Kevin C. Weng, PhD

SOEST Young Investigator / Assistant Researcher

School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Honolulu, Hawaii 96822

USA
 
                         

 

 

 


Research Interests

·        Behavior, migration and habitat use of marine vertebrates

·        Biology of fishes and sharks

·        Management and conservation of marine vertebrates and their habitats

·        Marine Reserves

·        Oceanography of the focal areas of marine animals

·        Use of animal-borne sensors to measure the marine environment

 

 


Publications

 

 

Weng, KC, M Stokesbury, A Boustany, S Teo, S Miller, B Block.  Habitat and behavior of yellowfin tuna in the Gulf of Mexico determined using pop-up satellite archival tags. Accepted, Journal of Fish Biology

Weng, KC, D Foley, J Ganong, C Perle, G Shillinger, B Block.  Migration of a high trophic level predator between distant ecoregions.  In press, Marine Ecology Progress Series

Boustany A, Weng K, Anderson S, Pyle P, Block B. 2008. White Shark Movements in the North Pacific Pelagic Ecosystem. In: Camhi M, Pikitch EK, Babcock EA (eds) Sharks of the Open Ocean. Blackwell, Oxford

Weng K, Boustany A, Pyle P, Anderson S, Brown A, Block B. 2007. Migration and Habitat of White Sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) in the Eastern Pacific Ocean                            Supplementary Information

Marine Biology DOI 10.1007/s00227-007-0739-4

Weng, K, J O’Sullivan, C Lowe, C Winkler, H Dewar and B Block 2007. Movement, behavior and habitat of juvenile white sharks in the eastern Pacific as revealed by electronic tags

Marine Ecology Progress Series 338: 211–224

Weng, KC, PC Castilho, JM Morrissette, A Landiera, DB Holts, RJ Schallert, KJ Goldman and BA Block, 2005. Satellite tagging and cardiac physiology reveal niche expansion in salmon sharks

Science 310: 104-106

Supplementary Information

Stevenson, C, L Katz, F Micheli, B Block, K Heiman, C Perle, K Weng, R Dunbar and J Witting, 2007. High apex predator biomass on remote Pacific islands

Coral Reefs 26: 47-51  DOI 10.1007/s00338-006-0158-x

Teo SLH, Boustany A, Dewar H, Stokesbury MJW, Weng KC, Beemer S, Seitz AC, Farwell CJ, Prince ED, Block BA, 2007. Annual migrations, diving behavior, and thermal biology of Atlantic bluefin tuna, Thunnus thynnus, on their Gulf of Mexico breeding grounds

Marine Biology 151: 1-18  DOI 10.1007/s00227-006-0447-5

Block, BA, SLH Teo, A Walli, A Boustany, MJW Stokesbury, CJ Farwell, KC Weng, H Dewar, and TD Williams, 2005. Electronic tagging and population structure of Atlantic bluefin tuna

Nature 434: 1121-1127

Weng, K and B Block. 2004. Diel vertical migration of the bigeye thresher shark (Alopias superciliosus), a species possessing orbital retia mirabilia

Fishery Bulletin 102: 221-229

Teo, S, A Boustany, S Blackwell, A Walli, K Weng, and B Block, 2004. Validation of geolocation estimates based on light level and sea surface temperature from electronic tags

Marine Ecology Progress Series 283: 81-98

Block B, Boustany A, Teo S, Walli A, Farwell C, Williams T, Prince E, Stokesbury M, Dewar H, Seitz A & Weng K 2003. Distribution of Western Tagged Atlantic Bluefin Tuna Determined From Archival and Pop-Up Satellite Tags. Col. Vol. Sci. Pap. ICCAT 55, 1127-1139.

Seitz, A, K Weng, A Boustany, and B Block, 2002. Behavior of a sharptail mola in the Gulf of Mexico

Journal of Fish Biology 60: 1597-1602

Weng, K. 2007.  Movement, Thermal Niche and Cardiac Function in Lamniform Sharks – Implications for Ecology and Evolution

PhD Thesis, Stanford University. In preparation. 

 

Weng, K, 1999.  Analysis of the Fisheries for Two Pelagic Carangids in Hawaii

MSc Thesis, University of Hawaii at Manoa.  78 pp.

 

 

 

 


Service

 

 

Board Member    Community Conservation Network

 

Peer reviewer       Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

     Journal of Animal Ecology

     Aquatic Biology

     Environmental Biology of Fishes

     Fish and Fisheries

     Fisheries Oceanography

     Marine and Freshwater Research

     Oryx

 

 


Outreach

 

                                 

My research has been communicated to the public via the Discovery Channel website, ABC News, The Associated Press, Daily India, the Monterey Herald, The Santa Cruz Sentinel, the Stanford University News Service, the outreach component of the TOPP program, the Monterey Bay Aquarium, and the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

 

 

 

 


Links

 

                                 

I did my PhD at Stanford University, where I was based at Hopkins Marine Station, and a member of the Tuna Research and Conservation Center.  My research was a component of the Tagging of Pacific Predators Program (TOPP), part of the Census of Marine Life.  I was also supported by the Monterey Bay Aquarium, and collaborated with MBA staff and the CSULB Shark Lab to study juvenile white sharks.  My adult white shark research relied heavily on the field efforts of PRBO Conservation Science at the Farallon Islands, while salmon shark research was conducted aboard the vessels of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game.  I was also an active field researcher in the Tag-A-Giant Program, in which I conducted numerous surgeries to implant archival tags into Atlantic bluefin tuna. 

 

At the University of Hawaii I am working with scientists in the Oceanography Department, the Pelagic Fisheries Research Program, the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology and the Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

18 October 2008

 

 

 

 

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