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  • Seamount- or Lake/Basin-trapped waves with stratification, topography, mean flow and bottom friction in Matlab 

    Brink, Kenneth H. (2018-08-17)
    This set of Matlab mfiles (all having names that begin with “bigs”) can be used to calculate seamount-trapped (or basin-trapped) wave modal structures and dispersion curves under very general circumstances. A complex ...

  • Stable coastal-trapped waves with stratification, topography and mean flow 

    Brink, Kenneth H. (2018-08-17)
    This set of Matlab mfiles (all having names that begin with “bigr”) can be used to calculate stable, inviscid coastal-trapped wave modal structures and dispersion curves under very general circumstances. Only a real frequency ...

  • Island-trapped waves with stratification, topography, mean flow and bottom friction in Matlab 

    Brink, Kenneth H. (2018-08-17)
    This set of Matlab mfiles (all having names that begin with “bigi”) can be used to calculate island-trapped wave modal structures and dispersion curves under very general circumstances for a circular island. A complex ...

  • Coastal-trapped waves with stratification, topography, mean flow and bottom friction with complex frequency in Matlab 

    Brink, Kenneth H. (2018-08-17)
    This set of Matlab mfiles (all having names that begin with “bigc”) can be used to calculate coastal-trapped wave modal structures and dispersion curves under very general circumstances. A complex frequency is allowed, so ...

  • Shipboard design and fabrication of custom 3D-printed soft robotic manipulators for the investigation of delicate deep-sea organisms 

    Vogt, Daniel M.; Becker, Kaitlyn P.; Phillips, Brennan T.; Graule, Moritz A.; Rotjan, Randi; Shank, Timothy M.; Cordes, Erik E.; Wood, Robert J.; Gruber, David F. (Public Library of Science, 2018-08-01)
    Soft robotics is an emerging technology that has shown considerable promise in deep-sea marine biological applications. It is particularly useful in facilitating delicate interactions with fragile marine organisms. This ...

  • Strength in numbers : collaborative science for new experimental model systems 

    Waller, Ross F.; Cleves, Phillip A.; Rubio-Brotons, Maria; Woods, April; Bender, Sara J.; Edgcomb, Virginia P.; Gann, Eric R.; Jones, Adam C.; Teytelman, Leonid; von Dassow, Peter; Wilhelm, Steven W.; Collier, Jackie L. (Public Library of Science, 2018-07-02)
    Our current understanding of biology is heavily based on a small number of genetically tractable model organisms. Most eukaryotic phyla lack such experimental models, and this limits our ability to explore the molecular ...

  • Evaluation of mixotrophy-associated gene expression in two species of polar marine algae 

    McKie-Krisberg, Zaid M.; Sanders, Robert W.; Gast, Rebecca J. (Frontiers Media, 2018-08-14)
    Mixotrophic flagellates can comprise significant proportions of plankton biomass in marine ecosystems. Despite the growing recognition of the importance of this ecological strategy, and the identification of major environmental ...

  • Transport, properties, and life cycles of mesoscale eddies in the eastern tropical South Pacific 

    Czeschel, Rena; Schütte, Florian; Weller, Robert A.; Stramma, Lothar (Copernicus Publications on behalf of the European Geosciences Union, 2018-07-31)
    The influence of mesoscale eddies on the flow field and the water masses, especially the oxygen distribution of the eastern tropical South Pacific, is investigated from a mooring, float, and satellite data set. Two ...

  • Directly estimating earthquake rupture area using second moments to reduce the uncertainty in stress drop 

    McGuire, Jeffrey J.; Kaneko, Yoshihiro (Oxford University Press, 2018-06-01)
    The key kinematic earthquake source parameters: rupture velocity, duration and area, shed light on earthquake dynamics, provide direct constraints on stress drop, and have implications for seismic hazard. However, for ...

