2025

Pirie, E., Whillans, T., Knopp, J., RoronhiakewenLongboat, D., Frugal, C. (2026). Approaches and methods used to bring together Indigenous and Environmental Science Knowledge in environmental research: A systematic map. Ecological Solutions and Evidence, 7, E70220. https://doi.org/10.1002/2688-8319.70220

Boyce, D.G., Tittensor, D.P., Schleit, K.E., & Fuller, S. (2025). Climate vulnerability and risk assessments in marine ecosystems, with a special focus on fisheries in Aotearoa (New Zealand). New Zealand Aquatic Environment and Biodiversity Report No. 367. 50 p. https://fs.fish.govt.nz/Page.aspx?pk=113&dk=26140.

Zanesco, N., Retter, G. B., Kaltenborn, B. P., Hovelsrud, G. K., & Huntington, H. P. (2025). Deep-sea mining and Arctic governance. Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development, 67(5), 42–46. https://doi.org/10.1080/00139157.2025.2518739. [Comment Piece]

Wheeland, L., Bales, B., Devine, B., Misiuk, B., Novaczek, E., & Regular, P. (2025). Telemetry insights for the assessment and management of Greenland halibut in NAFO SA2+Div. 3KLMNO (Newfoundland and Labrador). NAFO Scientific Council Research Document, SCR Doc. 25/029:1-19.

Irvine, A.L., Regyondeau, G., Stanley, R.R.E., Egorova, Y., & Tittensor, D.P. (2025). Future climate-driven ecological disruption in a network of marine protected areas on Canada’s east coast. Conserv. Lett. 18:e13123. https://doi.org/10.1111/conl.13123.

Nielsen, J., Christiansen, J.S., Præbel, K., Møller, P.R., Devine, B., Jakobsdóttir, K., Straube, N., Nogueira, A., Treble, M., Hedges, K., Atchison, S., Ofstad, L.H., Junge, C., Wheeland, L., & Hedeholm, R. (2025). Spatial distribution of Greenland Shark Somniosus microcephalus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) life stages across the northern north Atlantic. Eco. Evo. 15, no 7: e71564. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.71564.

Ewing, J.P., Hidalgo-Pla, E., Solsona-Berga, A., Frasier, K.E., Ootoowak, A.J., Westdal, K.H., Wiggins, S.M., Hildebrand, J.A., & Jones, J.M. (2025). Narwhal acoustic presence in Eclipse Sound, Nunavut: relationships with sea ice and responses to ships. Sci Rep 15: 23126. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-04032-1.

Ferguson, S.H., Biddlecombe, B.A., Westdal, K., Petersen, S.D., Watt, C., Matthews, C.J.D., & Higdon, J.W. (2025). Killer whale range expansion and extended seasonal presence in the eastern Canadian Arctic, 2002-2023. Mar. Sci 12:1595960. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2025.1595960.

Akhiatak, K. P., Akoaksion, J., Alanak, T., Drost, H., Esau, W., Haogak, C., Harry, J., Inuktalik, R., Johnston, P., Joss, C., Klengenberg, N., Kudlak, D., Kudlak, J., Kudlak, K., Kuptana, J., Malgokak, E., Noksana Jr., J., Okheena, B., Pogotak, J., & Pogotak, A. (2025). Indigenous owned aquatic monitoring programs in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region Work: An adaptive framework with example traditional & local knowledge quotes and coastal marine water quality data collected from 2019 to 2022 near Sachs Harbour and Ulukhaktok. Arctic Science. https://doi.org/10.1139/as-2024-0005

Epstein, G., Fuller, S.D., Johannessen, S.C., Rubidge, E.M., Turner, M. & Baum, J.K. (2025). Protection of seabed sediments in Canada’s marine conservation network for potential climate change mitigation co-benefit. FACETS 10: 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1139/facets-2024-0080.

King, B.G.C., Cote, D., Gregory, R.S., Snelgrove, P.V.R., Devine, B.M., Morris, C.J., Angnatok, J. (2025). Comparing demersal fish and large mobile decapod crustacean assemblages in nearshore marine habitats across a boreal-sub-Arctic gradient using baited cameras. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 755: 29-44. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps14792.

