Publications


Soldevilla, M. S., Debich, A. J., Pérez‐Carballo, I., Jarriel, S., Frasier, K. E., Garrison, L. P., Gracia, A., Hildebrand, J. A., Rosel, P. E., & Serrano, A. (2024). Rice’s whale occurrence in the western Gulf of Mexico from passive acoustic recordings. Marine Mammal Science, mms.13109. https://doi.org/10.1111/mms.13109
Thompson, A. R., Swalethorp, R., Alksne, M., Santora, J. A., Hazen, E. L., Leising, A., Satterthwaite, E., Sydeman, W. J., Anderson, C. R., Auth, T. D., Baumann-Pickering, S., Baumgardner, T., Bjorkstedt, E. P., Bograd, S. J., Bowlin, N. M., Burke, B. J., Daly, E. A., Dewar, H., Field, J. C., … Wells, B. (2024). State of the California Current Ecosystem report in 2022: a tale of two La Niñas. Frontiers in Marine Science, 11, 1294011. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2024.1294011
Ziegenhorn, M. A., Hildebrand, J. A., Oleson, E. M., Baird, R. W., & Baumann-Pickering, S. (2023). Odontocete detections are linked to oceanographic conditions in the Hawaiian Archipelago. Communications Earth & Environment, 4(1), 423. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-01088-7
Morris, M., Krysl, P., Hildebrand, J., & Cranford, T. (2023). Resonance of the tympanoperiotic complex of fin whales with implications for their low frequency hearing. PLOS ONE, 18(10), e0288119. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0288119
Cohen, R., Frasier, K., Baumann-Pickering, S., & Hildebrand, J. (2023). Spatial and temporal separation of toothed whales in the western North Atlantic. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 720, 1–24. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps14396
Kok, A. C. M., Hildebrand, M. J., MacArdle, M., Martinez, A., Garrison, L. P., Soldevilla, M. S., & Hildebrand, J. A. (2023). Kinematics and energetics of foraging behavior in Rice’s whales of the Gulf of Mexico. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 8996. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-35049-z
Jang, J., Meyer, F., Snyder, E. R., Wiggins, S. M., Baumann-Pickering, S., & Hildebrand, J. A. (2023). Bayesian detection and tracking of odontocetes in 3-D from their echolocation clicks. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 153(5), 2690. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0017888
ZoBell, V. M., Gassmann, M., Kindberg, L. B., Wiggins, S. M., Hildebrand, J. A., & Frasier, K. E. (2023). Retrofit-induced changes in the radiated noise and monopole source levels of container ships. PLOS ONE, 18(3), e0282677. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0282677
Baumann‐Pickering, S., Trickey, J. S., Solsona‐Berga, A., Rice, A., Oleson, E. M., Hildebrand, J. A., & Frasier, K. E. (2023). Geographic differences in Blainville’s beaked whale ( Mesoplodon densirostris ) echolocation clicks. Diversity and Distributions, ddi.13673. https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13673
Jones, J. M., Westdal, K. H., Ootoowak, A. J., Wiggins, S. M., & Hildebrand, J. A. (2023). Impact of ship noise on the underwater soundscape of Eclipse Sound in the northeastern Canadian Arctic. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 195, 115534. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2023.115534
Ziegenhorn, M. A., Hildebrand, J. A., Oleson, E. M., Baird, R. W., Wiggins, S. M., & Baumann‐Pickering, S. (2023). Odontocete spatial patterns and temporal drivers of detection at sites in the Hawaiian islands. Ecology and Evolution, 13(1). https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.9688
Thompson, A. R., Bjorkstedt, E. P., Bograd, S. J., Fisher, J. L., Hazen, E. L., Leising, A., Santora, J. A., Satterthwaite, E. V., Sydeman, W. J., Alksne, M., Auth, T. D., Baumann-Pickering, S., Bowlin, N. M., Burke, B. J., Daly, E. A., Dewar, H., Field, J. C., Garfield, N. T., Giddings, A., … Weber, E. D. (2022). State of the California Current Ecosystem in 2021: Winter is coming? Frontiers in Marine Science, 9, 958727. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.958727
