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Dr. Bruce Mate is a tenured professor of Fisheries and Wildlife and adjunct professor of Oceanography at Oregon State University, as well as the director of the OSU Marine Mammal Program. He has conducted marine mammal research since 1967, including determining the migration routes of sea lions along the west coast of the United States; a post doctorate in biochemistry investigating heavy metals and organochlorines in pinnipeds; marine mammal/fishing conflicts; and VHF telemetry studies of seals and gray whales. He has also been a leader in the development of satellite-monitored radio telemetry for marine mammals. Using this technique, he has tagged and tracked manatees, pilot whales, bottlenose dolphins, white-sided dolphins, gray whales, right whales, bowhead whales, humpback whales, sperm whales, fin whales and blue whales. Mate had had significant success tagging whales for the TOPP program off the coasts of Oregon and northern California.
Contact Information:
Hatfield Marine Science Center
Oregon State University
2030 SE Marine Science Dr.
Newport, Oregon 97365
USA
Phone: (541) 867-0202
Fax: (541) 867-0128- Website URL
- http://www.marinemammalprogram.org
- Title
- Director of Marine Mammal Program
- Selected Publications
Lagerquist, B.A., K.M. Stafford, and B.R. Mate. 2000. Dive characteristics of satellite-monitored blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus) off the Central California Coast. Marine Mammal Science. 16(2): 375-391.
Le Boeuf, B.J., H. Perez-Cortez M., J. Urban R., B.R. Mate, and F. Ollervides U. 2000. High gray whale mortality and low recruitment in 1999: potential causes and implications. J. Cetacean Res. Manage. 2(2): 85-99.
Mate, B.R., G.K. Krutzikowsky, and M.H. Winsor. 2000. Satellite-monitored movements of radio-tagged bowhead whales in the Beaufort and Chukchi seas during the late-summer feeding season and fall migration. Canadian Journal of Zoology. 78:1168-1181.
- Affiliations
- Oregon State University
