University of New England

Kathryn Ono, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Biological Sciences
Marine Biology Program Coordinator
(207) 602-2814
kono@une.edu

Education

B.A. – Biology, 1973
           University of California, Santa Cruz

M.A. - Zoology, 1976
           University of California, Davis 
    
Ph.D. - Zoology, 1981
            University of California, Davis 
    
Post-Doc - Biology Board
                  University of California, Santa Cruz

Courses

BIO225  Gulf of Maine Seminar     

BIO250  Marine Biology     

BIO252  Natural History of North Atlantic Marine Mammals

BIO335  Animal Behavior/Behavioral Ecology

BIO352  Museum Specimen Preparation

BIO355  Biology of Marine Mammals

BIO420  Policy, Protection and Recovery of Marine Mammals

BIO420  Threatened and Endangered Marine Mammal Policy 

BIO420  Behavioral Ecology / Marine Conservation

Research Interests

Behavioral Ecology 
    
Conservation Biology 
    
Effects of climate on marine mammal biology 
    
Feeding habits and behavior of harbor seals in the gulf of Maine 
    
Behavior of Steller sea lions in Alaska

Selected Publications

Hood WR, Ono KA (1997) Variation in maternal attendance patterns and pup behavior in a declining population of Steller sea lions (Eumetopias jubatus), Canadian Journal of Zoology 75: 1241-1246.  
    
Westlake RL, Perryman WL, Ono KA (1997) Comparison of vertical aerial photographic and ground censuses of Steller sea lions at Año Nuevo Island, July 1990-1993, Marine Mammal Science 13: 207-218. 
    
Ono KA (1997) Sea lions, life history and reproduction, The Evolving Female: A Life-History Perspective, Morbeck ME, Galloway A,  Zihlman AL, eds., Princeton University Press 34-45. 
    
Ono KA, Boness DJ (1996) Sexual size dimorphism in California sea lion pups: Differential maternal investment or sexual differences in energy allocation? Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 38: 31-41. 
    
Ono KA (1995) Effects of climate change on marine mammals in the far north, Human Ecology and Climate Change: People and Resources in the Far North, Peterson DL, Johnson DR, eds. Taylor and Francis 105-121.