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Publications

  • Orben, R., Peck-Richardson, A., Piggott, A., Lerczak, J., Wilson, G., Garwood, J., Liu, X., Muzaffar, S., Foster, A., Naser, H., AlMusallami, M., Anker-Nilssen, T., Arnould, J., Berumen, M., Cansse, T., Cárdenas-Alayza, S., Christensen-Dalsgaard, S., Khamis, A., Carpenter-Kling, T., Dehnhard, N., Dagys, M., Fayet, A., Forney, R.A., Garthe, S., Hatch, S.A., Johns, M.E., Kim, M., Layton-Matthews, K., Lenske, A.K., McClelland, G.T.W., Morkunas, J., Nasif, A.O., Panagoda, G., Park, J., Pimenta, V.R.A., Quintana, F., Rayner, M.J., Kristin Reiertsen, T., Seneviratne, S.S., van Toor, M., Warzybok, P., Weideman, E.A., Yi, J., Yu, Y., Zavalaga, C. (2025). Collaborating with Marine Birds to Monitor the Physical Environment Within Coastal Marine Protected Areas. Oceanography. https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2025e115 

  • Cansse, T., Lens, L., Orben, R. A., Sutton, G. J., Botha, J. A., & Arnould, J. P. Y. (2024). Partial migration pays off in black-faced cormorants: Insights from post-breeding GPS tracking. Marine Biology, 171(11), 213. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-024-04541-z

  • Ardağ D, Wilson, G, Lerczak, J, Winters DS, Peck-Richardson, A, Lyons, DE, Orben, RA. (2023). Multivariate data assimilation at a partially-mixed estuary. J. of Atmospheric and Ocean Technology
    https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/atot/40/9/JTECH-D-22-0101.1.xml​

  • Ardağ, D., and Wilson, G. (2022). Sensitivity of Surface Currents to Bathymetry in a Partially Mixed Estuary with Applications to Inverse Modeling. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology 39, 1, 111-124.  doi.org/10.1175/JTECH-D-21-0089.1

  • Orben, R. A., A. G. Peck-Richardson, G. Wilson, D. Ardağ, and J. A. Lerczak (2021). Cormorants are helping characterize coastal ocean environments, Eos, 102.  https://doi.org/10.1029/2021EO163427​Published on 23 September 2021. ​

  • Peck-Richardson, A. G., Lyons, D. E., Roby, D. D., Cushing, D. A., & Lerczak, J. A. (2018). Three-dimensional foraging habitat use and niche partitioning in two sympatric seabird species, Phalacrocorax auritus and P. penicillatus. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 586, 251–264. http://doi.org/10.3354/meps12407​

Presentations

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  • Xiaohui Liu, Gregory Wilson, James Lerczak, Jessica C. Garwood, Rachael Orben, Adam Peck-Richardson, Alexa Piggott, Sabir Bin Muzaffar, Alexa D. Foster. 2024. On the response of sea surface temperature to dust storms in the Arabian Gulf. [Poster] AGU24 Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., 9-13th December, 2024

  • Lerczak, J.A, Peck-Richardson, A. G, Winters, D., Piggott, A. R., Garwood, J., Wilson, G., Orben, R. (2024). Fine-scale bathymetric data in coastal and estuarine environments from benthic dives of tagged marine birds. [Poster] Oceans Science Meeting, New Orleans, Louisianna, 18-23 February 2024. Poster Link
 
  • Peck-Richardson, A. G., Piggott, A. R., Lerczak, J. A., Wilson, G. W., Garwood, J., Liu, X., Anker-Nilssen. T, Arnould, J. P. Y, Thomas Cansse,b T., Cárdenas-Alayza, S., Dehnhard, N., Dagys, M., Fayet, A., Foster, A. D., Garthe, S. , Hatch, S. A., Johns, M. E., Kim, M,  Layton-Matthews, K., Lenske, A., McClelland, G. T. W., Morkūnas, J.,   Muzaffar, S. B., Mylswamy, M., Panagoda, G., Pimenta, V. R. A., Quintana, F, Rayner, M. J., Kristin Reiertsen, T., Seneviratne, S. S., Toor, M., Warzybok, P., Weideman, E. A., Yu, YT., Zavalaga, C. B., Orben, R. A. 2024. CORMORANT OCEANOGRAPHY PROJECT: INSIGHTS FROM CORMORANT MOVEMENT ECOLOGY AND OCEAN OBSERVING OPPORTUNITIES. [Presentation] 51st Annual Pacific Seabird Group Meeting, Seattle, WA, February 21 - 23 

  • Piggott, A. R., Peck-Richardson, A. G., Orben, R. A., Winters, D.  S., Ardağ, D., Wilson, G. W., Lerczak, J.A. 2023. Cormorant Oceanography Project: A Global Biologging Collaboration between Ecologists and Oceanogrphers. [Poster] 50th Annual Pacific Seabird Group Meeting, La Jolla, California: February 15 - 17. Poster link  
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  • Orben, R. A., Peck-Richardson, A. G., Piggott, A. R., Winters, D.  S., Muzaffar, A, Foster., Wilson, G. W., Lerczak, J.A. 2023. DIVING TO THE BOTTOM: Mapping Coastal and Estuarine Bathymetry using Benthic Dives of Cormorants. [Poster] 50th Annual Pacific Seabird Group Meeting, La Jolla, California: February 15 - 17. Poster link
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  • Orben, R. A., Peck-Richardson, A. G., Piggott, A. R., Winters, D.  S., Muzaffar, S. B., Baylis, A. M., Ardağ, D., Wilson, G. W., Lerczak, J.A. 2022. Cormorants, Oceanography, and Collaborations: Using biologging to measure temperature and salinity from foraging seabirds. [Presentation] 49th Annual Pacific Seabird Group Meeting:  February 23 - 25, Virtual Meeting. Available from: Google Drive
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  • Peck-Richardson, A. G., Orben, R. A., Winters, D. S., Ardağ, D., Özkan-Haller, T., Lyons, D.E., Wilson, G. W., Muzaffar, S. B., Morkūnus, J. & Lerczak, J.A. 2021. Cormorant Oceanography Project: Modelling the marine environment with in-situ data from foraging cormorants. [Poster] Tracking the Changing World Around Us. THE 7th INTERNATIONAL BIO-LOGGING SCIENCE SYMPOSIUM; October 18-22; Virtual Meeting. Available from:  Google Drive​
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  • ​Orben, R. A., Winters, D. S., Peck-Richardson, A. G., Wilson, G. W., Ardağ, D., Özkan-Haller, T., Lyons, D.E., & Lerczak, J.A. 2021. Characterizing the in situ ocean environment through biologging: What can we measure? [Poster] 3rd World Seabird Conference; October 4-8; Virtual Meeting. Available from: Google Drive​
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  • Peck-Richardson, A. G., Orben, R. A., Winters, D. S., Ardağ, D., Özkan-Haller, T., Lyons, D.E., Wilson, G. W., Muzaffar, S. B., & Lerczak, J.A. 2021. Cormorant Oceanaogrpahy Project - 2020 Update. [Presentation] 48th Annual Pacific Seabird Group Meeting; February 22 – 26; Virtual Meeting. Available from: Google Drive
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  • Ardağ, D., Lerczak, J.A., Wilson, G. W., Özkan-Haller, T., Winters, D. S., Peck-Richardson, A. G., Lyons, D.E., & Orben, R. A. 2020. Comparing a High-Resolution Coupled Wave-Current Ocean Model and Biologging Derived Oceanographic Data. [Poster] Ocean Sciences Meeting; February 16-21; San Diego, California. Available from: Google Drive
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