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.
- Baleen whale prey consumption based on high-resolution foraging measurements.
- 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.
- 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.
- Protistan plankton communities in the Galápagos Archipelago respond to changes in deep water masses resulting from the 2015/16 El Niño.
- 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