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Debra L. Palka
Research Fishery Biologist, U.S.
National Marine Fisheries Service, Northeast Fisheries Science Center,
Woods Hole, MA
BS in Biology, 1981, University of
Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
MS in Biostatistics, 1984, University of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill
MS in Biostatistics, 1984, Scripps Inst. of Oceanography, at University
of California, San Diego
Research interests
Estimation of abundance and bycatch of
marine mammals. Statistical and mathematical modeling of marine mammal
habitat preferences. Interactions between marine mammals and man:
management of whales and cetacean bycatch in fisheries. Cetacean
acoustics.
Relevant Experiences
- National Marine Fisheries Service
1991-present: Research Fisheries Biologist at Northeast Fisheries
Science Center, Woods Hole, MA
- 1989-1991: Fishery Biologist at
Southwest Fisheries Science Center, San Diego, CA
- International Whaling Commission 1995
- present: Member of the International Whaling Commission (IWC)
Scientific Committee
- 2002 Chairperson of IWC sub-committee
on In-Depth Assessments
- Take Reduction Teams 2001-present:
Assist the Coastal Bottlenose Dolphin Take Reduction Team
- 1996-present: Assist the Gulf of Maine
and Mid-Atlantic Harbor Porpoise Take Reduction Teams
Selected Relevant Publications
Trippel,
E.A., Holy, N.L., Palka, D.L., Shepard, T.D., Melvin, G.D., and Terhune,
J.M. (in press). Nylon Barium Sulphate Gillnet Reduces Porpoise and
Seabird Mortality. Marine Mammal Science.
Smith,
T., T. Schweder, C. Allison, D. Palka, A. Punt, and D. Butterworth. (in
press) Effects of combinations of uncertainties on the risk performance
of the IWC's commercial whaling management procedure. Special Issue of
the Reports of the International Whaling Commission.
Palka,
D. 2002. Incorporating uncertainty into marine mammal management. Pages
157-170. in J.M. Berkson, L.L. Kline, and D.J. Orth, editors.
Incorporating uncertainty into fishery models. American Fisheries
Society, Symposium 27, Bethesda, Maryland.
Palka,
D.L. and Rossman, M.C. 2001. Bycatch estimates of coastal bottlenose
dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) in U.S. Mid-Atlantic gillnet fisheries for
1996 to 2000. Northeast Fish. Sci. Cent. Ref. Doc. 01-15; 77 p.
Available from National Marine Fisheries Service, 166 Water St., Woods
Hole, MA 02543-1026.
Palka,
D. and Hammond, P.S. 2001. Accounting for responsive movement in line
transect estimates of abundance. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 58: 777-787.
Palka,
D. 2000. Abundance of the Gulf of Maine/Bay of Fundy harbor porpoise
stock based on shipboard and aerial surveys in 1999. NMFS Northeast
Fisheries Science Center Reference Document 00-07.
Palka,
D. and Pollard, J. 1999. Adaptive line transect survey for harbor
porpoises. In: Marine mammal survey and assessment methods. A.A. Balkema
Publishers, Rotterdam, Netherland. Pp 3-12.
Palka,
D. 1996a. Effects of Beaufort sea state on the sightability of harbor
porpoises in the Gulf of Maine. Rep. Int. Whal. Commn 46: 575-582.
Palka,
D. 1996b. Update on abundance of Gulf of Maine/Bay of Fundy harbor
porpoises. NMFS Northeast Fisheries Science Center Reference Document
96-04. 37pp.
Palka,
D. 1995a. Influences on spatial patterns of Gulf of Maine harbor
porpoises. pp. 69-75 In: A.S. Blix, L. Walløe and Ø. Ulltang (eds.)
Whales, seals, fish and man. Elsevier Science B.V. The Netherlands.
Palka,
D. 1995b. Abundance estimate of Gulf of Maine harbor porpoise. Rep. int.
Whal. Commn Special Issue 16 - The Biology of Phocoenidae. pp 28-50.
Bowles,
A., Smultea, M., Wursig, B., DeMaster, D. and Palka, D. 1994. Relative
abundance and behavior of marine mammals exposed to transmissions from
the Heard Island Feasibility Test. The Journal of the Acoustical Society
of America. Vol. 96, No. 4, 2469-2484 |
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