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John P. Ryan is affiliated with the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions to subfields such as Oceanography, Ecology, Developmental Biology, Global and Planetary Change, and Atmospheric Science.

The scientist's work extensively covers a range of topics including:

  • Marine animal studies overview
  • Underwater Acoustics Research
  • Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Marine and coastal plant biology
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology

John P. Ryan has contributed to multiple scholarly articles, with notable recent publications including:

  • "A system of coordinated autonomous robots for Lagrangian studies of microbes in the oceanic deep chlorophyll maximum" (2021) published in Science Robotics
  • "Animal-Borne Metrics Enable Acoustic Detection of Blue Whale Migration" (2020) published in Current Biology
  • "Reduction of Low-Frequency Vessel Noise in Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary During the COVID-19 Pandemic" (2021) published in Frontiers in Marine Science
  • "Acoustic signature reveals blue whales tune life-history transitions to oceanographic conditions" (2022) published in Functional Ecology
  • "Oceanic giants dance to atmospheric rhythms: Ephemeral wind-driven resource tracking by blue whales" (2022) published in Ecology Letters

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Frontiers in Marine Science, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Frontiers in Remote Sensing, and Marine Ecology Progress Series.

Collaborations are a significant component of their work. Frequent co-authors include:

  • William K. Oestreich
  • John E. Joseph
  • Tetyana Margolina
  • Yanwu Zhang
  • Jeremy A. Goldbogen

Best Publications

  • From anchovies to sardines and back: multidecadal change in the Pacific Ocean.

    Francisco P. Chavez;John Ryan;Salvador E. Lluch-Cota;C Miguel Ñiquen

  • A comparison of global estimates of marine primary production from ocean color

    Mary-Elena Carr;Marjorie A. M. Friedrichs;Marjorie A. M. Friedrichs;Marjorie Schmeltz;Maki Noguchi Aita

  • Coastal zone color scanner pigment concentrations in the Southern Ocean and relationships to geophysical surface features

    J. C. Comiso;C. R. McClain;C. W. Sullivan;J. P. Ryan

  • Biological and chemical consequences of the 1997–1998 El Niño in central California waters

    F.P Chavez;J.T Pennington;C.G Castro;C.G Castro;J.P Ryan

  • Comparison of algorithms for estimating ocean primary production from surface chlorophyll, temperature, and irradiance

    Janet Campbell;David Antoine;Robert Armstrong;Kevin Arrigo

  • Mass stranding of marine birds caused by a surfactant-producing red tide.

    David A. Jessup;Melissa A. Miller;John P. Ryan;Hannah M. Nevins;Hannah M. Nevins

  • Pattern and synchrony of gene expression among sympatric marine microbial populations

    Elizabeth Ottesen;Curtis Robert Young Iii;John Marmaduke Eppley;John P. Ryan

  • Red and black tides: Quantitative analysis of water-leaving radiance and perceived color for phytoplankton, colored dissolved organic matter, and suspended sediments

    Heidi M. Dierssen;Raphael M. Kudela;John P. Ryan;Richard C. Zimmerman

  • Linking the physiology and ecology of Cochlodinium to better understand harmful algal bloom events: A comparative approach

    Raphael M. Kudela;John P. Ryan;Melissa D. Blakely;Jenny Q. Lane

  • Causality of an extreme harmful algal bloom in Monterey Bay, California, during the 2014-2016 northeast Pacific warm anomaly

    J. P. Ryan;R. M. Kudela;J. M. Birch;M. Blum

  • Influences of upwelling and downwelling winds on red tide bloom dynamics in Monterey Bay, California

    John P. Ryan;Andrew M. Fischer;Raphael M. Kudela;James F.R. Gower

  • Metatranscriptomic analysis of autonomously collected and preserved marine bacterioplankton

    Elizabeth Ottesen;Roman Marin;Christina M. Preston;Curtis Robert Young

  • Physical-biological coupling in Monterey Bay, California: topographic influences on phytoplankton ecology

    John P. Ryan;Francisco P. Chavez;James G. Bellingham

  • Data-driven robotic sampling for marine ecosystem monitoring

    Jnaneshwar Das;Fr;ric Py

  • Interacting physical, chemical and biological forcing of phytoplankton thin-layer variability in Monterey Bay, California

    John P. Ryan;Margaret A. McManus;James M. Sullivan

  • In-situ Autonomous Acquisition and Preservation of Marine Environmental DNA Using an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle

    Kevan M. Yamahara;Christina M. Preston;James Birch;Kristine Walz

  • Application of the hyperspectral imager for the coastal ocean to phytoplankton ecology studies in Monterey Bay, CA, USA

    John P. Ryan;Curtiss O. Davis;Nicholas B. Tufillaro;Raphael M. Kudela

  • A coastal ocean extreme bloom incubator

    John P. Ryan;James F. R. Gower;Stephanie A. King;W. Paul Bissett

  • Phytoplankton thin layers caused by shear in frontal zones of a coastal upwelling system

    J. P. Ryan;M. A. McManus;J. D. Paduan;F. P. Chavez

  • Enhanced chlorophyll at the shelfbreak of the Mid-Atlantic Bight, and Georges Bank during the spring transition

    John P. Ryan;James A. Yoder;Peter C. Cornillon

  • Western Pacific modulation of large phytoplankton blooms in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific

    John P. Ryan;Iwao Ueki;Yi Chao;Hongchun Zhang;Hongchun Zhang

  • Unusual large-scale phytoplankton blooms in the equatorial Pacific

    John P Ryan;Paulo S Polito;Peter G Strutton;Francisco P Chavez

Frequent Co-Authors

Francisco P. Chavez
Francisco P. Chavez Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
Raphael M. Kudela
Raphael M. Kudela University of California, Santa Cruz
Margaret A. McManus
Margaret A. McManus University of Hawaii at Manoa
Gaurav S. Sukhatme
Gaurav S. Sukhatme University of Southern California
James A. Yoder
James A. Yoder University of Rhode Island
Kelly J. Benoit-Bird
Kelly J. Benoit-Bird Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
James M. Sullivan
James M. Sullivan Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute
David M. Karl
David M. Karl University of Hawaii at Manoa
Jonathan P. Zehr
Jonathan P. Zehr University of California, Santa Cruz
Edward F. DeLong
Edward F. DeLong University of Hawaii at Manoa

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