Josh Adams
Dr. Josh Adams is a research wildlife biologist with the U.S. Geological Survey's Western Ecological Research Center.
He is the lead biologist in charge of the Seabird Studies program located at WERC's Santa Cruz Field Station. Dr. Adams' work focuses on understanding the distribution and abundance patterns of seabirds at sea, nesting biology, foraging ecology and conservation science. Dr. Adams' current studies are focused in the California Current and Hawaii.
Education and Certifications
PhD, Zoology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand 2011
MSc, Marine Sciences, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, California State University San Francisco 2004
BA, Biology (Thesis Honors), University of California Santa Cruz 1992
Affiliations and Memberships*
Member Pacific Seabird Group (since 1992)
Science and Products
Identifying Kittlitz's Murrelet nesting habitat in North America at the landscape scale
Ashy Storm-Petrel Oceanodroma homochroa mist-netting and capture rates in the California Channel Islands, 2004–2007
Occurrence, morphometrics, and plumage variability among Leach’s Storm-Petrels Oceanodroma leucorhoa in the California Channel Islands, 1976–2015
Predictive mapping of seabirds, pinnipeds and cetaceans off the Pacific Coast of Washington
Stomach contents of a Cuvier's Beaked Whale (Ziphius cavirostris) stranded in Monterey Bay, California
Pacific Continental Shelf Environmental Assessment (PaCSEA): aerial seabird and marine mammal surveys off northern California, Oregon, and Washington, 2011-2012
Summer-time use of west coast U. S. National Marine Sanctuaries by migrating sooty shearwaters (Puffinus griseus)
Population divergence and gene flow in an endangered and highly mobile seabird
Foraging segregation and genetic divergence between geographically proximate colonies of a highly mobile seabird
The Rakiura Titi Islands Restoration Project: Community action to eradicate Rattus rattus and Rattus exulans for ecological restoration and cultural wellbeing
Correlating seabird movements with ocean winds: linking satellite telemetry with ocean scatterometry.
Factors influencing the at-sea distribution of Cassin's Auklets (Ptychoramphus aleuticus) that breed in the Channel Islands, California
Science and Products
Identifying Kittlitz's Murrelet nesting habitat in North America at the landscape scale
Ashy Storm-Petrel Oceanodroma homochroa mist-netting and capture rates in the California Channel Islands, 2004–2007
Occurrence, morphometrics, and plumage variability among Leach’s Storm-Petrels Oceanodroma leucorhoa in the California Channel Islands, 1976–2015
Predictive mapping of seabirds, pinnipeds and cetaceans off the Pacific Coast of Washington
Stomach contents of a Cuvier's Beaked Whale (Ziphius cavirostris) stranded in Monterey Bay, California
Pacific Continental Shelf Environmental Assessment (PaCSEA): aerial seabird and marine mammal surveys off northern California, Oregon, and Washington, 2011-2012
Summer-time use of west coast U. S. National Marine Sanctuaries by migrating sooty shearwaters (Puffinus griseus)
Population divergence and gene flow in an endangered and highly mobile seabird
Foraging segregation and genetic divergence between geographically proximate colonies of a highly mobile seabird
The Rakiura Titi Islands Restoration Project: Community action to eradicate Rattus rattus and Rattus exulans for ecological restoration and cultural wellbeing
Correlating seabird movements with ocean winds: linking satellite telemetry with ocean scatterometry.
Factors influencing the at-sea distribution of Cassin's Auklets (Ptychoramphus aleuticus) that breed in the Channel Islands, California
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