Website: http://www.cetus.ucsd.edu/
Degrees:
Ph.D. Applied Physics, Stanford University, 1983 B.S. Physics and Electrical Engineering, University of California San Diego, 1978.
Research Interest:
Marine mammal population census with acoustics; ambient noise impacts on marine mammals; field studies in the Southern Ocean, the southern California Bight, the Bering Sea, the Beaufort Sea, Gulf of Alaska, Gulf of California
Publications:
McDonald, M. A., J. A. Hildebrand, and S. C. Webb (1995). Blue and fin whales observed on a seafloor array in the Northeast Pacific. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 98(2): 712-721.
Aroyan, J.L., M.A. McDonald, S.C. Webb, J.A. Hildebrand, D. Clark, J.T. Laitman, and J.S. Reidenberg (2000). Acoustic Models of Sound Production and Propagation, In: Hearing by Whales and Dolphins , W. Au, A. Popper and R. Fay, Editors, Springer Handbook of Auditory Research, Vol. 12, 409-469.
McDonald, M. A., J. Calambokidis, A. M. Teranishi and J. A. Hildebrand (2001). The acoustic calls of blue whales off California with gender data. J. Acoust. Soc. Am 109: 1728-1735.
Tiemann, C.O., M. B. Porter, J. A. Hildebrand (2002) A robust model-based algorithm for localizing marine mammal transients, SACLANT Conference on the Impact of Littoral Environmental Variability on Acoustic Predictions and Sonar Performance, Lerici, Italy, Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp:523-530.
Oleson, E., J. Barlow, J. Gordon, S. Rankin and J. A. Hildebrand (2003). Low Frequency Calls Of Bryde's Whales. Marine Mammal Science 19(2): 407-419.
Swartz, S. L., T. Cole, M.A. McDonald, J.A. Hildebrand, E.M. Oleson, A. and P. J. C. Martinez, J. Barlow, and M.L. Jones. (2003). Acoustic and visual survey of humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) distribution in the eastern and southeastern Caribbean Sea. Caribbean Journal of Science 39(2): 195-208.
Wiggins, S. M., McDonald, M. A., Munger, L. M., Moore, S. E., and J. A. Hildebrand (2004). Waveguide propagation allows range estimates for North Pacific right whales in the Bering Sea. Canadian Acoustics 32(2): 146-154.
Burtenshaw, J. C., E. M. Oleson, J. A. Hildebrand, M. A. McDonald, R. K. Andrew, B. M. Howe, and J. A. Mercer. (2004). Acoustic and Satellite Remote Sensing of Blue Whale Seasonality and Habitat in the Northeast Pacific. Deep Sea Research II 51:967-986.
Sirovic, A., J. A. Hildebrand, S. M. Wiggins, M. A. McDonald, S. E. Moore, and D. Thiele. (2004) Seasonality of blue and fin whale calls and the influence of sea ice in the Western Antarctic Peninsula. Deep Sea Research II, 51: 2327-2344.
Thiele, D., E. T. Chester, S. E. Moore, A. Sirovic, J. A. Hildebrand and A. S. Friedlaender (2004) Seasonal variability in whale encounters in the Western Antarctic Peninsula Deep Sea Research II, 51:2311-2325.
McDonald, M. A., J. A. Hildebrand, S. M. Wiggins, D. Thiele, D. Glasgow, S. E. Moore. (2005) Sei whale sounds recorded in the Antarctic J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 118:3941-3945.
Munger, L. M., D. K. Mellinger, S. M. Wiggins, S. E. Moore, and J. A. Hildebrand (2005) Performance of spectrogram cross-correlation in detecting right whale calls in long-term recordings from the Bering Sea Canadian Acoustics 33(2): 25-34.
Wiggins, S. M., E. M. Oleson, M. A. McDonald, and J. A. Hildebrand. (2005) Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus) Diel Call Patterns offshore of Southern California. Aquatic Mammals 31(2): 161-168.
Hildebrand, J. A. (2005) "Impacts of Anthropogenic Sound" in J.E. Reynolds et al. (eds), Marine Mammal Research: Conservation beyond Crisis. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland.
Sweeney, A. D., C. D. Chadwell, and J. A. Hildebrand (2006) Calibration of a seawater sound velocimeter IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, 31(2): 454-461.
Moore, S. E.; Stafford, K. M.; Mellinger, D. K.; and J. A. Hildebrand. (2006) Listening for Large Whales in the Offshore Waters of Alaska. BioScience 56(1):49-55.
Goldbogen, J.A.; Calambokidis, J; Shadwick, R E; Oleson, E M; McDonald, M A; and J A Hildebrand. (2006) Kinematics of foraging dives and lunge-feeding in fin whale, Journal of Experimental Biology 209, 1231-1244.
McDonald, M. A., J. A. Hildebrand and S. M. Wiggins. (2006) Increases in deep ocean ambient noise west of San Nicolas Island, California, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 120 (2), 711-717.
Krysl, P, T. W. Cranford, S. M. Wiggins and J. A. Hildebrand, (2006) Simulating the effects of high-intensity sound on cetaceans: Modeling approach and a case study for Cuvier's Beaked whale (Ziphius cavirostris), J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 120 (4):2328-2339.
McDonald, M. A., S. L. Mesnick, and J. A. Hildebrand (2006) Biogeographic Characterization of Blue Whale Song Worldwide: Using Song to Identify Populations. Journal of Cetacean Research and Management 8 (1):55-65.
Sirovic, A, J. A. Hildebrand, and D. Thiele (2006) Baleen whale Spatial Patterns in the Scotia Sea during January and February 2003, Journal of Cetacean Research and Management 8 (2):161-171.
Soldevilla, M.S., Wiggins, S.M., Calambokidis, J., Douglas, A.B., Oleson, E.M., and J. A. Hildebrand (2006). Marine mammal monitoring and habitat investigations during CalCOFI surveys. CalCOFI Reports 47: 79-91.
Oleson, E. M., Calambokidis, J., Burgess, W. C., McDonald, M. A., LeDuc, C. A., and J. A. Hildebrand, (2007) Behavioral Context of Call Production by Eastern North Pacific Blue Whales. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 330 269-284.
Roch, M. A., Soldevilla, M. S., Burtenshaw, J. C., Henderson, E. E. and J. A. Hildebrand, (2007) Gaussian mixture model classification of odontocetes in the Southern California Bight and the Gulf of California, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 121 (3) 1737-1748.
McKenna, M., Goldbogen, J., St. Leger, J., Hildebrand, J., and T. Cranford, (2007) Evaluation of Postmortem Changes in Tissue Structure in the Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus), Anatomical Record 290:1023-1032.
Sirovic, A, J. A. Hildebrand, and S. M. Wiggins, (2007) Blue and fin whale call source levels and propagation range in the Southern Ocean, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 122(2):1208-1215.
Students: Undergrads: 1 , Graduate students: 8
Seatime: 45 days
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