Soldevilla, M., Debich, A., Garrison, L., Hildebrand, J., & Wiggins, S. (2022). Rice’s whales in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico: call variation and occurrence beyond the known core habitat. Endangered Species Research, 48, 155–174. https://doi.org/10.3354/esr01196
Hildebrand, J. A., & York, A. L. (2022). Modeling and monitoring submerged prehistoric sites during offshore sand dredging and implications for the study of Early Holocene Coastal Occupation of Southern California. Geoarchaeology, gea.21914. https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.21914
Leu, A. A., Hildebrand, J. A., Rice, A., Baumann-Pickering, S., & Frasier, K. E. (2022). Echolocation click discrimination for three killer whale ecotypes in the Northeastern Pacific. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 151(5), 3197–3206. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0010450
Sportelli, J. J., Jones, J. M., Frasier, K. E., Westdal, K. H., Hidgon, J. W., & Hildebrand, J. A. (2022). Killer whale (Orcinus orca) pulsed calls in the Eastern Canadian Arctic. Arctic, 73(3), 1–20. https://doi.org/10.14430/arctic75350
Jones, J. M., Hildebrand, J. A., Thayre, B. J., Jameson, E., Small, R. J., & Wiggins, S. M. (2022). The influence of sea ice on the detection of bowhead whale calls. Scientific Reports, 12(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-12186-5
Ziegenhorn, M. A., Frasier, K. E., Hildebrand, J. A., Oleson, E. M., Baird, R. W., Wiggins, S. M., & Baumann-Pickering, S. (2022). Discriminating and classifying odontocete echolocation clicks in the Hawaiian Islands using machine learning methods. PLOS ONE, 17(4), e0266424. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0266424
Rice, A., Širović, A., Hildebrand, J. A., Wood, M., Carbaugh-Rutland, A., & Baumann-Pickering, S. (2022). Update on frequency decline of Northeast Pacific blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) calls. PLOS ONE, 17(4), e0266469. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0266469
Cohen, R. E., Frasier, K. E., Baumann-Pickering, S., Wiggins, S. M., Rafter, M. A., Baggett, L. M., & Hildebrand, J. A. (2022). Identification of western North Atlantic odontocete echolocation click types using machine learning and spatiotemporal correlates. PLOS ONE, 17(3), e0264988. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0264988
Posdaljian, N., Soderstjerna, C., Jones, J. M., Solsona-Berga, A., Hildebrand, J. A., Westdal, K., Ootoowak, A., & Baumann-Pickering, S. (2022). Changes in sea ice and range expansion of sperm whales in the eclipse sound region of Baffin Bay, Canada. Global Change Biology, 28(12), 3860–3870. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16166
Morris, M. A., Krysl, P., Rivera-Collazo, I. C., & Hildebrand, J. A. (2022). The resonant acoustic signatures of lithic debitage. Journal of Archaeological Science-Reports, 41, 9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2021.103266
Hildebrand, J. A., Frasier, K. E., Helble, T. A., & Roch, M. A. (2022). Performance metrics for marine mammal signal detection and classification. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 151(1), 414–427. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0009270
Jones, J. M., Frasier, K. E., Westdal, K. H., Ootoowak, A. J., Wiggins, S. M., & Hildebrand, J. A. (2022). Beluga (Delphinapterus leucas) and narwhal (Monodon monoceros) echolocation click detection and differentiation from long-term Arctic acoustic recordings. Polar Biology, 15. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-022-03008-5
Solsona-Berga, A., Posdaljian, N., Hildebrand, J. A., Baumann-Pickering, S., Scales, K., & Quick, N. (2022). Echolocation repetition rate as a proxy to monitor population structure and dynamics of sperm whales. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation. https://doi.org/10.1002/rse2.278
Soldevilla, M. S., Ternus, K., Cook, A., Hildebrand, J. A., Frasier, K. E., Martinez, A., & Garrison, L. P. (2022). Acoustic localization, validation, and characterization of Rice’s whale calls. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 151(6), 4264–4278. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0011677
