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KOOYMAN, GERALD

Professor of Biology, Emeritus

Degrees:

• B.A., University of California, Los Angeles
• Ph.D., University of Arizona

Research Interests:

• Diving behavior in marine vertebrates, especially emperor penguins.
• Population trends and conservation of marine reptiles, birds, and mammals.

Honors and Awards:

• The Quadrennial Finn Ronne Award, The Explorers Club, NYC, 2007
• The first Kenneth Norris Life Time Achievement Award of the Marine Mammal Society, 2005
• Kooyman Symposium, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 2000
• Special Creativity Award, NSF, 1991
• Geographic Name: Kooyman Peak, Queen Elizabeth Range, Antarctica, 1966
• Antarctica Medal, 1963

Mentoring:

• Gearhart, Geoffrey (Graduate; 2008-)
• Barber-Meyer, Shannon (Post Doc; 2006-2007)
• Hinke, Jefferson (Graduate; 2006-)
• Dolar, Louella (Graduate; 1991-1999)
• Jobsis, Paul (Graduate; 1990-1998)
• Andrews, Russ (Other; -1999)
• Fowler, Shannon (Other; -2004)
• Knower, Torrie (Graduate; -1998)
• Noren, Dawn (Other; -2002)
• Webb, Paul (Other; -1999)

Barber-Meyer, SM, GL Kooyman, PJ Ponganis 2008. Trends in western Ross Sea emperor penguin chick abundances and their relationships to climate. Antarctic Science 20 (1), 3–11 (2008)

Kooyman, G. 2007. Animal-Borne Instrumentation Systems and The Animals That Bear Them: Then (1939) and Now (2007). MTSJ 41: 4-6.

Barber-Meyer, SM, GL Kooyman, PJ Ponganis 2007. Estimating the relative abundance of emperor penguins at inaccessible colonies using satellite imagery. Polar Biol (2007) 30:1565–1570

Kooyman, G. L. 2006. Mysteries of adaptation to hypoxia and pressure in marine mammals; The Kenneth S. Norris Lifetime Achievement Award Lecture. Marine Mammal Science 22: 507-526

Dolar, ML, WF Perrin, BL Taylor, GL Kooyman and MNR Alava 2006. Abundance and distributional ecology of cetaceans in the central Philippines. J. CETACEAN RES. MANAGE. 8(1):93–111.

Kooyman, G. L., D. Siniff, I. Stirling and J. Bengtson 2004. Moult habitat, pre- and post-moult diet and post-moult travel of Ross Sea emperor penguins. Marine Ecology Progress Series 267: 281-90

Vam Dam and GL Kooyman 2004. Latitudinal distribution of penguins, seals and whales observed during a late autumn transect through the Ross Sea. Antarctic Science 16 (3): 313–318.

Kooyman, G. L. (2003). Genesis and evolution of bio-logging devices: 1963-2002. Bio-logging Science: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Bio-logging Science, National Insitute of Polar Research, Tokyo, March 17-21, 2003, Tokyo, Japan, National Institute of Polar Research.

Kooyman, G. L. and P. J. Ponganis (2003). The icing of external recorders during the polar winter. Bio-logging Science: Proceedings fo the International Symposium on Bio-loggingh Science, National Institute of Polar Research, Toklyo, March 17-21, 2003, Tokyo, Japan, National Institute of Polar Research.

Ponganis PJ, Kooyman GL, and Ridgway SH (2003) Comparative Diving Physiology. Bennett and Elliott’s Physiology and Medicine of Diving. Editors Alf O. Brubakk and Tom S. Neuman. Edinburgh, Saunders: 211-226.

Kooyman, G. (2002). Evolutionary and ecological aspects of some Antarctic and sub-Antarctic penguin distributions. Oecologia 130:485-495.

Kooyman, G. (2002). Diving physiology. Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals, W. F. Perrin, B. Wursig, and J. Thewissen, Eds., San Diego, Academic Press 339-344.

Kooyman, G. (2001). Marine mammal diving physiology. Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences John H. Steele, Steve A. Thorpe, and Karl A. Turekian, eds., San Diego, Academic Press 1589-1595.

Burns J and Kooyman G (2001) Habitat use by Weddell seals and emperor penguins foraging in the Ross Sea, Antarctica. Amer Zool 41: 90-98.

Jobsis P, Ponganis PJ, and Kooyman GL (2001) Effects of training on forced submersion responses in harbor seals. J exp Biol 204: 3877-3.

Trillmich F and Kooyman GL (2001) Field metabolic rate of lactating female Galapagos fur seals (Arctocephalus galapagoensis): the influence of offspring age and environment. Comp Biochem Physiol A 129: 741-749.

Nagy KA, Kooyman GL, and Ponganis PJ (2001) Energetic cost of foraging in free-diving emperor penguins. Physiol Biochem Zool 74: 541-547.

Kooyman G, Hunke E, Ackley S, van Dam R, and Robertson G (2000) Moult of the emperor penguin: travel, location, and habitat selection. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 204: 269-277.

Ponganis P and Kooyman G (2000) Diving physiology of birds: a history of studies on polar species. Comp Biochem Physiol Part A 126: 143-151.

Kooyman GL, Ponganis PJ, and Howard RS (1999) Diving Animals. In CEG Lundgren and JN Miller (eds.): The Lung at Depth. New York: Marcel Dekker, Inc, pp. 587-620.

Ponganis P, Kooyman G, van Dam R, and Le Maho Y (1999) Physiological responses of king penguins during simulated diving to 136m depth. J exp Biol 202: 2819-2822.

Ponganis PJ, Starke LN, Horning M, and Kooyman GL (1999) Development of diving capacity in emperor penguins. J exp Biol 202: 781-786.

Ponganis P and Kooyman G (1999) Heart rate and electrocardiogram characteristics of a young California gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus). Mar Mamm Sci 15: 1198-1207.

Dolar MLL, Suarez P, Ponganis PJ, and Kooyman GL (1999) Myoglobin in pelagic small cetaceans. J exp Biol 202: 227-236.

Kooyman G, Hull C, Olsson O, Robertson G, Croxall J, and Davis L (1999) Foraging patterns of polar penguins. 22nd International Ornithological Congress, pp. 2021-2039.

Cherel Y and Kooyman GL (1998) Food of emperor penguins (Aptenodytes forsteri) in the western Ross Sea, Antarctica. Mar Biol (Berlin) 130: 335-344.

Kooyman G (1998) Review: Skuas and Jaegers: a guide to the skuas and jaegers of the world. Quart Rev Biol 73: 220.

Kooyman GL and Ponganis PJ (1998) The physiological basis of diving to depth: Birds and mammals. Ann Rev Physiol 60: 19-33.

Kooyman, G. and Ponganis, PJ. (1997). Challenges of diving to depth. American Scientist 85:530-539.

Kooyman GL, Kooyman TG, Horning M, and Kooyman CA (1996) Penguin dispersal after fledging. Nature 383:397.