Publications

With CANHR data:

Allen, J., Mohatt, G.V., Hazel, K., Rasmus, M., Thomas, L. and Lindley, S. (2006). The tools to understand: Community as co-researcher on culture specific protective factors for Alaska Natives. In Reeb, R., (ed.). Community Action Research: Benefits to Community Members and Service Providers. Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press. Published simultaneously in Journal of Prevention and Intervention in the Community, 32: 41-59.

Bersamin, A., Luick, B.R., King, I.B., Ruppert, E., Stern, J.S., and Zidenberg-Cherr, S. (2008). Westernizing diets influence fat intake, red blood cell fatty acid composition, and health in remote Alaska Native Communities in the Center for Alaska Native Health Research Study. Journal of the American Dietetic Association, 108 (2): 266-73.

Bersamin, A., Luick, B.R., Ruppert, E., Stern, J.S., and Zidenberg-Cherr, S. (2007). Nutrient intakes are associated with adherence to a traditional diet among Yup’ik Eskimos living in remote Alaska Native Communities: The CANHR Study. International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 66 (1): 62-70

Bersamin, A., Luick, B.R., Stern, J.S., Zidenberg-Cherr, S. (2006). Diet quality among Alaska Natives living in the Yukon Kuskokwim River Delta is low: the CANHR pilot Study. Journal of the American Dietetics Association, 106 (7): 1055-1063.

Boyer, B. B., Mohatt, G. V., Plaetke, R., Herron, J., Stanhope, K.L., Stephensen, C., Havel, P.J. and the CANHR Project team (2007). Metabolic syndrome in Yup’ik Eskimos: The Center for Alaska Native Health Research (CANHR) study. Obesity, 15: 2535–2540.

Boyer, B.B., Mohatt, G.V., Pasker, R.L., Drew, E.M., McGlone, K.K. (2007). Sharing results from complex disease genetics studies: a community based participatory research approach. International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 66 (1): 19-30.

Dana, R.H, and Allen, J. (2009). Globalization: Psychological problems and social needs. Cultural Competency Training in a Global Society. In Dana, R.H, and Allen, (eds.) J. New York, Springer: 25-42.

Chung, W. K., Patki, A., Matsuoko, N., Boyer, B.B., Liu, N., Musani, S.K., Gorophanaya, A.V., Katsanis, N., Johnson, S.B., Gegersen, P.K., Allison, D.B., Leibel, R.L., Tiwari, H.K. (2009). Analysis of 30 Genes (355 SNPS) related to energy homestasis for association with adiposity in European-American and Yup'ik Eskimo populations. Human Heredity, 67: 193-205.

Gopashnaya, A.V., Herron, J., Sexton, M., Havel, P.J., Stanhope, K.L., Plaetke, R., Mohatt, G.V., Boyer, B.B., (2009) Relationships between plasma adiponectin and body fat distribution, insulin sensitivity, and plasma lipoproteins in Alaskan Yup'ik Eskimos: The Center for Alaska Native Health Research study. Metabolism, 58 (1): 22-29.

Hopkins, S.E., Mohatt, G.V., Kwachka, P., Lardon, C. (2007). Keeping Busy: A Yup’ik/Cup’ik perspective on heath and aging. International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 66 (1): 42-50.

Lardon, C., Drew, E.M., Kernak, D., Lupie, H., and Soule, S. (2007). Health promotion in rural Alaska: Building partnerships across distance and ultures. Partnership Perspectives, 6 (1): 125-132. (pdf)

Legaspi, A.V.C., Orr, E.M., the CANHR Data Dissemination Team (2007). Disseminating research on community health and wellbeing: A collaboration between Alaska Native villages and the academe. American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research: the Journal of the National Center, 14 (1): 24-43. (pdf)

McGlone, K.K, Drew E., Mohatt, G.V., Pasker, R., and Boyer, B.B. (2007). Sharing research results from complex disease genetic studies: A community-based participatory research approach. American Society of Human Genetics. San Diego, CA.

Mohatt, G.V., Rasmus, S. M., Thomas, L., Allen, J., Hazel, K., and Marlatt, G.A. (2007). Risk, Resilience, and Natural Recovery: A Model of Recovery from Alcohol Abuse for Alaska Natives. Addiction, 103: 205-215.

Mohatt, G.V., Klejka, J., Boyer, B.B., Luick, B.R., Lardon, C., Plaetke, R., Wolsko, C., Hopkins, S.E., Dondanville, M., Herron, J., Ruppert, E., Bersamin, A., Orr, E.M., and the CANHR Research Team (2007). The Center for Alaska Native Health Research Study: A community-based participatory research study of obesity and chronic disease-related protective and risk factors. International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 66 (1): 8-18.

