Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
University of California, Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, CA
Email: costa@biology.ucsc.edu

Project:             Population Dynamics and Biology of the California Sea Otter at the Southern End of its Range

 

Education:          B.A.                   Zoology, University of California, Los Angeles                                                     1974

                             Ph.D.                  Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz                                                       1977

 

Positions:          1996                   Elected Fellow of the California Academy of Sciences

            1995-Present     Associate Director of the Institute of Marine Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA

                             1995-Present     Editorial Board of Physiological Zoology

                             1993-Present     Professor of Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA

                1991-1993         Associate Professor of Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA

                             1991-1993          Scientific Officer, Physiology and Marine Mammal Biology, Office of Naval Research

                             1987 & 1989       ASEE Senior Faculty Fellow, NOSC, US Navy, Hawaii

                             1985 & 1987       Visiting Scientist, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, England

                             1979-1982          National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Fellowship, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, San Diego, CA

 

Selected Publications:

Shaffer, S.A., Costa, D.P., and H. Weimerskirch. 2001. Behavioural factors affecting foraging effort of breeding wandering albatrosses. J. of Animal Ecology 70: 864-874.

Shaffer, S.A., Costa, D.P., and H. Weimerskirch. 2001. Comparison of methods for evaluating energy expenditure of incubating wandering albatrosses. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 74: 823-831.

Shaffer, S.A., Weimerskirch, H., and D.P. Costa. 2001. Functional significance of sexual dimorphism in wandering albatrosses. Functional Ecology 15: 203-210. (including Cover Photo)

Weimerskirch, H., Guionnet, T., Martin, J., Shaffer, S.A., and D.P. Costa. 2000. Fast and fuel efficient? Optimal use of wind by flying albatrosses. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 267: 1869-1874.

Costa, D.P. and T.E. Williams. 1999. Marine mammal energetics.  In: The Biology of Marine Mammals, ed. J. Reynolds and J. Twiss.  Smithsonian Institution Press. Washington, DC.

Crocker, D.E., Gales, N.J. and D.P. Costa. 1999. Swimming speed and foraging strategies of New Zealand sea lions, Phocarctos hookeri. Journal of Zoology 254: 267-277.

Le Boeuf, B.J., Crocker, D.E., Costa, D.P., Blackwell, S.B., Webb, P.M. and D.S. Houser. 1999. Foraging ecology of northern elephant seals. Ecol Monogr 70(3): 353-382.

Burgess, W., Tyack, P., Le Boeuf, B.J., and D.P. Costa. 1998. An intelligent acoustic recording tag first results from free-ranging northern elephant seals.  Deep Sea Research II 45: 1327-1351.

Costa, D.P. 1998. The ATOC Consortium. Ocean Climate Change: Comparison of Acoustic Thermography, Satellite Altimetry and Modeling. Science 281: 1327-1332.

Costa, D.P., Gales, N.J. and D.E. Crocker. 1998. Blood volume and diving ability of the New Zealand sea lion, Phocarctos hookeri. Physiological Zoology 71: 208-213.

Crocker, D.E., Webb, P.M., Costa, D.P., and B.J. Le Boeuf. 1998. Protein catabolism and renal function in lactating northern elephant seals.  Physiological Zoology 71: 485-491.

Mattlin, R.H., Gales, N.J., and D.P. Costa. 1998. Seasonal dive behaviour of lactating New Zealand fur seals (Arctocephalus forsteri). Canadian Journal Zoology 76: 350-360.

Shaffer, S.A., Costa, D.P., and T.M. Williams. 1998. Diving and performance of White Whales, Delphinapterus leucas. Journal Exp. Biology 200: 3091-3099.

Gales, N.J. and D.P. Costa. 1997. The Australian sea lion: a review of an unusual life history. Pages 78-87. Marine Mammal Research in the Southern Hemisphere Volume 1: Status, Ecology and Medicine. Eds. M. Hindell and C. Kemper. Surrey and Sons Chipping Norton.

Andrews, R.D., Jones, D.R., Williams, J.D., Thorson, P.H., Oliver, G.W., Costa, D.P., and B.J. LeBoeuf. 1997. Heart rate and oxygen consumption of northern elephan seals during diving. Journal of Experimental Biology 200: 2083-2095.

Costa, D.P. and D.E. Crocker. 1996. Marine Mammals of the Southern Ocean. In: Foundations for Ecological Research in the Western Antartic Peninsula Region. Eds. R. Ross, E. Hofmann, and L. Quentin. American Geophysical Union. 70: 287-301.

Crocker, D.E., LeBoeuf, B.J., and D.P. Costa. 1996. Drift Diving in female northern elephant seals: Implications for food processing. Canadian Journal Zoology 75: 27-39.

Fletcher, S., LeBoeuf, B.J., Costa, D.P., and P.L. Tyack. 1996. Onboard acoustic recording from diving elephant seals. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 100(4): 2531-2539.

Gales, N.J., Costa, D.P., and M.B. Kretzmann. 1996. Proximate composition of Australian sea lion milk throughout the entire supra-annual lactation period. Australian Journal of Zoology 44: 651-657

LeBoeuf, B.J., Morris, P.A., Blackwell, S.B., Crocker, D.E., and D.P. Costa. 1996. Diving behavior of juvenile northern elephant seals. Canadian J. Zool. 74: 1632-1644.

Ortiz, R., Adams, S.H., Costa, D.P., and C.L. Ortiz. 1996. Plasma vasopressin levels and water conservation in fasting, post-weaned northern elephant seal pups (Mirounga angustirostris). Marine Mammal Sciences 12(1): 99-106.

Puppione, D.L., Kluehthau, C.M., Jandacek, R.J., and D.P. Costa. 1996. Chylomicoron Triacylglycerol fatty acids suckling northern elephant seals (Mirounga angustirostris) resemple the composition and the distribution of fatty acids in milk fat. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology 114B(1): 53-57.

Costa, D.P. 1993. The relationship between reproductive and foraging energetics and the evolution of the Pinnipedia. Symposium Zoological Society of London, Oxford University Press 66: 293-314.

Costa, D.P. 1991. Reproductive and foraging energetics of high latitude penguins, albatrosses and pinnipeds: Implications for life history patterns. American Zoologist. 31: 111-130.

Costa, D.P. 1991. Reproductive and foraging energetics of pinnipeds: Implications for life history patterns. In: Pinniped Behaviour, D. Renouf ed., Chapman Hill.

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