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Since the 1970s, I have worked in collaboration with a variety of students and colleagues in a long-term study of the identification, social organization, and life history of killer whales. Much of my research and that of my students has involved the function of underwater acoustic signals in social communication of killer whales, the identification and description of group-specific vocal dialects, and interpretations of these dialects to yield insights into the historical social evolution of the populations. More recently, my studies have focused on the foraging specializations of fish-eating ‘resident’ killer whales, which prey selectively on Chinook salmon. Despite the high trophic level of this predator, resident killer whales may be dependent on Chinook salmon and abundance of this prey species may have a direct effect on their survival. With my recent MSc student Brianna Wright, I am studying the underwater diving behaviour of resident killer whales to better understand how they locate, pursue and catch their primary prey, Chinook salmon.
Since 2001, when I joined the Pacific Biological Station as head of the Cetacean Research Program, my studies have broadened to include assessment of the conservation status of marine mammals and turtles off the Pacific coast that are listed under Canada’s Species-at-Risk Act. These species include the North Pacific right whale, blue whale, sei whale, fin whale, humpback whale, sea otter and leatherback turtle. With my MSc student Barbara Koot, I am examining the underwater acoustics of cetaceans, particularly fin whales, off the BC coast using a network of autonomous underwater acoustic recording instruments deployed on the seafloor (see http://www.marinemammal.org/MMRU2/personnel/barbara-koot/ ). Details on other activities of the Cetacean Research Program can be seen at http://www.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/science/species-especes/cetacean-cetaces/index-eng.htm
Note to prospective graduate students: Because I am based on Vancouver Island, I am only able to supervise one or two graduate students at a time due to logistical constraints. Also, I can only take on students who are fully supported with a scholarship or similar form of external funding, and generally only accept students who have field research experience with marine mammals.
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Ford, J.K.B. 2014. Marine Mammals of British Columbia. Royal BC Museum Handbook, Mammals of BC, volume 6, Royal BC Museum, Victoria 460 pp Link » | MMofBC.jpg
Ford, J.K.B., J.W. Durban, G.M. Ellis, J.R. Towers, J.F. Pilkington, L. Barrett-Lennard, and R.D. Andrews. 2013. New insights into the northward migration route of gray whales between Vancouver Island, British Columbia, and southeastern Alaska. Marine Mammal Science 29:325-337
Dalla Rosa, L., J.K.B Ford, and A.W. Trites. 2012. Distribution and relative abundance of humpback whales in relation to environmental variables in coastal British Columbia and adjacent waters. Continental Shelf Research 36:89-104
Filatova, O., J.K.B. Ford, C.O. Matkin, L.G. Barrett-Lennard, A.M. Burdin, and E. Hoyt. 2012. Ultrasonic whistles of killer whales (Orcinus orca) recorded in the North Pacific. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 132:618-621
Filatova, O.A., J.K.B. Ford, C.O. Matkin, L.G. Barrett-Lennard, M.A. Guzeev, A.M. Burdin, E. Hoyt, and V.B. Deecke. 2012. Call diversity in North Pacific killer whale populations: implications for dialect evolution and population history. Animal Behaviour 83:595-603
Foster, E.A., D.W. Franks, S. Mazzi, S.K. Darden, K.C. Balcomb, J.K.B. Ford, D.P. Croft. 2012. Adaptive prolonged postreproductive life span in killer whales. Science, 337 (6100): 1313
Riesch, R., L.G. Barrett-Lennard, G.M. Ellis, J.K.B. Ford, and V.B. Deecke. 2012. Cultural traditions and the evolution of reproductive isolation: ecological speciation in killer whales? Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 106:1–17
