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54
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10933
World Ranking
4032
National Ranking
1537

Overview

Francisco E. Werner is affiliated with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, and Ecology. Subfields of study include Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, as well as Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics related to marine environments. These include Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Marine and Coastal Plant Biology, Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies, Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies, Marine and Fisheries Research, Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, and Coastal and Marine Management.

Francisco E. Werner has contributed to multiple publications in several research venues. Notable frequent publication venues are UNC Libraries, Progress In Oceanography, Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, Frontiers in Marine Science, and Oceanography.

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Francisco E. Werner include:

  • The establishment of a pelagic Sargassum population in the tropical Atlantic: Biological consequences of a basin-scale long distance dispersal event, 2020, Progress In Oceanography
  • A NOAA Fisheries science perspective on the conditions during and after COVID-19: challenges, observations, and some possible solutions, or why the future is upon us, 2020, Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
  • Techniques for cetaceanhabitat modeling, 2021, UNC Libraries
  • Ecological forecasting-21st century science for 21st century management, 2020, Antarctica A Keystone in a Changing World
  • Ocean Integration: The Needs and Challenges of Effective Coordination Within the Ocean Observing System, 2022, Frontiers in Marine Science

Frequent collaborators in their research include Elizabeth Johns, Rick Lumpkin, Nathan F. Putman, Ryan H. Smith, and Frank Müller-Karger. Each of these coauthors has been involved in multiple projects with Werner, highlighting a pattern of ongoing collaboration.

Best Publications

  • Population connectivity in marine systems : an overview

    Robert K. Cowen;Glen G. Gawarkiewicz;Jesus Pineda;Simon R. Thorrold

  • Climate Variability, Fish, and Fisheries

    P. Lehodey;J. Alheit;M. Barange;T. Baumgartner

  • Techniques for cetacean-habitat modeling

    J. V. Redfern;M. C. Ferguson;E. A. Becker;K. D. Hyrenbach

  • US GODAE: Global Ocean Prediction with the Hybrid Coordinate Ocean Model (HYCOM)

    Eric P Chassignet;Harley E Hurlburt;E J Metzger;Ole M Smedstad

  • Regime shifts in marine ecosystems: detection, prediction and management.

    Brad deYoung;Manuel Barange;Gregory Beaugrand;Roger Harris

  • NEMURO—a lower trophic level model for the North Pacific marine ecosystem

    Michio J. Kishi;Michio J. Kishi;Makoto Kashiwai;Daniel M. Ware;Bernard A. Megrey

  • Comprehensive coastal circulation model with application to the Gulf of Maine

    Daniel R. Lynch;Justin T.C. Ip;Christopher E. Naimie;Francisco E. Werner

  • On the use of IPCC-class models to assess the impact of climate on Living Marine Resources

    Charles A. Stock;Michael A. Alexander;Nicholas A. Bond;Keith M. Brander

  • Coupled Biological and Physical Models: Present Capabilities and Necessary Developments for Future Studies of Population Connectivity

    Francisco E. Werner;Robert K. Cowen;Claire B. Paris

  • Ecosystem models for fisheries management: finding the sweet spot

    Jeremy S Collie;Louis W Botsford;Alan Hastings;Isaac C Kaplan

  • Challenges of Modeling Ocean Basin Ecosystems

    Brad deYoung;Mike Heath;Francisco Werner;Fei Chai

  • Influences of mean advection and simple behavior on the distribution of cod and haddock early life stages on Georges Bank

    Francisco E. Werner;Fred H. Page;Daniel R. Lynch;John W. Loder

  • Nonrandom Processes Maintain Diversity in Tropical Forests

    Christopher Wills;Kyle E. Harms;Richard Condit;David King

  • Managing living marine resources in a dynamic environment: The role of seasonal to decadal climate forecasts

    Desiree Tommasi;Charles A. Stock;Alistair J. Hobday;Rick Methot

  • Trophodynamic and advective influences on Georges Bank larval cod and haddock

    Francisco E. Werner;R. Ian Perry;R. Gregory Lough;Christopher E. Naimie

  • The establishment of a pelagic Sargassum population in the tropical Atlantic: Biological consequences of a basin-scale long distance dispersal event

    Elizabeth M. Johns;Rick Lumpkin;Nathan F. Putman;Ryan H. Smith

  • Spatially-explicit individual based modeling of marine populations: A review of the advances in the 1990s

    Francisco E. Werner;John A. Quinlan;R. Gregory Lough;Daniel R. Lynch

  • Spatial correspondence between areas of concentration of Patagonian scallop (Zygochlamys patagonica) and frontal systems in the southwestern Atlantic

    Eugenia Bogazzi;Ana Baldoni;Andrés Rivas;Patricia Martos

  • Drift of sea scallop larvae Placopecten magellanicus on Georges Bank: a model study of the roles of mean advection, larval behavior and larval origin

    M. John Tremblay;John W. Loder;Francisco E. Werner;Christopher E. Naimie

  • Three-dimensional hydrodynamics on finite elements. Part II: Non-linear time-stepping model

    Daniel R. Lynch;Francisco E. Werner

  • A bioenergetics-based population dynamics model of Pacific herring (Clupea harengus pallasi) coupled to a lower trophic level nutrient-phytoplankton-zooplankton model: Description, calibration, and sensitivity analysis

    Bernard A. Megrey;Kenneth A. Rose;Robert A. Klumb;Douglas E. Hay

Frequent Co-Authors

Kenneth A. Rose
Kenneth A. Rose University of Maryland Center For Environmental Sciences
Yasuhiro Yamanaka
Yasuhiro Yamanaka Hokkaido University
Robert H. Weisberg
Robert H. Weisberg University of South Florida St. Petersburg
Richard A. Luettich
Richard A. Luettich University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Enrique N. Curchitser
Enrique N. Curchitser Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Jonathan A. Hare
Jonathan A. Hare National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
John W. Loder
John W. Loder Bedford Institute of Oceanography
Eileen E. Hofmann
Eileen E. Hofmann Old Dominion University
Michael A. Alexander
Michael A. Alexander National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

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