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82
Citations
21118
World Ranking
760
National Ranking
277

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2003 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Overview

Andrew J. Read is affiliated with Duke University in the United States. Their research spans primarily within Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with particular focus on Ecology, Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography, and related fields.

The scope of Read's work encompasses marine animal studies, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, marine and fisheries research, underwater acoustics, coral and marine ecosystems, cephalopods and marine biology, as well as cryospheric studies and observations.

Frequent co-authors in their research include Douglas P. Nowacek, Robin W. Baird, Ari S. Friedlaender, Zachary T. Swaim, and David W. Johnston.

Their research outputs have appeared predominantly in several publication venues:

  • Marine Mammal Science
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • 'The' journal of cetacean research and management. Special issue
  • Global Change Biology
  • Journal of Experimental Biology

Among recent papers, these are notable examples:

  • "Understanding the impacts of anthropogenic sound on beaked whales," 2023, published in 'The' journal of cetacean research and management. Special issue
  • "Exploring movement patterns and changing distributions of baleen whales in the western North Atlantic using a decade of passive acoustic data," 2020, published in Global Change Biology
  • "Will harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) habituate to pingers?," 2023, published in 'The' journal of cetacean research and management. Special issue
  • "Extreme diving in mammals: first estimates of behavioural aerobic dive limits in Cuvier's beaked whales," 2020, published in Journal of Experimental Biology
  • "A surplus no more? Variation in krill availability impacts reproductive rates of Antarctic baleen whales," 2023, published in Global Change Biology

Andrew J. Read was recognized as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2003.

Best Publications

  • Understanding impacts of fisheries bycatch on marine megafauna

    Rebecca L. Lewison;Larry B. Crowder;Andrew J. Read;Sloan A. Freeman

  • Bycatch of marine mammals in U.S. and global fisheries.

    Andrew J. Read;Phebe Drinker;Simon Northridge

  • The bottlenose dolphin: social relationships in a fission-fusion society

    Rc Connor;RS Wells;J. Mann;AJ Read

  • Understanding the Impacts of Anthropogenic Sound on Beaked Whales

    T M Cox;T J Ragen;A J Read;E Vos

  • Techniques for cetacean-habitat modeling

    J. V. Redfern;M. C. Ferguson;E. A. Becker;K. D. Hyrenbach

  • Global patterns of marine mammal, seabird, and sea turtle bycatch reveal taxa-specific and cumulative megafauna hotspots

    Rebecca L. Lewison;Larry B. Crowder;Bryan P. Wallace;Jeffrey E. Moore

  • THE LOOMING CRISIS: INTERACTIONS BETWEEN MARINE MAMMALS AND FISHERIES

    Andrew J. Read

  • North Atlantic Right Whales in Crisis

    Scott D. Kraus;Moira W. Brown;Hal Caswell;Christopher W. Clark

  • Whale distribution in relation to prey abundance and oceanographic processes in shelf waters of the Western Antarctic Peninsula

    Ari S. Friedlaender;Patrick N. Halpin;Song S. Qian;Gareth L. Lawson

  • Acoustic alarms reduce porpoise mortality

    Scott D. Kraus;Andrew J. Read;Andrew Solow;Ken Baldwin

  • An interview-based approach to assess marine mammal and sea turtle captures in artisanal fisheries

    J.E. Moore;T.M. Cox;R.L. Lewison;A.J. Read

  • Recommendations for photo-identification methods used in capture-recapture models with cetaceans

    Kim Urian;Antoinette Gorgone;Andrew Read;Brian Balmer

  • Underestimating the damage: interpreting cetacean carcass recoveries in the context of the Deepwater Horizon/BP incident

    Rob Williams;Shane Gero;Lars Bejder;John Calambokidis

  • Complexity and variation in loggerhead sea turtle life history

    Catherine M McClellan;Andrew J Read

  • Fine-scale habitat modeling of a top marine predator: do prey data improve predictive capacity?

    Leigh G. Torres;Andrew J. Read;Patrick Halpin

  • Comparing effectiveness of experimental and implemented bycatch reduction measures: the ideal and the real.

    T. M. Cox;R. L. Lewison;R. Žydelis;L. B. Crowder

  • LIFE IN THE FAST LANE: THE LIFE HISTORY OF HARBOR PORPOISES FROM THE GULF OF MAINE

    Andrew J. Read;Aleta A. Hohn

  • Effects of fine-scale oceanographic features on the distribution and movements of harbour porpoises Phocoena phocoena in the Bay of Fundy

    D. W. Johnston;A. J. Westgate;A. J. Read

  • Patterns of growth in wild bottlenose dolphins, Tursiops truncatus

    A. J. Read;R. S. Wells;A. A. Hohn;M. D. Scott

  • Identification and characterisation of an ostreid herpesvirus-1 microvariant (OsHV-1 µ-var) in Crassostrea gigas (Pacific oysters) in Australia.

    Cheryl Jenkins;Paul Hick;Melinda Gabor;Zoe Spiers

  • HARBOR PORPOISE AND FISHERIES: AN UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS OF INCIDENTAL MORTALITY

    Hal Caswell;Solange Brault;Andrew J. Read;Tim D. Smith

Frequent Co-Authors

Patrick N. Halpin
Patrick N. Halpin Duke University
Douglas P. Nowacek
Douglas P. Nowacek Duke University
Ari S. Friedlaender
Ari S. Friedlaender University of California, Santa Cruz
Randall S. Wells
Randall S. Wells Chicago Zoological Society
Larry B. Crowder
Larry B. Crowder Stanford University
Rebecca L. Lewison
Rebecca L. Lewison San Diego State University
Robin W. Baird
Robin W. Baird Cascadia Research Collective
Per Berggren
Per Berggren Newcastle University
Scott D. Kraus
Scott D. Kraus New England Aquarium
Patricia E. Rosel
Patricia E. Rosel National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

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