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Aaron Barleycorn

Field Coordinator

Sarasota Dolphin Research Program (SDRP)

Today's Research for Tomorrow's Oceans

Biography:

Aaron Barleycorn is employed by the Chicago Zoological Society, and based at Mote Marine Laboratory as part of a partnership to engage in dolphin research, education, and conservation action.

Education:

B.A. in Marine Science, Eckerd College

Current Publications

Schwacke, L. H., Thomas, L., Wells, R. S., Rowles, T. K., Bossart, G. D., Townsend Jr, F., Mazzoil, M., Allen, J. B., Balmer, B. C., Barleycorn, A. A., Barratclough, A., Burt, L., De Guise, S., Fauquier, D., Gomez, F. M., Kellar, N. M., Schwacke, J. H., Speakman, T. R., Stolen, E. D., Quigley, B. M., Zolman, E. S., Smith, C. R. (2023). An expert-based system to predict population survival rate from health data. Conservation biology, e14073. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.14073
Lacy, R. C., Wells, R. S., Scott, M. D., Allen, J. B., Barleycorn, A. A., Urian, K. W., Hofmann, S. (2021). Assessing the Viability of the Sarasota Bay Community of Bottlenose Dolphins. Frontiers in Marine Science, 8. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.788086
Fahlman, A., Tyson Moore, R. B., Stone, R., Sweeney, J., Faulkner Trainor, R., Barleycorn, A. A., McHugh, K., Allen, J. B., Wells, R. S. (2023). Deep diving by offshore bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops spp.). Marine Mammal Science. https://doi.org/10.1111/mms.13045
Moore, M. J., Lanagan, T. M., Wells, R. S., Kapit, J., Barleycorn, A. A., Allen, J. B., Baird, R. W., Braun, C. D., Skomal, G. B., Thorrold, S. R. (2024). Development of single-pin, un-barbed, pole-tagging of free-swimming dolphins and sharks with satellite-linked transmitters. Animal Biotelemetry, 12(6). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40317-024-00364-3
Sherman, K. K., Beaulieu-McCoy, N. E., Wurster, E. L., Wells, R. S., Smith, C. R., Barleycorn, A. A., Allen, J. B., Kellar, N. M. (2021). Serum correlation, demographic differentiation, and seasonality in common bottlenose dolphins, Tursiops truncatus, in Sarasota Bay, FL. Scientific Reports, 11, 8941. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-88602-z
Cloyed, C. S., R. M. Wilson, B. C. Balmer, A. A. Hohn, L. H. Schwacke, E. S. Zolmann, M. C. Tumlin, R. S. Wells, A. A. Barleycorn, J. B. Allen and R. H. Carmichael (2021). Specialization of a mobile, apex predator affects trophic coupling among adjacent habitats. Scientific Reports, 11, 19611. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-99017-1
McHugh, K. A., Barleycorn, A. A., Allen, J. B., Bassos-Hull, K., Lovewell, G., Boyd, D., Panike, A., Cush, C., Fauquier, D., Mase, B., Lacy, R. C., Greenfield, M. R., Rubenstein, D. I., Weaver, A., Stone, A., Oliver, L., Morse, K., Wells, R. S. (2021). Staying Alive: Long-Term Success of Bottlenose Dolphin Interventions in Southwest Florida. Frontiers in Marine Science, 7, 624729. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2020.624729
Fhalman, A., Allen, A., Blawas, A., Sweeny, J., Stone, Rae., Faulkner Trainor, R., Jensen, F. H., McHugh, K., Allen, J. B., Barleycorn, A. A., Wells, R. S. (2023). Surface and diving metabolic rates, and dynamic aerobic dive limits (dADL) in near- and off-shore bottlenose dolphins, Tursiops spp., indicate that deep diving is energetically cheap.. Marine Mammal Science, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1111/mms.13023

Additional Publications

Balmer, B., McDonald, T., Hornsby, F., Adams, J., Allen, J., Barleycorn, A., Clarke, P., Cush, C., Honaker, A., McHugh, K., Speakman, T., Wells, R., Schwacke, L. (2018). Long-term trends in a northern Gulf of Mexico common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) population in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. J. Cetacean Res. Manage., 18, 1-9.