Articles, Papers, and Other Useful Links

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Publications by Dr. Tom WIlliams

Chapters

Sea Otter Biology And Medicine, Thomas D. Williams DVM, Handbook of Health, Disease and Rehabilitation in Marine Mammals.  Ed. by Leslie Dierauf. CRC Press, Inc.  Boca Raton, Florida. 1990.

Anesthesia of Marine Mammals, Thomas D. Williams DVM, A. Lesley Williams and Michael Stoskopf, Handbook of Health Disease and Rehabilitation in Marine Mammals.  Ed. by Leslie Dierauf, CRC Press Inc.  Boca Raton, Florida. 1990.

The Sea Otter, Thomas D. Williams, Zoo and Wild Animal Medicine. Ed. Murray E. Fowler. 1985 2nd. ed. W.B. Saunders   Co., Phil, London, Toronto. 1985

The Sea Otter Oil Spill Contingency Plan of the Monterey Bay Aquarium.  Thomas McClousky and Thomas D. Williams. In house pub.

Physiologic and Toxic Effects on Sea Otters.  Joseph R.  Geraci and Thomas D. Williams, Sea Mammals and Oil:  Confronting the Risks. Ed. Joseph R. Geraci and David J. St. Aubin, Academic Press, Inc., Harcourt Brace 
Jovanovich, Pub. San Diego. 1990.

Clinical Treatment and Rehabilitation of Oiled Sea Otters. R.K. Wilson, P.Tuomi, J.P. Schroeder, and T.D. Williams. In: Sea Otter Rehabilitation Program: 1989 Exxon Valdez Oil Spill. Ed. Williams TM and Davis RW, 1990.

Sea otter Pup Rehabilitation Procedures Manual.  Thomas D.   Williams & Julie Hymer.  Monterey Bay Aquarium - In House Publication. 1991.

Sea Otter Rehabilitation.  Thomas D. Williams.  Zoo & Wild Animal Medicine.  Ed. Murray E. Fowler.  W.B. Saunders 1992.

Rehabilitating Oiled Sea Otters and Other Fur Bearing Marine Mammals.  Ed. Terrie M. Williams.  University of Alaska Press. 1992.

Tagging Techniques Used In Sea Otters During the Valdez  Oil Spill.  Thomas D. Williams & Tony DeGange

Raising Oiled Orphaned Alaskan Sea Otter Pups.  Thomas   D. Williams D.V.M., Julie Hymer, Dale Styers and Susan   Rainville

Restraint and Anesthesia of Sea Otters.  Thomas D.   Williams & Donald C. Sawyer.

Alaskan Sea Otter Symposium - U.S.F.& W.S. 1991.

Blood Collection and Analysis during the Valdez, Alaskan Oil Spill.  Thomas D. Williams & Riley Wilson

Clinical Treatment and Rehabilitation.  Riley K. Wilson, Carolyn R. McCormick, Thomas D. Williams, &  Pamela A. Tuomi, D.V.M.

Chemical Restraint and Anesthesia of Sea Otters  Affected by the Oil Spill in Prince William Sound,   Alaska.  Donald C. Sawyer & Thomas D. Williams.

Intra-muscular Fish Anesthesia in Sawyer’s book on Anesthesia in small animals 2007. 

Manuscripts

Serum Neutralization Anti-IgG Test for Psittacosis. Thomas D. Williams and Nicholas Hahon. Infection and Immunity, July, 1970, Vol. 2, No.1.

The Effect of Restraint and Position Upon Selected Respiratory Parameters of Two Species of Macaca. Richard F. Berendt and Thomas D. Williams. Laboratory Animal Science, Vol 21, No 4, 1971.

Chemical Immobilization, Baseline Hematological Parameters   and Oil Contamination in the Sea Otter.  Thomas D. Williams DVM. United States Marine Mammal Commission, Wash. D.C. National Technical Information Service, PB 283 969, August, pp 1-27, 1978.

