Publications
In press
- Mastick, N.C., Welicky, R.L., Katla, A., Odegaard, B., Ng, V., and Wood, C.L. 2024. Opening a can of worms: Archived canned fish fillets reveal 40 years of change in parasite burden for four Alaskan salmon species. Ecology and Evolution.
- Mastick, N.C., Fiorenza, E.A., Wood, C.L. 2024. Meta-analysis suggests that, for marine mammals, the risk of parasitism by anisakids changed between 1978 and 2015. Ecosphere.
- Claar, D., Faiad, S., Mastick, N.C., Welicky, R.L., Williams, M., Sasser, T., Weber, J.N., & Wood, C.L. Estimating the magnitude and sensitivity of energy fluxes for stickleback hosts and Schistocephalus solidus parasites using the metabolic theory of ecology. Ecology and Evolution.
- Wood, C.L., Welicky, R.L., Preisser, W.C., Leslie, K.L., Mastick, N.C., Greene, C., Maslenikov, K.P., Tornabene, L., Kinsella, J.M., Essington, T.E. (2023). A reconstruction of parasite burden reveals one century of climate-associated parasite decline. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
- Wood, C.L., Leslie, K.L., Claar, D., Mastick, N.C., Preisser, W.C., Vanhove, M.P.M., Welicky, R.L. (2023). How to use natural history collections to resurrect information on historical parasite abundances. Journal of Helminthology.
- Preisser, W.C., Welicky, R.L., Leslie, K.L., Mastick, N.C., Fiorenza, E.A., Maslenikov, K., Tornabene, L., Kinsella, J.M., and Wood, C.L. Parasite communities in English Sole (Parophrys vetulus) have changes in composition and dissimilarity, but not richness, in Puget Sound, Washington, USA over the past nine decades. Parasitology.
- Mastick, N. C., Wiley, D., Cade, D. E., Ware, C., Parks, S. E., & Friedlaender, A. S. (2022). The effect of group size on individual behavior of bubble-net feeding humpback whales in the southern Gulf of Maine. Marine Mammal Science, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1111/mms.12905. Read HERE.
- Williams, R., Ashe, E., Yruretagoyena, L., Mastick, N.C., Siple, M., Wood, J., Joy, R., Langrock, R., Mews, S., Finne, E. (2021). Reducing vessel noise increases foraging in endangered killer whales. Marine Pollution Bulletin.
- Welicky, R.L., Pressier, W.C., Fiorenza, E.A., Leslie, K.L., Mastick, N.C., Maskilenikov, K., Tornabene, L., Kinsella, J.M. & Wood, C.L. (2021). Parasites of the past: 90 years of change in parasite abundance of English sole. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.
- Williams, R., Viers, S., Viers, V., Ashe, E., Mastick, N.C. (2018). Approaches to reduce ship noise operating in important whale habitats. Marine Pollution Bulletin.
- Mastick, N.C., Welicky R.L., Preisser, W.C., Leslie, K.L., Fiorenza, E.A., Maslenikov, K.P., Tornabene, L., Kinsella, J.M., and Wood, C.L. Museum specimens reveal a century of change in Contracaecum spp. in fish intermediate hosts in Puget Sound, Washington. Submitted to Ecology.
- Robertson, F., Bradford, A., Srinivasan, M., Ashe, E., Mastick, N. C., Marchesi, M. C. Women in marine mammal science: breaking down barriers to success. To be submitted to Marine Mammal Science.
- Mastick, N.C., Van Cise, A.M., Parsons, K.M., Ashe, E., Williams, R., Childress, J.N., Nguyen, A., Fearnbach, H., Durban, J., Emmons, C., Hanson, B., Olsen, D., Wood, C.L. Parasite infecitons in endangered 'resident' killer whales of the Northeast Pacific Ocean. To be submitted to Conservation Letters.
Presentations
- "Time-traveling to reconstruct parasite baselines." Pacific Fisheries Technologists Conference, Redmond, WA, February 2023. 2nd Place Student Oral Presentation recipient.
- "Opening a can of worms: Historical change in infectious disease risk for marine mammals revealed by archived canned salmon." Ecological Society of America Conference, Montreal, Canada, August 2022.
