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Alexander (Sasha) Kitaysky

Research Interests: 

The main focus of my current research program is on the fundamental question: 
Can we predict population responses (range shift, adaptation or extinction) to an environmental change based on current phenotypic and biological age structures of natural populations of marine top-predators?

Specifically, I am interested in (A) how climate- and human induced environmental changes affect physiology, reproduction and survival of different phenotypes in wild seabird populations; and (B) the consequences of such differential selection pressure on individuals for the spatial and temporal dynamics of their populations.

Sasha Kitaysky
Professor of Integrative Physiology
askitaysky@alaska.edu
Office: 
413 Irving 1
907-474-5179
Lab: 
110 Irving 1
907-474-5753
Postal Address: 
Institute of Arctic Biology
PO Box 757000
University of Alaska Fairbanks
Fairbanks, AK 99775-7000
  • 1992-1996 Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, USA
  • 1986 MS, Irkutsk State University, Russia
  • 2013-current Professor of Integrative Physiology, Department of Biology and Wildlife, IAB, UAF
  • 2007-2013 Associate Professor of Integrative Physiology, Department of Biology and Wildlife, IAB, UAF
  • 2003-2007 Assistant Professor of Integrative Physiology, Department of Biology and Wildlife, IAB, UAF
  • 2000-2003 Research Assistant Professor, Department of Zoology, UW
  • 1997-2000 Research Associate, Department of Zoology, UW, Seattle

2012

Barger, C.P. & Kitaysky, A.S., 2012. Isotopic segregation between sympatric seabird species increases with nutritional stress. Biology Letters, 8, pp.442–445.
Dietrich, M. et al., 2012. Inter-oceanic variation in patterns of host-associated divergence in a seabird ectoparasite. Journal of Biogeography, 39, pp.545–555.
Satterthwaite, W.H., Kitaysky, A.S. & Mangel, M., 2012. Linking climate variability, productivity and stress to demography in a long-lived seabird. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 454, pp.221–235.
Sydeman, W.J., Thompson, S.Ann & Kitaysky, A., 2012. Seabirds and climate change: roadmap for the future. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 454, pp.107–117.

2011

Harding, A.M.A. et al., 2011. Adverse foraging conditions may impact body mass and survival of a high Arctic seabird. Oecologia, 167, pp.49–59.
Karnovsky, N.J. et al., 2011. Inter-colony comparison of diving behavior of an Arctic top predator: implications for warming in the Greenland Sea. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 440, pp.229–240.
Lobato, E. et al., 2011. Seabirds and the Circulation of Lyme Borreliosis Bacteria in the North Pacific. Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases, 11.

Pages

  • The Bering Sea’s Regime Shifts: Using a century of data to examine dynamics of nutritional stress and trophic linkages in fish-eating seabirds. - NPRB 1410
  • Early breeding season responses of red-legged kittiwakes to changes of prey availability and linkages to the non-breeding stage - NPRB 1409
  • Forage Patch Dynamics I - NPRB, NSF
  • Forage Patch Dynamics II - NPRB, NSF
  • Effects of Physical Forcing in the Bering Sea Ecosystem - NPRB
  • BIOL 441 Animal Behavior
Past Graduate Students

Advised

  • Rebecca Young (Ph.D.)
  • Chris Barger (M.S.)
  • Ine Dorresteijn (M.S.)
  • T. Morgan (M.S.)
  • J. Sears (M.S.)
  • Michael Shultz (M.S.)
  • Tom Dempsey (M.S.)

Co-Advised

  • Jannik Schultner (Ph.D.)
  • Morgan Benowitz-Fredericks (Ph.D.)