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Oliver Shipley

Assistant Professor

Education:

Ph.D.2020

- Stony Brook University

Research Topics:

Bulk and compound specific stable isotope systems, food-webs, ecological niches, community dynamics, ecosystem ecology, energy flow

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  • Bio/Research

    Bio/Research

    Oliver Shipley's research combines long standing ecological principles, such as niche theory, with chemical tracer and telemetry techniques to provide a thorough understanding of species’ functional role(s), and how these modulate food web dynamics. His research addresses several fundamental questions: 1) what drives ecological niche variation at various levels of biological organization? 2) how can ecophysiological principles be used to predict the timing of important biological events? 3) what are the fitness consequences of niche variation and how does this impact ecosystem dynamics? His current research explores linkages between energy flow, community assembly, and fitness variation in aquatic consumers in both historical and modern contexts.

  • Publications

    Publications

    Articles Submitted or In Review 

    Campbell, B. A., Shipley, O. N., Jones T. R., Gallagher, A. J., Sulikowski, J. A. (In Review). Evidence  for biennial reproduction in Caribbean reef sharks Carcharhinus perezi. Frontiers in Marine  Science. 

    Davis, B. R., Shipley, O. N., Gallagher, A. J., Shearer, P., Parrish, M., Bogantes, V. E., and Jaonsik, A.  M. (In Review). Complete mitochondrial genome of the lemon shark, Negaprion brevirostris  (Carcharhiniformes: Carcharhinidae). Mitochondrial DNA Part B 

    Stephens, R., Shipley, O. N., Moll, R. J. (In Review). Revising variation in vertebrate trophic  discrimination factors Δ13C and Δ15N. Functional Ecology.  

    Talwar, B. S., Brooks, E J., Abercrombie, D. L., Anderson, B., Bond, M. E., Brooks, A. M. L., Chapman,  D. D., Clementi, G. M., Fields, C. Y. A., Gelsleichter, J., Grubbs, R. D., Howey, L. A., Jordan, L.  K. B., Kiszka J. J., Knotek, R. J., Papastamatiou, Y. P., Peterson, C. T., Schneider, E. V. C.,  Shipley, O. N., Williams, S., Winchester, M. M., Heithaus, M. R. (In Review). Spatial variation  in the relative abundance of oceanic sharks in the eastern Bahamas. Aquatic Conservation:  Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems.  

    Lübcker, N., Whiteman, J. P., Shipley, O. N., Hobson, K. A., Newsome, S. D. (In Review). Use of amino  acid stable isotopes to investigate capital versus income breeding strategies by three species of  Arctic-breeding migratory geese. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 

    Shipley, O. N., McMeans, B. C., Besser, A. C., Bloomfield, E., Newsome, S. D. Energy channeling and  food-chain length impact body condition in a northern lake predator (In Review). Freshwater  Biology. 

    Gallagher, A. J., Harris, S. D., de Silva, C., Delaney, D., Phillips, B. T., Sulikowski, J. A., Duarte, C. M.,  Shipley, O. N., Giddens, J. (In Review). First in-situ observations of suspected mating scars in a  deep-sea elasmobranch, the bluntnose sixgill shark Hexanchus griseus. Journal of the Marine  Biological Association of the United Kingdom.  

    Articles in Press or Published with Volume and/or DOI 

    Gallagher, A. J., Shipley, O. N., De Silva, C., Kohler, J. K., Fernandes, T. F., Austin, T., Ormond, R. F.  G., Gore, M. (2023). First records of the blurred lantern shark Etmopterus bigelowi from the  Cayman Islands, Western Atlantic. Frontiers in Marine Science.  

    Shipley, O. N. Matich, P., Hussey, N. E., et al. (2023). Energetic connectivity of diverse elasmobranch  populations – implications for ecological resilience. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Marsaly, B. P., Boyd, N., Fisher, M., Gelpi, C., Daugherty, D., Davis, J., Shipley, O. N., Matich, P. (In  

    Press). Contrasting but complimentary patterns of resource use among two estuarine apex  predators in the Western Gulf of Mexico. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 

    Besnard, L., Lucca, B. M., Shipley, O. N., Le Croizier, G., Martinez-Rincon, R. O., Sonke, J. E., Point,  D., Galvan-Magana, F., Kraffe, E., Kwon, S. Y., Schaal, G. (2023). Mercury isotope clocks  predict coastal residency and migrating timing of hammerhead sharks. Journal of Applied  Ecology.  