Comparison of Anesthetic Agents in the Sea Otter. Thomas D. Williams DVM & Frank H. Kocher DVM. Journal of the Amer. Vet. Med. Association. Nov. 1, 1978, Vol 173, pp. 1127-1130.

Experiments on the Response of Sea Otters (Enhydra lutris) to Oil Contamination. D.B. Siniff, T.D. Williams, A.M. Johnson and D.L. Garshelis. Biological Conservation 23, pp 261-272, 1982.
Presented at the second conference on Biology of Marine    Mammals, February, 1978.
 
Composition of Milk of the Sea Otter (Enhydra lutris). Robert Jenness, Thomas D. Williams, & Robert J. Mullin. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. Vol 170 A, pp 375-379. 1981. Presented at the Fifty-ninth Annual Meeting of the American Society of Mammologists, June, 1979.

Twinning in a California Sea Otter. Thomas D. Williams and James Mattison. Jour. of Mammology, Aug. 1980, Vol 61, No 3.

Leiomyomas in Two Sea Otters, (Enhydra lutris). Thomas D. Williams, DVM & L. Thomas Pulley, DVM, PHD. Jour. of Wildlife Dis. Vol 17, No 3, July 1981.

Fentanyl and Azaperone Produced Neuroleptanalgesia in the Sea Otter. Thomas D. Williams, A. Lesley Williams, and Donald B. Siniff, PhD. Jour. of Wildl. Dis., Vol 17, No 3, July, 1981.

Cholangio-cellular Adenocarcinoma, Leiomyoma, & Pheochromocytoma in a Sea Otter. Elliot Stetzer, Thomas D. Williams & John W. Nightingale. J.A.V.M.A. Vol 179, No 11, pp 1283-1284, 1981.

Blood Collection, Hematology and Blood Chemistry in the Sea Otter. Thomas D. Williams & L. Thomas Pulley. J. Wildlife Diseases 19(1), pp44-47, 1983.

Pneumoperitonium Associated with Intestinal Volvulus in a Sea Otter. Thomas D. Williams DVM, Lisa Hoefler & Wayne Pinard. J.A.V.M.A. Vol 183, No 11, December 1, 1983.

Surgery Implantation of Radiotelemetry Devices in the Sea Otter. Thomas D. Williams DVM & Donald B. Siniff PHD. J.A.V.M.A., Vol 183, No 11, Dec. 1, 1983

Chemical Immobilization of Free-Ranging Feral Horses from Helicopters. U.S. Seal, D.B. Siniff, J.R. Tester & T.D. Williams. Jour. of Wildlife Disease 21(4),1985  pp.411-416.

Sea Otter Oil Spill Mitigation Study.  MMS-86-9, Contract #14-12-0001, May 1986.  Principal Investigator.

Sea Otter Transmitter Implantation Surgery. Sea Otter Anes. and Chemical Restraint. Rehabilitation of Cleaned Sea Otters. Restraint of Sea Otters. Equipment needed for rehabilitation.

An Implanted Transponder Chip Used as a Tag for Sea Otters (Enhydra lutris). J.A. Thomas, L.H. Cornell, B.E. Joseph, T.D. Williams, S. Dreischman. Marine Mammal Science, 3(3):271-274, July 1987.

Volvulus in a Sea Otter. Thomas D. Williams, J. Dianne Soule, James Ticer, Charles J. Farwell, A.H. Rebar. California Veterinarian, Vol 41, No 5, Sept 1987

Surgical Repair of the Gular Sac of the Brown Pelican. T.D. Williams, P. Quinn Gawlowski, D.A. Strickland, A.Lesley Williams & B. Atlee. Journal of Zoo Animal Medicine 19(3):122-125, 1988.

An Analysis of California Sea Otter (Enhydra lutris) Pelage and Integument. Thomas D. Williams, D.Diane Allen, Joseph M. Groff, & Robert L. Glass. Marine Mammal Science, 8(1):1-18(January 1992).

