Kristen Gorman
Assistant Professor
Marine Biology
College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences
Office: Irving II 230
Lab: O'Neill 141
Fairbanks, AK 99775
907-474-5930
kbgorman@alaska.edu
Hasan, E.L., K.B. Gorman, H.A. Colletti, and B.H. Konar. 2024. Species distribution
modeling of northern sea otters (Enhydra lutris kenyoni) in a data-limited ecosystem. Ecology and Evolution 14(3):e11118.
Porter, D.E., J.M. Morris, M.P. Trifari, M.J. Wooller, P.A.H. Westley, K.B. Gorman,
and B.D. Barst. 2023. Acute toxicity of copper to three species of Pacific salmon
fry in water with low hardness and low dissolved organic carbon. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 42(11): 2440–2452.
Iken, K. C.D. Amsler, K.B. Gorman, A.G. Klein, A.W.E. Galloway, M.O. Amsler, S. Heiser,
R. Whippo, A.T. Lowe, J.B. Schram, Z.X. Schneider, and J.B. McClintock. 2023. Macroalgal
input into the coastal food web along a gradient of seasonal sea ice cover along the
Western Antarctic Peninsula. Marine Ecology Progress Series 718:1–22.
Schaefer, A.L., K.B. Gorman, and M.A. Bishop. 2022. Light-level geolocation reveals
the short-distance non-breeding movements and distribution of tufted puffins throughout
the Northeast Pacific Ocean. Frontiers in Marine Science 9:999461.
Horst, A.M., A.P. Hill, and K.B. Gorman. 2022. Palmer Archipelago Penguins Data in
the palmerpenguins R Package - An Alternative to Anderson’s Irises. The R Journal 14(1):244-254.
Guo, C., B.H. Konar, K.B. Gorman, and C.M. Walker. 2022. Environmental factors important
to high-latitude nearshore estuarine fish community structure. Deep-Sea Research II 201:105109.
Gorman, K.B., K.E. Ruck, T.D. Williams, and W.R. Fraser. 2021. Advancing the sea ice
hypothesis: Trophic interactions among breeding Pygoscelis penguins with divergent population trends throughout the western Antarctic Peninsula.
Frontiers in Marine Science 8:526092.
- Integrative ecology
- Evolutionary and behavioral ecology
- Molecular and physiological ecology
- Food webs and trophic interactions
- Demography and population structure
- Marine fish and bird populations
- High latitude marine ecosystems
- Evaluating factors related to in river adult mortality in Copper River sockeye salmon. Funded by Alaska Sustainable Salmon Fund, 2021-2022
- Are expanding pink salmon populations in the Arctic produced from regional watersheds? Funded by Coastal Marine Institute/BOEM, 2020–2023
- Using otolith geochemistry to understand the ocean ecology of a changing Alaskan salmon system. Funded by National Science Foundation, 2020–2021
- Implications of a declining trend in body size and condition on abundance of sockeye salmon in the Copper River, Alaska. Funded by North Pacific Research Board, 2019–2021
- Resolving the annual pelagic distribution of Tufted Puffins: Associations with oceanographic features and isotopic niche. Funded by North Pacific Research Board, 2018–2021