2024

Boyce, D. G., Tittensor, D. P., Fuller, S., Henson, S., Kaschner, K., Reygondeau, G., Schleit, K. E., Saba, V., Shackell, N., Stanley, R. R. E., & Worm, B. (2024). Operationalizing climate risk in a global warming hotspot. Npj Ocean Sustainability, 3(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44183-024-00067-5.

Kenny, A. J., Pepin, P., Bell, J., Downie, A., Kenchington, E., Koen-Alonso, M., Lirette, C., Froján, C. B., Ollerhead, N., Murillo, F. J., Fuller, S., & Diz, D. (2024). Reference points for assessing significant adverse impacts on deep sea Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1470160X25002274

Posdaljian, N., Soderstjerna, C., Jones, J., Solsona-Berga, A., Hildebrand, J., Westdal, K., Ootoowak, A., & Baumann-Pickering, S. Changes in sea ice and range expansion of sperm whales in the Pond Inlet region of Baffin Bay, Canada. Authorea. January 31, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16166

Hannah, L., Irvine, A.L., Brito-Morales, I., Fuller, S., Davies, T., Tittensor, D.P, Reville, G., Shackell, N., Hennicke, J., & Stanley, R. (2024). To save the high seas, plan for climate change. Nature. Jun;630(8016):298-301. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-01720-2.

Vanderkaden, S., Bailey, M., Giles, A., & Milley, C. (2024). Reconsidering market development approaches to support Nunavut Inuit priorities in the seal market. Arctic, 77(1):68-82. https://doi.org/10.14430/arctic78777.

Pirie, E., Whillans, T., Knopp, J., & Furgal, C. (2024). Approaches and methods used to bring together Indigenous and environmental science knowledge in environmental research: A systematic map protocol. Ecological Solutions and Evidence, 5(2). https://doi.org/10.1002/2688-8319.12351.

Huntington, H. P., Olsen, J., Zdor, E., Zagorskiy, A., Shin, H. C., Romanenko, O., Kaltenborn, B., Dawson, J., Davies, J., & Abou-Abbsi, E. (2023). Effects of Arctic commercial shipping on environments and communities: context, governance, priorities. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 118, 103731. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2023.103731.

Epstein, G., Fuller, S.D., Hingmire, D., Myers, P.G., Peña, A., Pennelly, C., & Baum, J. K. (2024). Predictive mapping of organic carbon stocks in surficial sediments of the Canadian continental margin. Earth Syst. Sci. Data 16, 2165–2195, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-2165-2024.

National Geographic Pristine Seas [Jennie Knopp]. (2024). Canadian Arctic and Subarctic shallow marine communities in Hudson Bay and James Bay: Scientific Report from the 2022 National Geographic Pristine Seas Expedition. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HzJhhiaYlEvAqmwG7SnPPNpMGrcrwI-y/view.

2023

Jones, J.M., Westdal, K.H., Ootoowak, A.J., Wiggins, S.M., & Hildebrand, J.A. (2023). Impact of ship noise on the underwater soundscape of Eclipse Sound in the northeastern Canadian Arctic. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 195. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2023.115534.

Westdal, K. H., Richard, P. R., Sportelli, J., Gillis, E., & Ferguson, S. H. (2023). Beluga whale (Delphinapterus leucas) behaviour in the presence of whale-watching vessels. Frontiers in Marine Science, 9. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.891003

Friedlander, A. M., Ballesteros, E., Adler, A. M., Goodell, W., Jenkinson, R., Knopp, J. A., Thompson, C. D. H., Timmers, M., Walsh, C. A. J., & Sala, E. (2023). Shallow subtidal marine benthic communities of Nachvak Fjord, Nunatsiavut, Labrador: A glimpse into species composition and drivers of their distribution. PLoS ONE, 18(11 November). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0293702.

2022

Boyce, D. G., Tittensor, D. P., Garilao, C., Henson, S., Kaschner, K., Kesner-Reyes, K., Pigot, A., Reyes, R. B., Reygondeau, G., Schleit, K. E., Shackell, N. L., Sorongon-Yap, P., & Worm, B. (2022). A climate risk index for marine life. Nature Climate Change, 12(9), 854–862. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-022-01437-y.

Westdal, K. H., Davies, J., & Ferguson, S. H. (2022). Assessing seasonal spatial segregation by age class of beluga whales (Delphinapterus leucas) in Western Hudson Bay estuaries. PLoS ONE, 17. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0255756.

