Douglas Nowacek

Recent Publications

Dewar, W.K., Bingham, R.J., Iverson, R.L., Nowacek, D.P., and St. Laurent, L.C. Does the marine biosphere mix the ocean? Journal of Marine Research, In Press.

Mann, D.A., O'Shea, T.J., and Nowacek, D.P. Nonlinear dynamics in manatee vocalizations. Marine Mammal Science, In Press.

Nowacek, D.P., 2005. Acoustic ecology of foraging bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus), habitat-specific use of three sound types. Marine Mammal Science, 21(4), 587-602.

Kraus, S.D., Brown, M.W., Caswell, H., Clark, C.W., Fujiwara, M., Hamilton, P.K., Kenney, R.D., Knowlton, A.R., Landry, S., Mayo, C.A., McLellan, W.A., Moore, M.J., Nowacek, D.P., Pabst, D.A., Read, A.J. & Rolland, R. M., 2005. North Atlantic right whale in crisis. Science, 309, 561-562.

Reeves, R.R., Brownell, R.L., Burdin, A., Cooke, J.C., Darling, J.D., Donovan, G.P., Gulland, F.M.D., Moore, S.E., Nowacek, D.P., Ragen, T.J., Steiner, R.G., VanBlaricom, G.R., Vedenev, A., and Yablakov, A.V., 2005. Report of the Independent Scientific Review Panel on the Impacts of Sakhalin II Phase 2 on Western North Pacific Gray Whales and related Biodiversity. International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN), Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK. 123 pp.

Brownell, R.L., Nowacek, D.P., Ralls, K., 2005. Hunting cetaceans with sounds: a worldwide review. Report of the International Whaling Commission, SC/57/E16, 14 pgs.

Gannon, D.P. Barros, N.B., Nowacek, D.P., Read, A.J., Waples, D.M., and Wells, R.S., 2005. Prey detection by bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus): an experimental test of the passive listening hypothesis. Animal Behaviour, 69(3), 709-720.

Gannon, D.P., Johnston, D.W., Read, A.J., and Nowacek, D.P., 2004. Resonance and Dissonance: Science, Ethics, and the Sonar Debate. Marine Mammal Science, 20(4), 898-899.

Maresh, J.L., Fish, F.E., Nowacek, D.P., Nowacek, S.M., and Wells, R.S., 2004. High performance turning capabilities during foraging by bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus). Marine Mammal Science, 20(3), 498-509.

Nowacek, S.M., Wells, R.S., Owen, E.C.G., Speakman, T.R., Flamm, R.O., and Nowacek, D.P., 2004. Florida manatees, Trichechus manatus latirostris, respond to approaching vessels. Biological Conservation, 119, 517-523.

Nowacek, D.P., Johnson, M.P., and Tyack, P.L., 2004. Right whales ignore ships but respond to alarm stimuli. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 271, 227-231.

Nowacek, D.P., Casper, B.M., Wells, R.S., Nowacek, S.M., Mann, D.A., 2003. Intraspecific and geographic variation of West Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus spp.) vocalizations. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 114(1), 66-69.

Nowacek, D.P., 2002. Sequential foraging behaviour of bottlenose dolphins, Tursiops truncatus, in Sarasota Bay, FL. Behaviour, 139(9), 1125-1145.

Matthews, J.N., Brown, S., Gillespie, D., Johnson, M., McLanaghan, R., Moscrop, A., Nowacek, D., Leaper, R., and Tyack, P., 2001. Vocalisation Rates of the North Atlantic Right Whale. Journal of Cetacean Research and Management, 3(3), 271-282.

Miksis, J.L., Grund, M.D., Nowacek, D.P., Solow, A.R., Connor, R.C., and Tyack, P.L., 2001. Cardiac responses to acoustic playback experiments in the captive bottlenose dolphin Tursiops truncatus. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 115(3), 227-232.

Nowacek, D.P., Johnson, M.P., Tyack, P.L., Shorter, K., McLellan, W.A., Pabst, D.A., 2001. Buoyant balaenid whales: the ups and downs of buoyancy in right whales. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 268, 1811-1816.

Nowacek, D.P., Wells, R.S., and Tyack, P.L., 2001. A platform for continuous behavioral and acoustic observation of free-ranging marine mammals: Overhead video combined with underwater audio. Marine Mammal Science, 17(1), 191-199.