  • The GEOTRACES Intermediate Data Product 2017 

    Schlitzer, Reiner; Anderson, Robert F.; Dodas, Elena Masferrer; Lohan, Maeve C.; Geibert, Walter; Tagliabue, Alessandro; Bowie, Andrew R.; Jeandel, Catherine; Maldonado, Maria T.; Landing, William M.; Cockwell, Donna; Abadie, Cyril; Abouchami, Wafa; Achterberg, Eric P.; Agather, Alison; Aguliar-Islas, Ana; van Aken, Hendrik M.; Andersen, Morten; Archer, Corey; Auro, Maureen E.; Baar, Hein J. W. de; Baars, Oliver; Baker, Alex R.; Bakker, Karel; Basak, Chandranath; Baskaran, Mark; Bates, Nicholas R.; Bauch, Dorothea; van Beek, Pieter; Behrens, Melanie K.; Black, Erin E.; Bluhm, Katrin; Bopp, Laurent; Bouman, Heather; Bowman, Katlin; Bown, Johann; Boyd, Philip; Boye, Marie; Boyle, Edward A.; Branellec, Pierre; Bridgestock, Luke; Brissebrat, Guillaume; Browning, Thomas; Bruland, Kenneth W.; Brumsack, Hans-Jürgen; Brzezinski, Mark A.; Buck, Clifton S.; Buck, Kristen N.; Buesseler, Ken O.; Bull, Abby; Butler, Edward; Cai, Pinghe; Cámara Mor, Patricia; Cardinal, Damien; Carlson, Craig; Carrasco, Gonzalo; Casacuberta, Nuria; Casciotti, Karen L.; Castrillejo, Maxi; Chamizo, Elena; Chance, Rosie; Charette, Matthew A.; Chaves, Joaquin E.; Cheng, Hai; Chever, Fanny; Christl, Marcus; Church, Thomas M.; Closset, Ivia; Colman, Albert S.; Conway, Tim M.; Cossa, Daniel; Croot, Peter L.; Cullen, Jay T.; Cutter, Gregory A.; Daniels, Chris; Dehairs, Frank; Deng, Feifei; Dieu, Huong Thi; Duggan, Brian; Dulaquais, Gabriel; Dumousseaud, Cynthia; Echegoyen-Sanz, Yolanda; Edwards, R. Lawrence; Ellwood, Michael J.; Fahrbach, Eberhard; Fitzsimmons, Jessica N.; Flegal, A. Russell; Fleisher, Martin Q.; van de Flierdt, Tina; Frank, Martin; Friedrich, Jana; Fripiat, Francois; Fröllje, Henning; Galer, Stephen J. G.; Gamo, Toshitaka; Ganeshram, Raja S.; Garcia-Orellana, Jordi; Garcia Solsona, Ester; Gault-Ringold, Melanie; George, Ejin; Gerringa, Loes J. A.; Gilbert, Melissa; Godoy, Jose Marcus; Goldstein, Steven L.; Gonzalez, Santiago; Grissom, Karen; Hammerschmidt, Chad R.; Hartman, Alison; Hassler, Christel; Hathorne, Ed C.; Hatta, Mariko; Hawco, Nicholas J.; Hayes, Christopher T.; Heimbürger, Lars-Eric; Helgoe, Josh; Heller, Maija Iris; Henderson, Gideon M.; Henderson, Paul B.; van Heuven, Steven; Ho, Peng; Horner, Tristan J.; Hsieh, Yu-Te; Huang, Kuo-Fang; Humphreys, Matthew P.; Isshiki, Kenji; Jacquot, Jeremy E.; Janssen, David J.; Jenkins, William J.; John, Seth; Jones, Elizabeth M.; Jones, Janice L.; Kadko, David; Kayser, Rick; Kenna, Timothy C.; Khondoker, Roulin; Kim, Taejin; Kipp, Lauren; Klar, Jessica K.; Klunder, Maarten; Kretschmer, Sven; Kumamoto, Yuichiro; Laan, Patrick; Labatut, Marie; Lacan, Francois; Lam, Phoebe J.; Lambelet, Myriam; Lamborg, Carl H.; le Moigne, Frederique; Le