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David A. Caron is affiliated with the University of Southern California in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Environmental Science, with notable contributions in several subfields including Ecology, Oceanography, Molecular Biology, Environmental Chemistry, and Artificial Intelligence.

The scientist's work addresses a variety of topics related to microbial ecology and aquatic ecosystems. Key areas of focus include:

  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Protist diversity and phylogeny
  • Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics
  • Marine Toxins and Detection Methods
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Robotic Path Planning Algorithms

David A. Caron has published research in several frequent venues. The most common publications appear in:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Harmful Algae
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Among the recent papers associated or relevant to their research are:

  • "The Mixoplankton Database (MDB): Diversity of photo-phago-trophic plankton in form, function, and distribution across the global ocean," 2023, published in Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology
  • "Trophic interactions with heterotrophic bacteria limit the range of Prochlorococcus," 2022, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Come rain or shine: Depth not season shapes the active protistan community at station ALOHA in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre," 2021, published in Deep Sea Research Part I Oceanographic Research Papers
  • "xclim: xarray-based climate data analytics," 2023, published in The Journal of Open Source Software
  • "Diel transcriptional oscillations of light-sensitive regulatory elements in open-ocean eukaryotic plankton communities," 2021, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

The scientist collaborates frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • J. L. Smith
  • Sarah K. Hu
  • Meredith D.A. Howard
  • Gaurav S. Sukhatme
  • Samantha J. Gleich

Best Publications

  • The Marine Microbial Eukaryote Transcriptome Sequencing Project (MMETSP): Illuminating the Functional Diversity of Eukaryotic Life in the Oceans through Transcriptome Sequencing

    Patrick J. Keeling;Patrick J. Keeling;Fabien Burki;Heather M. Wilcox;Bassem Allam

  • Regulation of gross growth efficiency and ammonium regeneration in bacteria by substrate C: N ratio1

    Joel C. Goldman;David A. Caron;Mark R. Dennett

  • Technique for enumeration of heterotrophic and phototrophic nanoplankton, using epifluorescence microscopy, and comparison with other procedures

    David A. Caron

  • Marine bacterial, archaeal and protistan association networks reveal ecological linkages.

    Joshua A. Steele;Peter D. Countway;Li Xia;Patrick D. Vigil

  • RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN BACTERIA AND HETEROTROPHIC NANOPLANKTON IN MARINE AND FRESH WATERS - AN INTER-ECOSYSTEM COMPARISON

    R.W Sanders;D.A Caron;Ulrike-Gabriele Berninger

  • Mixotrophy in the Marine Plankton

    Diane K. Stoecker;Per Juel Hansen;David A. Caron;Aditee Mitra

  • Does low temperature constrain the growth rates of heterotrophic protists? Evidence and implications for algal blooms in cold waters

    Julie M. Rose;David A. Caron

  • Defining Planktonic Protist Functional Groups on Mechanisms for Energy and Nutrient Acquisition: Incorporation of Diverse Mixotrophic Strategies

    Aditee Mitra;Kevin J. Flynn;Urban Tillmann;John A. Raven

  • Top-down controls on bacterial community structure: microbial network analysis of bacteria, T4-like viruses and protists.

    Cheryl-Emiliane T Chow;Diane Y Kim;Rohan Sachdeva;David A Caron

  • Marine protistan diversity.

    David A. Caron;Peter D. Countway;Adriane C. Jones;Diane Y. Kim

  • Heterotrophic Bacteria and Bacterivorous Protozoa in Oceanic Macroaggregates

    David A. Caron;Paul G. Davis;Laurence P. Madin;John McN. Sieburth

  • Staining of Heterotrophic Protists for Visualization via Epifluorescence Microscopy

    Evelyn B. Sherr;David A. Caron;Barry F. Sherr

  • Harmful algal blooms along the North American west coast region: History, trends, causes, and impacts

    Alan J. Lewitus;Rita A. Horner;David A. Caron;Ernesto Garcia-Mendoza

  • The contribution of microorganisms to particulate carbon and nitrogen in surface waters of the Sargasso Sea near Bermuda

    D.A. Caron;H.G. Dam;P. Kremer;E.J. Lessard

  • Microbial food web structure in the Arabian Sea: a US JGOFS study

    David L. Garrison;Marcia M. Gowing;Margaret P. Hughes;Lisa D. Campbell

  • Experimental studies on an omnivorous microflagellate: implications for grazing and nutrient regeneration in the marine microbial food chain

    Joel C. Goldman;David A. Caron

  • Role of protozoan grazing in relieving iron limitation of phytoplankton

    Katherine Barbeau;James W. Moffett;David A. Caron;Peter L. Croot

  • Production of heterotrophic bacteria inhabiting macroscopic organic aggregates (marine snow) from surface waters

    Alice L. Alldredge;Jonathan J. Cole;David A. Caron

  • Protistan diversity estimates based on 18S rDNA from seawater incubations in the Western North Atlantic.

    Peter D. Countway;Rebecca J. Gast;Pratik Savai;David A. Caron

  • Planning and Implementing Trajectories for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles to Track Evolving Ocean Processes Based on Predictions from a Regional Ocean Model

    Ryan N. Smith;Yi Chao;Peggy P. Li;David A. Caron

  • Blooms of Pseudo-nitzschia and domoic acid in the San Pedro Channel and Los Angeles harbor areas of the Southern California Bight, 2003-2004

    Astrid Schnetzer;Peter E. Miller;Rebecca A. Schaffner;Beth A. Stauffer

Frequent Co-Authors

Gaurav S. Sukhatme
Gaurav S. Sukhatme University of Southern California
Mark R. Dennett
Mark R. Dennett Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Burton H. Jones
Burton H. Jones King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Robert W. Sanders
Robert W. Sanders Temple University
Raphael M. Kudela
Raphael M. Kudela University of California, Santa Cruz
Joel C. Goldman
Joel C. Goldman University of California, Santa Cruz
Aristides A. G. Requicha
Aristides A. G. Requicha University of Southern California
Christopher J. Gobler
Christopher J. Gobler Stony Brook University
David A. Hutchins
David A. Hutchins University of Southern California
Alexandra Z. Worden
Alexandra Z. Worden Marine Biological Laboratory

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