Publications

2026

McCosker CM, Doughty L, Hunter N, Stokes A, Puryear WB, Runstadler JA, Cammen KM (2026) Whole genome sequencing reveals variation in immune and nervous systems associated with harbor seal susceptibility to phocine distemper virus. Journal of Heredity.

Flye ME, Sponarski CC, Cammen KM, Daigneault A, Frechette D and Zydlewski J. (2026). Agency approach to resource allocation and program composition for marine mammal management in the United States. Frontiers in Marine Science. 13:1722533.

2025

McCosker C, Levin M, Puryear WB, Runstadler JA, Perkins C, Unal E, Murray KT, Cammen KM. (2025) Impacts of PCBs on grey seal pup immunity and influenza A infection vary across biological scales. Aquatic Toxicology. 289:107583

Clem J, Hudak C, Sette L, York G, Jackson S, Kinnison M, Cammen KM (2025) Evaluating the use of environmental DNA for pinniped detection and population genetics at haulout sites. Marine Mammal Science. 41:e70047

McCosker CM, Unal E, Gigliotti A, Puryear WB, Runstadler JA, Murray KT, King BL, Cammen KM (2025) Molecular mechanisms underlying response to influenza in gray seals, a potential wild reservoir. Molecular Ecology. 34:e70012.

McCarthy ML*, Cammen KM*, Granquist S, Dietz R, Teilmann J, Thøstesen CB, Kjeldgaard S, Valtonen M, Kunnasranta M, Jüssi M, Jüssi I, Jenssen BM, Ahola MP, Bowen WD, Puryear WB, Runstadler J, Russell D, Galatius A, Olsen MT (2025) Range-wide genomic analysis reveals regional and meta-population dynamics of decline and recovery in the grey seal. Molecular Ecology. 34:e17824. *authors contributed equally to this manuscript

McCosker CM, Levin M, Puryear WB, Runstadler JA, Murray K, Cammen KM (2025) Gray seal (Halichoerus grypus) pups fail to mount inflammatory cytokine response to influenza A virus. Journal of Wildlife Diseases. 61:628-641.

Bogomolni AL*, Cammen KM*, Jackman J* (2025) Editorial: Rebounding marine mammal species and conservation recovery challenges. Frontiers in Conservation Science. 6:1565870. *authors contributed equally to this manuscript

2024

Leach L, Stevens JR, Cammen KM (2024). Pinniped response to diadromous fish restoration in the Penobscot River Estuary. Frontiers in Conservation Science. 5:1408982.

Kilchenmann J, McCosker C, Cammen KM, Stoll JS (2024) Endeavoring to engage in cooperative fisheries research in a contentious socioeconomic climate. ICES Journal of Marine Science. 81: 1931-1940.

Hotopp AM, Olsen BJ, Ishaq SL, Frey SD, Kovach AI, Kinnison MT, Gigliotti FN, Roeder MR, Cammen KM (2024) Tidal marsh sparrow plumage microorganism communities. iScience. 27: 108668.

2023

Haverkamp H, Chang HY, Newcomb E, Doughty L, Walk D, Todd S, Seton R, Jones L, Cammen KM (2023) A retrospective socio-ecological analysis of harp, harbor and gray seal strandings in the Gulf of Maine. Marine Mammal Science. 39:232-250.

2022

Székely D, Cammen KM, Tange Olsen M. (2022) Needles in an ocean haystack: using environmental DNA to study marine mammals in the North Atlantic. NAMMCO Scientific Publications. 12.

Gigliotti A, Bowen WD, Hammill MO, Puryear WB, Runstadler J, Wenzel FW, Cammen KM (2022) From phocine distemper to avian influenza: An ecological perspective on immunogenetic diversity of two sympatric pinniped species. Journal of Heredity.

Leach L, Simpson M, Stevens JR, Cammen KM (2022) Examining the impacts of pinnipeds on Atlantic salmon: The effects of river restoration on predator-prey interactions. Aquatic Conservation 32:645-657.

Liu X, Schjøtt SR, Granquist SM, Rosing-Asvid A, Dietz R, Teilmann J, Galatius A, Cammen KM, O’Corry-Crowe G, Harding K, Härkönen T, Hall. A, Caroll E, Kobayashi Y, Hammill M, Stenson G, Frie AK, Lydersen C, Kovacs KM, Andersen LW, Vieira FG, Heller R, Moltke I, Olsen MT (2022) Origin and expansion of the world’s most widespread pinniped: range-wide population genomics of the harbour seal (Phoca vitulina). Molecular Ecology 31:1682-1699.

