Biographical Information about Kim Nelson

S. Kim Nelson is a Research Wildlife Biologist and Senior Faculty Research Assistant with the Oregon Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit in the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife at Oregon State University. Kim received her B.A. from Lewis and Clark College in 1980 and her M.S. in Wildlife Ecology at Oregon State University in 1989. Her research since 1982 has focused on the ecology and habitat associations of seabirds, forest-wildlife interactions, and using information on habitat associations to better manage bird populations. She has been studying the Marbled Murrelet in Oregon, Washington, California, and southeast Alaska since 1988. This research has focused on murrelet breeding biology, behavior, distribution, nest-site characteristics, nest success, landscape and stand-level habitat associations, and foraging ranges. She helped develop survey techniques for this species and is an author of the Pacific Seabird Group Survey Protocol for surveying murrelets in forests. In addition to her Marbled Murrelet research, Kim is studying the distribution and habitat use of Long-billed Murrelets in Asia and the diet and habitat use of Caspian Terns in Oregon, Washington, and California. She is also writing a seabird monitoring plan for the California Current and working on a traditional knowledge/seabird monitoring project on King Island in the Bering Sea.

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