Publications
If you cannot access any of the papers below, feel free to email me and I will send a PDF. Updated 12/19/2022
2022
Barnas, A.F., Geldart, E.A., Love, O., Jagielski, P.M., Harris, C., Gilchrist, G., Hennin, H.L., Richardson, E.S., Dey, C.J., and C.A.D. Semeniuk. 2022. Predatory cue use in flush responses of a colonial nesting seabird during polar bear foraging. Animal Behaviour. 193: 75-90 www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0003347222002329
Barnas, A.F., Darby, B.J., Iles, D.T., Koons, D.N., Rockwell, R.F., Semeniuk, C.A.D., and S.N. Ellis-Felege. 2022. Bear Presence attracts avian predators but does not impact lesser snow goose nest attendance. Journal of Avian Biology. 2022: e02840 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jav.02840
Geldart, E.A., Barnas, A.F., Semeniuk. C.A.D., Gilchrist, G., Harris, C.M., and O. Love. A colonial-nesting seabird shows no heart rate response to drone-based population surveys. Scientific Reports. 12 (1): 1-10 www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-22492-7
Jagielski, P.M., Barnas, A.F., Gilchrist, G., Richardson, E., Love, O., and C.A.D. Semeniuk. 2022. The utility of drones for studying polar bear behaviour in the Canadian Arctic: opportunities and recommendations. Drone Systems and Applications. 10 (1): 97-110 cdnsciencepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/dsa-2021-0018
Clark, D., Barnas, A.F., Brook, R.K., Ellis-Felege, S.N., Fishback, L., Higdon, J.W., Manning, K., Rivet, D., Roth, J.D., Trim, T., Webb, M., Rockwell, R.F. 2022. The State of Knowledge About Grizzly Bears (Kakenokuskwe osow Muskwa (Cree), Ursus arctos) in Northern Manitoba. Arctic. 75 (1): 105-120 journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/74922
Simone, C.A.B, Geldart, E.A., Semeniuk, C.A.D, Love, O., Gilchrist, G., and A.F. Barnas. Conspecific nest attendance behaviours of common eiders (Somateria mollissima) in response to polar bear (Ursus maritimus) foraging activity: error or intent? Canadian Field Naturalist. Accepted September 28th, In-press
2021
Ellis-Felege, S.N., Stechmann, T., Hervey, S., Felege, C., Rockwell, R.F., and A.F. Barnas. 2021. Nesting common eiders (Somateria mollissima) show little behavioral response to fixed-wing drone surveys. Journal of Unmanned Vehicle Systems. 10 (1): 1-14 cdnsciencepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/juvs-2021-0012
2020
Barnas, A.F., Iles, D.T., Stechmann, T.J., Wampole, E.M., Koons, D.N., Rockwell, R.F., and S.N. Ellis-Felege. 2020. A phenological comparison of grizzly (Ursus arctos) and polar bears (Ursus maritimus) as waterfowl nest predators in Wapusk National Park. Polar Biology. 43: 457-465 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00300-020-02647-w
Barnas, A.F., Chabot, D., Hodgson, A., Johnston, D.W., Bird, D.M., and S.N. Ellis-Felege. 2020. A standardized protocol for reporting methods when using drones for wildlife research. Journal of Unmanned Vehicle Systems . 8(2): 89- 98 https://doi.org/10.1139/juvs-2019-0011
2019
Hervey, S.D., Barnas, A.F., Stechmann, T.J., Rockwell, R.F., Ellis-Felege, S.N. and B.J. Darby. 2019. Kin grouping is insufficient to explain the inclusive fitness gains of conspecific parasitism in the common eider. Molecular Ecology. 28: 4825- 4838 https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.15258
Barnas, A.F., Darby, B.J., Vandeberg, G.S., Rockwell, R.F., and S.N. Ellis-Felege. 2019. A comparison of drone imagery and ground-based methods for estimating the extent of habitat destruction by lesser snow geese (Anser caerulescens caerulescens) in La Pérouse Bay. PLoS ONE. 14(8) https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0217049
Bowley, C., Mattingly, M., Barnas, A.F., Ellis-Felege, S.N., and T. Desell. 2019. An analysis of altitude, citizen science and a convolutional neural network feedback loop on object detection in unmanned aerial systems. Journal of Computational Science. 34:102-116 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jocs.2019.04.010
2018
Bowley, C., Mattingly, M., Barnas, A.F., Ellis-Felege, S.N., and T. Desell. 2018. Detecting wildlife in unmanned aerial systems imagery using convolutional neural networks trained with an automated feedback loop. International Conference on Computational Science. 69-82 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93698-7_6
Barnas, A.F., Felege, C.J., Rockwell, R.F., and S.N. Ellis-Felege. 2018. A pilot(less) study on the use of an unmanned aircraft system for studying polar bears. Polar Biology. 41: 1055-1062 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-018-2270-0
Barnas, A.F., Newman, R., Felege, C.J., Corcoran, M.P., Hervey, S.D., Stechmann, T.J., Rockwell, R.F., and S.N. Ellis-Felege. 2018. Evaluating behavioral responses of nesting lesser snow geese to unmanned aircraft surveys. Ecology and Evolution. 8: 1328-1338 https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.3731 PDF
Joo, S., Wang, MH, Lui, G., Lee, J., Barnas, A.F., Kim, E., Sudek, S., Worden, A.Z., and J.H. Lee. 2018. Common ancestry of heterodimerizing TALE homeobox transcription factors across Metazoa and Archaeplastida. BMC Biology 16:136 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-018-0605-5 PDF
2017
Gormezano, L.J., Ellis-Felege, S., Iles, D.T., Barnas, A.F., and R.F. Rockwell. 2017. Polar bear foraging behavior during the ice-free period in western Hudson Bay: observations, origins, and potential significance. American Museum Novitates. 3885: 1-28 https://doi.org/10.1206/3885.1
Bowley, C., Mattingly, M., Barnas, A.F., Ellis-Felege, S.N., and T. Desell. 2017. Toward using citizen scientists to drive automated ecological object detection in aerial imagery. IEEE 13th International Conference on e-Science. 99-108. https://doi.org/10.1109/eScience.2017.22 PDF
2016
Mattingly, M., Barnas, A., Ellis-Felege, S.N., Newman, R., Iles, D.T., and T. Desell. 2016. Developing a citizen science web portal for manual and automated ecological image detection. IEEE 12th International Conference on e-Science. 223-232. https://doi.org/10.1109/eScience.2016.7870903 PDF
