As the world's sixth mass extinction continues, the loss of large animals has widespread effects on biodiversity and ecosystem processes. Research acr...
Salt marshes are dynamic hydrologic systems where terrestrial groundwater, terrestrial surface water, and seawater mix due to bi-directional flows and...
In much of the USA, Phragmites australis is a prolific invasive species in wetland habitats. The spread of Phragmites can significantly alter the stru...
Corpus Christi Bay is a shallow, wind-driven lagoon located on the semi-arid South Texas coast that has a rapidly urbanizing watershed. Projections in...
Coastal wetlands experience acute and chronic disturbances which can affect rates of surface elevation change and vertical accretion of surface sedime...
2017 | Journal of Plankton Research, 39(3), 531-549
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Environmental mechanisms that drive changes in phytoplankton community structure remain a remarkably understudied topic in phytoplankton ecology. For ...
Eukaryotic phytoplankton exhibit an enormous species richness, displaying a range of phylogenetic, morphological and physiological diversity. Yet, unt...
2019 | IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 25(9), 2777-2790
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Pseudocoloring is one of the most common techniques used in scientific visualization. To apply pseudocoloring to a scalar field, the field value at ea...
The recognized gap between research and implementation in avian conservation can be overcome with translational ecology, an intentional approach in wh...
Smalleye Pacific opah and swordfish can conserve metabolic heat and maintain specific body regions warmer than ambient water temperature (i.e. regiona...
Length-based mortality estimators have been developed as alternative assessment methods for data-limited stocks. We compared mortality estimates from ...
2022 | Journal of Plankton Research, 44(5), 600-617
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Western Atlantic bluefin tuna (ABT) undertake long-distance migrations from rich feeding grounds in the North Atlantic to spawn in oligotrophic waters...
2019 | ICES Journal of Marine Science, 77(1), 97-108
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Performance evaluation of data-limited, length-based methods is instrumental in determining and quantifying their accuracy under various scenarios and...
2018 | ICES Journal of Marine Science, 75(6), 2224-2234
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We examined how catches of ocean shrimp (Pandalus jordani), eulachon (Thaleichthys pacificus), and juvenile groundfish could be affected by altering t...
Seals haul out of water for extended periods during the annual molt, when they shed and regrow their pelage. This behavior is believed to limit heat l...
Marine mammals rely on oxygen stored in blood, muscle, and lungs to support breath-hold diving and foraging at sea. Here, we used biomedical imaging t...
2017 | Journal of Experimental Biology, 220(8), 1490-1496
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The length of time required for postnatal maturation of the locomotor muscle (longissimus dorsi) biochemistry [myoglobin (Mb) content and buffering ca...
2017 | Journal of Experimental Biology, 220(19), 3464-3477
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Internal pressures change throughout a cetacean's body during swimming or diving, and uneven pressures between the thoracic and abdominal compartments...
A sphincter on the inferior vena cava can protect the heart of a diving mammal from overload when elevated abdominal pressures increase venous return,...
2016 | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 371(1689), 20150209
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The human-pathogenic marine bacteria Vibrio vulnificus and V. parahaemolyticus are strongly correlated with water temperature, with concentrations inc...
2020 | ICES Journal of Marine Science, 77(6), 2043-2055
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Accounting for movement and mixing in stock assessment is important for managing sustainable fisheries, particularly for highly migratory species. How...
2022 | ICES Journal of Marine Science, 79(5), 1662-1674
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Lobsters in southern New England (SNE) have experienced decades of environmental stressors along with a suite of emerging diseases. We hypothesized th...
2021 | ICES Journal of Marine Science, 78(7), 2317-2324
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The iconic Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua Linnaeus, 1758) has inspired a substantial body of fishing-gear research across its geographical range, with rec...
2021 | ICES Journal of Marine Science, 79(1), 12-21
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Red snapper, Lutjanus campechanus, supports one of the more important fisheries in marine waters of the United States. Consequently, it has been the f...
Relatively few studies have addressed fishery-induced-evolution of sequential hermaphrodites although declines in the mean size-at-maturation and/or s...
2016 | Environmental Biology of Fishes, 100(4), 325-336
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A major focus of ecology is understanding trophic relationships and energy flows in natural systems, associated food web dynamics and changes in food ...
2020 | Journal of Crustacean Biology, 40(5), 634-646
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Increased greenhouse gas emissions have caused rapid ocean warming (OW) and reduced ocean pH via acidification (OA). Both OW and OA will likely impact...
Gut microbiomes are important determinants of animal health. In sentinel marine mammals where animal and ocean health are connected, microbiome impact...
2018 | The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 144(3), EL196-EL202
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In this paper, the effectiveness of deep learning for automatic classification of grouper species by their vocalizations has been investigated. In the...
2016 | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 371(1696), 20150178
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Prior work shows western US forest wildfire activity increased abruptly in the mid-1980s. Large forest wildfires and areas burned in them have continu...
Tank experiments were performed at different water turbidities to examine relationships between the beam attenuation coefficient (c) and Weibull shape...
In response to increasing human emissions, the global ocean is continually warming. The spatial distribution of this warming can result from several m...
High-resolution oceanic precipitation estimates are needed to increase our understanding of and ability to monitor ocean-atmosphere coupled processes....
2023 | Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (2023)
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The Global Positioning System dropwindsonde has provided thousands of high-resolution kinematic and thermodynamic soundings in and around tropical cyc...
2023 | Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 40(10), 1325-1347
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Three-dimensional wind retrievals from ground-based Doppler radars have played an important role in meteorological research and nowcasting over the pa...
2023 | Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (2023)
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Atmospheric aerosol and chemistry modules are key elements in Earth system models (ESMs), as they predict air pollutants concentrations and properties...
2023 | Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (2023)
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Numerical weather prediction models operate on grid spacings of a few kilometers, where deep convection begins to become resolvable. Around this scale...
Balloon-borne radiosondes are launched twice daily at coordinated times worldwide to assist with weather forecasting. Data collection from each flight...
Accurate representation of mesoscale scale convective systems (MCSs) in climate models is of vital importance to understanding global energy, water cy...
Flash droughts, characterised by rapid onset and intensification, are increasingly occurring as a consequence of climate change and rising temperature...
The Indian Ocean is a frequent site for the initiation of the Madden–Julian oscillation (MJO). The evolution of convection during MJO initiation is ...
Recent studies have shown how very small differences in the background environment of a supercell can yield different outcomes, particularly in terms ...
National Weather Service (NWS) forecasters have many roles and responsibilities, including communication with core partners throughout the forecast an...
Assimilating radar reflectivity into convective-scale NWP models remains a challenging topic in radar data assimilation. A primary reason is that the ...
Several new precipitation-type algorithms have been developed to improve NWP predictions of surface precipitation type during winter storms. In this s...
2023 | Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 40(10), 1199-1219
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When a tornado lofts debris to the height of the radar beam, a signature known as the tornadic debris signature (TDS) can sometimes be observed on rad...
The impact of weak submeso- to meso-scale SST anomalies on daily averaged trade cumulus cloudiness is investigated using satellite observations that h...
2023 | Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 80(10), 2377-2398
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The composite structure of the Madden–Julian oscillation (MJO) has long been known to feature pronounced Rossby gyres in the subtropical upper tropo...
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