Refractive State, Ocular Anatomy, and Accommodative Range of    the Sea Otter (Enhydra lutris). Christopher J. Murphy, Roy W. Bellhorn, Thomas D. Williams, Margaret S. Burns, Frank Schaeffel, and Howard C. Howland. Vision Res. Vol. 30, No. 1, pp 23-32. 1990.

A Physical Restraint Device for Sea Otters. Thomas D. Williams, Derik Bayliss, Steve Downey & Rick Clark. Journal of Zoo Animal Medicine 21(1):105-107,1990.

Chemical Restraint and Anesthesia of Sea Otters Affected by the Oil Spill in Prince William Sound, Alaska. Donald C. Sawyer, DVM, PhD, Thomas D. Williams DVM. Accepted by J. Amer. Vet. Med. Assoc. 1991.

Volumetric Image Processing for Three-Dimensional Display of    the Skeletal Anatomy of the Sea Otter. Michael K. Stoskoph, DVM, PhD, Elliot K. Fishman, MD, & Thomas D. Williams, DVM. Veterinary Radiology, Vol, No. 3, 1990: pp 142-145.

An Intraperitoneal Radio Transmitter for Sea Otters. D. Ralls, D.B. Siniff, T.D. Williams, V.B. Kuechle. Marine Mammal Science 5(4):376-381 October 1989.

Raising Orphaned Sea Otter Pups. Thomas D. Williams & Julie  Hymer.  J. Amer. Vet. Med. Assoc. Vol. 201, No.5, Sept 1,  1992.

Influence of Age, Sex, Means of Capture, and Means of Restraint on Hematology and Serum Chemistry in Wild  California Sea Otters. Thomas D. Williams, A.H. Rebar,  Robert Teclaw & Paul Yoos.  J. Veterinary Clinical   Pathology, Vol 21, No 4 pp 106 - 110, Dec 1992.

Block, B.A., Dewar, H., Williams, T., Prince, E.D., Farwell, C. & D. Fudge. 1998. A new satellite technology for tracking the movements of Atlantic bluefin tuna. Proceedings of the National Academy 95: 9384-9389.

Block, B. A., Dewar, H., Williams, T., Prince, E. and C. Farwell. 1998. The use of archival, acoustic and satellite tags on tuna. Marine Technological Society Journal 32: 37-46.

Ellerby, D. J., J. D. Altringham, T. Williams and B. A. Block  .2000. Slow muscle function of Pacific  Bonito during steady  swimming. J. Experimental Biology 203:  2001-2013

Block, B.A., Dewar, H., Blackwell, S.B., Williams, T.D., Prince, E. Boustany, A.M., Farwell, C., D. J. Dau, D. J., Seitz, A.(2001). Migratory movements, depth preferences and thermal biology of Atlantic bluefin tuna. Science 293: 1310-1314.

Block, B.A., Dewar, H., Blackwell, S.B., Williams, T., Prince, E. Boustany, A.M., Farwell, C., D. J. Dau, D. J., Seitz, A. 2001. Archival and Pop-up Satellite Tagging of Atlantic Bluefin Tuna. J.R. Sibert and J. L. Nielsen (eds.), Electronic Tagging and Tracking in Marine Fisheries, 65-88. 2001 Kluwer Academic Publishers. The Netherlands.65-88.

In situ cardiac performance of Pacific bluefin tuna hearts in response to acute temperature change.  Jason M. Blank, Jeffery M. Morrissette, Ana M. Landeira-Fernandez, Susanna b. Blackwell, Thomas D. Williams and Barbara A. Block.  The Journal of Experimental Biology 207, 881-890.

Williams, T.D., Rollins, M., and B.A. Block. 2004. Intramuscular anesthesia of bonito (Sarda chiliensis) and Pacific mackerel Scomber japonica) with ketamine, medetomidine and reversal with Atipamezole.  J. Amer. Vet. Med. Assoc. 225: 417-21.

Block, B.A., Teo, S., Walli, A., Boustany, A., Farwell, C., Dewar, H., Weng, K. and T. Williams. 2005. Elecronic tagging and population structure of Atlantic bluefin tuna. Nature 434: 1121-1127.