    Parton, K. J., Doherty, P. D., Parrish, M., Shearer, P., Myrick, K., Shipley, O. N., Gallagher, A. J. (2023).  Foraging behaviors in a widespread reef predator, the nurse shark (Ginglymostoma cirratum),  including the first descriptions of locomotory ‘walking’. Environmental Biology of Fishes.  

    Gallagher, A. J., Brownscombe, J. W., Alsudairy, N. A., Casagrande, A. B., Harding, L., Hammerschlag,  N., Howe, W., Delgado Huertas, A., Kattan, S., Kough, A. S., Musgrove, A., Payne, N. L.,  Phillips, A., Shea, B., D., Shipley, O. N., Rashid, U., Hossain, M. S., Duarte, C. M. (2022). Tiger  sharks guide the discovery of the world’s largest seagrass meadow. Nature Communications.  

    Shipley, O. N., Fitzgerald, J., Horne, B, Crowe, S., & Gallagher, A. J. (2022). Observations of  hypomelanosis in the nurse shark (Ginglymostoma cirratum). Journal of Fish Biology. 

    Shipley, O. N., Manlick, P. J., Newton, A., Matich, P., Camhi, M., Cerrato, R. M., Frisk, M. G., Henkes,  G. A., LaBelle, J., Nye, J. A., Walters, H., Newsome, S. D., Olin, J. A. (2022). Nutritional  consequences of intraspecific diet variation in a marine carnivore. Oecologia.  

    Hamilton, B. R., Shipley, O. N., Grubbs, R. D. (2022). Multi-channel feeding by migratory sharks in a  fluvial-dominated estuary – Implications for natural resource management. Estuarine and Coastal  Shelf Science.  

    Knotek, R. J., Brooks, E. J., Howey, L. A., Gelsleichter, J. G., Talwar, B. S., Winchester, M. M., Jordan,  L. K. B., Williams, S., Bond, M. E., Brooks, A. M. L., Shipley, O. N., Bacon, T., Kneebone, J.  R., Mandelman, J. W. (2022). Merging technologies and supervised classification methods to  quantify capture behavior on hook-and-line. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and  Ecology, 555, 151782.  

    Andrzejaczek, S., Lucas, T. C., Goodman, M. C., Hussey, N. E., et al (Inc. Shipley, O. N.). (2022).  Diving into the vertical dimension of elasmobranch movement ecology. Science advances, 8,  eabo1754. 

    Talwar, B. S., Bradley, D., Berry, C., Bond, M. E., Bouyoucos, I. A., Brooks, A., Fields, C. Y. A.,  Gallagher, A. J., Guttridge, T. L., Guttridge, A. E., Hammerschlag, N., Hamilton, I., Keller, B  .A., Kessel, S. T., Matich, M., O’Shea, O. R., Papastamatiou, Y. P., Raguse, C., Schneider, E. V.  C., Shipley, O. N., Smukall, M. J., van Zinnicq Bergmann, M. P. M., Brooks, E. J. (2022).  Estimated life history traits and movements of Caribbean ref sharks Carcharhinus perezi in The  Bahamas based on conventional tagging data. Marine Biology, 169, 1-19.  

    Shipley, O. N., Olin, J. A., Whiteman, J. P., Bathea, D., Newsome, S. D. (2022). Physiological controls  on nitrogen isotope dynamics – new insight from individual amino acids in elasmobranchs.  Oecologia.  

    Ye, X., Lee, C. S., Shipley, O. N., Frisk, M. G., Fisher, N. S. (2022). Risk assessment for seafood  consumers exposed to mercury and other trace elements in Long Island fish. Marine Pollution  Bulletin.  

    Brownscombe, J. W., Shipley, O. N., Griffin, L. P., Morley, D., Acosta, A., Adams, A. J., Danylchuk, A.  J., Cooke, S. J., Power, M. (2022). Novel application of telemetry and stable isotope analysis to  inform resource ecology and management of a marine fish. Journal of Applied Ecology.  

    Gallagher, A. J., Shipley, O. N., Reese, B., Singh, Vijender, A. (2021). Complete mitochondrial genome  of the Caribbean reef shark, Carcharhinus perezi (Carcharhiniformes: Carcharhinidae).  Mitochondrial DNA Part B, 6, 2662-2664.  

    Bates, E., Primack, R.B., PAN-Environmental Consortium of 337 authors (inc Shipley, O.N.), Duarte,  C.M. (2021). Diverse human-nature interactions revealed by the global COVID-19 lockdown.  Biological Conservation.  

