https://dev.oceanexpert.org/expert/hkilleen@faralloninstitute.org

ORCID : 0000-0002-6942-7315

PhD

Teaching/Education
Research
Data Management
Technical Advice & Consulting

Biological Oceanography, Marine Ecology
Fisheries, Aquaculture
Policy, Law, Economics, Management

In order to manage marine resources sustainably, conserve biodiversity, and protect vulnerable ecosystem services, we need to understand how species and populations respond to natural and human-driven environmental change. My research addresses this need by taking a biophysical approach to investigating how and why species distributions change through time and space. As a PhD student at UC Davis, I studied how marine larvae (baby fish and invertebrates) interact with variable oceanography in a marine protected area network off north-central California. And I characterized the impact of extreme climate events on krill, a key prey group, throughout the California Current Ecosystem. As a postdoctoral researcher at the Farallon Institute, I am now investigating how seabird populations, top marine predators, are responding globally to environmental shifts linked to climate change, including through increasing stratification, ocean warming, and declining prey availability. 

North Pacific Ocean
Global

English

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ResearchGate

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