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5114
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6547
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Overview

Kenneth O. Coyle is affiliated with the University of Alaska Fairbanks in the United States. Their research primarily spans Environmental Science with a focus on marine and fisheries research, public health, and ecological studies.

The scientist's recent publications include the following works:

  • Modeling in an integrated ecosystem research framework to explore recruitment in Gulf of Alaska groundfish - Applications to management and lessons learned (2022), published in Deep Sea Research Part II Topical Studies in Oceanography
  • Can seamounts in the Gulf of Alaska be a spawning ground for sablefish settling in coastal nursery grounds? (2023), published in Fisheries Research
  • Notes from the Field: Early-Season Human Plague Transmitted from an Infected Cat - Oregon, January 2024 (2025), published in MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

The topics explored in their work cover diverse aspects of marine ecosystems and public health, including:

  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research
  • Zoonotic diseases and public health
  • Vector-borne infectious diseases

Their research fields include subfields such as:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Oceanography
  • Genetics
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Frequent coauthors working alongside Kenneth O. Coyle include:

  • Georgina A. Gibson
  • Albert J. Hermann
  • M. R. Baker
  • William T. Stockhausen
  • Sarah Hinckley

The most common venues for their research publications are:

  • Deep Sea Research Part II Topical Studies in Oceanography
  • Fisheries Research
  • MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

Best Publications

  • Climate impacts on eastern Bering Sea foodwebs: a synthesis of new data and an assessment of the Oscillating Control Hypothesis

    George L. Hunt;Kenneth O. Coyle;Lisa B. Eisner;Edward V. Farley

  • Climate change in the southeastern Bering Sea: impacts on pollock stocks and implications for the oscillating control hypothesis

    K. O. Coyle;L. B. Eisner;F. J. Mueter;A. I. Pinchuk

  • Comparative foraging ecology of planktivorous auklets in relation to ocean physics and prey availability

    George L. Hunt;Robert W. Russell;Kenneth O. Coyle;Thomas Weingartner

  • Zooplankton species composition, abundance and biomass on the eastern Bering Sea shelf during summer: The potential role of water-column stability and nutrients in structuring the zooplankton community

    Kenneth O. Coyle;Alexei I. Pinchuk;Lisa B. Eisner;Jeffrey M. Napp

  • Bottom-up forcing and the decline of Steller sea lions (Eumetopias jubatus) in Alaska: assessing the ocean climate hypothesis

    Andrew W. Trites;Arthur J. Miller;Herbert D. G. Maschner;Steven J. Bograd

  • Foraging in a fractal environment: Spatial patterns in a marine predator-prey system

    Robert W. Russell;George L. HuntJr.;Kenneth O. Coyle;R. Ted Cooney

  • Seasonal cross-shelf distribution of major zooplankton taxa on the northern Gulf of Alaska shelf relative to water mass properties, species depth preferences and vertical migration behavior

    Kenneth O. Coyle;Alexei I. Pinchuk

  • Anomalous conditions in the south-eastern Bering Sea, 1997: nutrients, phytoplankton and zooplankton

    Dean A. Stockwell;Terry E. Whitledge;Stephan I. Zeeman;Kenneth O. Coyle

  • Annual cycle of zooplankton abundance, biomass and production on the northern Gulf of Alaska shelf, October 1997 through October 2000

    Kenneth O. Coyle;Alexei I. Pinchuk

  • Foraging ecology of short-tailed shearwaters near the Pribilof Islands, Bering Sea

    GL Hunt;KO Coyle;S Hoffman;MB Decker

  • Murre foraging, epibenthic sound scattering and tidal advection over a shoal near St George Island, Bering Sea

    KO Coyle;GL Hunt;MB Decker;TJ Weingartner

  • High productivity of northern Bering Sea benthic amphipods

    Raymond C. Highsmfth;Kenneth O. Coyle

  • Mass mortality of short‐tailed shearwaters in the south‐eastern Bering Sea during summer 1997

    C. L. Baduini;K. D. Hyrenbach;K. O. Coyle;A. I. Pinchuk

  • Shelf offshore exchange processes, and their effects on mesozooplankton biomass and community composition patterns in the northeast Pacific

    D.L. Mackas;K.O. Coyle

  • Climate-related differences in zooplankton density and growth on the inner shelf of the southeastern Bering Sea

    K.O. Coyle;A.I. Pinchuk

  • Amphipod prey of gray whales in the northern Bering Sea : Comparison of biomass and distribution between the 1980s and 2002-2003

    Kenneth O. Coyle;Bodil Bluhm;Brenda Konar;Arny Blanchard

  • Interannual and decadal variability in zooplankton communities of the southeast Bering Sea shelf

    Jeffrey M Napp;Christine T Baier;Richard D Brodeur;Kenneth O Coyle

  • Hydrographic features and seabird foraging in Aleutian Passes

    Carol Ladd;Jaime Jahncke;George L. Hunt;Kenneth O. Coyle

  • The Northeast Pacific GLOBEC Program: Coastal Gulf of Alaska

    Thomas Weingartner;Kenneth Coyle;Bruce Finney;Russell Hopcroft

  • Seasonality in surface‐layer net zooplankton communities in Prince William Sound, Alaska

    R. T. Cooney;K. O. Coyle;E. Stockmar;C. Stark

Frequent Co-Authors

Albert J. Hermann
Albert J. Hermann National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
George L. Hunt
George L. Hunt University of Washington
Richard D. Brodeur
Richard D. Brodeur Oregon State University
Russell R. Hopcroft
Russell R. Hopcroft University of Alaska Fairbanks
Jeffrey M. Napp
Jeffrey M. Napp National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Thomas J. Weingartner
Thomas J. Weingartner University of Alaska Fairbanks
Carol Ladd
Carol Ladd National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Phyllis J. Stabeno
Phyllis J. Stabeno Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
Terry E. Whitledge
Terry E. Whitledge University of Alaska Fairbanks
Seth L. Danielson
Seth L. Danielson University of Alaska Fairbanks

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