Steller Sea Lion Project Theme:  Foraging

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• Nutritional significance of ephemeral high-quality foraging opportunities for Steller sea lions
  
• High resolution foraging behavior and movement patterns of Steller sea lion juveniles in regions of increase and decrease
  
• Implications of varying food distributions for fitness of Steller sea lions
  
• Bioenergetics of captive Steller sea lions
  
• Steller sea lion diet quantification studies
  
• A study to evaluate transmitter implant methodology
  
• Use of scat and other sources to identify sea lion prey
  
• Diet and fatty acids
  
• Diet and stable isotopes
  
• Use of telemetry to study foraging ecology and behavior
  
• Foraging ecology and hunting behavior of adult and juvenile Steller sea lions
  
• Individual-based modelling of Steller sea lion foraging behavior and bioenergetics
  
• Assessing the bioenergetics of Steller sea lions: energetic and digestive costs at sea
  
• Metabolic demands of Steller sea lion survival
  
• Steller sea lion critical habitat assessment
  
• Implant coordination
  
• Develop surgical procedures for a heart-rate recorder in Steller sea lions
  
• Innovations in remotely monitoring Steller sea lions
  
• Coastal bathymetry within the range of Steller sea lions in Alaska
  
• Steller sea lion prey and habitat use in the Kodiak region
  
• Seasonal forage patterns of Steller sea lions
  
• Investigation of retinol (Vitamin A) and tocopherol (Vitamin E) status in Steller sea lions: contribution to nutritional stress in declining populations
  
• Linking animal-borne data records to autonomous remote imaging systems: implementing the RAT-link
  
• Assessing population trends and dietary intake of Steller sea lion populations along the western Alaska peninsula and eastern Aleutians
  
• The role of physiological constraint in the acquisition of foraging ability: development of diving capacity in juvenile Steller sea lions
  
• Captive studies on bioenergetics and nutrition
  
• Development and testing of a tiny biotelemetry device for Steller sea lions
  
• Effects of Atka mackerel on SSL condition
  
• Evaluation of blubber fatty acid analysis
  
• Fatty pollock; nutritional effects of fat and lean fish
  
• Investigation in the use of bone marrow
  
• Body growth and feeding rates
  
• Satiation in young SSLs
  
• Foraging behavior of juvenile SSLs
  
• Body size as indicator of nutritional stress and carrying capacity
  
• Thyroid hormones and plasma leptin concentrations during food deprivation and satiety: use as an index of metabolic condition in free-ranging Steller sea lions
  
• Do Steller sea lions at the Pribilofs have enough to eat? Evidence from diet and stress hormones
  
• Feeding regime study
  
• Describing the movement patterns and diving ontogeny of juvenile Steller sea lions
  
• Fatty acid and stable isotope analyses and development of weaning indices
  
• Collecting scat samples for prey remain analysis
  
• National Marine Fisheries Service Nutritional Ecology Laboratory
  
• Research and development for telemetry
  
• Estimate cost of swimming
  
• Thermoregulation in foraging Steller sea lions: a comprehensive experimental and modeling approach
  
• Scat collection and dietary analysis for the eastern stock of Steller sea lions
  
• Factors affecting Steller sea lion foraging success
  
• Method validation using Steller sea lion bycatch
  
• Studies toward improved management of Steller sea lions in Alaska
  

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