
Kristen Gorman
Research Assistant Professor
Marine Biology
College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences
Office: Irving II 230
Lab: O'Neill 141
Fairbanks, AK 99775
kbgorman@alaska.edu
Education
Selected Publications
Knudsen, E.E., P.S. Rand, K.B. Gorman, D.R. Bernard, and W.D. Templin. Accepted. 2020.
Hatchery-origin stray rates and total run characteristics for Pink Salmon and Chum
Salmon returning to Prince William Sound, Alaska, in 2013–2015. Marine and Coastal Fisheries.
Connors, B., M.J. Malick, G.T. Ruggerone, P. Rand, M. Adkison, J.R. Irvine, R. Campbell,
and K. Gorman. 2020. Climate and competition influence sockeye salmon population dynamics
across the Northeast Pacific Ocean. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 77(6): 943–949. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfas-2019-0422
Gorman, K.B., T.C. Kline Jr., M.E. Roberts, F.F. Sewall, R.A. Heintz, and W.S. Pegau.
2018. Spatial and temporal variation in winter condition of juvenile Pacific herring
(Clupea pallasii) in Prince William Sound, Alaska: Oceanographic exchange with the Gulf of Alaska.
Deep-Sea Research II: Topical Studies in Oceanography 147:116–126. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2017.10.010
Gorman, K.B., S.L. Talbot, S.A. Sonsthagen, G.K. Sage, M.C. Gravely, W.R. Fraser,
and T.D. Williams. 2017. Population genetic structure and gene flow of Adélie penguins
(Pygoscelis adeliae) breeding throughout the western Antarctic Peninsula. Antarctic Science 29(6): 499–510. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954102017000293
Gorman, K.B., T.D. Williams, and W.R. Fraser. 2014. Ecological sexual dimorphism and
environmental variability within a community of Antarctic penguins (genus Pygoscelis). PLoS ONE 9(3): e90081. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0090081
Schofield, O., H. Ducklow, K. Bernard, S. Doney, D. Patterson-Fraser, K. Gorman, D.
Martinson, M. Meredith, G. Saba, S. Stammerjohn, D. Steinberg, and W. Fraser. 2013.
Penguin biogeography along the West Antarctic Peninsula: Testing the canyon hypothesis
with Palmer LTER observations. Oceanography 26(3): 204–206. https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2013.63
Crossin, G.T., P.N. Trathan, R.A. Phillips, K.B. Gorman, A. Dawson, K.Q. Sakamoto,
and T.D. Williams. 2012. Corticosterone predicts foraging behavior and parental care
in macaroni penguins. The American Naturalist 180(1): E31–E41. https://doi.org/10.1086/666001
Specialties
- Integrative ecology
- Evolutionary and behavioral ecology
- Molecular and physiological ecology
- Food webs and trophic interactions
- Demography and population structure
- Bio-logging
- One health
- Marine fish and bird populations
- High latitude marine ecosystems
Current Research Projects
- Are expanding pink salmon populations in the Arctic produced from regional watersheds? Funded by Coastal Marine Institute/BOEM, 2020–2023
- Using otolith geochemistry to understand the ocean ecology of a changing Alaskan salmon system. Funded by National Science Foundation, 2020–2021
- Implications of a declining trend in body size and condition on abundance of sockeye salmon in the Copper River, Alaska. Funded by North Pacific Research Board, 2019–2021
- Effects of energetic state and infectious agents on migration by sockeye salmon. Funded by Alaska INBRE, 2018–2020
- Resolving the annual pelagic distribution of Tufted Puffins: Associations with oceanographic features and isotopic niche. Funded by North Pacific Research Board, 2018–2021
- Comparative performance in migration and reproduction among wild and hatchery pink salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha) in Prince William Sound, Alaska, using stable isotope analysis. Funded by National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, 2016–2018