Roy, Emilie; Lechtenfeld, Oliver J.; Lee, Jong-Mi; Lherminier, Pascale; Little, Susan; López-Lora, Mercedes; Lu, Yanbin; Masque, Pere; Mawji, Edward; McClain, Charles R.; Measures, Christopher I.; Mehic, Sanjin; Menzel Barraqueta, Jan-Lukas; Merwe, Pier van der; Middag, Rob; Mieruch, Sebastian; Milne, Angela; Minami, Tomoharu; Moffett, James W.; Moncoiffe, Gwenaelle; Moore, Willard S.; Morris, Paul J.; Morton, Peter L.; Nakaguchi, Yuzuru; Nakayama, Noriko; Niedermiller, John; Nishioka, Jun; Nishiuchi, Akira; Noble, Abigail E.; Obata, Hajime; Ober, Sven; Ohnemus, Daniel C.; van Ooijen, Jan; O'Sullivan, Jeanette; Owens, Stephanie A.; Pahnke, Katharina; Paul, Maxence; Pavia, Frank; Pena, Leopoldo D.; Peters, Brian; Planchon, Frederic; Planquette, Helene; Pradoux, Catherine; Puigcorbé, Viena; Quay, Paul D.; Queroue, Fabien; Radic, Amandine; Rauschenberg, Sara; Rehkämper, Mark; Rember, Robert; Remenyi, Tomas A.; Resing, Joseph A.; Rickli, Joerg; Rigaud, Sylvain; Rijkenberg, Micha J. A.; Rintoul, Stephen R.; Robinson, Laura F.; Roca-Martí, Montserrat; Rodellas, Valenti; Roeske, Tobias; Rolison, John M.; Rosenberg, Mark; Roshan, Saeed; Rutgers van der Loeff, Michiel M.; Ryabenko, Evgenia; Saito, Mak A.; Salt, Lesley; Sanial, Virginie; Sarthou, Geraldine; Schallenberg, Christina; Schauer, Ursula; Scher, Howie; Schlosser, Christian; Schnetger, Bernhard; Scott, Peter M.; Sedwick, Peter N.; Semiletov, Igor P.; Shelley, Rachel U.; Sherrell, Robert M.; Shiller, Alan M.; Sigman, Daniel M.; Singh, Sunil Kumar; Slagter, Hans; Slater, Emma; Smethie, William M.; Snaith, Helen; Sohrin, Yoshiki; Sohst, Bettina M.; Sonke, Jeroen E.; Speich, Sabrina; Steinfeldt, Reiner; Stewart, Gillian; Stichel, Torben; Stirling, Claudine H.; Stutsman, Johnny; Swarr, Gretchen J.; Swift, James H.; Thomas, Alexander; Thorne, Kay; Till, Claire P.; Till, Ralph; Townsend, Ashley T.; Townsend, Emily; Tuerena, Robyn; Twining, Benjamin S.; Vance, Derek; Velazquez, Sue; Venchiarutti, Celia; Villa-Alfageme, Maria; Vivancos, Sebastian M.; Voelker, Antje H. L.; Wake, Bronwyn; Warner, Mark J.; Watson, Ros; van Weerlee, Evaline; Weigand, M. Alexandra; Weinstein, Yishai; Weiss, Dominik; Wisotzki, Andreas; Woodward, E. Malcolm S.; Wu, Jingfeng; Wu, Yingzhe; Wuttig, Kathrin; Wyatt, Neil; Xiang, Yang; Xie, Ruifang C.; Xue, Zichen; Yoshikawa, Hisayuki; Zhang, Jing; Zhang, Pu; Zhao, Ye; Zheng, Linjie; Zheng, Xin-Yuan; Zieringer, Moritz; Zimmer, Louise A.; Ziveri, Patrizia; Zunino, Patricia; Zurbrick, Cheryl (Elsevier, 2018-06-01)
    The GEOTRACES Intermediate Data Product 2017 (IDP2017) is the second publicly available data product of the international GEOTRACES programme, and contains data measured and quality controlled before the end of 2016. The ...