Barlow, J., J. Calambokidis, E.A. Falcone, C.S. Baker, A.M. Burdin, P.J. Clapham, J.K.B. Ford, C.M. Gabriele, R. LeDuc, D.K. Mattila, T.J. Quinn II, L. Rojas-Bracho. J.M. Straley, B.L. Taylor, J. Urbán R., P.R. Wade, D. Weller, B.H. Witteveen, and M. Yama. 2011. Humpback whale abundance in the North Pacific estimated by photographic capture-recapture with bias correction from simulation studies. Marine Mammal Science 27:793-818
Buckman, A.H., N. Veldhoen, G. Ellis, J.K.B. Ford, C.C. Helbing, and P.S. Ross. 2011. PCB-associated changes in mRNA expression in killer whales (Orcinus orca) from the NE Pacific Ocean. Environmental Science & Technology 45: 10194-10202
Ford, J.K.B., G.M. Ellis, C.O. Matkin, M.H. Wetklo, L.G. Barrett-Lennard, and R.E. Withler. 2011. Shark predation and tooth wear in a population of northeastern Pacific killer whales. Aquatic Biology 11:213-224
Grebner, D.M., S.E. Parks, D.L. Bradley, J.L. Miksis-Olds, D.E. Capone, and J.K.B. Ford. 2011. Divergence of a stereotyped call in northern resident killer whales. J. Acoustical Society America 129:1067-1072
Ford, J.K.B, G.M. Ellis, P.F. Olesiuk, and K.C. Balcomb. 2009. Linking killer whale survival and prey abundance: food limitation in the oceans’ apex predator? Biology Letters
Ford, J.K.B and R.R. Reeves. 2008. Fight or flight: antipredator strategies of baleen whales. Mammal Review 38:50-86
Ford, J.K.B., and Ellis, G.M. 2006. Selective foraging by fish-eating killer whales Orcinus orca in British Columbia. Marine Ecology Progress Series 316: 185-199
Trites, A.W., Deecke, V.B., Gregr, E.J., Ford, J.K.B., and Olesiuk, P.F. 2006. Killer whales, whaling and sequential megafaunal collapse in the North Pacific: a comparative analysis of the dynamics of marine mammals in Alaska and British Columbia following commercial whaling. Marine Mammal Science in press
Deecke, V.B., Ford, J.K.B., and Slater, P.J.B. 2005. The vocal behaviour of mammal-eating killer whales: communicating with costly calls. Animal Behaviour 69:395-405
Ford, J.K.B. 2005. First records of long-beaked common dolphins, Delphinus capensis, in Canadian waters. Canadian Field-Naturalist 119:110-113
Ford, J.K.B., Ellis, G.M., Matkin, D.R., Balcomb, K.C., Briggs, D., and Morton, A.B. 2005. Killer whale attacks on minke whales: prey capture and antipredator tactics. Marine Mammal Science 21:603-618
Reisch, R., Ford, J.K.B., and Thomsen, F. 2005. Stability and group-specificity of stereotyped whistles in resident killer whales, Orcinus orca, off British Columbia. Animal Behaviour 71:79-93
Au, W.W.L., Ford, J.K.B., Horne, J.K, and Newman Allman, K.A. 2004. Echolocation signals of free-ranging killer whales (Orcinus orca) and modeling of foraging for chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha). J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 115:901-909
Vagle, S., Ford, J.K.B., Erickson, N., Hall-Patch, N., and Kamitakahara, G. 2004. Acoustic recording systems for baleen whales and killer whales on the west coast of Canada. Canadian Acoustics 32:23-32
Deecke, V.B., Slater, P.J.B., and Ford, J.K.B. 2002. Selective habituation shapes acoustic predator recognition in harbour seals. Nature, 420:171-173
Ford, J.K.B. 2002. Killer Whale Orcinus orca. In: Perrin, W.F., Wursig, B., and H.G.M. Thewissen (eds.), The Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals. Academic Press, New York. pp. 669-676
Williams, R., Bain, D.E., Ford, J.K.B., and Trites, A.W. 2002. Behavioural responses of male killer whales to a ‘leapfrogging’ vessel. J. Cetacean Research and Management 4:305-310
Yurk, H., Barrett-Lennard, L., Ford, J.K.B., Matkin, C.O. 2002. Cultural transmission within maternal lineages: vocal clans in resident killer whales in southern Alaska. Animal Behaviour 63:1103-1119
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