Sportelli, J. J., Jones, J. M., Frasier, K. E., Westdal, K. H., Ootoowak, A.J., Higdon, J. W., & Hildebrand, J. A. (2022). Killer Whale (Orcinus orca) pulsed calls in the Eastern Canadian Arctic. Arctic. https://doi.org/10.14430/arctic75350.

Posdaljian, N., Soderstjerna, C., Jones, J. M., Solsona-Berga, A., Hildebrand, J. A., Westdal, K., Ootoowak, A., & Baumann-Pickering, S. (2022). Changes in sea ice and range expansion of sperm whales in the Eclipse Sound region of Baffin Bay, Canada. Global Change Biology, 28(12), 3860–3870. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16166.

Jones, J. M., Frasier, K. E., Westdal, K. H., Ootoowak, A. J., Wiggins, S. M., & Hildebrand, J. A. (2022). Beluga (Delphinapterus leucas) and narwhal (Monodon monoceros) echolocation click detection and differentiation from long-term Arctic acoustic recordings. Polar Biology, 45(3), 449–463. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-022-03008-5.

Halliday, W., McBeth, S., Vergara, V., Ferguson, S., Loseto, L., Marcoux, M., Westdal, K., Niemi, A., Harwood, L., Gold, M., Koonoo, D., Qillaq, N. and Lennie, J. (2022). Marine mammals in a changing Arctic Ocean. Polar Knowledge: Aqhaliat Report, Volume 4, Polar Knowledge Canada, p. 58–83. https://doi.org/10.35298/pkc.2021.03.eng.

Knopp, J. A., Levenstein, B., Watson, A., Ivanova, I., & Lento, J. (2022). Systematic review of documented Indigenous Knowledge of freshwater biodiversity in the circumpolar Arctic. Freshwater Biology, 67(1), 194–209. https://doi.org/10.1111/fwb.13570.

Ayles, B., Clarke, R., Hynes, K., Bell, R., & Noksana Jr., J. (2022). Co-management of fisheries resources in the western Canadian Arctic. In C. Rocan (Ed.), Building bridges: Case studies in collaborative governance in Canada (pp. 135–176). University of Ottawa Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780776638201-008.

Wienrich, N., Buschman, V.Q., Coon, C., Fuller, S., Hennicke, J., Humrich, C., Prip, C. & Wenzel, L. (2022) The ecosystem approach to marine management in the Arctic: Opportunities and challenges for integration. Front. Mar. Sci. 9:1034510. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.1034510.

2021

ICES [Susanna Fuller] (2021). ICES/ IUCN-CEM FEG Workshop on Testing OECM Practices and Strategies (WKTOPS). ICES Scientific Reports. Report. https://doi.org/10.17895/ices.pub.8135

Halliday, W. D., Barclay, D., Barkley, A. N., Cook, E., Dawson, J., Hilliard, R. C., Hussey, N. E., Jones, J. M., Juanes, F., Marcoux, M., Niemi, A., Nudds, S., Pine, M. K., Richards, C., Scharffenberg, K., Westdal, K., & Insley, S. J. (2021). Underwater sound levels in the Canadian Arctic, 2014–2019. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 168. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2021.112437.

Boyce, D. G., Fuller, S., Karbowski, C., Schleit, K., & Worm, B. (2021). Leading or lagging: How well are climate change considerations being incorporated into Canadian fisheries management? Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 78(8), 1120–1129. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfas-2020-0394.

Cheechoo, V., Martin, L., Crowley, P., Baggio, A., Knopp, J. (2021). Establishment of an Indigenous-led protection for Weeneebayko within Na Taski Nan (western James Bay within the Mushkegowuk Traditional Territories). Arctic Science, 7(1), 14-15. https://doi.org/10.1139/as-2021-0001. 

Oceans North [Jones, J.M., Joynt, A., Westdal, KH., & Ootoowak, A.J.]. (2021). Underwater soundscape and radiated noise from ships in Eclipse Sound, NE Canadian Arctic. Report for the Nunavut Impact Review Board (NIRB).  https://thenarwhal.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/JJONES_EclipseSound_Soundscape-and-ship-noise-compressed.pdf.