  • Understanding deep-water striation patterns and predicting the waveguide invariant as a distribution depending on range and depth 

    Emmetiere, Remi; Bonnel, Julien; Gehant, Marie; Cristol, Xavier; Chonavel, Thierry (Acoustical Society of America, 2018-06-08)
    The Waveguide Invariant (WI) theory has been introduced to quantify the orientation of the intensity interference patterns in a range-frequency domain. When the sound speed is constant over the water column, the WI is a ...

  • A deep ocean acoustic noise floor, 1–800 Hz 

    Berger, Jonathan; Bidlot, Jean-Raymond; Dzieciuch, Matthew A.; Farrell, W. E.; Worcester, Peter F.; Stephen, Ralph A. (Acoustical Society of America, 2018-02-26)
    The ocean acoustic noise floor (observed when the overhead wind is low, ships are distant, and marine life silent) has been measured on an array extending up 987 m from 5048 m depth in the eastern North Pacific, in what ...

  • The rise and fall of the Cretaceous Hot Greenhouse climate 

    Huber, Brian T.; MacLeod, Kenneth G.; Watkins, David K.; Coffin, Millard F. (Elsevier, 2018-05-18)
    A compilation of foraminiferal stable isotope measurements from southern high latitude (SHL) deep-sea sites provides a novel perspective important for understanding Earth's paleotemperature and paleoceanographic changes ...

  • A phytoplankton model for the allocation of gross photosynthetic energy including the trade‐offs of diazotrophy 

    Nicholson, David P.; Stanley, Rachel H. R.; Doney, Scott C. (John Wiley & Sons, 2018-06-18)
    Gross photosynthetic activity by phytoplankton is directed to linear and alternative electron pathways that generate ATP, reductant, and fix carbon. Ultimately less than half is directed to net growth. Here we present a ...

  • Deepwater expansion and enhanced remineralization in the eastern equatorial Pacific during the last glacial maximum 

    Umling, Natalie E.; Thunell, Robert C.; Bizimis, Michael (John Wiley & Sons, 2018-06-04)
    Published estimates of the radiocarbon content of middepth waters suggest a decrease in ventilation in multiple locations during the last glacial maximum (LGM; 24.0–18.1 ka). Reduced glacial ventilation would have allowed ...

  • United States contributions to the Second International Indian Ocean Expedition (US IIOE-2) 

    Hood, Raleigh R.; Beal, Lisa M.; Benway, Heather M.; Chandler, Cynthia L.; Coles, Victoria J.; Cutter, Gregory A.; Dick, Henry J. B.; Gangopadhyay, Avijit; Goes, Joachim I.; Humphris, Susan E.; Landry, Michael R.; Lloyd, Karen G.; McPhaden, Michael J.; Murtugudde, Raghu; Subrahmanyam, Bulusu; Susanto, R. Dwi; Talley, Lynne D.; Wiggert, Jerry D.; Zhang, Chidong (US Steering Committee, 2018-08-02)
    From the Preface: The purpose of this document is to motivate and coordinate U.S. participation in the Second International Indian Ocean Expedition (IIOE-2) by outlining a core set of research priorities that will ...

  • Modeling tissue and blood gas kinetics in coastal and offshore common bottlenose dolphins, Tursiops truncatus 

    Fahlman, Andreas; Jensen, Frants H.; Tyack, Peter L.; Wells, Randall S. (Frontiers Media, 2018-07-17)
    Bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) are highly versatile breath-holding predators that have adapted to a wide range of foraging niches from rivers and coastal ecosystems to deep-water oceanic habitats. Considerable ...

  • Oceanographic and biological influences on recruitment of benthic invertebrates to hard substrata on the Oregon shelf 

    Meyer, Kirstin S.; Li, Yizhen; Young, Craig M. (2018-04)
    The number of anthropogenic substrata in the ocean – structures like oil rigs and offshore renewable energy generators – is increasing. These structures provide hard-bottom habitat in areas previously dominated by sand ...

  • Desperate planktotrophs : decreased settlement selectivity with age in competent eastern oyster Crassostrea virginica larvae 

    Meyer, Kirstin S.; Wheeler, Jeanette D.; Houlihan, Erin; Mullineaux, Lauren S. (2018-07)
    For larvae of benthic marine invertebrate species, settlement from planktonic to benthic life is a critical transition. The “desperate larva” concept describes the tendency of larvae to accept suboptimal settlement ...

  • An autonomous, in situ light-dark bottle device for determining community respiration and net community production 

    Collins, James R.; Fucile, Paul D.; McDonald, Glenn; Ossolinski, Justin E.; Keil, Richard G.; Valdes, James R.; Doney, Scott C.; Van Mooy, Benjamin A. S. (2018-03)
    We describe a new, autonomous, incubation-based instrument that is deployed in situ to determine rates of gross community respiration and net community production in marine and aquatic ecosystems. During deployments at ...

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