Mike Kenner

University of California Santa Cruz
Center for Ocean Health,
Long Marine Lab
100 Shaffer Road
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
phone:  (831) 459-3244

mkenner@ucsc.edu

My main interests lie in the area of kelp forest ecology. I've been part of what is now the Tinker/Estes lab since 1984 and have been monitoring permanent intertidal and subtidal sites at San Nicolas Island in southern California since then. I have also been involved in benthic habitat sampling in Baja California , central and northern California , Washington , southeast Alaska , throughout the Aleutian Islands and Bering Island in Russia . In addition to my ecosystem work, I assist with the semi-annual California sea otter census both as a counter and by entering the data into GIS, and I'm one of the divers that captures sea otters for tagging and instrumentation studies.

BS University of California , Irvine 1980 Biological Sciences

MS California State University, Hayward and Moss Landing Marine Laboratories 1988 Marine Sciences

Kenner , M.C. 1987. Population ecology of Strongylocentrotus purpuratus inhabiting sublittoral coralline mats within the range of the sea otter in California . M.S. Thesis, California State University , Hayward and Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, CA, 64pp.

Bodkin, J.L. and M.C. Kenner. 1988. A Preliminary Report on the Demography of the Spiny Lobster, Panulirus Interruptus, at San Nicolas Island, CA Fifth Biennial Mugu Lagoon / San Nicolas Island Symposium Proceedings, Pt. Mugu, CA 1988, pp. 75-82.

Kenner , M.C. and M.T. Lares 1991. Size at First Reproduction of the Sea Urchin Strongylocentrotus Purpuratus in a Central California Kelp Forest . Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 76: 303-306.

Kenner , M.C. 1992. Population Dynamics of the Sea Urchin Strongylocentrotus Purpuratus in a Central California Kelp Forest : Recruitment, Mortality, Growth, and Diet. Mar. Biol. 112: 107-118.

PAPERS GIVEN:

Ecology of a Cryptic Population of Strongylocentrotus Purpuratus Inhabiting Sublittoral Coralline Mats. 66th Annual Meeting of the Western Society of Naturalists, December 1985

Macrocystis Canopy and Kelp Recruitment Cycling at San Nicolas Island , California . 71st Annual Meeting of the Western Society of Naturalists, December 1990.

Kenner , Michael C. and James A. Estes, Subtidal Ecosystem Changes at San Nicolas Island , California . Sixth California Islands Symposium, December 2003

POSTERS PRESENTED:

Kenner , Michael C. and James A. Estes. Demography of Giant Kelp Populations at San Nicolas Island , California . Fifth International Temperate Reef Symposium, Cape Town , South Africa , January 2000.