Kathleen Hemeon

Kathleen works with Doug Peterson in Abernathy’s QET program, assisting him with the climate vulnerability studies we are conducting at various FWS hatcheries throughout the Northwest. She is also collaborating with other Abernathy scientists to answer fishery and other aquatic conservation research questions.

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

Ph.D  2022 Coastal Sciences, University of Southern Mississippi.

M.S.  2014 Sustainable Resource Mgmt., James Madison University (VA)

B.S. 2009  Biology (with marine emphasis), Western Washington University

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Hemeon KM, Peterson D, Twibell R, Piteo M (2022) PIT tag detection in buried environments: a pilot study to evaluate PIT tag detection at varying depths and orientation. AFTC Project Report, 10 May 2022. 10 pp.

LeClaire AM, Powell EN, Mann R, Hemeon KM, Pace SM, Sower JR, Redmond TE (2022) Historical biogeographic range shifts and the influence of climate change climate change
Climate change includes both global warming driven by human-induced emissions of greenhouse gases and the resulting large-scale shifts in weather patterns. Though there have been previous periods of climatic change, since the mid-20th century humans have had an unprecedented impact on Earth's climate system and caused change on a global scale.

Learn more about climate change on ocean quahogs (Arctica islandica) on the Mid-Atlantic Bight. Holocene 32(9):964-976.

Hemeon KM, Powell EN, Pace SM, Redmond TE, Mann R (2022) Population dynamics of Arctica islandica at Georges Bank (US): an analysis of sex-based demographics. J Mar Biol Assoc UK 101(7):1003-1018. 

Solinger LK, Ashton-Alcox KA, Powell EN, Hemeon KM, Hennen DR, Soniat TM (2022) Oysters beget shell (and vice versa): Generating management goals for live oysters and the associated reef to promote maximum sustainable yield of Crassostrea virginica. Can J Fish Aquat 79(8):1241-1254 

Hemeon KM, Powell EN, Robillard E, Pace SM, Redmond TE, Mann R. 2021. Attainability of accurate age frequencies for ocean quahogs (Arctica islandica) using large datasets: protocol, reader precision, and error assessment. J Shellfish Res 40(2):255-267. 

Hemeon KM, Ashton-Alcox KA, Powell EN, Pace SM, Poussard LM, Solinger LK, Soniat TM. 2020. Novel shell stock–recruitment models for Crassostrea virginica as a function of regional shell effective surface area, a missing link for sustainable management. J Shellfish Res 39(3):633-654. 

Pace SM, Poussard LM, Powell EN, Ashton-Alcox KA, Kuykendall KM, Solinger LK, Hemeon KM, Soniat TM. 2020. Dying, decaying, and dissolving into irrelevance: first direct in-the-field estimate of Crassostrea virginica shell loss - a case history from Mississippi Sound. J Shellfish Res 39(2):245-256. 

Maloney AE, Shinneman ALC, Hemeon K, Sachs JP. 2016. Exploring lipid 2 H/ 1 H fractionation mechanisms in response to salinity with continuous cultures of the diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana. Org Geochem 101:154-165.