John Mandelman, Ph.D.
Associate Research Faculty
Credentials
Education
Post-Doctoral Training
New England Aquarium (Boston, Massachusetts)
Research
Current research
The post-release mortality of sublegal Atlantic cod caught by recreational angling; condition and discard mortality of skates in the sea scallop dredge fishery; behavioral and blood chemical consequences of longline capture in various carcharhinid sharks in Cape Eleuthera (The Bahamas); physiological response of the yellow stingray to acute and chronic anthropogenic stressors; the effects of sample processing factors on blood gas measurements in teleosts, elasmobranchs and turtles.
Selected publications
Jordan, L.K., Mandelman, J.W., McComb, D.M., Fordham, S.V., Carlson, J.C., Werner, T.B. 2013. Linking sensory biology and fisheries bycatch reduction in elasmobranch fishes: A review with new directions for research. Conservation Physiology. 1: doi: 10.1093/conphys/cot002
Mandelman, J.W., Cicia, A.M., Ingram Jr., G.W., Driggers III, W. B., Coutre, K.M., Sulikowski, J.A. 2013. Short-term post-release mortality of skates (family Rajidae) discarded in a western North
Atlantic commercial otter trawl fishery. Fish. Res. 139:76_84.
Taylor, J. K. D., Mandelman, J. W., McLellan, W. A., Moore, M. J., Skomal, G. B., Rotstein, D. S. and Kraus, S. D. 2013. Shark predation on North Atlantic right whales (Eubalaena glacialis) in the southeastern United States calving ground. Mar. Mamm. Sci. 29:204_212.
Mandelman, J.W., Morrison, R.A., Cavin, J.M., Farrington, M.A. 2012. The blood chemical status of Atlantic cod, Gadus morhua, following capture by jig and demersal longline with differential hook removal methods. J. Fish Biol. 81: 1406_1414.
Skomal, G.B., Mandelman, J.W. (equal contribution to authorship). 2012. The physiological response to anthropogenic stressors in marine elasmobranch fishes: a review with a focus on the secondary response. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. A. 162: 146_155.
Cicia, A.M., Schlenker, L.S., Sulikowski, J.A., Mandelman, J.W. 2012. Seasonal variations in the
physiological stress response to discrete bouts of aerial exposure in the little skate, Leucoraja erinacea. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. A. 162:130_138.
Brooks, E.J., Mandelman, J.W., Sloman, K.A., Liss, S., Danylchuck, A.J., Cooke, S.J., Skomal, G.B., Philipp, D.P., Sims, D.W., Suski, C.D. 2012. The physiological response of the Caribbean reef
shark (Carcharhinus perezi) to longline capture. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. A. 162:94_100.
Jordan, L., Mandelman, J., Kajiura, S. 2011. Behavioural responses to weak electric fields and a lanthanide metal in two shark species. J. Exp Mar. Biol. & Ecol. 409:345_350.
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Research interests
My labÕs research centers on the conservation physiology of marine fishes