2020

Halliday, W.D., Barclay, D.R., Cook, E., Dawson, J., Hildebrand, J., Hilliard, C., Hussey, N., Jones, J., Juanes, F., Marcoux, M., Niemi, A., Nudds, S., Pine, M., Richards, C., Scharffenberg, K., Westdal, K., & Insley, S. (2020). A quantitative soundscape analysis of the Canadian Arctic, 2014–2019. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 148(2688). https://doi.org/10.1121/1.5147444

Lefort, K. J., Matthews, C. J. D., Higdon, J. W., Petersen, S. D., Westdal, K. H., Garroway, C. J., & Ferguson, S. H. (2020). A review of Canadian arctic killer whale (Orcinus orca) ecology. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 98(4), 245–253. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjz-2019-0207.

Lowitt, K., Levkoe, C.Z., Spring, A., Turlo, C., Williams, P.L., Bird, S., Sayers, Chief Dean., & Simba, M. (2020). Empowering small-scale, community-based fisheries through a food systems framework. Marine Policy 120, 104150. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2020.104150.

Knopp, J. A., Levenstein, B., Watson, A., Ivanova, I., & Lento, J. (2022). Systematic review of documented Indigenous Knowledge of freshwater biodiversity in the circumpolar Arctic. Freshwater Biology, 67(1), 194–209. https://doi.org/10.1111/fwb.13570.

Hutchings, J. A., Baum, J. K., Fuller, S. D., Laughren, J., & VanderZwaag, D. L. (2020). Sustaining Canadian marine biodiversity: Policy and statutory progress. FACETS, 5(1), 264–288. https://doi.org/10.1139/facets-2020-0006.

2019

Sportelli, J.J., Jones, J.M., Frasier, K.E., Bowles, A. Hildebrand, J., & Westdal, K.H. (2019). Call discrimination for an unknown pod of killer whales (Orcinus orca) in the Eastern Canadian Arctic. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 1(146), 2805–2806. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.5136719.

Gavouneli, M., Sydnes, M., Sydnes, A. K., LeVine, M., Hartsig, A., Porta, L., Debicki, C., Joynt, A., & Scovazzi, T. (2019). Regional arrangements for contingency planning and response. In G. Handl & K. Svendsen (Eds.), Managing the risk of offshore oil and gas accidents (pp. 126–219). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781786436740.00012.

Aten, T., & Fuller, S. (2019). A technical review of Canada’s Other Effective area-based Conservation Measures: Alignment with DFO guidance, IUCN-WCPA guidance, and CBD SBSTTA guidance. https://davidsuzuki.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/technical-review-of-canadas-other-effective-area-based-conservation-measures.pdf.

2018

Yurkowski, D.J., Auger-Methe, M., Mallory, M.L., Wong, S.N.P., Gilchrist, G., Derocher, A.E., Richardson, E., Lunn, N.J., Hussey, N.E., Marcoux, M., Togunov, R.R., Fisk, A.T., Harwood, L.A., Dietz, R., Rosing-Asvid, A., Born, E.W., Mosbech, A., Fort, J., Grémillet, D., Loseto, L., Richard, P.R., Iacozza, J., Jean-Gagnon, F., Brown, T.M., Westdal, K.H., Orr, J., LeBlanc, B., Hedges, K.J., Treble, M.A., Kessel, S.T., Blanchfield, P.J., Davis, S., Maftei, M., Spencer, N., McFarlane-Tranquilla, L., Montevecchi, W.A., Bartzen, B., Dickson, L., Anderson, C., Ferguson, S.H. (2018). Abundance and species diversity hotspots of tracked marine predators across the North American Arctic. Divers Distrib. 25, 328–345. https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.12860.

Beazley, L., Wang, Z., Kenchington, E., Yashayaev, I., Rapp, H.T., Xavier, J.R., Murillo, F.J., Fenton, D., & Fuller, S. (2018). Predicted distribution of the glass sponge Vazella pourtalesi on the Scotian Shelf and its persistence in the face of climatic variability. PLOS ONE 13(10), e0205505. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0205505

Carter, N., Dawson, J., Knopp, J., Joyce, J., Weber, M., Kochanowicz, Z., & Mussells, O. (2018). Arctic corridors and northern voices: Governing marine transportation in the Canadian Arctic (Cambridge Bay, Nunavut community report). https://doi.org/doi.org/10.20381/RUOR37325

Hiltz, E., Fuller, S. D., & Mitchell, J. (2018). Disko fan conservation area: A Canadian case study. The International Journal of Protected Areas and Conservation, 24, 17–30. https://doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.CH.2018.PARKS-24-SI.en.

