Publications

In press
  • 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.
In review
  • Mastick, N.C., Fiorenza, E.A., Wood, C.L. Meta-analysis suggests that, for marine mammals, the risk of parasitism by anisakid nematodes has changed over the past half-century. Submitted to Marine Mammal Science.
  • Claar, D., Faiad, S., Mastick, N.C., Welicky, R.L., Williams, M., Sasser, T., Weber, J.N., & Wood, C.L. Calculating the energetic burden of Schistocephalus solidus on their three-spined stickleback host using the metabolic theory of ecology. To be submitted to Ecology Letters.
In preparation
  • 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., 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.
  • Mastick, N.C., Welicky, R.L., Katla, A., Odegaard, B., Ng, V., and Wood, C.L. Opening a can of worms: Historical change in parasite burden in four species of salmon revealed by archived canned salmon.To be submitted to Nature, Ecology and Evolution.

Presentations

  • "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

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.

Workshops

Co-organizer: Women in Marine Mammal Science: Breaking down barriers to success. Society of Marine Mammalogy Biennial Conference, Halifax, Nova Scotia, October 2017. ​