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Jeffrey C. Drazen is affiliated with the University of Hawaii at Manoa in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant focus on subfields such as Ecology, Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis.

The scientist's work covers a range of main topics, including Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Marine and fisheries research, Marine animal studies overview, Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies, Ichthyology and Marine Biology, and Mercury impact and mitigation studies.

Recent publications by Jeffrey C. Drazen illustrate their engagement with marine and environmental research challenges. Notable papers include:

  • Midwater ecosystems must be considered when evaluating environmental risks of deep-sea mining (2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • Assessment of scientific gaps related to the effective environmental management of deep-seabed mining (2022, Marine Policy)
  • Climate change considerations are fundamental to management of deep-sea resource extraction (2020, Global Change Biology)
  • Deep-Sea Misconceptions Cause Underestimation of Seabed-Mining Impacts (2020, Trends in Ecology & Evolution)
  • Environment, ecology, and potential effectiveness of an area protected from deep-sea mining (Clarion Clipperton Zone, abyssal Pacific) (2021, Progress In Oceanography)

Frequent coauthors who have collaborated extensively with Jeffrey C. Drazen include Brian N. Popp, Craig R. Smith, Claudia R. Benitez-Nelson, Astrid B. Leitner, and Joel D. Blum.

The scientist's research has appeared regularly in several publication venues, notable among which are Frontiers in Marine Science, Progress In Oceanography, Marine Ecology Progress Series, Deep Sea Research Part I Oceanographic Research Papers, and Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office.

Best Publications

  • The rate of metabolism in marine animals: environmental constraints, ecological demands and energetic opportunities

    Brad A Seibel;Jeffrey C Drazen

  • Methylmercury production below the mixed layer in the North Pacific Ocean

    Joel D. Blum;Brian N. Popp;Jeffrey C. Drazen;C. Anela Choy

  • A global biogeographic classification of the mesopelagic zone

    Tracey T. Sutton;Malcolm R. Clark;Daniel C. Dunn;Patrick N. Halpin

  • Plastic for dinner? Observations of frequent debris ingestion by pelagic predatory fishes from the central North Pacific

    CA Choy;JC Drazen

  • Near-island biological hotspots in barren ocean basins

    Jamison M. Gove;Margaret A. McManus;Anna B. Neuheimer;Jeffrey J. Polovina

  • Marine fish may be biochemically constrained from inhabiting the deepest ocean depths

    Paul H. Yancey;Mackenzie E. Gerringer;Mackenzie E. Gerringer;Jeffrey C. Drazen;Ashley A. Rowden

  • Assessment of scientific gaps related to the effective environmental management of deep-seabed mining

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  • The influence of depth on mercury levels in pelagic fishes and their prey

    C. Anela Choy;Brian N. Popp;J. John Kaneko;Jeffrey C. Drazen

  • Dining in the Deep: The Feeding Ecology of Deep-Sea Fishes.

    Jeffrey C. Drazen;Tracey T. Sutton

  • Midwater zooplankton and suspended particle dynamics in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre: A stable isotope perspective

    Cecelia C. S. Hannides;Cecelia C. S. Hannides;Brian N. Popp;C. Anela Choy;Jeffrey C. Drazen

  • Opinion: Midwater ecosystems must be considered when evaluating environmental risks of deep-sea mining

    Jeffrey C. Drazen;Craig R. Smith;Kristina M. Gjerde;Steven H. D. Haddock

  • Digestive chitinolytic activity in marine fishes of Monterey Bay, California.

    Magdalena A. Gutowska;Jeffrey C. Drazen;Bruce H. Robison

  • The distribution of benthic biomass in hadal trenches: a modelling approach to investigate the effect of vertical and lateral organic matter transport to the seafloor

    Matteo C. Ichino;Matteo C. Ichino;Malcolm R. Clark;Jeffrey C. Drazen;Alan Jamieson

  • Trophic position estimates of marine teleosts using amino acid compound specific isotopic analysis

    Christina J. Bradley;Natalie J. Wallsgrove;C. Anela Choy;Jeffrey C. Drazen

  • Trophic structure and food resources of epipelagic and mesopelagic fishes in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre ecosystem inferred from nitrogen isotopic compositions

    C. Anela Choy;C. Anela Choy;Brian N. Popp;Cecelia C. S. Hannides;Jeffrey C. Drazen

  • Depth‐related trends in metabolism of benthic and benthopelagic deep‐sea fishes

    Jeffrey C. Drazen;Brad A. Seibel

  • Sediment community response to a temporally varying food supply at an abyssal station in the NE pacific

    Jeffrey C. Drazen;Roberta J. Baldwin;Kenneth L. Smith

  • Global trophic position comparison of two dominant mesopelagic fish families (Myctophidae, Stomiidae) using amino acid nitrogen isotopic analyses.

    C. Anela Choy;Peter C. Davison;Jeffrey C. Drazen;Adrian Flynn;Adrian Flynn

  • Bypassing the abyssal benthic food web: Macrourid diet in the eastern North Pacific inferred from stomach content and stable isotopes analyses

    Jeffrey C. Drazen;Brian N. Popp;C. Anela Choy;Tara Clemente

  • Lipid, sterols and fatty acid composition of abyssal holothurians and ophiuroids from the North-East Pacific Ocean: Food web implications

    Jeffrey C. Drazen;Charles F. Phleger;Charles F. Phleger;Michaela A. Guest;Peter D. Nichols;Peter D. Nichols

  • Fishes of the hadal zone including new species, in situ observations and depth records of Liparidae

    Thomas D. Linley;Mackenzie E. Gerringer;Paul H. Yancey;Jeffrey C. Drazen

Frequent Co-Authors

Brian N. Popp
Brian N. Popp University of Hawaii at Manoa
Claudia R. Benitez-Nelson
Claudia R. Benitez-Nelson University of South Carolina
Joel D. Blum
Joel D. Blum University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Malcolm R. Clark
Malcolm R. Clark National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
Les Watling
Les Watling University of Hawaii at Manoa
Craig R. Smith
Craig R. Smith University of Hawaii at Manoa
Timothy M. Shank
Timothy M. Shank Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Bruce H. Robison
Bruce H. Robison Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
James P. Barry
James P. Barry Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
Ashley A. Rowden
Ashley A. Rowden Victoria University of Wellington

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