ZoBell, V. M., Frasier, K. E., Morten, J. A., Hastings, S. P., Reeves, L. E. P., Wiggins, S. M., & Hildebrand, J. A. (2021). Underwater noise mitigation in the Santa Barbara Channel through incentive-based vessel speed reduction. Scientific Reports, 11(1), 12. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-96506-1
Wiggins, S. M., Krumpel, A., Dorman, L. M., Hildebrand, J. A., & Baumann-Pickering, S. (2021). Seal bomb explosion sound source characterization. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 150(3), 1821–1829. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0006101
Weber, E. D., Auth, T. D., Baumann-Pickering, S., Baumgartner, T. R., Bjorkstedt, E. P., Bograd, S. J., Burke, B. J., Cadena-Ramirez, J. L., Daly, E. A., de la Cruz, M., Dewar, H., Field, J. C., Fisher, J. L., Giddings, A., Goericke, R., Gomez-Ocampo, E., Gomez-Valdes, J., Hazen, E. L., Hildebrand, J., … Zeman, S. M. (2021). State of the California Current 2019-2020: Back to the future with marine heatwaves? Frontiers in Marine Science, 8, 23. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.709454
Rice, A., Debich, A. J., Sirovic, A., Oleson, E. M., Trickey, J. S., Varga, L. M., Wiggins, S. M., Hildebrand, J. A., & Baumann-Pickering, S. (2021). Cetacean occurrence offshore of Washington from long-term passive acoustic monitoring. Marine Biology, 168(8), 22. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-021-03941-9
Weiss, S. G., Cholewiak, D., Frasier, K. E., Trickey, J. S., Baumann-Pickering, S., Hildebrand, J. A., & Van Parijs, S. M. (2021). Monitoring the acoustic ecology of the shelf break of Georges Bank, Northwestern Atlantic Ocean: New approaches to visualizing complex acoustic data. Marine Policy, 130. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2021.104570
Hildebrand, J. A., Frasier, K. E., Baumann-Pickering, S., & Wiggins, S. M. (2021). An empirical model for wind-generated ocean noise. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 149(6), 4516–4533. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0005430
Roch, M. A., Lindeneau, S., Aurora, G. S., Frasier, K. E., Hildebrand, J. A., Glotin, H., & Baumann-Pickering, S. (2021). Using context to train time-domain echolocation click detectors. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 149(5), 3301–3310. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0004992
Rice, A., Širović, A., Trickey, J. S., Debich, A. J., Gottlieb, R. S., Wiggins, S. M., Hildebrand, J. A., & Baumann-Pickering, S. (2021). Cetacean occurrence in the Gulf of Alaska from long-term passive acoustic monitoring. Marine Biology, 168(5), 72. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-021-03884-1
Frasier, K. E., Garrison, L. P., Soldevilla, M. S., Wiggins, S. M., & Hildebrand, J. A. (2021). Cetacean distribution models based on visual and passive acoustic data. Scientific Reports, 11(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-87577-1
Szesciorka, A. R., Ballance, L. T., Sirovic, A., Rice, A., Ohman, M. D., Hildebrand, J. A., & Franks, P. J. S. (2020). Timing is everything: Drivers of interannual variability in blue whale migration. Scientific Reports, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-64855-y
Wiggins, S. M., & Hildebrand, J. A. (2020). Fin whale 40-Hz calling behavior studied with an acoustic tracking array. Marine Mammal Science. https://doi.org/10.1111/mms.12680
Solsona-Berga, A., Frasier, K. E., Baumann-Pickering, S., Wiggins, S. M., & Hildebrand, J. A. (2020). DetEdit: A graphical user interface for annotating and editing events detected in long-term acoustic monitoring data. Plos Computational Biology, 16(1). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007598
Frasier, K. E., Solsona-Berga, A., Stokes, L., & John A. Hildebrand. (2020). Impacts of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on marine mammals and sea turtles. In Murawski S. et al (Ed.), Deep Oil Spills (pp. 431–462). Springer, Cham. 10.1007/978-3-030-11605-7_26
