Karen Stockin

Karen Ann Stockin is a New Zealand academic marine ecologist, and as of 2021 is a full professor at Massey University. Her research focuses on animal welfare and the impacts of human activities on cetacean populations, including tourism effects, and persistent marine contaminants.

Karen Stockin
Born
Karen Ann Stockin
Alma materUniversity of Plymouth
Massey University
Scientific career
FieldsMarine ecology
InstitutionsMassey University
Thesis
  • The New Zealand common dolphin (Delphinus sp.) : identity, ecology and conservation (2008)
Doctoral advisorMark Orams

Academic career

Stockin obtained a Bachelors of Science (Honours) from the University of Plymouth, and a Masters of Science as a European Union Scholar from the University of Aberdeen. She completed her PhD as a Commonwealth Scholar at Massey University in 2008, with a thesis titled "The New Zealand common dolphin (Delphinus sp.): identity, ecology and conservation", supervised by Mark Orams.[1][2]

Stockin is the strandings coordinator for the International Whaling Commission,[3] and serves on the IWC Strandings Initiative Expert Panel.[4]

Recognition

In 2005, Stockin was awarded a Hutton Award by the Royal Society Te Apārangi.

In 2018, Stockin received a Rutherford Discovery Fellowship for a project title "The application of artificial intelligence (AI), innovative technologies and evolutionary theory to address the conservation-welfare nexus during human-wildlife interactions".[5] She was also made the inaugural Bob Kerridge Animal Welfare Fellow in the same year.[3]

Selected works

References
  1. "Karen Stockin". Royal Society Te Apārangi. Archived from the original on 30 April 2021. Retrieved 30 April 2021.
  2. Stockin, Karen (2008). The New Zealand common dolphin (Delphinus sp.) : identity, ecology and conservation (Doctoral thesis). Massey Research Online, Massey University. hdl:10179/790.
  3. "Prof Karen Stockin | CERG Cetacean Ecology Research Group | Auc". CERG. Archived from the original on 30 April 2021. Retrieved 30 April 2021.
  4. Massey University. "Prof Karen Stockin – Professor – Massey University". www.massey.ac.nz. Archived from the original on 30 April 2021. Retrieved 30 April 2021.
  5. "2018 Rutherford Discovery Fellowships to accelerate research careers announced". Royal Society Te Apārangi. Archived from the original on 30 April 2021. Retrieved 30 April 2021.
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