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  • 1978 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Gerald L. Kooyman is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with significant contributions in earth and planetary sciences. Their work spans several subfields including ecology, atmospheric science, global and planetary change, ecological modeling, and aerospace engineering.

Their main topics of study include marine animal studies, isotope analysis in ecology, species distribution and climate change, avian ecology and behavior, marine and fisheries research, aerospace engineering and energy systems, and geology and paleoclimatology research.

Kooyman has frequently collaborated with researchers such as Kimberly T. Goetz, Birgitte I. McDonald, Paul J. Ponganis, Philip N. Trathan, and Daniel P. Costa, who are among their most common co-authors.

They have published research in various scientific journals including Nature, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, Scientific Data, Antarctic Science, and Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A Molecular & Integrative Physiology.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Kooyman include:

  • Tracking of marine predators to protect Southern Ocean ecosystems, 2020, Nature
  • The retrospective analysis of Antarctic tracking data project, 2020, Scientific Data
  • Advances in remote sensing of emperor penguins: first multi-year time series documenting trends in the global population, 2024, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • The aerobic dive limit: After 40 years, still rarely measured but commonly used, 2020, Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A Molecular & Integrative Physiology
  • Crary bank: a deep foraging habitat for emperor penguins in the western Ross Sea, 2020, Polar Biology

Kooyman was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1978.

Best Publications

  • THE PHYSIOLOGICAL BASIS OF DIVING TO DEPTH: Birds and Mammals

    G. L. Kooyman;P. J. Ponganis

  • Key Questions in Marine Megafauna Movement Ecology

    Graeme C. Hays;Luciana C. Ferreira;Luciana C. Ferreira;Ana M.M. Sequeira;Mark G. Meekan

  • Aerobic and anaerobic metabolism during voluntary diving in Weddell seals: Evidence of preferred pathways from blood chemsitry and behavior

    G. L. Kooyman;E. A. Wahrenbrock;M. A. Castellini;R. W. Davis

  • Diverse Divers: Physiology and Behavior

    Gerald L. Kooyman

  • Fur Seals : Maternal Strategies on Land and at Sea

    Roger L. Gentry;Gerald L. Kooyman

  • Diving Behavior and Energetics During Foraging Cycles in King Penguins

    G. L. Kooyman;Y. Cherel;Y. Le Maho;J. P. Croxall

  • An emperor penguin population estimate: the first global, synoptic survey of a species from space.

    Peter T. Fretwell;Michelle A. LaRue;Paul Morin;Gerald L. Kooyman

  • Aerobic diving limits of immature Weddell seals

    G. L. Kooyman;M. A. Castellini;R. W. Davis;R. A. Maue

  • Tracking of marine predators to protect Southern Ocean ecosystems

    Mark A. Hindell;Ryan R. Reisinger;Ryan R. Reisinger;Yan Ropert-Coudert;Luis A. Hückstädt

  • Fur seal diving behaviour in relation to vertical distribution of krill

    J. P. Croxall;I. Everson;G. L. Kooyman;C. Ricketts

  • Metabolic rates of freely diving Weddell seals: correlations with oxygen stores, swim velocity and diving duration.

    Michael A. Castellini;Gerald L. Kooyman;Paul J. Ponganis

  • Oxygen consumption, thermoregulation, and the effect of fur oiling and washing on the sea otter, Enhydra lutris

    Daniel P. Costa;Gerald L. Kooyman

  • Respiratory Adaptations in Marine Mammals

    G. L. Kooyman

  • Antarctic penguin response to habitat change as Earth's troposphere reaches 2°C above preindustrial levels

    David G. Ainley;Joellen Russell;Stephanie Jenouvrier;Eric Woehler

  • Determinants of the Aerobic Dive Limit of Weddell Seals: Analysis of Diving Metabolic Rates, Postdive End Tidal Po2's, and Blood and Muscle Oxygen Stores

    Paul J. Ponganis;Gerald L. Kooyman;Michael A. Castellini

  • Heart rates in freely diving weddell seals,leptonychotes weddelli

    G.L. Kooyman;W.B. Campbell

  • Diving and foraging behavior of leatherback sea turtles (Dermochelys coriacea)

    Scott A. Eckert;Karen L. Eckert;P. Ponganis;G. L. Kooyman

  • Diving Behavior of Emperor Penguins Nurturing Chicks at Coulman Island, Antarctica

    G. L. Kooyman;T. G. Kooyman

  • Physiology of diving in marine mammals.

    G L Kooyman;M A Castellini;R W Davis

  • Swimming Performance and Hydrodynamic Characteristics of Harbor Seals Phoca vitulina

    T. M. Williams;G. L. Kooyman

Frequent Co-Authors

Randall W. Davis
Randall W. Davis Texas A&M University
Daniel P. Costa
Daniel P. Costa University of California, Santa Cruz
Ben Raymond
Ben Raymond Australian Antarctic Division
David G. Ainley
David G. Ainley H.T. Harvey & Associates
Grant Ballard
Grant Ballard Point Blue Conservation Science
Mary-Anne Lea
Mary-Anne Lea University of Tasmania
Yan Ropert-Coudert
Yan Ropert-Coudert Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Norman Ratcliffe
Norman Ratcliffe British Antarctic Survey
Mark A. Hindell
Mark A. Hindell University of Tasmania
Fritz Trillmich
Fritz Trillmich Bielefeld University

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