Ram Research Directory

Jen Maresh

Education

• B.S. West Chester University
• M.E.M. Duke University
• Ph.D University of California-Santa Cruz

Research Interests

Animal BioenergeticsMammalian MaternalPhysio-EcologyMarine MammalsConservation and Sustainability

Opportunities

Work Study Positions Available: No

Grant Funded Positions Available: No

Course-Credit Research Opportunities Available: No

Volunteer Research Positions Available: No

Contact Information

Phone: 610-436-2318

List of Publications

• Noren, SR, TM Williams, & JL Maresh (2023). Energy for Exercise: The Cost of Motion in Marine Mammals in "Physiology of Marine Mammals: Adaptations to the Ocean" (M Castellini & J Mellish, eds). CRC Press. Costa DP, Maresh JL (2022). Reproductive Energetics of Phocids in "Ethology and Behavioral Ecology of Phocids, part of the Ethology and Behavioral Ecology of Marine Mammals series." Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88923-4_8 Maresh, JL, AL Blanchard, NL Demchenko, I Shcherbakov, L Aerts & LK Schwarz (2022). Benthic studies adjacent to Sakhalin Island, Russia, 2015 II: Energy content of the zoobenthos in western gray whale feeding grounds. Environmental Monitoring & Assessment - Special Issue. Costa, DP & JL Maresh (2018). Energetics in "Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals" (B Wursig, JGM Thewissen, & KM Kovacs, eds), 3rd ed., pp. 329-335, Academic Press/Elsevier, San Diego, CA, USA. Williams, TM & JL Maresh (2016). Exercise Energetics in "Marine Mammal Physiology: Requisites for Ocean Living" (M Castellini & J Mellish, eds), pp. 47-68, SPi Global. Maresh, JL, T Adachi, A Takahashi, et al. (2015). Summing the strokes: energy economy in northern elephant seals during large-scale foraging migrations. Movement Ecology 3(22): doi:10.1186/s40462-015-0049-2. Schwarz, LK, S Villegas-Amtmann, ...JL Maresh, et al. (2015). Comparisons and uncertainty in fat and adipose tissue estimation techniques: the northern elephant seal as a case study. PLoS ONE 10(6). Maresh, JL, SE Simmons, DE Crocker, BI McDonald, TM Williams & DP Costa (2014). Free-swimming northern elephant seals have low field metabolic rates that are sensitive to an increased cost of transport. Journal of Experimental Biology 217: 1485-1495. Adachi, T, JL Maresh, PW Robinson, et al. (2014). The foraging benefits of being fat in a highly migratory marine mammal. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 281(1797): 20142120. Maresh, JL (2014). Bioenergetics of marine mammals: the influence of body size, reproductive status, locomotion and phylogeny on metabolism. PhD Thesis, University of California-Santa Cruz. Costa, DP, LK Schwarz, JL Maresh, PW Robinson & DE Crocker (2013). A bioenergetics approach to understanding the population consequences of natural and anthropogenic disturbance. Integrative & Comparative Biology 53: E41-E41. Robinson, PW, DP Costa,...JL Maresh, et al. (2012). Foraging behavior and success of a mesopelagic predator in the northeast Pacific Ocean: insights from a data-rich species, the northern elephant seal. PLoS ONE 7(5): e36728. Maresh, JL, FE Fish, DP Nowacek, SM Nowacek & RS Wells (2004). High performance turning capabilities during foraging by bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus). Marine Mammal Science 20: 498-509.

Links

• ResearchGate