Research Scientist/Engineer Senior
Fields of Interest
Education
Ph.D., Ecology, Penn State University, 2015
M.S., Conservation Biology & Sustainable Development, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2009
B.S., Biology, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2005
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Selected Research
- Tennessen, J.B., Holt, M.M., Wright, B.M., Hanson, M.B., Emmons, C.K., Giles, D.A., Hogan, J.T., Thornton, S.J., Deecke, V.B. 2024. Males miss and females forgo: Auditory masking from vessel noise impairs foraging efficiency and success in killer whales. Global Change Biology, 30, e17490.
- Tennessen, J.B., Holt, M.M., Wright, B.M., Hanson, M.B., Emmons, C.K., Giles, D.A., Hogan, J.T., Thornton, S.J., Deecke, V.B. 2023. Divergent foraging strategies between populations of sympatric matrilineal killer whales. Behavioral Ecology, arad002
- Holt, M.M., Tennessen, J.B., Ward, E.J., Hanson, M.B., Emmons, C.K., Giles, D.A., Hogan, J.T. 2021. Effects of vessel distance and sex on the behavior of endangered killer whales. Frontiers in Marine Science 7, 582182.
- Holt, M.M., Tennessen, J.B., Hanson, M.B., Emmons, C.K., Giles, D.A., Hogan, J.T. 2021. Vessels and their sounds reduce prey capture effort by endangered killer whales. Marine Environmental Research 170, 105429
- Dominoni, D.M., Halfwerk, W., Baird, E., Buxton, R.T., Fernández-Juricic, E., Fristrup, K.M., McKenna, M.F., Mennitt, D.J., Perkin, E.K., Seymoure, B.M., Stoner, D.C., Tennessen, J.B., Toth, C.A., Tyrrell, L.P., Wilson, A., Francis, C.D., Carter, N.H., Barber, J.R. 2020. Why conservation biology can benefit from sensory ecology. Nature Ecology and Evolution 4, 502-511
- Tennessen J.B., Holt M.M., Hanson M.B., Emmons C.K., Giles D.A., Hogan J. 2019. Kinematic signatures of prey capture from archival tags reveal sex differences in killer whale foraging activity. Journal of Experimental Biology 222, jeb191874
- Tennessen J.B., Holt M.M., Ward E.J., Hanson M.B., Emmons C.K., Giles D.A., Hogan J. 2019. Hidden Markov models reveal variability in behavior of fish-eating killer whales. Scientific Reports 9, 1-12
- Tennessen J.B, Parks S.E., Swierk L., Reinert L., Holden W., Rollins-Smith L.A., Langkilde T. 2018. Frogs adapt to physiologically costly anthropogenic noise. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 285: 20182194.
- Tennessen J.B, Parks S.E., Tennessen T.P., Langkilde T. 2016. Raising a racket: introduced species compete acoustically with native anuran communities. Animal Behaviour 114: 53-61
- Tennessen J.B., Parks S.E. 2016 Acoustic propagation modeling indicates vocal compensation in noise improves communication range for North Atlantic right whales. Endangered Species Research 30: 225-237.
- Tennessen J.B., Parks S.E., Langkilde T.L. 2014. Traffic noise causes physiological stress and impairs breeding migration behaviour in frogs. Conservation Physiology 2: cou032
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Professional AffiliationsCenter for Ecosystem Sentinels