    Shipley, O. N., Henkes, G. A., Gelsleichter, J., Morgan, C., Schneider E. V., Talwar, B., Frisk, M. G.,  (2021). Shark tooth collagen stable isotopes (δ15N and δ13C) as ecological proxies. Journal of  Animal Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13518 

    Shipley, O. N., Newton, A. L., Frisk, M. G., Henkes, G. A., LaBelle, J. S., Camhi, M. D., et al. (2021).  Telemetry-validated nitrogen stable isotope clocks identify ocean-to-estuarine habitat shifts in  mobile organisms. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 12, 897-908. 

    Matich, P., Bizzarro, J. J., Shipley, O. N. (2021). Are stable isotope ratios suitable for describing niche  partitioning and individual specialization. Ecological Applications, e2392. 

    Matich, P., Shipley, O. N., Weideli, O. C. (2021). Quantifying spatial variation in isotopic baselines  reveals size-based feeding in a model estuarine predator: implications for trophic studies in  dynamic ecotones. Marine Biology, 168(7), 1-12.

    Madigan, D. J., Shipley, O. N., Carlisle, A, Dewar, H., Snodgrass, O. E., Hussey, N. E. (2021). Isotopic  tracers suggest limited trans-oceanic movements and regional residency in North pacific blue  sharks (Prionace glauca). Frontiers in Marine Science, 8, 489

    Dunton, K. C., Shipley, O. N., Martinez C. M., Zacharias, J., Frisk M. G. (2021). First observation of  movement rates and repeated migration in a Western Atlantic torpedo ray (Tetronarce  occidentalis, Storer, 1843) in the northwest Atlantic Ocean. Northeastern Naturalist, 28(2), N7. 

    Gallagher, A. J., Shipley, O. N., van Zinnicq Bergmann, M. P., Brownscombe, J. W., Dahlgren, C. P.,  Frisk, M. G. et al. (2021). Spatial Connectivity and Drivers of Shark Habitat Use Within a Large  Marine Protected Area in the Caribbean, The Bahamas Shark Sanctuary. Frontiers in Marine  Science, 7, 1223. 

    Shipley, O. N., Lee, C. S., Fisher, N. S., Sternlicht, J. K., Kattan, S., Staaterman, E., Hammerschlag, N.,  Gallagher, A. J. (2021). Patterns of metal concentrations in coastal shark species from The  Bahamas with a focus on a common reef predator, the Caribbean Reef shark. Scientific Reports 11, 218.  

    Clementi, G. M., Babcock, E. A., Valentin-Albanese, J., Bond, M. E., Flowers, K. I., Heithaus, M. R.,  Whitman, E. R., Van Zinnicz Germann, M. P. M., Guttridge, T. L., O’Shea, O. R., Shipley, O.  N., Brooks, E. J., Kessel, S. T. & Chapman, D. D. (2021). Anthropogenic pressures on reef associated sharks in jurisdictions with and without directed shark fishing. Marine Ecology  Progress Series, 661, 175-186. 

    Shipley, O. N., Kelly, J. B., Bizzarro, J. J., Olin, J. A., Cerrato, R. M., Power, M., & Frisk, M. G. (2021).  Evolution of realized Eltonian niches across Rajidae species. Ecosphere, 12, e03368.Olin, J. A., Shipley, O. N., Cerrato, R. M., Nitschke, P., Magen, C., & Frisk, M. G. (2020). Separation of  realized ecological niche axes among sympatric tilefishes provides insight into potential drivers  of co-occurrence in the NW Atlantic. Ecology and Evolution, 10, 10886-10898. 

    Gelsleichter, J., Sparkman, G., Howey, L. A., Brooks, E. J., & Shipley, O. N. (2020). Elevated  accumulation of the toxic metal mercury in the Critically Endangered oceanic whitetip shark  Carcharhinus longimanus from the northwestern Atlantic Ocean. Endangered Species  Research, 43, 267-279. 

    Shipley, O. N., Matich, P. (2020). A contemporary framework for studying animal niches using bulk  stable isotope ratios Oecologia 193, 27-51. 

    Bouyoucos, I. A., Shipley, O. N., Jones, E., Brooks, E. J., & Mandelman, J. W. (2020). Wound healing in  an elasmobranch fish is not impaired by high-CO2 exposure. Journal of Fish Biology, 96, 1508-1511. 

