Harbour Porpoise Research

Dracott, K., Robinson, C. V., Dares, L., Woodley, E., Migneault, A., & Birdsall, C. (2025). Influence of vessel disturbance on Pacific harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena vomerina) echolocation. Ecological Applications, 35(6), e70076. https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.70076

Dracott, K., Robinson, C.V., Brown-Dussault, A., Birdsall, C. & Barrett-Lennard, L. (2022) Porpoises After Dark: Nocturnal activity patterns of Harbour Porpoises (Phocoena phocoena vomerina) in the Northeastern Pacific and implications for informing site-specific conservation needs. Frontiers in Marine Science, 9:1010095. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.1010095

Migneault, A., Dracott., K, Tragenza, N., Robinson, C.V (2025) Reading between the lines: Novel insights on wild Pacific harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena vomerina) social communication through narrow-band high frequency click trains. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0317727

Humpback Whale Research

Cheeseman, T. et al. (2024). Bellwethers of change: population modelling of North Pacific humpback whales from 2002 through 2021 reveals shift from recovery to climate response. R. Soc. Open Sci. 11: 231462. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.231462

Cheeseman, T. et al. (2023). A collaborative and near-comprehensive North Pacific humpback whale photo-ID dataset. Scientific Reports, 13(10237) DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-36928-1

Scott, J.L., Robinson, C.V., Dracott, K., Dares, L., Birdsall, C., Wilson, S., Purdy, A. & Barrett-Lennard, L. The WhaleReport Alert System: Mitigating threats to whales with citizen science. (2024). Biological Conservation, 289:110422. DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2023.110422

eDNA

Robinson, C.V., Dracott, K., Glover, R., Warner, A., Migneault, A. (2024). DNA from Dives: Species detection of humpback whales (Megaptera Novaeangliae) from flukeprint eDNA. Environmental DNA, 6(2) DOI: 10.1002/edn3.524

Robinson, C.V., Migneault, M. Dracott, K., Glover, R. (2023). Seas the DNA? Limited detection of cetaceans by low-volume environmental DNA transect Surveys. Environmental DNA, 5(6), DOI: 10.1002/edna3.458

Robinson, C.V., Laqua, E., Warner, A., Sutton. G, Judson M.W.D., Dracott, K., (2025).  Sexing from Seawater: Applications of environmental DNA beyond species detection for cetaceans. Environmental DNA, 7(4) https://doi.org/10.1002/edn3.70173

Gerwing, T., Gerwing, A.M.A, Davies, M.M., Dracott, K., Juanes, F. Dudas, S.E., Coole, S., & Kidd, J. (2022). Sediment Geochemistry Influences Infaunal Invertebrate Community Composition and Population Abundances. Marine Biology, 170, 4. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-022-04151-7

Dracott, K., Trimble, M., & Jollineau, M. (2020). Time for tools: A review on geospatial tools and their role in co‐management. The Canadian Geographer 64: 169-179. https://doi.org/10.1111/cag.12552

Sizmur, T., Campbell, L., Dracott, K., Jones, M., O’Driscoll, N.J., & Gerwing, T. (2019). Relationships between Potentially Toxic Elements in intertidal sediments and their bioaccumulation by benthic invertebrates. PLoS ONE 14(9): e0216767. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0216767