Guazzo, R. A., Weller, D. W., Europe, H. M., Durban, J. W., D’Spain, G. L., & Hildebrand, J. A. (2019). Migrating eastern North Pacific gray whale call and blow rates estimated from acoustic recordings, infrared camera video, and visual sightings. Scientific Reports, 9. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-49115-y
Guazzo, R. A., Schulman-Janiger, A., Smith, M. H., Barlow, J., D’Spain, G. L., Rimington, D. B., & Hildebrand, J. A. (2019). Gray whale migration patterns through the Southern California Bight from multi-year visual and acoustic monitoring. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 625, 181–203. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps12989
Hildebrand, J. A., Frasier, K. E., Baumann-Pickering, S., Wiggins, S. M., Merkens, K. P., Garrison, L. P., Soklevilla, M. S., & McDonald, M. A. (2019). Assessing seasonality and density from passive acoustic monitoring of signals presumed to be from pygmy and dwarf sperm whales in the Gulf of Mexico. Frontiers in Marine Science, 6. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2019.00066
Keen, K. A., Thayre, B. J., Hildebrand, J. A., & Wiggins, S. M. (2018). Seismic airgun sound propagation in Arctic Ocean waveguides. Deep-Sea Research Part I-Oceanographic Research Papers, 141, 24–32. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2018.09.003
Hodge, L. E. W., Baumann-Pickering, S., Hildebrand, J. A., Bell, J. T., Cummings, E. W., Foley, H. J., McAlarney, R. J., McLellan, W. A., Pabst, D. A., Swaim, Z. T., Waples, D. M., & Read, A. J. (2018). Heard but not seen: Occurrence of Kogia spp. along the western North Atlantic shelf break. Marine Mammal Science, 34(4), 1141–1153. https://doi.org/10.1111/mms.12498
Harris, C. M., Thomas, L., Falcone, E. A., Hildebrand, J., Houser, D., Kvadsheim, P. H., Lam, F. P. A., Miller, P. J. O., Moretti, D. J., Read, A. J., Slabbekoorn, H., Southall, B. L., Tyack, P. L., Wartzok, D., & Janik, V. M. (2018). Marine mammals and sonar: Dose-response studies, the risk-disturbance hypothesis and the role of exposure context. Journal of Applied Ecology, 55(1), 396–404. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.12955
Stanistreet, J. E., Nowacek, D. P., Bell, J. T., Cholewiak, D. M., Hildebrand, J. A., Hodge, L. E. W., Van Parijs, S. M., & Read, A. J. (2018). Spatial and seasonal patterns in acoustic detections of sperm whales Physeter macrocephalus along the continental slope in the western North Atlantic Ocean. Endangered Species Research, 35, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.3354/esr00867
Varga, L. M., Wiggins, S. M., & Hildebrand, J. A. (2018). Behavior of singing fin whales Balaenoptera physalus tracked acoustically offshore of Southern California. Endangered Species Research, 35, 113–124. https://doi.org/10.3354/esr00881
Frasier, K. E., Roch, M. A., Soldevilla, M. S., Wiggins, S. M., Garrison, L. P., & Hildebrand, J. A. (2017). Automated classification of dolphin echolocation click types from the Gulf of Mexico. Plos Computational Biology, 13(12). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005823
Wells, B. K., Schroeder, I. D., Bograd, S. J., Hazen, E. L., Jacox, M. G., Leising, A., Mantua, N., Santora, J. A., Fisher, J., Peterson, W. T., Bjorkstedt, E., Robertson, R. R., Chavez, F. P., Goericke, R., Kudela, R., Anderson, C., Lavaniegos, B. E., Gomez-Valdes, J., Brodeur, R. D., … Thayre, B. (2017). State Of The California Current 2016-17: Still Anything But “Normal” In The North. California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations Reports, 58, 1–55.
Stanistreet, J. E., Nowacek, D. P., Baumann-Pickering, S., Bell, J. T., Cholewiak, D. M., Hildebrand, J. A., Hodge, L. E. W., Moors-Murphy, H. B., Van Parijs, S. M., & Read, A. J. (2017). Using passive acoustic monitoring to document the distribution of beaked whale species in the western North Atlantic Ocean. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 74(12), 2098–2109. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfas-2016-0503