PITMAN, Robert L.

Robert L. Pitman

PITMAN, Robert L. ( - ) was a seabird biologist and marine ecologist for NOAA Fisheries at the Southwest Fisheries Science Center in the Marine Mammal and Turtle Division.

Pitman stated his research interests on the NOAA website: "I have been studying seabirds and cetaceans since 1976, and marine turtles and flying fish since 1986. My interests include biogeography, foraging ecology, evolutionary biology, and general ecology. I spend between 6 and 8 months each year in the field, mostly at sea in pelagic ecosystems, on research vessels of all kinds. These have taken me to the tropical Pacific, Indian, and Atlantic oceans, Antarctic waters, and the Bering Sea. Currently my main interest is Antarctic killer whale ecology and systematic."

Pitman collected on:

• ANACAPA ISLAND
• SAN CLEMENTS ISLAND
• SAN MIGUEL ISLAND
• SAN NICOLAS ISLAND
• SANTA BARBARA ISLAND

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• ISLA CEDROS
• ISLAS LOS CORONADOS
• ISLA GUADALUPE
• ISLAS SAN BENITO

• Pitman, R. L. and S. M. Speich. Black Storm Petrel Breeds in the United States in Western Birds 7:2 (71) (1976).

SAN CLEMENTE ISLAND

ISLAND	COLLECTOR	INSTITUTION	DATE	NUMBER	SPECIMEN
San Clemente Island	R. L. Pitman	CM	January 7, 1978	CM Birds P151789	Melanitta perspicillata	Birds

ISLA CEDROS

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ISLA GUADALUPE

ISLAND	COLLECTOR	INSTITUTION	DATE	NUMBER	SPECIMEN
Isla Guadalupe	R. L. Pitman	SDMNH	December 7, 2000	SDNHM-0806	Oceanodroma leucorhoa	Birds

ISLA SAN BENITO

ISLAND	COLLECTOR	INSTITUTION	DATE	NUMBER	SPECIMEN
Islas San Benito	R. L. Pitman	LACM	July 21, 1989	LACM-106130	Puffinus opisthomelas	Birds