Mohatt, G.V., Trimble, J., and Dickson, R. (2006). Psychosocial foundations of academic performance in culture based education programs for American Indian and Alaska Native youth: Reflections on a multidisciplinary perspective. Journal of American Indian Education (Special Issue), 45(3): 38-59.

O’Brien, D.M., Kristal, A.R., Jeannet, M.A., Wilkinson M.J., Bersamin A., Luick B.R. (2009). Red blood cell d15N: a novel biomarker of dietary eicosapentaenoic acid and docosahexaenoic acid intake. The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 89(3): 913-919.

Segal, B., and Saylor, B. (2007). Social transition in the north: Comparisons of drug-taking behavior among Alaska and Russian Natives. International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 66(1): 71-76.

Wilkinson, M.J., Yai, Y., and O’Brien, D. (2007). Age-related variation in red blood cell stable isotope ratios (d13C and d15N) from two Yup’ik villages in southwest Alaska: A pilot study. International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 66 (1): 31-41.

Wolsko, C., Lardon, C., Mohatt, G.V. (2007). Stress, coping, and well-being among the Yup’ik of the Yukon Kuskokwim Delta: the role of enculturation and acculturation. International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 66 (1): 51-60.

Wolsko, C., Lardon, C., Hutchison, S., and Ruppert, E. (2006). Conceptions of wellness among the Yup'ik of the Yukon Kuskokwim Delta: The vitality of social and natural connection. Ethnicity and Health, 11 (4): 345-363. (pdf)

Other publications:

Allen, J. (2007). A multicultural assessment supervision model to guide research and practice. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 38(3): 248-258.

Allen, J., Vaage, A. B., and Hauff, E. (2006). Refugees, asylum seekers, internally displaced persons, and trafficked individuals: Acculturation in involuntary immigration and forced displacement. In Sam, D. and Berry, J. (eds.), Cambridge Handbook of Acculturation Psychology. London: Cambridge University Press.

Allen, J. (2006). Ethnic Identity Development Measures: Black Racial Identity Attitude Scale. Encyclopedia of Multicultural Psychology. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Barger, J. L. Barnes, B. M., and Boyer, B.B. (2006). Regulation of UCP1 and UCP3 in arctic ground squirrels and correlation with mitochondrial proton leak. Journal of Applied Physiology, 101(1): 339-347. (pdf)

Bentzen, T. W., Follmann, E.W., Wooller, M. J., Muir, D.C.G., Amstrup, S. C., York, G. W., and O'Hara, T.M., (2008). Dietary biomagnification of organochlorine contaminants in Alaskan polar bears. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 86: 177-191.

Bentzen, T.W., Muir, D.C.G., Amstrup, S. C., and O'Hara, T.M. (2008). Organohalogen concentrations in blood and adipose tissue Southern Beaufort Sea polar bears. Science of the Total Environment, 406: 352-367.

Bentzen, T.W., Follmann, E.W. Amstrup, S.C., York, G.W., Wooller, M.J. and O'Hara, T.M. (2007). Variation in winter diet of southern Beaufort Sea polar bears inferred from staple isotope analyses. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 85: 596-608.

Brookens, T.J., O'Hara, T.M., Taylor, R., Bratton, G. and Harvey, J.T. (2008). Body burden assessment of total mercury in the Pacific harbor seal pup (Phoca vitulina richardii) from central California. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 56: 27-41.

Brookens, T.J., Harvey, J.T.,a nd O’Hara, T.M. (2007). Trace element concentrations in the Pacific harbor seal (Phoca vitulina richardii) in central and northern California. Science of the Total Environment, 372: 676-692. (pdf)

Burek, K.A., Gulland, F.M.D., and O'Hara, T.M. (2008). Effects of climate change on arctic marine mammal health in assessing the impacts of climate change on arctic marine mammals. Ecological Applications. In Huntington, H., and Moore, S., (eds.). Marine Mammal Commission (U.S.), 18: S126-S134.

Dana, R. H. and Allen, J. (2009). The human face of globalization. In Dana, R. H. and Allen, J. (eds.), Cultural Competency Training in a Global Society. New York, Springer: 5-24

Dana, R.H. and Allen, J. (2009). Transitions integrating research and practice. Cultural Competency Training in a Global Society. In Dana, R.H. and Allen, J. (eds.). New York, Springer: 67-78.