2017

Matthews, C. J. D., Watt, C. A., Asselin, N. C., Dunn, J. B., Young, B. G., Montsion, L. M., Westdal, K. H., Hall, P. A., Orr, J. R., Ferguson, S. H., & Marcoux, M. (2017). Estimated abundance of the Western Hudson Bay beluga stock from the 2015 visual and photographic aerial survey. DFO Can. Sci. Advis. Sec. Res. Doc. 2017/061. v + 20 p. http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/csas-sccs/.

Westdal, K. H., Higdon, J. W., & Ferguson, S. H. (2017). Review of killer whale (Orcinus orca) ice entrapments and ice-related mortality events in the Northern Hemisphere. Polar Biology, 40(7), 1467–1473. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-016-2019-6.

Porta, L., Abou-Abssi, E., Dawson, J., Mussells, O. (2017). Shipping corridors as a framework for advancing marine law and policy in the Canadian Arctic. Ocean & Coastal Law Journal, 22, 63-84. https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/occoa22&div=8&id=&page=.

Huntington, H. P., & Westdal, K. H. (2017). Qaujimajatuqangit: Inuit Knowledge and Modern Life. In W. W. Fitzhugh & M. T. Nweeia (Eds.), Narwhal: Revealing an Arctic legend (pp. xxvii–233). IPI Press and Washington (DC): Arctic Studies Center, National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian Institution).

2016

Westdal, K.H., Davies, J., MacPherson, A., Orr, J., & Ferguson, S. H. (2016). Behavioural changes in belugas (Delphinapterus leucas) during a killer whale (Orcinus orca) attack in Southwest Hudson Bay. Canadian Field-Naturalist, 130(4), 315–319. http://dx.doi.org/10.22621/cfn.v130i4.1925.

2015

Glotin, H., Bartcus, M., Roger, V., Chamroukhi, F., Patris, J., Juniper, K., Giraudet, P., Knopp, J., Westdal, K., & Porta, L. (2015). Scaled unsupervised Arctic bioacoustics: Joint narwhal call & click train indexing. https://www.academia.edu/download/76721010/SabiodArctic_iHMM_2015.pdf.

2014

Higdon, J. W., Westdal, K. H., & Ferguson, S. H. (2014). Distribution and abundance of killer whales (Orcinus orca) in Nunavut, Canada—an Inuit knowledge survey. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 94(6), 1293–1304. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025315413000921.

2013

Westdal, K. H., Higdon, J. W., & Ferguson, S. H. (2013). Attitudes of Nunavut Inuit toward killer whales (Orcinus orca). Arctic, 66(3), 279–290. https://doi.org/10.14430/arctic4307.

Westdal, K. H., Richard, P. R., & Orr, J. R. (2013). Availability bias in population survey of Northern Hudson Bay narwhal (Monodon monoceros). Polar Biology, 36(9), 1235–1241. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-013-1342-4.

Heide-Jørgensen, M. P., Hansen, R. G., Westdal, K., Reeves, R. R., & Mosbech, A. (2013). Narwhals and seismic exploration: Is seismic noise increasing the risk of ice entrapments? In Biological Conservation (Vol. 158, pp. 50–54). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2012.08.005.

2012

Ferguson, S. H., Higdon, J. W., & Westdal, K. H. (2012). Prey items and predation behavior of killer whales (Orcinus orca) in Nunavut, Canada based on Inuit hunter interviews. Aquatic Biosystems, 8(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/2046-9063-8-3.

Qikitani Inuit Association [Westdal, K.H.]. (2012). Tallurutiup Tariunga Inulik: Inuit Participation in Determining the Future of Lancaster Sound. Appendix C, Marine Mammal Science, pp.31-48.

Westdal, K.H., Richard, P.R., & Orr, J.R. (2012). Availability bias in population surveys of northern Hudson Bay narwhal (Monodon monoceros). Canada/Greenland Joint Commission on Conservation and Management of Narwhal and Beluga Working Group. NAMMCO/SC/2012.