Publications
PUBLICATIONS
McLennan, H., Fortune, S., den Haan, M., Bazinet, A., Cox, M. J., Proud, R., Mackie, C., Kilabuk, R., et al. (2025) In situ zooplankton density estimates at a foraging site in the Canadian Arctic are below minimum prey thresholds for adult bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus). ICES J. Mar. Sci., 82, 202.
McRae, T. M., Volpov, B. L., Sidrow, E., Fortune, S. M. E., Auger-Méthé, M., Heckman, N., and Trites, A. W. (2024) Killer whale respiration rates. PLoS One, 19, e0302758.
E. Sidrow, N. Heckman, A Bouchard-Cote, S.M.E. Fortune, A. W. Trites, M. Auger- Méthé. 2024. Variance reduced stochastic optimization for efficient inference of Hidden Markov Models. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics JCGS-23-341.R1.
M. J. Martin, W. D. Halliday, S. H. Ferguson, B. G. Young, R. Charish, J. Dawson, S. M. E. Fortune, F. Juanes, Levi Qaunaq, Stephen, J. Insley. 2024, Exposure of satellite tagged bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) to transiting vessels in the Eastern Canadian Arctic. Mar. Mammal Sci., e13125.
Ryan, C., Martins, M. C. I., Healy, K., Bejder, L., Cerchio, S., Christiansen, F., Durban, J., Fearnbach, H., Fortune, S., Friedlaender, A., Koski, W. R., Miller, C., Rodríguez-González, F. M., Segre, P. S., Jorge Urbán, R., Vivier, F., Weir, C. R., & Moore, M. J. 2024. Morphology of nares associated with stereo-olfaction in baleen whales. Biology Letters, 20(1). https://doi.org/10.1098/RSBL.2023.0479
Fortune, S., A. Trites, V. LeMay, M. Baumgartner and S. Ferguson. 2023. Year-round foraging across large spatial scales suggest that bowhead whales have the potential to adapt to climate change. Front Mar Sci 9:1827.
Pontbriand, T.*, G. Davoren, S. Fortune, C. Pomerleau, B. Young, S. Ferguson. 2023. Differences in individual bowhead whale Balaena mysticetus habitat use, foraging dive depth and diet during peak feeding season. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 706:109-123.
Halliday W, N. LeBaron, J. Citta, J. Dawson, T. Doniol-Valcroze, M. Ferguson, S. Ferguson, S. Fortune, L. Harwood, M. Heide-Jørgensen, E. Lea., L. Quakenbush, B. Young, D. Yurkowski, S. Insley. 2022. Vessel strike risk to bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) in the North American Arctic during July to October and implications for conservation and management. Biol Conserv BIOCON-S-2.
McHuron, E., S. Adamczak, J. Arnould, E. Ashe, C. Booth, D.Bowen, F. Christiansen, M. Chudzinska, D. Costa, A. Fahlman, N. Farmer, S. Fortune, C. Gallagher,K. Keen, P. Madsen. 2022. Key questions in marine mammal bioenergetics. Conservation Physiology 10(1):10:10.1093/conphys/coac055.
Sidrow, E., N. Heckman, S. Fortune, A. Trites, I. Murphy, and M. Auger-Méthé. 2021. Modelling multi-scale state-switching functional data with hidden Markov models. Canadian Journal of Statistics 50(1):327-356.
Fortune, S., S. Ferguson, A. Trites, J. Hudson, and M. Baumgartner. 2020. Bowhead whales use two foraging strategies to maximize consumption of zooplankton in Cumberland Sound, Nunavut. Scientific Reports 10: 20249.
Fortune, S., B. Young and S. Ferguson. 2020. Age and sex-specific movement, behaviour and habitat use patterns of bowhead whales in the Eastern Canadian Arctic. Polar Biology 43:1725-1744.
Fortune, S., M. Moore, W. Perryman and A. Trites. 2020. Body growth of North Atlantic right whales (Eubalaena glacialis) revisited. Marine Mammal Science https://doi.org/10.1111/mms.12753
K. Gavrilchuck, V. Lesage, S. Fortune, A. Trites and S. Plourde. Accepted. Foraging habitat for North Atlantic right whales has declined in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Canada and is insufficient for successful reproduction. Endangered Species Research (ENSR-2020-05-015).
Fortune, S., S. Ferguson, A. Trites, B. LeBlanc, V. LeMay, and M. Baumgartner. 2020. Seasonal and diel changes in bowhead whale feeding behaviour. Marine Ecology Progress Series 643: 197-217.
Agbayani, S., S. Fortune, A. Trites. 2020. Growth and development of North Pacific grey whales (Eschrichtius robustus). Journal of Mammalogy 3: 742-754.
Young, B., S. Fortune, W. Koski, S. Raverty, R. Kilabuk, and S. Ferguson. 2019. Observation of a bowhead whale carcass following a recent attack by killer whales in Cumberland Sound, Nunavut. Arctic Science 1:53-61.
Fortune, S., W. Koski, J. Higdon, A. Trites, M. Baumgartner, and S. Ferguson 2017. Evidence of molting and the function of “rock-nosing” behavior in bowhead whales in the eastern Canadian Arctic. PLoS ONE 12 (11): e0186156.
Reinhart, N., S. Fortune, P. Richard, and C. Matthews. 2014. Rare sightings of white-beaked dolphins (Lagenorhynchus albirostris) off southeastern Baffin Island, Canada. Marine Biodiversity Records 7:1-5.
Fortune, S., A. Trites, C. Mayo, D. Rosen, and P. Hamilton. 2013. Energetic requirements of North Atlantic right whales and the implications for species recovery. Marine Ecology Progress Series 478:253-272.
Fortune, S., A. Trites, W. Perryman, M. Moore, H. Pettis, and M. Lynn. 2012. Growth and rapid early development of North Atlantic right whales (Eubalaena glacialis). Journal of Mammalogy 93:1342-1354.