Dehn, L., Sheffield, G.G., Follmann, E.H., Duffy, L.K., Thomas, D.L., and O’Hara, T.M. (2007). Feeding ecology of phocid seals and some walrus in the Alaskan and Canadian Arctic as determined by stomach contents and stable isotope analysis. Polar Biology, 30: 167-181. (pdf)

Doorack, J. E., Allen, J., and Battaglia, J. (2007). Co-occurring SAD symptomatology and schizophrenia at high latitude: A pilot study. International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 66(3): 49-57.

Jurcevic, S., Vlastelica, M., Allen, J., and Dahl, S. (2008). Gender differences in war-related disappearance in Croatia (1991-1995). Psychiatria Danubina, 20(1): 52-62.

Kaufman, M.R., Gradinger, R.R., Bluhm, B.A., and O’Brien, D.M. (2008) Using stable isotopes to assess carbon and nitrogen turnover in the Arctic sympagic amphipod (Onisimus litoralis). Oecologia, 158(1): 11-22.

Mohatt, G.V., Allen, J., and Thomas, L. R. (2007). Drug and alcohol abuse in cross-cultural counseling. In Pedersen, P., Draguns, J. G., Lonner, W.J., Trimble, J.E. (eds.), Counseling Across Cultures. Thousand Oaks, CA, Sage: 395-413.

O'Brien, D.M., Min, K.J., Larsen, T., and Tatar, M.(2008). Use of stable isotopes to examine how diet restrictions extends Drosophilia life span. Current Biology, 18(4): R155-R156.

O'Brien, D.M. and Wooller, M.J. (2007). Tracking human migration using stable oxygen and hydrogen isotope analyses of hair and urine. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 21: 2422-2430 (pdf)

Oppel, S., Powell, A.N., and O’Brien, D.M. (2009)  Using eggshell membranes as a non-invasive tool for investigating nutrient allocation to egg production. Journal of Ornithology, 150(1): 109-115

Sears J., Hatch S.A., and O’Brien, D.M. (2009) Disentangling effects of growth and nutritional status on seabird stable isotope ratios. Oecologia 159:41-48.

Rosa, C., Blake, J.E., Mazzaro, L., Hoekstra, P., Ylitalo, G.M., and O'Hara, T.M. (2007). Vitamin A and E tissue distribution with comparisons to organochlorine concentrations in the serum, blubber and liver of the bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus). Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Part B, 148: 454-462.

Rosa, C., O'Hara, T.M., Hoekstra, P.F., Refsal, K.R., and Blake, J.E. (2007). Serum thyroid hormone concentrations and thyroid histomorphology as biomarkers in bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus). Canadian Journal of Zoology, 85: 609-618.

Scott, J.H., O'Brien, D.M. , Emerson, D., Sun, H., McDonald, G.D., Salgado, A., and Fogel, M.L. (2006). An examination of the carbon isotope effects associated with amino acid biosynthesis. Astrobiology, 6(6):867-880. (pdf)

Trimble, J. E., and Gonzalez, J. (2007). Cultural considerations andperspectives for providing psychological counseling for Native American Indians. Counseling Across Cultures. In Pedersen, P., Draguns, J., Lonner, W. and Trimble. J. E. (eds.). Thousands Oaks, CA, Sage: 93-111.

Wang, Y., Francis, D., O'Brien, D.M., and Wooller, M.J., (2008). A protocol for preparing subfossil Chironomid head capsules (Diptera: Cironomidae) for stable istotope analysis in paleoclimate reconstruction. Journal of Paleolimnology, Published online Feb. 20, 2008. DOI 10.107s10933-008-9197-3.

Wise, J.P., Wise, S.S., Kraus, S., Shaffiey, F., Grau, M., Chen, T.L., Perkins, C., Thompson, W.D., Zheng, T., Zhang, Y., Romano T., and O'Hara, T.M. (2008). Hexavalent chromium is cytotoxic and genotoxic to the North American right whale (Eubalaena glacialis) lung and testes fibroblasts. Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis, 650: 30-38.

Woshner, V.K., Knott, K., Wells, R., Willetto, C., Swor R., and O'Hara, T.M. (2008). Mercury and selenium in blood of bottlenose dolphins (tursiops truncatus) from Sarasota Bay, FL: Interaction and reference to life history and hematologic parameters. EcoHealth, 5(1): 1-11.

Yan J., Burman A., Nichols C., Alila L., Showe L.C., Showe M.K., Boyer B.B., Barnes B.M., Marr T.G. (2006). The detection of differential gene expression in brown adipose tissue of hibernating arctic ground squirrels using mouse microarrays. Physiol Genomics, 25(2):346-353. (pdf)