2020

Newcomb E, Walk D, Haverkamp H, Doughty L, Todd S, Seton R, Jones L, Cammen KM (2021) Breaking down “harassment” to characterize trends in human interaction cases in Maine’s pinnipeds. Conservation Science and Practice 3:e518.

Cammen KM, Marafino G, Burton S, Dow J, Dullaert E, Jorge M, Macolini K, McGarry L, Tremblay C, Jansujwicz J, Johnson T, Ross L, Zydlewski G (2021) Integrating disciplinary approaches to see through turbulent systems. Oceanography 34:254-265.

Pugliares-Bonner K, LaSpina K, Rose K, Steven T, Cammen KM (2021) Strandings provide insight into variable social group structure of Atlantic white-sided dolphins. Marine Mammal Science 37:901-918

2019

Homola JJ, Loftin CS, Cammen KM, Helbing CC, Birol I, Schultz TF, Kinnison MT (2019) Replicated landscape genomics identifies evidence of local adaptation to urbanization in a pool-breeding amphibian. Journal of Heredity 110:707-719

Cammen KM, Rasher DB, Steneck RS (2019) Predator recovery, shifting baselines, and the adaptive management challenges they create. Ecosphere 10:e02579.

2018

Cammen KM, Bowen WD, Hammill MO, Puryear WB, Runstadler J, Wenzel FW, Wood SA, Frasier TR, Kinnison M (2018) Genomic signatures of population bottleneck, recovery, and expansion in Northwest Atlantic pinnipeds. Ecology and Evolution 8:6599-6614.

Cammen KM, Vincze S, Heller S, McLeod BA, Wood SA, Bowen WD, Hammill MO, Puryear WB, Runstadler J, Wenzel FW, Kinnison M, Frasier TR (2018) Genetic diversity from bottleneck to recovery in two sympatric pinniped species in the Northwest Atlantic. Conservation Genetics 19: 555-569.

2017

Jayasundara N, Fernando PW, Osterberg JS, Cammen KM, Schultz TF, Di Giulio RT (2017) Cost of tolerance: Physiological consequences of evolved resistance to inhabit a polluted environment in teleost fish Fundulus heteroclitus. Environmental Science & Technology 51:8763–8772.

2016

Cammen KM, Andrews KR, Carroll EL, Foote AD, Humble E, Khudyakov JI, Louis M, McGowen MR, Olsen MT, Van Cise AM (2016) Genomic methods take the plunge: recent advances in high-throughput sequencing of marine mammals. Journal of Heredity 107:481-495.

Greenberg R, Cammen KM, Wilson AG, Olsen BJ, Ballentine B, Rotzel N, Fleischer R (2016) Geographic population structure and subspecific boundaries in a tidal marsh sparrow. Conservation Genetics 7: 603-613.

2015

Cammen KM, Schultz TS, Rosel PE, Wells RS, Read AJ (2015) Genome-wide investigation of adaptation to harmful algal blooms in bottlenose dolphins. Molecular Ecology 24:4697- 4710.

2014

Cammen KM, Rosel PE, Wells RS, Read AJ (2014) Lack of variation in voltage-gated sodium channels of common bottlenose dolphins exposed to neurotoxic algal blooms. Aquatic Toxicology 157:150-158.

2013

Soulen BK*, Cammen KM*, Schultz TF, Johnston DW (2013) Factors affecting harp seal (Pagophilus groenlandicus) strandings in the Northwest Atlantic. PLoS ONE 8:e68779.
*authors contributed equally to this manuscript

2011

Cammen KM, Hoffman JI, Knapp LA, Harwood J, Amos W (2011) Geographic variation of the major histocompatibility complex in Eastern Atlantic grey seals. Molecular Ecology 20:740-752.

2008

Bossart G, Peden-Adams M, Romano T, Rice C, Fair P, Goldstein J, Cammen K, Reif J (2008) Hematological, biochemical and immunological findings in Atlantic bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) with orogenital papillomas. Aquatic Mammals 34:166-177.