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  • 1995 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Karen F. Wishner is affiliated with the University of Rhode Island in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a focus on several subfields including Oceanography, Ecology, Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, and Geophysics.

The main topics covered in their work include Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Marine and fisheries research, Marine and coastal ecosystems, Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses, and Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils.

Recent publications by Karen F. Wishner include:

  • Ocean deoxygenation and copepods: coping with oxygen minimum zone variability (2020), published in Biogeosciences
  • Vertical distribution of planktic foraminifera through an oxygen minimum zone: how assemblages and test morphology reflect oxygen concentrations (2021), published in Biogeosciences
  • Trace element composition of modern planktic foraminifera from an oxygen minimum zone: Potential proxies for an enigmatic environment (2023), published in Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Planktic foraminifera iodine/calcium ratios from plankton tows (2023), published in Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Multi-sensor observation of a rapidly dispersing micronekton thin layer (2022), published in Deep Sea Research Part I Oceanographic Research Papers

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Karen F. Wishner include:

  • Brad A. Seibel
  • Catherine V. Davis
  • Jennifer S. Fehrenbacher
  • Dawn M. Outram
  • Willem Renema

The most frequent publication venues for this researcher are:

  • Biogeosciences
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office
  • Deep Sea Research Part I Oceanographic Research Papers
  • Limnology and Oceanography Bulletin

Karen F. Wishner has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) since 1995.

Best Publications

  • Marine snow studies in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean: distribution, composition and role as a food source for migrating plankton

    R. S. Lampitt;K. F. Wishner;C. M. Turley;M. V. Angel

  • The oxygen minimum zone in the Arabian Sea during 1995

    J.M Morrison;L.A Codispoti;Sharon L Smith;Karen Wishner

  • Mesopelagic zone ecology and biogeochemistry - a synthesis

    Carol Robinson;Deborah K. Steinberg;Thomas R. Anderson;Javier Arístegui

  • A global biogeographic classification of the mesopelagic zone

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

  • Control of deep-sea benthic community structure by oxygen and organic-matter gradients in the eastern Pacific Ocean

    Lisa A. Levin;Cynthia L. Huggett;Karen F. Wishner

  • The biomass of the deep-sea benthopelagic plankton

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  • Involvement of the oxygen minimum in benthic zonation on a deep seamount

    Karen Wishner;Lisa Levin;Marcia Gowing;Lauren Mullineaux

  • Pelagic and benthic ecology of the lower interface of the Eastern Tropical Pacific oxygen minimum zone

    Karen F. Wishner;Carin J. Ashjian;Carin J. Ashjian;Celia Gelfman;Marcia M. Gowing

  • Mesozooplankton biomass in the upper 1000 m in the Arabian Sea: overall seasonal and geographic patterns, and relationship to oxygen gradients

    Karen F. Wishner;Marcia M. Gowing;Celia Gelfman

  • Seasonal response of zooplankton to monsoonal reversals in the Arabian Sea

    Sharon Smith;Michael Roman;Irina Prusova;Karen Wishner

  • Zooplankton in the Eastern Tropical North Pacific: Boundary Effects of Oxygen Minimum Zone Expansion

    Karen F. Wishner;Dawn M. Outram;Brad A. Seibel;Kendra L. Daly

  • Vertical zonation and distributions of calanoid copepods through the lower oxycline of the Arabian Sea oxygen minimum zone

    Karen F. Wishner;Celia Gelfman;Marcia M. Gowing;Dawn M. Outram

  • Ocean Deoxygenation and Zooplankton: Very Small Oxygen Differences Matter

    Karen F. Wishner;Brad A. Seibel;Christopher Roman;C. Deutsch

  • Abundance, distribution and population structure of the copepod Calanus finmarchicus in a springtime right whale feeding area in the southwestern Gulf of Maine

    Karen F. Wishner;Jill R. Schoenherr;Jill R. Schoenherr;Robert Beardsley;Changsheng Chen;Changsheng Chen

  • Mesozooplankton production and grazing in the Arabian Sea

    Michael Roman;Sharon Smith;Karen Wishner;Xinsheng Zhang

  • Zooplankton ecology in the eastern tropical Pacific oxygen minimum zone above a seamount: 1. General trends

    Jennifer Saltzman;Karen F. Wishner

  • Zooplankton ecology in the eastern tropical Pacific oxygen minimum zone above a seamount: 2. Vertical distribution of copepods

    Jennifer Saltzman;Karen F. Wishner

  • The metabolic response of pteropods to acidification reflects natural CO 2 -exposure in oxygen minimum zones

    Amy E. Maas;Amy E. Maas;Karen F. Wishner;Brad A. Seibel

  • Living in suboxia: ecology of an Arabian Sea oxygen minimum zone copepod

    Karen F. Wishner;Marcia M. Gowing;Gelfman Celia

  • Spatial variability in zooplankton abundance near feeding right whales in the Great South Channel

    Robert C. Beardsley;Ari W. Epstein;Changsheng Chen;Karen F. Wishner

  • Feeding ecology of benthopelagic zooplankton on an eastern tropical Pacific seamount

    M. M. Gowing;K. F. Wishner

  • Trophic relationships of deep-sea calanoid copepods from the benthic boundary layer of the Santa Catalina Basin, California

    Marcia M. Gowing;Karen F. Wishner

  • Comparative biogeochemistry-ecosystem-human interactions on dynamic continental margins

    Lisa A. Levin;Kon Kee Liu;Kay Christian Emeis;Denise L. Breitburg

Frequent Co-Authors

Brad A. Seibel
Brad A. Seibel University of South Florida St. Petersburg
Marcia M. Gowing
Marcia M. Gowing University of California, Santa Cruz
Carin J. Ashjian
Carin J. Ashjian Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Lisa A. Levin
Lisa A. Levin University of California, San Diego
Kendra L. Daly
Kendra L. Daly University of South Florida
Sharon L. Smith
Sharon L. Smith University of Miami
Curtis Deutsch
Curtis Deutsch Princeton University
Louis A. Codispoti
Louis A. Codispoti Old Dominion University
Lauren S. Mullineaux
Lauren S. Mullineaux Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Bruce H. Robison
Bruce H. Robison Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute

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