RESEARCH INTERESTS
My research career has focused on basic aspects of the population ecology of the California sea lion, Zalophus californianus. I have studied California sea lion populations in Mexico since 1994. My PhD research is focused on the relationship between behavioral ecology and population dynamics for this species. I am particularly interested in determining the efficiency of maternal strategies and how they are influencing the population dynamics (population growth rate and effective population size) of three colonies in the Gulf of California. To examine these ideas, I am evaluating parameters like age and sex-specific survival (mark-recapture models), female fecundity, operation sex ratio, etc. I will incorporate observed maternal behavioral strategies on demographic models to examine how behavioral data influence the accuracy of simple age-structured population models. The objective is to compare three colonies that vary in population trend, size and density and anthropogenic activities during the 2004-2007 reproductive seasons.
TEACHING
Arizona State University. Graduate Teaching Assistant
| Fall 2007 |
BIO "The living world" |
Spring 2006 and 2007 | BIO 411 "Advanced Conservation
Biology" |
Summer 2006 and 2007 | BIO 498 "Field Ecology: Behavior and conservation of sea lions" |
Spring 2008 | BIO 411 "Quantitative
Conservation Biology" |
PUBLICATIONS
Hernandez-Camacho, C. J., Aurioles-Gamboa, D., and L. R. Gerber (in
press) Age-specific birth rates of California sea lions (Zalophus
californianus californianus) in the Gulf of California, Mexico.
Marine Mammal Science.
Hernandez-Camacho, C. J., Aurioles-Gamboa, D., Laake, J., and L. R. Gerber (in
press) Survival rates of the California lion, Zalophus
californianus, in Mexico.
Journal of Mammalogy.
Jacobs, D., Hernandez-Camacho, C. J., Young, J. K.,
and L. R. Gerber (in
press) Determinants of outcomes of agonistic interactions among male
California sea lions (Zalophus californianus). Journal of Mammalogy.
Underwood, J.,
Hernandez-Camacho, C. J., Aurioles-Gamboa, D., and L. R. Gerber (in
press) Estimating Sustainable Bycatch Rates for California Sea Lion
Populations in the Gulf of California. Conservation Biology.
Young, J. K.,
Hernandez-Camacho, C. J., and L. R. Gerber (2007)
Long-distance movement of a pinniped neonate. Marine
Mammal Science 23: 926-930.(PDF)
Aurioles-Gamboa, David, Garcia-Rodriguez, F., Ramirez-Rodriguez Mauricio y C. J. Hernandez-Camacho. 2003. Interaccion entre el lobo marino de California y la pesqueria artesanal en la Bahia de La Paz, Golfo de California, Mexico. Ciencias Marinas 29(3): 357-370.
Aurioles-Gamboa, D. and C. J. Hernandez-Camacho. 1999. Notes on the Southernmost records of the Guadalupe fur seal, Arctocephalus townsendi, in Mexico.
Marine Mammal Science 15(2): 581-583.(PDF)
Aurioles-Gamboa, D., Zavala-Gonzalez, A., Flores, S., Maravilla, O., Hernandez-Camacho, C. J. y P. Miller. 1998. Life history and model. In Conservation, Analysis and planed management (CAMP) for pinnipeds in Mexico and Population and Habitat Viability Analysis for the California sea lion (Zalophus californianus californianus). Report Workshop February 9-13 La Paz, B.C.S. 56-74 p.
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