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Lauren S. Mullineaux is affiliated with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences with a focus on Environmental Science. Within these areas, their work covers subfields including Oceanography, Ecology, Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, and Earth-Surface Processes.

The scientist's research concentrates on topics related to Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies, Marine and Coastal Plant Biology, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Marine Animal Studies Overview, and Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena.

Frequent publication venues for their work include the Journal of Experimental Biology, the Open Access Server of the Woods Hole Scientific Community, Frontiers in Marine Science, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, and Marine Ecology Progress Series.

Among their notable recent papers are the following:

  • Designing Coastal Adaptation Strategies to Tackle Sea Level Rise, 2021, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Functional traits provide new insight into recovery and succession at deep-sea hydrothermal vents, 2021, Ecology
  • Prolonged recovery time after eruptive disturbance of a deep-sea hydrothermal vent community, 2020, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Animal Community Dynamics at Senescent and Active Vents at the 9°N East Pacific Rise After a Volcanic Eruption, 2020, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • An evolution towards scientific consensus for a sustainable ocean future, 2022, npj Ocean Sustainability

Lauren S. Mullineaux has collaborated frequently with several scientists, including Susan W. Mills, Stace E. Beaulieu, Lauren N. Dykman, Michelle H. DiBenedetto, and Nadine Le Bris.

Best Publications

  • Seafloor hydrothermal systems : physical, chemical, biological, and geological interactions

    Susan E. Humphris;Robert A. Zierenberg;Lauren S. Mullineaux;Richard E. Thomson

  • A Roadmap for Using the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development in Support of Science, Policy, and Action

    Joachim Claudet;Laurent Bopp;William W.L. Cheung;Rodolphe Devillers;Rodolphe Devillers

  • Larval dispersal potential of the tubeworm Riftia pachyptila at deep-sea hydrothermal vents

    Adam G. Marsh;Adam G. Marsh;Lauren S. Mullineaux;Craig M. Young;Donal T. Manahan

  • Initial contact, exploration and attachment of barnacle ( Balanus amphitrite ) cyprids settling in flow

    L. S. Mullineaux;C. A. Butman

  • PREDATION STRUCTURES COMMUNITIES AT DEEP‐SEA HYDROTHERMAL VENTS

    Fiorenza Micheli;Charles H. Peterson;Lauren S. Mullineaux;Charles R. Fisher

  • 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

  • SUCCESSIONAL MECHANISM VARIES ALONG A GRADIENT IN HYDROTHERMAL FLUID FLUX AT DEEP-SEA VENTS

    Lauren S. Mullineaux;Charles H. Peterson;Fiorenza Micheli;Susan W. Mills

  • Designing coastal adaptation strategies to tackle sea level rise

    Théophile Bongarts Lebbe;Hélène Rey-Valette;Éric Chaumillon;Guigone Camus

  • DNA sequence variation of mitochondrial large-subunit rRNA provides support for a two-subclass organization of the Anthozoa (Cnidaria).

    P E Rosel;J E Agenbroad;L S Mullineaux

  • Larval recruitment in response to manipulated field flows

    L. S. Mullineaux;E. D. Garland

  • Organisms living on manganese nodules and crusts: distribution and abundance at three North Pacific sites

    Lauren S. Mullineaux

  • Phylogenetic relationships within the class Anthozoa (phylum Cnidaria) based on nuclear 18S rDNA sequences.

    Ewann A. Berntson;Lauren S. Mullineaux

  • Surface-generated mesoscale eddies transport deep-sea products from hydrothermal vents

    Diane K. Adams;Dennis J. McGillicuddy;Luis Zamudio;Andreas M. Thurnherr

  • Larvae from afar colonize deep-sea hydrothermal vents after a catastrophic eruption

    Lauren S. Mullineaux;Diane K. Adams;Susan W. Mills;Stace E. Beaulieu

  • Late Quaternary stagnations and recirculation of the eastern Mediterranean; changes in the deep water recorded by fossil benthic foraminifera

    Lauren S. Mullineaux;G. P. Lohmann

  • Tubeworm succession at hydrothermal vents: use of biogenic cues to reduce habitat selection error?

    Lauren S. Mullineaux;Charles R. Fisher;Charles H. Peterson;Stephen W. Schaeffer

  • Vertical, lateral and temporal structure in larval distributions at hydrothermal vents

    Lauren S. Mullineaux;Susan W. Mills;Andrew K. Sweetman;Ann H. Beaudreau

  • Recruitment of encrusting benthic invertebrates in boundary-layer flows: A deep-water experiment on Cross Seamount

    Lauren S. Mullineaux;Cheryl Ann Butman

  • The East Pacific Rise between 9°N and 10°N: Twenty-five years of integrated, multidisciplinary oceanic spreading center studies

    Daniel J. Fornari;Karen L. Von Damm;Julia G. Bryce;James P. Cowen

  • The roles of predation and postlarval transport in recruitment of the soft shell clam (Mya arenaria)

    Heather L. Hunt;Lauren S. Mullineaux

Frequent Co-Authors

Dennis J. McGillicuddy
Dennis J. McGillicuddy Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Charles H. Peterson
Charles H. Peterson University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Hunter S. Lenihan
Hunter S. Lenihan University of California, Santa Barbara
James R. Ledwell
James R. Ledwell Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Lisa A. Levin
Lisa A. Levin University of California, San Diego
Timothy M. Shank
Timothy M. Shank Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Charles R. Fisher
Charles R. Fisher Pennsylvania State University
Anna Metaxas
Anna Metaxas Dalhousie University
Nadine Le Bris
Nadine Le Bris Université Paris Cité
Paul A. Tyler
Paul A. Tyler University of Southampton

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