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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Earth Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2018 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Frank E. Muller-Karger is affiliated with the University of South Florida in the United States. Their research encompasses Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on Oceanography, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, and Ecological Modeling.

Their research covers a range of topics including Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Marine and fisheries research, Marine and coastal ecosystems, Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies, Coastal and Marine Management, Marine and coastal plant biology, and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology.

Frequent co-authors include Enrique Montes, Digna Rueda-Roa, Gabrielle Canonico, Jay Pearlman, and D. B. Otis.

Publication venues where Frank E. Muller-Karger has contributed multiple papers include Oceanography, Frontiers in Marine Science, Nature Ecology & Evolution, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), and ICES Journal of Marine Science.

Recent papers illustrate the scope of their work across marine and environmental sciences:

  • NASA's surface biology and geology designated observable: A perspective on surface imaging algorithms, 2021, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Environmental DNA reveals seasonal shifts and potential interactions in a marine community, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Priority list of biodiversity metrics to observe from space, 2021, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Global genetic diversity status and trends: towards a suite of Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs) for genetic composition, 2022, Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • 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

In 2018, Frank E. Muller-Karger was awarded the title of Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Best Publications

  • A Time-Series View of Changing Ocean Chemistry Due to Ocean Uptake of Anthropogenic CO2 and Ocean Acidification

    Nicholas R. Bates;Yrene M. Astor;Matthew J Church;Kim Currie

  • The importance of continental margins in the global carbon cycle

    Frank E. Muller‐Karger;Ramon Varela;Robert Thunell;Remy Luerssen

  • Carbon and nitrogen cycling within the Bering/Chukchi Seas: Source regions for organic matter effecting AOU demands of the Arctic Ocean

    J. J. Walsh;C. P. McRoy;L. K. Coachman;J. J. Goering

  • An ocean-colour time series for use in climate studies: The experience of the ocean-colour climate change initiative (OC-CCI)

    Shubha Sathyendranath;Robert J.W. Brewin;Carsten Brockmann;Vanda Brotas

  • Essential biodiversity variables for mapping and monitoring species populations

    Walter Jetz;Melodie A. McGeoch;Robert Guralnick;Simon Ferrier

  • Red tide detection and tracing using MODIS fluorescence data: A regional example in SW Florida coastal waters

    Chuanmin Hu;Frank E. Muller-Karger;Charles (Judd) Taylor;Kendall L. Carder

  • Multi-site evaluation of IKONOS data for classification of tropical coral reef environments

    Serge Andréfouët;Philip Kramer;Damaris Torres-Pulliza;Karen E. Joyce

  • The dispersal of the Amazon's water

    Frank E. Muller-Karger;Charles R. McClain;Philip L. Richardson

  • Atmospheric Correction of SeaWiFS Imagery over Turbid Coastal Waters: A Practical Method

    Chuanmin Hu;Kendall L Carder;Frank E Muller-Karger

  • Climate Science Special Report: Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4), Volume I

    Donald J. Wuebbles;David W. Fahey;Kathy A. Hibbard;Jeff R. Arnold

  • Monitoring turbidity in Tampa Bay using MODIS/Aqua 250-m imagery

    Zhiqiang Chen;Chuanmin Hu;Frank Muller-Karger

  • Essential ocean variables for global sustained observations of biodiversity and ecosystem changes

    Patricia Miloslavich;Nicholas J. Bax;Nicholas J. Bax;Samantha E. Simmons;Eduardo Klein

  • On the Recurrent Ulva prolifera Blooms in the Yellow Sea and East China Sea

    Chuanmin Hu;Daqiu Li;Changsheng Chen;Jianzhong Ge

  • Pigment distribution in the Caribbean sea: Observations from space

    Frank E Muller-Karger;C. R McClain;T. R Fisher;W. E Esaias

  • Red Tides in the Gulf of Mexico: Where, When, and Why?

    John J. Walsh;J. K. Jolliff;J. K. Jolliff;B. P. Darrow;J. M. Lenes

  • Gulf of California biogeographic regions based on coastal zone color scanner imagery

    Eduardo Santamaría-del-Angel;Saúl Alvarez-Borrego;Frank E. Müller-Karger

  • Reef-Scale Thermal Stress Monitoring of Coral Ecosystems: New 5-km Global Products from NOAA Coral Reef Watch

    Gang Liu;Scott F. Heron;C. Mark Eakin;Frank E. Muller-Karger

  • ENSO-induced co-variability of Salinity, Plankton Biomass and Coastal Currents in the Northern Gulf of Mexico

    Fabian A. Gomez;Fabian A. Gomez;Fabian A. Gomez;Sang-Ki Lee;Frank J. Hernandez;Luciano M. Chiaverano

  • Hurricanes, submarine groundwater discharge, and Florida's red tides

    Chuanmin Hu;Frank E. Muller-Karger;Peter W. Swarzenski

  • On the seasonal phytoplankton concentration and sea surface temperature cycles of the Gulf of Mexico as determined by satellites

    Frank E. Müller-Karger;John J. Walsh;Robert H. Evans;Mark B. Meyers

  • Absorbance, absorption coefficient, and apparent quantum yield: A comment on common ambiguity in the use of these optical concepts

    Chuanmin Hu;Frank E. Muller-Karger;Richard G. Zepp

  • Phytoplankton Response to Intrusions of Slope Water on the West Florida Shelf: Models and Observations

    John J. Walsh;Robert H. Weisberg;Dwight A. Dieterle;Ruoying He

Frequent Co-Authors

Chuanmin Hu
Chuanmin Hu University of South Florida St. Petersburg
Yrene Astor
Yrene Astor Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office
Robert C. Thunell
Robert C. Thunell University of South Carolina
Serge Andréfouët
Serge Andréfouët Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Patricia Miloslavich
Patricia Miloslavich University of Tasmania
Heidi M. Sosik
Heidi M. Sosik Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Francisco P. Chavez
Francisco P. Chavez Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
Gordon T. Taylor
Gordon T. Taylor Stony Brook University
Robert Frouin
Robert Frouin University of California, San Diego
Hervé Claustre
Hervé Claustre Université Paris Cité

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