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Overview

Cabell S. Davis is affiliated with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in the United States. Their work spans multiple disciplines within environmental and earth sciences, with a focus on oceanographic and marine research. Their main fields of study include Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, while their subfields concentrate on Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Atmospheric Science, and Environmental Chemistry.

Their research topics cover a broad range of marine and atmospheric phenomena. Central themes include Marine and Fisheries Research, Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Fish Ecology and Management Studies, and Arctic and Antarctic Ice Dynamics.

Frequent coauthors in their publications include:

  • Rubao Ji
  • Changsheng Chen
  • Siqi Li
  • Zhengchen Zang
  • Yun Li

The scientist has contributed to several peer-reviewed journals, with notable publication venues being:

  • Progress In Oceanography
  • ICES Journal of Marine Science
  • Limnology and Oceanography
  • Limnology and Oceanography Letters
  • Fisheries Oceanography

Representative recent papers illustrate the scope and focus of their research:

  • Strong and regionally distinct links between ice-retreat timing and phytoplankton production in the Arctic Ocean, 2021, Limnology and Oceanography
  • Impact of larval behaviors on dispersal and connectivity of sea scallop larvae over the northeast U.S. shelf, 2021, Progress In Oceanography
  • Drivers of variability of Calanus finmarchicus in the Gulf of Maine: roles of internal production and external exchange, 2021, ICES Journal of Marine Science
  • Spatially varying phytoplankton seasonality on the Northwest Atlantic Shelf: a model-based assessment of patterns, drivers, and implications, 2021, ICES Journal of Marine Science
  • Remote silicate supply regulates spring phytoplankton bloom magnitude in the Gulf of Maine, 2022, Limnology and Oceanography Letters

Best Publications

  • Eddy/Wind Interactions Stimulate Extraordinary Mid-Ocean Plankton Blooms

    Dennis J. McGillicuddy;Laurence A. Anderson;Nicholas R. Bates;Thomas Bibby

  • RAPID: Research on Automated Plankton Identification

    Mark C. Benfield;Philippe Grosjean;Phil F. Culverhouse;Xabier Irigoien

  • Microaggregations of Oceanic Plankton Observed by Towed Video Microscopy

    Cabell S. Davis;Scott M. Gallager;Andrew R. Solow

  • Transatlantic Abundance of the N2-Fixing Colonial Cyanobacterium Trichodesmium

    Cabell S. Davis;Dennis J. McGillicuddy

  • Micropatchiness, turbulence and recruitment in plankton

    Cabell S. Davis;Glenn R. Flierl;P. H. Wiebe;P. J. S. Franks

  • A three-axis fast-tow digital Video Plankton Recorder for rapid surveys of plankton taxa and hydrography

    Cabell S. Davis;Fredrik T. Thwaites;Scott M. Gallager;Qiao Hu

  • Rapid visualization of plankton abundance and taxonomic composition using the Video Plankton Recorder

    Cabell S. Davis;Scott M. Gallager;Martin Marra;W. Kenneth Stewart

  • Contribution of fine-scale vertical structure and swimming behavior to formation of plankton layers on Georges Bank

    Scott M. Gallager;Hidekatsu Yamazaki;Cabell S. Davis

  • Automatic Plankton Image Recognition

    Xiaoou Tang;W. Kenneth Stewart;He Huang;Scott M. Gallager

  • Predatory control of copepod seasonal cycles on Georges bank

    C. S. Davis

  • High-resolution observations of plankton spatial distributions correlated with hydrography in the Great South Channel, Georges Bank

    Scott M. Gallager;Cabell S. Davis;Ari W. Epstein;Andy Solow

  • Acoustically-inferred zooplankton distribution in relation to hydrography west of the Antarctic Peninsula

    Gareth L. Lawson;Peter H. Wiebe;Carin J. Ashjian;Scott M. Gallager

  • Biological effects of Gulf Stream meandering

    Glenn R. Flierl;Cabell S. Davis

  • Biological/physical simulations of Calanus finmarchicus population dynamics in the Gulf of Maine

    Lynch;WC Gentleman;DJ McGillicuddy;CS Davis

  • Real-time observation of taxa-specific plankton distributions: an optical sampling method

    Cabell S. Davis;Qiao Hu;Scott M. Gallager;Xiaoou Tang

  • Macrozooplankton biomass in a warm-core Gulf Stream ring: Time series changes in size structure, taxonomic composition, and vertical distribution

    Cabell S. Davis;Peter H. Wiebe

  • Life history and biogeography of Calanus copepods in the Arctic Ocean: An individual-based modeling study

    Rubao Ji;Rubao Ji;Carin J. Ashjian;Robert G. Campbell;Changsheng Chen;Changsheng Chen

  • Using a high-powered strobe light to increase the catch of Antarctic krill

    P. H. Wiebe;C. J. Ashjian;S. M. Gallager;C. S. Davis

  • Video plankton recorder reveals high abundances of colonial Radiolaria in surface waters of the central North Pacific

    Mark R. Dennett;David A. Caron;Anthony F. Michaels;Scott M. Gallager

  • Automatic plankton image recognition with co-occurrence matrices and Support Vector Machine

    Qiao Hu;Cabell Davis

Frequent Co-Authors

Scott M. Gallager
Scott M. Gallager Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Rubao Ji
Rubao Ji Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Peter H. Wiebe
Peter H. Wiebe Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Carin J. Ashjian
Carin J. Ashjian Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Changsheng Chen
Changsheng Chen University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Dennis J. McGillicuddy
Dennis J. McGillicuddy Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Robert C. Beardsley
Robert C. Beardsley Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Andrew R. Solow
Andrew R. Solow Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
David W. Townsend
David W. Townsend University of Maine
Jeffrey A. Runge
Jeffrey A. Runge University of Maine

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