Jason D Whittington
Senior Adviser
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Section for Research
Mobile phone
+47.917.47.132
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Visiting address
Kristine Bonnevies hus
Blindernveien 31
0371 OSLO
Postal address
Postboks 1032 Blindern
0315 Oslo
I am an ecological researcher and the Scientific Director of the former Nordic Centre of Excellence NorMER. I am also now the coordinator of the initiative to develop a new Pandemic Center at UiO, which will focus on leveraging the expertise available throughout all of the departments at the University of Oslo to better prepare Norway for threats from infectious diseases.
My personal research focus is on the behavioural ecology and population dynamics of species in response to ecosystem variability. My projects have included studies on seabirds and fish species located in the Arctic and Antarctic regions in response to global climate and anthropogenic pressures. More recently, I have been working on applying ecological approaches to improving our understanding of disease dynamics, including, but not limited to, COVID-19.
I am especially focused on the following general topics:
1. Population dynamics of kittiwakes and guillemots in northern seas in response to climate variability and human pressures.
2. Adaptation of marine ecosystems in northern seas and assessing impacts from human and environmental pressures.
3. The importance/relevance of inter-individual signalling on the behavioural ecology of king, emperor, and Adelie penguins
My overall aim is to align and merge these Arctic and Antarctic themes to realize an overall better understanding of threats and challenges to earth's polar ecosystems.
Publications
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Cao, Yihan; Whittington, Jason D; Kausrud, Kyrre; Li, Ruiyun & Stenseth, Nils Christian (2022). The relative contribution of climatic, demographic factors, disease control measures and spatiotemporal heterogeneity to variation of global COVID-19 transmission. AGU GeoHealth. ISSN 2471-1403. doi: 10.1029/2022GH000589.
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Stenseth, Nils Christian; Ims, Rolf Anker; Sæther, Bernt-Erik; Cadahia, Luis; Herfindal, Ivar & Lee, Aline Magdalena [Show all 8 contributors for this article] (2022). Sustainable management of populations impacted by harvesting and climate change. Climate Research (CR). ISSN 0936-577X. 86, p. 1–7. doi: 10.3354/cr01688.
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Wang, Zengmiao; Whittington, Jason D; Yuan, Hsiang-Yu; Miao, Hui; Tian, Huaiyu & Stenseth, Nils Christian (2021). Evaluating the effectiveness of control measures in multiple regions during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Biosafety and Health. ISSN 2590-0536. 3(5), p. 264–275. doi: 10.1016/j.bsheal.2021.09.002. Full text in Research Archive
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Liu, Yonghong; Wang, Zengmiao; Rader, Benjamin; Li, Bingying; Wu, Chieh-Hsi & Whittington, Jason D [Show all 11 contributors for this article] (2021). Associations between changes in population mobility in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and socioeconomic factors at the city level in China and country level worldwide: a retrospective, observational study. The Lancet Digital Health. ISSN 2589-7500. 3, p. 349–359. doi: 10.1016/S2589-7500%2821%2900059-5. Full text in Research Archive
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Woods, P J; Macdonald, J I; Bárðarson, H; Bonanomi, S.; Boonstra, W. J. & Cornell, G. [Show all 29 contributors for this article] (2021). A review of adaptation options in fisheries management to support resilience and transition under socio-ecological change. ICES Journal of Marine Science. ISSN 1054-3139. 79(2), p. 463–479. doi: 10.1093/icesjms/fsab146.
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Engen, Steinar; Tian, Huaiyu; Yang, Ruifu; Bjørnstad, Ottar Nordal; Whittington, Jason & Stenseth, Nils Christian (2021). The ecological dynamics of the coronavirus epidemics during transmission from outside sources when R0 is successfully managed below one. Royal Society Open Science. ISSN 2054-5703. 8(6), p. 1–12. doi: 10.1098/rsos.202234. Full text in Research Archive
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Li, Ruiyun; Chen, Bin; Zhang, Tao; Ren, Zhehao; Song, Yimeng & Xiao, Yixiong [Show all 31 contributors for this article] (2020). Global COVID-19 pandemic demands joint interventions for the suppression of future waves. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. ISSN 0027-8424. 117(42), p. 26151–26157. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2012002117. Full text in Research Archive
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Holt, Rebecca Emma; Woods, P.J; Ferreira, A.S.A; Bardarson, H; Bonanomi, Sara & Boonstra, W.J [Show all 25 contributors for this article] (2017). Avoiding pitfalls in interdisciplinary education. Climate Research (CR). ISSN 0936-577X. 74(2), p. 121–129. doi: 10.3354/cr01491.
