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D-Index
48
Citations
9879
World Ranking
5488
National Ranking
2009

Overview

Heidi M. Sosik is affiliated with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, focusing extensively on Oceanography and Ecology. A significant portion of their work addresses marine and coastal ecosystems as well as microbial community ecology and physiology.

The scientist has contributed to several key subfields, including oceanography, ecology, molecular biology, global and planetary change, and nature and landscape conservation. Their research topics encompass marine and coastal ecosystems, microbial community ecology and physiology, marine biology and ecology research, oceanographic and atmospheric processes, isotope analysis in ecology, protist diversity and phylogeny, and marine and fisheries research.

Heidi M. Sosik's publication record includes papers in prominent journals such as Limnology and Oceanography, Frontiers in Marine Science, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Elementa Science of the Anthropocene, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Frequently collaborating with other researchers, they have co-authored works with Emily E. Peacock, E. Taylor Crockford, Weifeng G. Zhang, Michael G. Neubert, and Collin S. Roesler.

Some of their recent publications are:

  • Machine learning techniques to characterize functional traits of plankton from image data, 2022, Limnology and Oceanography
  • An operational overview of the EXport Processes in the Ocean from RemoTe Sensing (EXPORTS) Northeast Pacific field deployment, 2021, Elementa Science of the Anthropocene
  • A compilation of global bio-optical in situ data for ocean colour satellite applications - version three, 2022, Earth system science data
  • Diatom Hotspots Driven by Western Boundary Current Instability, 2021, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Marine Pelagic Ecosystem Responses to Climate Variability and Change, 2022, BioScience

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

  • Massive Phytoplankton Blooms Under Arctic Sea Ice

    Kevin R. Arrigo;Donald K. Perovich;Donald K. Perovich;Robert S. Pickart;Zachary W. Brown

  • A submersible imaging-in-flow instrument to analyze nano-and microplankton: Imaging FlowCytobot

    Robert J. Olson;Heidi M. Sosik

  • Determination of spectral absorption coefficients of particles, dissolved material and phytoplankton for discrete water samples

    B. Greg Mitchell;Annick Bricaud;Kendall Carder;Joan Cleveland

  • Automated taxonomic classification of phytoplankton sampled with imaging-in-flow cytometry

    Heidi M. Sosik;Robert J. Olson

  • 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

  • Globally consistent quantitative observations of planktonic ecosystems

    F. Lombard;F. Lombard;E. Boss;A.M. Waite;J. Uitz

  • Phytoplankton blooms beneath the sea ice in the Chukchi sea

    Kevin R. Arrigo;Donald K. Perovich;Donald K. Perovich;Robert S. Pickart;Zachary W. Brown

  • Light absorption by phytoplankton, photosynthetic pigments and detritus in the California Current System

    Heidi M. Sosik;B.Greg Mitchell

  • First harmful Dinophysis (Dinophyceae, Dinophysiales) bloom in the U.S. is revealed by automated imaging flow cytometry.

    Lisa Campbell;Robert J. Olson;Heidi M. Sosik;Ann Abraham

  • An automated submersible flow cytometer for analyzing pico- and nanophytoplankton: FlowCytobot

    Robert J. Olson;Alexi Shalapyonok;Heidi M. Sosik

  • Satellite sensor requirements for monitoring essential biodiversity variables of coastal ecosystems

    Frank E. Muller‐Karger;Erin Hestir;Christiana Ade;Kevin Turpie

  • Effects of iron enrichment on phytoplankton in the Southern Ocean during late summer: active fluorescence and flow cytometric analyses

    R.J Olson;H.M Sosik;A.M Chekalyuk;A Shalapyonok

  • The United States' Next Generation of Atmospheric Composition and Coastal Ecosystem Measurements: NASA's Geostationary Coastal and Air Pollution Events (GEO-CAPE) Mission

    J. Fishman;L. T. Iraci;J. Al-Saadi;Kelly V. Chance

  • Optical tools for ocean monitoring and research

    C. Moore;Andrew H. Barnard;P. Fietzek;Marlon R. Lewis

  • Phytoplankton functional types from Space.

    Shubha. Sathyendranath;Jim Aiken;S. Alvain;R. Barlow

  • Physiological and ecological drivers of early spring blooms of a coastal phytoplankter

    Kristen R. Hunter-Cevera;Michael G. Neubert;Robert J. Olson;Andrew R. Solow

  • Primary productivity and its regulation in the Pacific Sector of the Southern Ocean

    Michael R Hiscock;John Marra;Walker O Smith;Ralf Goericke

  • Chlorophyll fluorescence from single cells: Interpretation of flow cytometric signals

    Heidi M. Sosik;Sallie W. Chisholm;Robert J. Olson

  • Envisioning a Marine Biodiversity Observation Network

    J. Emmett Duffy;Linda A. Amaral-Zettler;Daphne G. Fautin;Gustav Paulay

  • Flow cytometric determination of size and complex refractive index for marine particles: comparison with independent and bulk estimates.

    Rebecca E. Green;Heidi M. Sosik;Robert J. Olson;Michele D. DuRand

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert J. Olson
Robert J. Olson Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Frank E. Muller-Karger
Frank E. Muller-Karger University of South Florida
Vanda Brotas
Vanda Brotas University of Lisbon
Mati Kahru
Mati Kahru University of California, San Diego
Robert Frouin
Robert Frouin University of California, San Diego
William M. Balch
William M. Balch Bigelow Laboratory For Ocean Sciences
Hervé Claustre
Hervé Claustre Université Paris Cité
Francisco P. Chavez
Francisco P. Chavez Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
Shubha Sathyendranath
Shubha Sathyendranath Plymouth Marine Laboratory
Robert Arnone
Robert Arnone University of Southern Mississippi

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