Karen Stockin
Stockin in 2023
Born	Karen Ann Stockin
Alma mater	University of Plymouth Massey University
Scientific career
Fields	Marine ecology
Institutions	Massey University
Thesis	The New Zealand common dolphin (Delphinus sp.) : identity, ecology and conservation (2008)
Doctoral advisor	Mark Orams

Karen Ann Stockin is a New Zealand academic marine ecologist, and as of 2021 is a full professor at Massey University and a Rutherford Discovery Fellow for Royal Society Te Apārangi (New Zealand). Her research focuses on animal welfare and the impacts of human activities on cetacean populations, including tourism effects, and persistent marine contaminants.

Academic career

Stockin obtained a Bachelors of Science (Honours) from the University of Plymouth, and a Masters of Science as a European Union Scholar from the University of Aberdeen. She completed her PhD as a Commonwealth Scholar at Massey University in 2008, with a thesis titled "The New Zealand common dolphin (Delphinus sp.): identity, ecology and conservation", supervised by Mark Orams.^[1][2]

Stockin is the strandings coordinator for the International Whaling Commission,^[3] and serves on the IWC Strandings Initiative Expert Panel.^[4]

Recognition

In 2005, Stockin was awarded a Hutton Award by the Royal Society Te Apārangi.

In 2018, Stockin received a Rutherford Discovery Fellowship for a project title "The application of artificial intelligence (AI), innovative technologies and evolutionary theory to address the conservation-welfare nexus during human-wildlife interactions".^[5] She was also made the inaugural Bob Kerridge Animal Welfare Fellow in the same year.^[3]

Selected works

• Karen Stockin (2008), The New Zealand common dolphin (Delphinus sp.) : identity, ecology and conservation, Massey Research Online, Wikidata Q106666293
• Anna M Meissner; Fredrik Christiansen; Emmanuelle Martinez; Matthew D M Pawley; Mark B Orams; Karen A Stockin (7 January 2015). "Behavioural effects of tourism on oceanic common dolphins, Delphinus sp., in New Zealand: the effects of Markov analysis variations and current tour operator compliance with regulations". PLOS One. 10 (1): e0116962. Bibcode:2015PLoSO..1016962M. doi:10.1371/JOURNAL.PONE.0116962. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 4286237. PMID 25565523. Wikidata Q30421049.
• Ana R. Amaral; Luciano B Beheregaray; Kerstin Bilgmann; et al. (2 February 2012). "Seascape genetics of a globally distributed, highly mobile marine mammal: the short-beaked common dolphin (genus Delphinus)". PLOS One. 7 (2): e31482. Bibcode:2012PLoSO...731482A. doi:10.1371/JOURNAL.PONE.0031482. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 3271111. PMID 22319634. Wikidata Q34154845.
• Ana R. Amaral; Luciano B Beheregaray; Kerstin Bilgmann; et al. (14 August 2012). "Influences of past climatic changes on historical population structure and demography of a cosmopolitan marine predator, the common dolphin (genus Delphinus)". Molecular Ecology. 21 (19): 4854–4871. doi:10.1111/J.1365-294X.2012.05728.X. ISSN 0962-1083. PMID 22891814. Wikidata Q34293967.
• Karen Stockin; R J Law; W D Roe; L Meynier; E Martinez; P J Duignan; P Bridgen; B Jones (11 March 2010). "PCBs and organochlorine pesticides in Hector's (Cephalorhynchus hectori hectori) and Maui's (Cephalorhynchus hectori maui) dolphins". Marine Pollution Bulletin. 60 (6): 834–842. doi:10.1016/J.MARPOLBUL.2010.01.009. ISSN 0025-326X. PMID 20226477. Wikidata Q43131233.