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About Kristin Laidre
I am currently a research scientist at the Polar Science Center, Applied Physics Lab, University of Washington. I am partially supported by the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources in Nuuk, Greenland. My primary research interests lie in spatial modeling of movement and spatially-explicit foraging ecology of top marine predators. I am interested in how environmental features and habitat variables manifest themselves as constraints on movement and behavior, and how these constraints differentially impact demographics of sub-populations or metapopulations of marine species. My research is focused on exploring these relationships using satellite and archival telemetry, in combination with remotely-sensed satellite data and quantitative spatial models in a Geographic Information System (GIS). My research also links spatial environmental fluctuation to bioenergetic models and food webs in the marine ecosystem. Much of my research is focused in the high Arctic, where both short food chains and very limited and specific production periods strongly shape the behavior of top predators. |
Publications
Heide-Jørgensen, M.P., K. Laidre, D. Borchers, F. Samarra, and H. Stern, "Increasing abundance of bowhead whales in West Greenland", Biol. Lett., 3, 577-580, doi:10.1098/rsbl.2007.0310, 2007.
Heide-Jørgensen, M.P., H. Stern, and K. Laidre, "Dynamics of the ice edge in Davis Strait", Journal of Marine Systems, 67, 170-178, 2007.
Heide-Jørgensen, M. P., K. L. Laidre, M. L. Logsdon, and T. G. Nielsen, “Springtime coupling between phytoplankton, sea ice and sea temperature in Disko Bay, West Greenland”. Progress in Oceanography 73:79-95, 2007.
Laidre, K. L., M. P. Heide-Jørgensen, “Using narwhals as oceanographic sampling platforms in the high Arctic”. Oceanography, in press, 2007.
Laidre, K. L., M. P. Heide-Jørgensen, and T. G. Nielsen, “The role of the bowhead whale as a predator in West Greenland”, Marine Ecology Progress Series, 346: 285-297, 2007.
Laidre, K. L., M. P. Heide-Jørgensen, and J. Orr, “Reactions of narwhals, Monodon monoceros, to killer whale, Orcinus orca, attacks in the eastern Canadian High Arctic”. i 120. in press, 2007.
Laidre, K.L., I. Stirling, L. Lowry, Ø. Wiig, M. P. Heide-Jørgensen, and S. Ferguson. “Quantifying the sensitivity of arctic marine mammals to climate-induced habitat change”. Ecological Applications, in press, 2007.