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Chown, Steven L.; Brooks, Cassandra M; Terauds, Aleks; Le Bohec, Celine; van Klaveren-Impagliazzo, Celine & Whittington, Jason [Show all 23 contributors for this article] (2017). Antarctica and the strategic plan for biodiversity. PLoS Biology. ISSN 1544-9173. 15(3), p. 1–10. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.2001656.
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Cristofari, Robin; Bertorelle, Giorgio; Ancel, Andre; Benazzo, Andrea; Le Maho, Yvon & Ponganis, Paul J. [Show all 13 contributors for this article] (2016). Full circumpolar migration ensures evolutionary unity in the Emperor penguin. Nature Communications. ISSN 2041-1723. 7. doi: 10.1038/ncomms11842.
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Pedersen, Martin Wæver; Kokkalis, Alexandros; Bardarson, Hermann; Bonanomi, Sara; Boonstra, Wiebren & Butler, William E. [Show all 23 contributors for this article] (2016). Trends in marine climate change research in the Nordic region since the first IPCC report. Climatic Change. ISSN 0165-0009. 134(1), p. 147–161. doi: 10.1007/s10584-015-1536-6.
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Boonstra, Wiebren; Ottosen, Katharina M.; Ferreira, Ana Sofia de Araújo; Richter, Andries Peter; Rogers, Lauren & Pedersen, Martin Wæver [Show all 24 contributors for this article] (2015). What are the major global threats and impacts in marine environments? Investigating the contours of a shared perception among marine scientists from the bottom-up. Marine Policy. ISSN 0308-597X. 60, p. 197–201. doi: 10.1016/j.marpol.2015.06.007.
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Cristofari, Robin; Trucchi, Emiliano; Whittington, Jason; Vigetta, Stephanie; Gachot-Neveu, Helene & Stenseth, Nils Christian [Show all 8 contributors for this article] (2015). Spatial heterogeneity as a genetic mixing mechanism in highly philopatric colonial seabirds. PLOS ONE. ISSN 1932-6203. 10(2), p. 1–21. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0117981. Full text in Research Archive
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Le Maho, Yvon; Whittington, Jason; Hanuise, Nicolas; Pereira, Louise; Boureau, Matthieu & Brucker, Mathieu [Show all 20 contributors for this article] (2014). Rovers minimize human disturbance in research on wild animals. Nature Methods. ISSN 1548-7091. 11(12), p. 1242–1247. doi: 10.1038/nmeth.3173.
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Trucchi, Emiliano; Gratton, Paolo; Whittington, Jason; Cristofari, Robin; Le Maho, Yvon & Stenseth, Nils Christian [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2014). King penguin demography since the last glaciation inferred from genome-wide data. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences. ISSN 0962-8452. 281(1787), p. 1–8. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2014.0528.
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Slagsvold, Tore; Husek, Jan; Whittington, Jason & Wiebe, Karen (2014). Antipredator behavior: Escape flights on a landscape slope. Behavioral Ecology. ISSN 1045-2249. 25(2), p. 378–385. doi: 10.1093/beheco/aru003.
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Kausrud, Kyrre; Lagesen, Karin; Easterday, William Ryan; Whittington, Jason; Turner, Wendy Christine & Wolff, Cecilia Mia [Show all 8 contributors for this article] (2021). How much time have we got? ARPHA Conference Abstracts. ISSN 2603-3925. doi: 10.3897/aca.4.e68934.
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Kausrud, Kyrre; Turner, Wendy C.; Easterday, William Ryan; Feiring, Marie; Skjerdal, Taran & Whittington, Jason [Show all 11 contributors for this article] (2021). Evolving at the speed of risk.
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Whittington, Jason (2015). The Added Value of Nordic Cooperation.
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Whittington, Jason (2014). Acoustic features of display calls may reveal breeding status and individual quality in emperor penguins.
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