    Petta, J., Shipley, O. N., Wintner, S., Cliff, G., Dicken, M., & Hussey, N. E. (2020). Are you really what  you eat? Stomach content analysis and stable isotope ratios do not uniformly estimate trophic  niche characteristics in three marine predators. Oecologia. 192, 1111-1126.  

    Gallagher, A. J., Amon, D. J., Bervoets, T., Shipley, O. N., Hammerschlag, N., & Sims, D. W. (2020).  The Caribbean needs big marine protected areas. Science, 367, 749-1.  

    Morgan, C., Shipley, O. N., & Gelsleichter, J. (2020). Resource-use dynamics of co-occurring  chondrichthyans from the First Coast, North Florida, USA. Journal of Fish Biology, 96, 570- 579.  

    Shipley, O. N., Gallagher, A. J., Shiffman, D. S., Kaufman, L., & Hammerschlag, N. (2019). Diverse  resource-use strategies in a large-bodied marine predator guild: evidence from differential use of  resource subsidies and intraspecific isotopic variation. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 623, 71- 83.  

    Frisk, M. G., Shipley, O. N., Martinez, C. M., McKown, K. A., Zacharias, J. P., & Dunton, K. J. 

    (2019). First Observations of Long-Distance Migration in a Large Skate Species, the Winter  Skate: Implications for Population Connectivity, Ecosystem Dynamics, and Management. Marine  and Coastal Fisheries, 11, 202-212.  

    Shipley, O. N., Olin, J. A., Power, M., Cerrato, R. M., & Frisk, M. G. (2019). Questioning assumptions of  trophic behavior in a broadly ranging marine predator guild. Ecography 42, 1037-1049  Siskey, M. R., Shipley, O. N., & Frisk, M. G. (2019). Skating on thin ice: Identifying the need for  species-specific data and defined migration ecology of Rajidae spp. Fish and Fisheries, 20, 286- 302.  

    Ciezarek, A. G., Osborne, O. G., Shipley, O. N., Brooks, E. J., Tracey, S. R., McAllister, et al. (2019).  Phylotranscriptomic insights into the diversification of endothermic Thunnus tunas. Molecular  Biology and Evolution, 36, 84-96.  

    Phillips, B. T., Shipley, O. N., Halvorson, J., Sternlicht, J. K., & Gallagher, A. J. (2019). First in situ  observations of the sharpnose sevengill shark (Heptranchias perlo), from the Tongue of the  Ocean, Bahamas. Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation, 32, 17-22. 

    Shipley, O. N., Lee, C. S., Fisher, N. S., Burruss, G., Frisk, G. M., Brooks, E. J., Zuckerman, Z.  C., Herrmann, A. D., & Madigan, D. J. (2019). Trophodynamics and mercury 

    bioaccumulation in reef and open-ocean fishes from The Bahamas with a focus on two teleost predators Marine Ecology Progress Series, 608, 221-232.  

    Murchie, K. J., Haak, C. R., Power, M., Shipley, O. N., Danylchuk, A. J., & Cooke, S. J. (2018).  Ontogenetic patterns in resource use dynamics of bonefish (Albula vulpes) in the Bahamas.  Environmental Biology of Fishes, 101, 1097-1104.  

    Shipley, O. N., Murchie, K. J., Frisk, M. G., Brooks, E. J., Shea, O. R., & Power, M. (2017). Low lipid  and urea effects and inter-tissue comparisons of stable isotope signatures in three nearshore  elasmobranchs. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 579, 233-238.  

    Shipley, O. N., Murchie, K. J., Frisk, M. G., O’Shea, O. R., Brooks, E. J., & Power, M. (2018). Trophic  niche dynamics of three nearshore benthic predators in The Bahamas. Hydrobiologia, 813, 177- 188.  

    Olin. J. A., Shipley, O. N., & McMeans, B. (2018). Stable isotope fractionation between maternal and  embryo tissues in the Bonnethead Shark (Sphyrna tiburo). Environmental Biology of Fishes101(3), 489-499. 

    Shipley, O. N., Brownscombe, J. W., Danylchuk, A. J., Cooke, S. J., O’Shea, O. R., & Brooks, E. J.  (2018). Fine-scale movement and activity patterns of Caribbean reef sharks (Carcharhinus  perezi) in the Bahamas. Environmental biology of fishes, 101(7), 10971104.  

    Bird, C. S., Trueman, C. N., Verissimo, A., Magozzi, S., Abrantes K. G. Shipley, O. N., et al. (2018). A  global perspective on the trophic geography of sharks. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2, 299. Tolentino, E. R., Howey, R. P., Howey, L. A., Jordan, L. K., Grubbs, R. D., Brooks, A., Williams, S.,  Brooks, E. J., Shipley, O. N. (2017). Was my science project eaten? A novel approach to validate  consumption of marine biologging instruments. Animal Biotelemetry, 1, 1-9. 

