Library
Beam Reach helps maintain a repository of references related to southern resident killer whales. This scientific literature — including peer-reviewed publications, grey literature, and theses — are organized through a free web-based bibliographic service called Zotero. You can access and add to this library of PDFs by registering for a Zotero account and requesting to join the southern resident killer whales group.
Using a shared Zotero group has lots of advantages for Beam Reach students. The Zotero desktop application allows you to take your entire PDF library with you to sea where Internet access is often impossible. Upon returning to land, you can synchronize any changes you have made with your sea- and land-based peers. Plugins for both LibreOffice (text editor) and WordPress (Zotpress) allow you to include citations in your papers and blog posts, and automatically generate properly formatted bibliographies.
Recently-added references
Lpez-Urban, A., Thode, A., Bazúa-Durán, C., Guerra, M., & Urbán-Ramírez, J. (2011). Structure of gray whale calls of San Ignacio Lagoon and their distribution in the water column. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 130, 2357.
López-Urbán, A., Thode, A., Durán, C. B., UrbáN-R, J., & Swartz, S. (2018). Two new grey whale call types detected on bioacoustic tags. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 98, 1169–1175.
Bigg, M. A. (1984). Sightings and kill data for the Steller sea lion (Eumetopias jubatus) and California sea lion (Zalophus californianus) in British Columbia, 1892-1982, with some records from Washington and Southeastern Alaska (Canadian Data Report of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences No. 460).
Loy, T. H. (1983). Prehistoric Blood Residues: Detection on Tool Surfaces and Identification of Species of Origin. Science, 220, 1269–1271.
Welicky, R. L., Feddern, M. L., Rolfe, T., Leazer, K., Moosmiller, A., Fiorenza, E., … Wood, C. L. (2023). Reconstructing trophic position over the past century for five Puget Sound fish species. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 706, 1–15.
Williams, D. B. (2021). Homewaters: A Human and Natural History of Puget Sound. University of Washington Press.
Surma, S., Pakhomov, E. A., & Pitcher, T. J. (2022). Pacific herring (Clupea pallasii) as a key forage fish in the southeastern Gulf of Alaska. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 196, 105001.
Filatova, O. A. (2024). The Role of Cultural Traditions in Ecological Niche Partitioning in Cetaceans. Biology Bulletin Reviews, 14, 133–140.
Ismail, M. E., Fedutin, I. D., Hoyt, E., Ivkovich, T. V., & Filatova, O. A. (2025). Auto machine learning tools to distinguish between two killer whale ecotypes. Marine Mammal Science, 41, e13175.
Filatova, O. A., Fedutin, I. D., Belonovich, O. A., Borisova, E. A., Volkova, E. V., Ivkovich, T. V., … Shpak, O. V. (2023). Differences in the Diet of Reproductively Isolated Ecotypes of Killer Whales (Orcinus orca Linnaeus, 1758) in the Seas of the Russian Far East. Russian Journal of Marine Biology, 49, 477–487.
Clayton, H., Cade, D., Burnham, R., Calambokidis, J., & Goldbogen, J. (2023). Acoustic behavior of gray whales tagged with biologging devices on foraging grounds. Frontiers in Marine Science, 10. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2023.1111666
McKeegan, K. A., Clayton, K., Williams, R., Ashe, E., Reiss, S., Mendez-Bye, A., … Acevedo-Gutiérrez, A. (2024). The effect of a startle-eliciting device on the foraging success of individual harbor seals (Phoca vitulina). Scientific Reports, 14, 3719.
Filatova, O. A., Fedutin, I. D., Pridorozhnaya, T. P., & Hoyt, E. (2022). Bottom-feeding gray whales Eschrichtius robustus demonstrate a finer scale of site fidelity than pelagic-feeding humpback whales Megaptera novaeangliae on an Arctic feeding ground. Polar Biology, 45, 1013–1021.
Filatova, O. A., Hoyt, E., Burdin, A. M., Burkanov, V. N., Fedutin, I. D., Ovsyanikova, E. N., … Titova, O. V. (2022). Important areas for cetaceans in Russian Far East waters. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, 32, 687–701.
Filatova, O. A., Fedutin, I. D., Borisova, E. A., Meschersky, I. G., & Hoyt, E. (2023). Genetic and cultural evidence suggests a refugium for killer whales off Japan during the Last Glacial Maximum. Marine Mammal Science, 39, 1240–1250.
Mackovjak, J. (2022). Alaska Herring History: The Story of Alaska’s Herring Fisheries and Industry. University of Alaska Press.
Anderson, D., Shuster, L., Elliser, C. R., MacIver, K., Gless, E. J., Krieger, J., & Hall, A. (2023). Harbor Porpoise Aggregations in the Salish Sea. Oceans, 4, 269–285.
Stewart, H. (2022). Avian and Shallow Water Community Response to Pacific Herring (Clupea pallasii) Spawn Events. Retrieved from https://cedar.wwu.edu/wwuet/1146/
Essington, T., Ward, E. J., Francis, T. B., Greene, C., Kuehne, L., & Lowry, D. (2021). Historical reconstruction of the Puget Sound (USA) groundfish community. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 657, 173–189.
McGowan, D. W., Branch, T. A., Haught, S., & Scheuerell, M. D. (2021). Multi-decadal shifts in the distribution and timing of Pacific herring ( Clupea pallasii ) spawning in Prince William Sound, Alaska. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 78, 1611–1627.
Petrou, E. L., Kopperl, R., Lepofsky, D., Rodrigues, A. T., Yang, D., Moss, M. L., … Hauser, L. (2022). Ancient DNA reveals phenological diversity of Coast Salish herring harvests over multiple centuries. Scientific Reports, 12, 13512.
Davis, L. R., Urfer, F., Essington, T. E., Feist, B. E., & Francis, T. B. (2024). Local Watershed Properties Cannot Explain Divergent Dynamics of Pacific Herring in an Urbanizing Estuary. Estuaries and Coasts, 47, 1224–1235.
Spromberg, J. A., Allan, S. E., & Scholz, N. L. (2024). Potential population-level impacts of future oil spills on Pacific herring stocks in Puget Sound. Human and Ecological Risk Assessment: An International Journal, 30, 138–163.
Martin, S. B., MacGillivray, A. O., Wood, J. D., Trounce, K. B., Tollit, D. J., & Angadi, K. (2023). Sound Emissions from Ultrasonic Antifouling Equipment. In A. N. Popper, J. Sisneros, A. D. Hawkins, & F. Thomsen (Eds.), The Effects of Noise on Aquatic Life: Principles and Practical Considerations (pp. 1–16). Cham: Springer International Publishing.
Fristrup, K. M., Hatch, L. T., & Clark, C. W. (2003). Variation in humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) song length in relation to low-frequency sound broadcasts. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 113, 3411–3424.
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