Dr Joanna Kershaw

Senior Research Fellow

Researcher profile

Email

jk49@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

PhD supervision

• Eva-Maria Bønnelycke

Selected publications

• Open access

  Accumulation of CO₂ limits energy gain in freely diving grey seals

  Bønnelycke, E.-M. S., Kershaw, J. L., Hastie, G. D., Sparling, C., Balfour, S., Milne, R., Moss, S. E. W., Wright, P. F. C. & McKnight, J. C., May 2026, In: Journal of Experimental Biology. 229, 9, 14 p., jeb251718.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  A remotely operated blood sampling and sedative administration device in large, freely moving pinnipeds

  Kershaw, J., Bønnelycke, E.-M. S., De Ruiter, W., Aitken, A., Balfour, S., Milne, R., Hall, A. J., Armstrong, H. C., Downie, C., Moss, S. E. W. & McKnight, J. C., 7 Mar 2026, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Methods in Ecology and Evolution. Early View, p. 1-13 13 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Can hematological biomarkers indicate diagnoses and prognosis in stranded harbor seals (Phoca vitulina)?

  England, B. C., Kershaw, J. L., Rubio-Garcia, A., Salazar-Casals, A. & Russell, D. J. F., Jan 2026, In: Marine Mammal Science. 42, 1, p. 1-16 16 p., e70111.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Exploring the use of skin biopsies to infer organ mercury burden in long‐finned pilot whales

  McCarthy, R., Gade, C., Kershaw, J., ten Doeschate, M. T. I., Davison, N. J., Brownlow, A. & von Hellfeld, R., 8 Apr 2026, In: Marine Mammal Science. 42, 2, 8 p., e70170.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review

• Marine Mammal Scientific Support Programme: Phase IV, Year 1 Annual Report

  Sparling, C., Russell, D. J., Kershaw, J., Harris, R., Gillespie, D., Langley, I. & Hastie, G., 31 May 2026, 26 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report

• Open access

  Marine mammals in the anthropocene: developing a systematic evidence base of threats to nineteen species

  Hague, E. L., Sinclair, R. R., Kershaw, J. L., Derous, D., Culloch, R. M., Sparling, C. E., Baker‐Horne, N., Sciberras, M., Fernandes, T. F. & McWhinnie, L. H., 1 Mar 2026, In: Mammal Review. 56, 1, 24 p., e70024.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Sperm Whale Physeter macrocephalus Linnaeus, 1758

  Isojunno, S., Kershaw, J., Onoufriou, A., Pirotta, E. & Rendell, L., 6 Jul 2026, Handbook of the Mammals of Europe. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00281-7: Springer Nature

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Open access

  Clinical chemistry reference intervals for health assessment in wild adult harbour seals

  Hall, A. J., Russell, D. J. F., Thompson, P. M., Milne, R., Moss, S. E., Armstrong, H. C. & Kershaw, J. L., 27 Nov 2025, In: Animals. 15, 23, p. 1-13 13 p., 3429.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Cognitive perception of circulating oxygen in seals is the reason they don’t drown

  McKnight, J. C., Bønnelycke, E.-M., Balfour, S., Milne, R., Moss, S. E. W., Armstrong, H. C., Downie, C., Hall, A. J. & Kershaw, J. L., 21 Mar 2025, In: Science. 387, 6740, p. 1276-1280 5 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Sexual segregation and stable pregnancy rates in the Gulf of St. Lawrence’s minke whales Balaenoptera acutorostrata amidst environmental changes

  Gardiner, D., Ramp, C. A., Sears, R., Paling, L., Derous, D., Bérubé, M., Palsbøll, P. & Kershaw, J. L., 10 Apr 2025, In: Marine Ecology Progress Series. 758, p. 143-159 17 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

 

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