    Shipley, O. N., Olin, J. A., Polunin, N. V., Sweeting, C. J., Newman, S. P., Brooks, E. J. et al. (2017). Polar compounds preclude mathematical lipid correction of carbon stable isotopes in deep-water  sharks. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 494, 69-74. 

    Shipley, O., Talwar, B., Grubbs, D., & Brooks, E. (2017). Isopods present on deep-water sharks Squalus  cubensis and Heptranchias perlo from The Bahamas. Marine Biodiversity, 47, 789-790. Shipley, O. N., Polunin, N. V., Newman, S. P., Sweeting, C. J., Barker, S., Witt, M. J., & Brooks, E. J.  (2017). Stable isotopes reveal food web dynamics of a data-poor deep-sea island slope  community. Food Webs, 10, 22-25.

    Shipley, O. N., Howey, L. A., Tolentino, E. R., Jordan, L. K., Ruppert, J. L., & Brooks, E. J. (2017).  Horizontal and vertical movements of Caribbean reef sharks (Carcharhinus perezi): conservation  implications of limited migration in a marine sanctuary. Royal Society Open Science, 4, 160611. 

    Shipley, O. N., Howey, L. A., Tolentino, E. R., Jordan, L. K., & Brooks, E. J. (2017). Novel techniques  and insights into the deployment of pop-up satellite archival tags on a smallbodied deep-water  chondrichthyan. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, 119, 81-90. 

    Talwar, B., Bouyoucos, I. A., Shipley, O., Rummer, J. L., Mandelman, J. W., Brooks, E. J., & Grubbs, R.  D. (2017). Validation of a portable, waterproof blood pH analyser for elasmobranchs.  Conservation Physiology, 5

    Shipley, O. N., Brooks, E. J., Madigan, D. J., Sweeting, C. J., & Grubbs, R. D. (2017). Stable isotope  analysis in deep-sea chondrichthyans: recent challenges, ecological insights, and future  directions. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries, 27, 481-497.  

    Shipley, O. N., Bruce, N. L., Violich, M., Baco, A., Morgan, N., Rawlins, S., & Brooks, E. J. (2016). A  new species of Bathynomus Milne Edwards, 1879 (Isopoda: Cirolanidae) from The Bahamas,  Western Atlantic. Zootaxa, 4147, 82-88. 

    Shipley, O. N., O’Shea, O. R., Brooks, E. J., & Zuckerman, Z. C. (2016). Sighting of three female  Gervais beaked whales (Mesoplodon europaeus) from the Exuma Sound, The Bahamas.  Caribbean Naturalist, 32, 1-4.  

    Book Chapters and Encyclopedia Entries 

    Wosnick, N., Prado, A. C., Martins, M., Merly, L., Chaves, A. P., Hammerschlag, N., Shipley, O. N. &  Hauser-Davis, R. A. (2023). Reviewing Cd, Hg and Pb Assessments and Effects in  Elasmobranchs. In Lead, Mercury and Cadmium in the Aquatic Environment (pp. 46-75). CRC  Press. 

    Shipley, O. N. (2022). Animating the blue carbon cycle and the role of wildlife. In: Blue Natural Capital.  Eds Gallagher, A. J., and Duarte C. M.  

    Madigan, D. J., Shipley, O. N., Hussey, N. E. (2021). Applying isotopic clocks to reconstruct  retrospective migration patterns in mobile marine predators. In: Conservation Physiology (pp. 69-86). Oxford University Press. 

    Arnold, G. P., Shipley, O. N., Siskey, M. R. (2018). Fish migration, horizontal. In: Encyclopedia of  Ocean Sciences, 3rd Edition. Elsevier Publishing.  

    Gordon, J. D., Shipley, O. N. (2018). Open Ocean fisheries for Deep-water species. In:  Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences, 3rd Edition. Elsevier Publishing.  

    Joseph, J., Shipley, O. N., Siskey, M. R. (2018). Open Ocean Fisheries for Large Pelagic Species. In:  Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences, 3rd Edition. Elsevier Publishing.  

    Cushing, D. H., Shipley, O. N., Siskey, M. R. (2018). Pelagic Fishes. In: Encyclopedia of Ocean  Sciences, 3rd Edition. Elsevier Publishing.  

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