- "Opening a can of worms: Historical change in infectious disease risk for marine mammals revealed by archived canned salmon." Pacific Fisheries Technologists Conference, Newport, OR, February 2022. 1st Place Student Oral Presentation recipient.
- "Opening a can of worms: Historical change in infectious disease risk for marine mammals revealed by archived canned salmon." UW School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences Graduate Student Symposium, November 4, 2021. Best PhD Student Presentation recipient. (Watch HERE)
- "Just beneath the surface: Are parasites infecting endangered killer whales?" Town Hall Seattle, May 21, 2020. (Watch HERE)
- “Role specialization in bubble-net feeding humpback whales in the southern Gulf of Maine.” UW School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences Graduate Student Symposium, November 15, 2018. (Watch HERE)
- “Methods for reducing ship noise operating in southern resident killer whale critical habitat.” Northwest Student Chapter of the Society of Marine Mammalogy Annual Conference. Hatfield Marine Science Center, Oregon State University, May 5, 2018.
- Master’s defense. “The effect of group size on individual roles and the potential for cooperation in group bubble-net feeding humpback whales.” Hatfield Marine Science Center, Oregon State University, September 9, 2016.
- “Foraging strategies of humpback whales.” Guest lecture for Biology and Conservation of Marine Mammals course, Hatfield Marine Science Center, Oregon State University, July 1, 2016.
- “Watching humpbacks work together: Using bio-telemetry technology to understand the foraging behavior of humpback whales.” American Cetacean Society Oregon Chapter monthly meeting, Newport, OR, January 9, 2016.
- “The dynamics of group bubble net foraging behavior of humpback whales in Antarctica, Alaska, and Massachusetts.” Northwest Student Chapter of the Society of Marine Mammalogy, Oregon State University, May 2, 2015.
- “The effect of group size on bubble net feeding humpback whales in three study sites.” Research Advances in Fisheries, Wildlife, and Ecology Symposium, Oregon State University, February 5, 2015.
- “The fidelity of female northern elephant seals to specific migration routes.” Long Marine Laboratory, University of California, Santa Cruz, March 18, 2013
Podcasts
Science Friday, August 26, 2023. Ecological data from deep in the pantry. (Listen HERE)
Breaching Extinction, March 13, 2020. Shedding light on parasites. (Listen HERE)
Breaching Extinction, March 13, 2020. Shedding light on parasites. (Listen HERE)
Posters
Mastick NC, Fiorenza E, Wood CL. 2019. Meta-analysis of 20 years of aniskaid prevalence studies suggests no change in anisakid burden in the prey species of endangered marine mammals. World Marine Mammal Conference, Barcelona, Spain. December 2019.
Mastick NC, Friedlaender AS, Parks S, Straley J, Thompson M, Ware C, Wiley D. 2015. The dynamics of group bubble net foraging behavior of humpback whales in Alaska and Massachusetts. Society for Marine Mammalogy Biennial Conference, San Francisco, California. December 2015.
Mastick NC, Friedlaender AS, Parks S, Straley J, Thompson M, Ware C, Wiley D. 2015. Foraging behavior in humpback whale populations in Massachusetts, Alaska, and Antarctica. Hatfield Marine Science Center Markham Symposium, Newport, Oregon, June 2015.
Mastick NC, Friedlaender AS, Parks S, Straley J, Thompson M, Ware C, Wiley D. 2015. The dynamics of group bubble net foraging behavior of humpback whales in Alaska and Massachusetts. Society for Marine Mammalogy Biennial Conference, San Francisco, California. December 2015.
Mastick NC, Friedlaender AS, Parks S, Straley J, Thompson M, Ware C, Wiley D. 2015. Foraging behavior in humpback whale populations in Massachusetts, Alaska, and Antarctica. Hatfield Marine Science Center Markham Symposium, Newport, Oregon, June 2015.
Workshops
Co-organizer: Women in Marine Mammal Science: Breaking down barriers to success. Society of Marine Mammalogy Biennial Conference, Halifax, Nova Scotia, October 2017.