro, Hansson & Götmark (2022): Shifting the narrative from overpopulation to overconsumption. Biological Conservation, 273, 109698. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2022.109698

Friedland, K., E. Methratta, A. Gill, S. Gaichas, T. Curtis, E. Adams, J.L. Morano, D. Crear, M. McManus, D. Brady. 2021. Resource occurrence and productivity in existing and proposed wind energy lease areas on the US Northeast Shelf. Frontiers in Marine Science 8: 336. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.629230

Odom, K.J., M. Araya-Salas, J.L. Morano, R. Ligon, G. Leighton, C. Taff, A. Dalziell, A. Billings, R. Germain, Ryan, M. Pardo, L. Guimarães de Andrade, D. Hedwig, S. Keen, Y. Shiu, R. Charif, M. Webster, A.N. Rice. 2021. Comparative bioacoustics: a roadmap for quantifying and comparing animal sounds across diverse taxa. Biological Reviews. https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12695

Morano, J. L., Tielens, J. T., Muirhead, C. A., Estabrook, B. J., Sullivan, P. J., Dugan, P. J., Clark, C. W., & Rice, A. N. 2020. Seasonal movements of Gulf of Mexico sperm whales following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and the limitations of impact assessments. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 161, 111627. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2020.111627

Friedland, K. D., R. E. Morse, N. Shackell, J. C. Tam, J.L. Morano, J. R. Moisan, D. C. Brady. 2020. Changing physical conditions and lower and upper trophic level responses on the US Northeast Shelf. Frontiers in Marine Science, 7. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2020.567445

Ligon, R.A., C.D. Diaz, J.L. Morano, J. Troscianko, M. Stevens, A. Mosekeland, E. Scholes III. 2018. Evolution of correlated complexity in the radically different courtship signals of birds-of-paradise. PLOS Biology 16(11): e2006962. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2006962

McDonald, E., J. L. Morano, A.I. DeAngelis, A. N. Rice. 2017. Building time-budgets from bioacoustic signals to measure population-level changes in behavior: a case study with sperm whales in the Gulf of Mexico. Ecological Indicators 72: 360-364.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2016.08.028

Rice, A. N., J. L. Morano, Hodge, K. B., C. A. Muirhead. 2016. Spatial and temporal patterns of toadfish and black drum chorusing activity in the South Atlantic Bight. Environmental Biology of Fishes 99: 705-716. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10641-016-0511-z

Hodge, K. B., C. A. Muirhead, J. L. Morano, A. N. Rice. 2015. North Atlantic right whale occurrence in two wind planning areas along the mid-Atlantic U.S. coast: implications for management. Endangered Species Research 28(3):225-234. https://doi.org/10.3354/esr00683

Rice, A. N., J. L. Morano. 2015. Changes in ocean temperature impact fish acoustic communication: implications for reproductive timing and acoustic community structure. Integrative and Comparative Biology 55(Supplement 1): e151.

Morano, J. L., D. P. Salisbury, A. N. Rice, K. L. Conklin, K. L. Falk, C. W. Clark. 2012. Seasonal and geographical patterns of fin whale song in the western North Atlantic Ocean. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 132(2): 1207-1012. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4730890

Morano, J. L., A. N. Rice, J. T. Tielens, B. J. Estabrook, A. Murray, B. L. Roberts, C. W. Clark. 2012. Acoustically detected year-round presence of right whales in an urbanized migration corridor. Conservation Biology, 26(4): 698-707. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1523-1739.2012.01866.x

Dugan, P. J., D. W. Ponirakis, J. A. Zollweg, M. S. Pitzrick, J. L. Morano, A. M. Warde, A. N. Rice, C. W. Clark, S. M. Van Parijs. 2011. SEDNA – Bioacoustic analysis toolbox. IEEE OCEANS 2011, 1-10.

Clark, C. W., C. Tremblay, M. Fowler, C. Diamond, D. Ponirakis, C. McCarthy, J. L. Morano, C. Muirhead, A. Murray, L. Rowland, K. Vannicola, and A. Warde. 2008. Monitoring, measuring and describing ocean noise over ecologically viable scales with applications to impacts on large whales. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 123(5): 2987. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.2932520

Published Abstracts

Cheyne, H. A., P. M. Marchetto, R. C. Mack, D. P. Salisbury, and J. L. Morano. 2014. Improving acoustic time-of-arrival location estimates by correcting for temperature drift in time base oscillators. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 135: 2367. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4877802

Data Products

Seasonal Movements of Gulf of Mexico Sperm Whales Following the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and the Limitations of Impact Assessments, Data Products (Jun 2010 to Feb 2012). (2020). NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. https://doi.org/10.25921/qrvr-5386