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Kate Sprogis

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Research Fellow, UWA Oceans Institute, The University of Western Australia

Australian marine mammal biologist. PhD on the behavioural ecology of bottlenose dolphins (habitat use, abundance and distribution, home range, climate change), through Murdoch University, Australia. Post-doctorate on anthropogenic noise impacts on humpback whales, as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow in the Marine Bioacoustics Lab, Aarhus University, Denmark.

Experience

  • 2022–present
    Researcher, The University of Western Australia
  • 2021–2021
    Researcher, Flinders University
  • 2018–2021
    Postdoctoral fellow, Aarhus University
  • 2015–2017
    Researcher, Murdoch University

Education

  • 2015 
    Murdoch University, PhD
  • 2008 
    University of Queensland, Honours

Publications

  • 2023
    Effects of whale-watching activities on southern right whales in Encounter Bay, South Australia, Marine Policy
  • 2022
    Coastal dolphins and marine megafauna in Exmouth Gulf, Western Australia: Informing conservation management actions in an area under increasing human pressure, Wildlife Research
  • 2022
    Human food-provisioning impacts the social environment, home range and fitness of a marine top predator, Animal Behaviour
  • 2022
    Occurrence of cetaceans and seabirds along the Indian Ocean 110°E meridian from temperate to tropical waters, Deep Sea Research (Part II, Topical Studies in Oceanography)
  • 2022
    Seasonal gain in body condition of foraging humpback whales along the Western Antarctic Peninsula, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • 2022
    Body condition and allometry of free-ranging short-finned pilot whales in the North Atlantic, Sustainability
  • 2021
    Acute and chronic behavioral effects of kelp gull micropredation on southern right whales, Marine Ecology Progress Series
  • 2021
    The behavioural impacts of commercial swimming with whale tours on humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) in Hervey Bay, Australia, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • 2021
    Decreased resting and nursing in short-finned pilot whales when exposed to louder petrol engine noise of a hybrid whale-watch vessel, Scientific Reports
  • 2021
    Ontogenetic changes in energy expenditure and resting behaviour of humpback whale mother-calf pairs on a breeding ground studied using unmanned aerial vehicles, Wildlife Research
  • 2021
    Whale-watch vessel noise levels with applications to whale-watching guidelines and conservation, Marine Policy
  • 2021
    Foraging preferences of an apex marine predator revealed through stomach content and stable isotope analyses, Global Ecology and Conservation
  • 2020
    Vessel noise levels drive behavioural responses of humpback whales with implications for whale-watching, eLife
  • 2020
    Silver gull harassment of humpback whales in Exmouth Gulf, Western Australia,
  • 2020
    Variation in outer blubber lipid concentration does not reflect morphological body condition in humpback whales,
  • 2020
    Behavioural responses of migrating humpback whales to swim-with-whale activities in the Ningaloo Marine Park, Western Australia, Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology
  • 2019
    Food-provisioning negatively affects calf survival and female reproductive success in bottlenose dolphins,
  • 2019
    Behavioural development in southern right whale calves,
  • 2019
    Morphological differences between coastal bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops aduncus) populations identified using non-invasive stereo-laser photogrammetry,
  • 2018
    Sex-specific differences in the seasonal habitat use of a coastal dolphin population,
  • 2018
    El Niño Southern Oscillation influences the abundance and movements of a marine top predator in coastal waters,
  • 2018
    Implications of survey effort on estimating demographic parameters of a long‐lived marine top predator,
  • 2018
    Frequency and temporal trends of shark predation attempts on bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus) in temperate Australian waters,
  • 2017
    Complex prey handling of octopus by bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus),
  • 2016
    Noninvasive unmanned aerial vehicle provides estimates of the energetic cost of reproduction in humpback whales, Ecosphere
  • 2016
    Sex-specific patterns in abundance, temporary emigration and survival of Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus) in coastal and estuarine waters,
  • 2016
    Seasonal feeding on giant cuttlefish (Sepia apama) by Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus) in south-western Australia,
  • 2016
    Home range size of adult Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus) in a coastal and estuarine system is habitat and sex-specific,