WI - Cormorant Research Group Researchers' directory updated on 29-05-2002

General information

Name Dr. Ken Stromborg
Organisation U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Mail address 1015 Challenger Ct., Green bay, WI 54311, USA
Email ken_stromborg@fws.gov
Telephone (920)-465-7405
Fax (920)-465-7410

Expertise

Interested in cormorants as
  Amateur
X Professional
Species of specific expertise
  None
  Cormorants (Phalacrocoracidae)
  Great cormorant (P. carbo)
  Pygmy cormorant (P. pygmeus)
  European shag (P. aristotelis)
X Double-crested cormorant (P. auritus)
   
Fields of interests
  Behaviour
X Breeding ecology
X Conservation & Management
X Counting & Censusing
X Ecotosicology
  Food and Feeding
  Genetics
X Habitat Management
  Movements & Migration
  Physiology
X Policy & Administration
X Population dynamics
  Taxonomy
X Trapping & Ringing
  Winter ecology

Current activity

1 Mark and recapture/resight cormorants to estimate adult survival rate
2 Monitor breeding population size at selected colonies in Lake Michigan
3 Monitor intercolony exchange at selected colonies in Lake Michigan
4 Measure trends in pollutants in cormorant eggs
5 Monitor prevalence of bill deformities at colonies in Lake Michigan
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Literature

1 Custer, T. W., C. M. Custer, R. K. Hines, S. Gutreuter, K. L. Stromborg, P. D. Allen, and M. J. Melancon. 2001. Do polychlorinated biphenyls contribute to reproductive effects in fish-eating birds? Authors' reply to a Letter to the Editor. Environ. Toxicol. Chem. 20(6):1149-1151.
2 Custer, T.W., C.M. Custer, R.K. Hines, K.L. Stromborg, P.D. Allen, M.J. Melancon, and D.S. Henshel. 2001. Organochlorine contaminants and biomarker response in double-crested cormorants nesting in Green Bay and Lake Michigan, Wisconsin, USA. Arch. Environ. Contam. Toxicol. 40(1):89-100.
3 Matteson, S.W., P. W. Rasmussen, K. L. Stromborg, T. I. Meier, J. Van Stappen, and E. C. Nelson. 1999. Changes in the status, distribution, and management of double-crested cormorants in Wisconsin. Pages 27-45 in, Tobin, M. E., Tech. Coordinator, Symposium on Double-crested Cormorants: Population Status and Management Issues in the Midwest. Tech. Bull. 1879, USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Washington, DC.
4 Powell D. C., R.J. Aulerich, J. C. Meadows, M.E. Tillitt De Kelly, K. L. Stromborg, M.J. Melancon, S.D. Fitzgerald & Bursian S.J. 1998. Effects of 3,3',4,4',5-pentachlorobiphenyl and 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin injected into the yolks of Double-crested Cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus) eggs prior to incubation. Environ. Toxicol. Chem. 17: 2035--2040.
5 Custer T. W., C. M. Custer & Stromborg K. L. 1997. Distribution of organochlorine contaminants in Double-crested cormorant eggs and sibling embryos. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 16(8): 1646-1649.
6 Williams, L. L., J. P. Giesy, D. A. Verbrugge, S. Jurzysta, and K. Stromborg. 1995. Polychlorinated biphenyls and 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin equivalents in eggs of double-crested cormorants from a colony near Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA. Arch. Environ. Contam. Toxicol. 29:327-333.
7 Tillitt, D. E., G. T. Ankley, J. P. Giesy, J. P. Ludwig, H. Kurita-Matsuba, D. V. Weseloh, P. S. Ross, C. A. Bishop, L. Sileo, K. L. Stromborg, J. Larson, and T. J. Kubiak. 1992. Polychlorinated biphenyl residues and egg mortality in double-crested cormorants from the Great Lakes. Environ. Toxicol. Chem. 11:1281-1288.