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Moore JW, Ulaski ME, Wilson KL, Martin TG, Dakin Kuiper S, Peacock SJ, Braun DC, Naman SM, Pitman KJ, Reid AJ, Rosenfeld JS, Sainsbury NC, Wilson SM, Zdasiuk BJ (2025) A safe operating space for salmon watersheds under rapid climate change. Fish and Fisheries, faf.70027 DOI

Whited D, Pitman KJ, Moore JW, Sergeant CJ, Sexton E, Connor M (2025). Rapid riparian vegetation development and channel stabilization linked to glacier retreat within a large transboundary watershed. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 2025;50:e6045. DOI
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Naman SM, Pitman KJ, Cunningham DS, Potapova A, Chartrand SM, Sloat MR, Moore JW (2024). Forestry impacts on stream flows and temperatures: A quantitative synthesis of paired catchment studies across the Pacific salmon range. ​Ecological Solutions and Evidence, 5, e12328. DOI

Sergeant CJ, Moore JW, Whited DC, Pitman KJ, Connor M, Sexton EK (2024) An interdisciplinary synthesis of floodplain ecosystem dynamics in a rapidly deglaciating watershed. Science of the Total Environment 912: 169245. DOI

Moore JW, Pitman KJ, Whited D, Marsden NT, Sexton EK, Sergeant CJ, Connor M (2023) Mining stakes claim on salmon futures as glaciers retreat. Science 382: 887-889. DOI

Wilson KL, Sawyer AC, Potapova A, Bailey CJ, LoScerbo D, Sweeney-Bergen EK, Hodgson EE, Pitman KJ, Seitz KM, Law LK,  Warkentin L, Wilson SM, Atlas WI, Braun DC, Sloat MW, Tinker TM, Moore JW (2023) The role of spatial structure in at-risk metapopulation
recoveries. Ecological Applications 33, e2898. DOI

Pitman KJ, Moore JW, Huss M, Sloat MR, Whited DC, Beechie TJ, Brenner R, Hood EW, Milner AM, Pess GR, Reeves GH, Schindler DE (2021) Glacier retreat creating new Pacific salmon habitat in western North America. Nature Communications 12:6816. DOI
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Pitman KJ, Moore JW (2021) The role of large, glaciated tributaries in cooling an important Pacific salmon migration corridor: a study of the Babine River. Environmental Biology of Fishes 104: 1263-1277. DOI

Pitman KJ, Moore JW, Sloat MR, Beaudreau AH, Bidlack AL, Brenner RE, Hood EW, Pess GR, Mantua NJ, Milner AM, Radic V, Reeves GH, Schindler DE, Whited DC (2020) Glacier Retreat and Pacific Salmon. Bioscience 70: 220-236. DOI
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  • Print media: Bioscience, GlacierHub, New York Times, Vancouver Sun, Wild Salmon Center, ​University of Alaska Fairbanks​, ​Alaska Coastal Rainforest Center, Salmon-net, Oceanographic Issue 13. 
  • Jonathan Moore's interview with C-FAX (radio) and SFU press release

Atlas WI, Selbie DT, Holt CA, Cox-Rogers S, Carr-Harris C, Pitman KJ, Moore JW (2020) Landscape and biophysical controls of lake capacity to inform evaluation of sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) populations in data-limited regions. Limnology & Oceanography 65: 2205-2219. PDF
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Pitman, KJ, Wilson, SM, Sweeney-Bergen, E, Hirshfield, P, Beere, MC, Moore, JW (2018) Linking anglers, fish, and management in a catch-and-release steelhead trout fishery. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 76: 1060–1072. PDF 

Pitman, KJ, and Smith, DJ (2013) A dendroclimatic analysis of mountain hemlock (Tsuga mertensiana) ring-width and maximum density parameters, southern British Columbia Coast Mountains, Canada. Dendrochronologia 31: 165-174. PDF

Pitman, KJ, and Smith, DJ (2012) Tree-ring derived Little Ice Age temperature trends from the central British Columbia Coast Mountains, Canada. Quaternary Research 78: 417-426. PDF

Other publications

Pitman KJ and Moore JW (2018) Update: Babine River temperature Project. Plain language summary for dissemination for Gitxsan and Lake Babine Nations.

Pitman, KJ and Hirshfield, P (2017) A Survey of Steelhead Anglers on the Bulkley, Kispiox, Zymoetz II and Skeena IV Classified Waters in 2015. British Columbia Ministry of Environment, Lands, and Parks. Fisheries Branch, Skeena Region, BC. Skeena Fisheries Report SK 170. pp 81. PDF

Pitman, KJ and Hirshfield, P (2017) A Survey of Steelhead Anglers on the Bulkley, Kispiox, Zymoetz II and Skeena IV Classified Waters in 2014. British Columbia Ministry of Environment, Lands, and Parks. Fisheries Branch, Skeena Region, BC. Skeena Fisheries Report SK 170. pp 75. PDF

Pitman, KJ and Hirshfield, P (2015) A Survey of Steelhead Anglers on the Bulkley, Kispiox, Zymoetz II and Skeena IV Classified Waters in 2013. British Columbia Ministry of Environment, Lands, and Parks. Fisheries Branch, Skeena Region, BC. Skeena Fisheries Report SK 167. pp 76. PDF

​Pitman, KJ (2012) Scientific review of tree ring derived proxy climate records, Athabasca river headwaters, Alberta. Final report to Water and Climate Impacts Research Centre, Environment Canada. 569 pp.
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