Rate My Professor Marta Guerra

Guerra has authored or co-authored over 20 peer-reviewed publications, accumulating more than 285 citations. Key works include "Characterizing the Distribution and Behavior of Sperm Whales, Physeter macrocephalus, Over the Otago Submarine Canyons, New Zealand" (Marine Mammal Science, 2026), "Seasonal variation in the use of food resources by sperm whales in a submarine canyon" (Deep Sea Research Part I, 2023), "Fine-scale habitat use of foraging sperm whales is driven by seafloor topography and water column structure" (Marine Mammal Science, 2022), "Evidence from sperm whale clans of symbolic marking in non-human cultures" (PNAS, 2022), "Multi-decadal observations of the size structure of sperm whales at Kaikōura, New Zealand" (Marine Mammal Science, 2021), and "Changes in habitat use by a deep-diving predator in response to a strong coastal earthquake" (Marine Ecology Progress Series, 2020). These contributions have advanced knowledge of deep-diving predator ecology and conservation implications in New Zealand waters. Her PhD research was supported by a University of Otago scholarship. She contributes to teaching, including the course MARI 302: Biology and Behaviour of Marine Vertebrates.