Cetacean Bycatch Task Force Bio's...

Thomas Allen Jefferson, Ph.D.

Visiting Scientist, May 1998 to present - Southwest Fisheries Science Center, U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. 

Conducting research on the population biology and conservation of small cetaceans in Hong Kong and elsewhere in southeast Asia.

Ph.D., Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
M.Sc., Marine Science, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, Moss Landing, CA.
B.A., Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA. 

Research interests

Population biology and conservation of small cetaceans; identification of diagnostic characters for marine mammal identification; ecology and stock discrimination of small cetaceans.

Selected Relevant Publications

2002

Jefferson, T. A., B. E. Curry, and R. Kinoshita. Mortality and morbidity of Hong Kong finless
porpoises, with special emphasis on the role of environmental contaminants. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology (Supplement) 10:161-171.

2000

Jefferson, T. A. Population biology of the Indo-Pacific hump-backed dolphin in Hong Kong waters. Wildlife Monographs 144, 65 pp.

Parsons, E. C. M. and T. A. Jefferson. Post-mortem investigations on stranded dolphins and porpoises from Hong Kong waters. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 36(2):342-356.

Reeves, R. R., T. A. Jefferson, T. Kasuya, B. D. Smith, D. Wang, P. Wang, R. S. Wells, B. Würsig, and K. Zhou. Report of the Workshop to Develop a Conservation Action Plan for the Yangtze River Finless Porpoise, Ocean Park, Hong Kong, 16-18 September 1997. Pp. 67-80 in Biology and Conservation of Freshwater Cetaceans in Asia (R. R. Reeves, B. D. Smith, and T. Kasuya, eds.). IUCN/SSC Occasional Papers No. 23, 152 pp.

1994

Jefferson, T. A. and B. E. Curry. A global review of porpoise (Cetacea: Phocoenidae) mortality in gillnets. Biological Conservation 67(2):167- 183.

Jefferson, T. A., B. E. Curry, and N. A. Black. Harbor porpoise mortality in the Monterey Bay halibut gillnet fishery, 1989. In Gillnets and Cetaceans (W. F. Perrin, G. P. Donovan, and J. Barlow, eds.), Reports of the International Whaling Commission (Special Issue 15):445-448.

1992

Jefferson, T. A., B. Würsig, and D. Fertl. Cetacean detection and responses to fishing gear. Pp. 663-684 in Marine Mammal Sensory Systems (J. A. Thomas, R. A. Kastelein, and A. Y. Supin, eds.). Plenum Press.