top of page

Katharine S. Goodenough, M.S., Ph.D.

ORCID: 0000-0002-6372-8627

Education

  • Ph.D., Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Oklahoma (2022)

  • M.S., Ecology, San Diego State University (2014)

  • B.S. (dual majors), Zoology/Marine Biology, Humboldt State University (2000)

Appointments

  • University of Central Oklahoma, Visiting Assistant Professor, 8/1/24- present

  • Louisiana State University USGS Co-Op Unit, Research Associate Specialist, 3/2023-3/2024

  • National Wildlife Federation, Contract Resource Biologist for Wind Energy, 5/2022-8/2022

Service and Outreach

  • Member of the Undergraduate Internship Committee, University of Central Oklahoma 8/2024-Present.

  • Secretary, Elected member of the Waterbird Society Council 2024-2026.

  • Associate Editor for Waterbirds, The International Journal of Waterbird Biology 3/2023-Present.

  • Honorary member of IIECCO (www.iiecco.org) a wildlife nonprofit in Peru. Role: providing guidance on avian research and funding opportunities 2021-Present.

  • Member of American Oystercatcher Working Group. Role: Movement and diet research. (2019-Present.

  • Member of Marine Spatial Planning and Seabird Colonies and Adjacent Waters Working Groups of the Marine Atlantic Bird Cooperative. Role: Movement and diet research specialist 2018-Present.

  • Member of the Migration Subcommittee, DoD Partners in Flight, 11/2024-Present.

  • Invited expert for National Offshore Wind Research and Development Consortium workshop on technology development for monitoring birds at offshore wind farms 9/2022-Present.

Research Projects (projects in bold are ongoing)

  • 2023-2026: “Movement dynamics of the Black Skimmer in SE Florida: Variation in movements across nesting substrates”. This project uses finescale GPS data to document Black Skimmer movements for individuals nesting in natural versus artificial habitat. Role: PI and scientific lead in collaboration with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission.

  • 2024- Present: “Royal Tern (Thalasseus maximus) foraging movements in the Cape Fear River of North Carolina: Developing daily colony attendance budgets and documenting important foraging areas”. This project uses a combination of GPS telemetry and DNA barcoding to document individual movements and identify important prey species for adults during reproduction. Information from this project is expected to be used to inform collision risk modelling of offshore wind energy development along the mid-Atlantic and provide information on important prey species for conservation. Role: Co-PI and scientific lead in collaboration with Audubon North Carolina. 

  • 2019- 2024: “Fine scale movements of the American Oystercatcher: The relationship between forging ecology, energetics, and reproductive success”. The project assesses the relationships between foraging ecology, reproduction, and habitat quality for American Oystercatchers nesting in North Carolina. Role: CoPI and scientific/technical lead for telemetry and data analyses in collaboration with North Carolina Audubon (CoPI Lindsay Addison).

  • 2019-2022 “NSF Rules of life Project: Effect of Anthropogenic Rescaling on Phenology of Life in the Air”. Role: Research Assistant.  Assisted with the design, development, and initiation of fieldwork for the bird tracking studies component of the project.

  • 2018-2022: “Black Skimmer movement and foraging ecology in New York”. The project used a combination of telemetry, bulk stable isotope analyses, and GIS techniques to assess Black Skimmer movements and habitat selection during the breeding season. Role: CoPI and scientific/technical lead for GPS telemetry and data analysis, in collaboration with Town of Hempstead, Department of Conservation and Waterways, New York (CoPI Tara Schneider). 

  • 2017-2022 “Selective pressures influence a grow fast, fly young strategy for Black Skimmers nesting in the Peruvian Amazon”. This research project examined the influence of selective pressures on Black Skimmer life history variation in the Peruvian Amazon. Role: scientific/technical lead, including defining research objectives, conducting field research and data analysis. 

  • 2014-2016 “Amazonian Black Skimmer migration”. The project examined Amazonian Black Skimmer migration in South America. Role: scientific/technical lead, including defining research objectives and conducting field research. 

  • 2012-2014 “Inter- and intra-annual variation in movements and diet of the Gull-billed Tern (Gelochelidon nilotica)”. This research project used a combination of radio telemetry, stable isotope analyses, and focal diet observation to examine Gull-billed Tern annual variation in movement and diet for a population in San Diego, California. Role: Scientific/technical lead responsible for implementation, analyses, data management, and supervision of seven technicians. 

  • 2010-2022 “Long term studies on the impacts of Abnormally Warm Sea Surface Temperature Events on a dietary generalist species”. Role: Co-PI and scientific/technical lead. The project examined Gull-billed Tern dietary plasticity and its relationship with reproduction under the influence of large-scale oceanic events. ​​​​​

​

 

​

bottom of page