Pacific Ocean

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • Abundance and genetic diversity of aerobic anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria of coastal regions of the pacific ocean. 
  • Acoustic ecology of the California mantis shrimp (Hemisquilla californiensis). 
  • Assessing niche width of endothermic fish from genes to ecosystem. 
  • Bacterial photosynthesis in surface waters of the open ocean. 
  • Challenges to interdisciplinary research in ecosystem-based management. 
  • Contrasting quaternary histories in an ecologically divergent sister pair of low-dispersing intertidal fish (Xiphister) revealed by multilocus DNA analysis. 
  • Contrasting seasonal drivers of virus abundance and production in the North Pacific Ocean. 
  • Contribution of aerobic photoheterotrophic bacteria to the carbon cycle in the ocean. 
  • Dependence of the cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus on hydrogen peroxide scavenging microbes for growth at the ocean's surface. 
  • Dynamic habitat models: Using telemetry data to project fisheries bycatch. 
  • Expanded niche for white sharks. 
  • Genomes and gene expression across light and productivity gradients in eastern subtropical Pacific microbial communities. 
  • Lessons learned from coordinating research on the North Atlantic (CORONA). 
  • Light-driven synchrony of Prochlorococcus growth and mortality in the subtropical Pacific gyre. 
  • Mesopelagic cephalopods switch between transparency and pigmentation to optimize camouflage in the deep. 
  • NanoSIMS single cell analyses reveal the contrasting nitrogen sources for small phytoplankton. 
  • New nitrogen-fixing microorganisms detected in oligotrophic oceans by amplification of Nitrogenase (nifH) genes. 
  • Niche partitioning and biogeography of high light adapted Prochlorococcus across taxonomic ranks in the North Pacific. 
  • Observations on parasitism in deep-sea hydrothermal vent and seep limpets. 
  • Population genetic differentiation of the hydrothermal vent crab Austinograea alayseae (Crustacea: Bythograeidae) in the Southwest Pacific Ocean. 
  • Relationship between abundance and specific activity of bacterioplankton in open ocean surface waters. 
  • Temporal patterns in the acoustic signals of beaked whales at Cross Seamount. 
  • The Marine Mammal Protection Act at 40: status, recovery, and future of U.S. marine mammals. 
  • The Tara Pacific expedition-A pan-ecosystemic approach of the "-omics" complexity of coral reef holobionts across the Pacific Ocean. 
  • The performance of matched-field track-before-detect methods using shallow-water Pacific data. 
  • The spatial scale of genetic subdivision in populations of Ifremeria nautilei, a hydrothermal-vent gastropod from the southwest Pacific. 
  • Trends in tuna carbon isotopes suggest global changes in pelagic phytoplankton communities. 
  • Variable but persistent coexistence of Prochlorococcus ecotypes along temperature gradients in the ocean's surface mixed layer. 
  • Vertical distribution and characterization of aerobic phototrophic bacteria at the Juan de Fuca Ridge in the Pacific Ocean. 
  • Viral and bacterial abundance and production in the Western Pacific Ocean and the relation to other oceanic realms. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Lozier, M. Susan, Ronie-Richele Garcia-Johnson Emerita Professor of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Earth and Climate Sciences
  • Schultz, Thomas F., Assistant Professor of the Practice of Marine Molecular Conservation, Marine Science and Conservation