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Marc J. Weissburg is affiliated with the Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily Environmental Science and Engineering, with significant contributions to global and planetary change, ecology, biomedical engineering, mechanical engineering, and civil and structural engineering.

Their work addresses a variety of topics related to design education and practice, marine and fisheries research, infrastructure resilience and vulnerability analysis, complex systems and decision making, systems engineering methodologies and applications, supply chain resilience and risk management, and crustacean biology and ecology.

Recent publications by Weissburg include:

  • Ecological network analysis of urban-industrial ecosystems, 2020, Journal of Industrial Ecology
  • A New Resilience Metric to Compare System of Systems Architecture, 2021, IEEE Systems Journal
  • Adding a Detrital Actor to Increase System of System Resilience: A Case Study Test of a Biologically Inspired Design Heuristic to Guide Sociotechnical Network Evolution, 2020, Journal of Mechanical Design
  • System of system design-for-resilience heuristics derived from forestry case study variants, 2022, Reliability Engineering & System Safety
  • Predator signaling of multiple prey on different trophic levels structures trophic cascades, 2023, Ecology

Frequent coauthors in their publications include:

  • Bert Bras
  • Bryan C. Watson
  • Meltem Alemdar
  • Roxanne Moore
  • Michael Helms

The preferred publication venues where Weissburg's work regularly appears are:

  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Biomimetics
  • 2021 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE)
  • Journal of Industrial Ecology
  • IEEE Systems Journal

Marc J. Weissburg's interdisciplinary approach integrates engineering principles with environmental science to explore resilience in complex systems and sociotechnical networks. Their work on system-of-systems resilience metrics and biologically inspired design heuristics reflects a focus on applying natural system strategies to improve technological and social infrastructures.

The body of research also covers urban-industrial ecosystems, trophic cascade dynamics, and the signaling mechanisms among predator-prey relationships, highlighting an ecological perspective intertwined with engineering methodologies.

Best Publications

  • Life and Death in Moving Fluids: Hydrodynamic Effects on Chemosensory-Mediated Predation

    Marc J. Weissburg;Richard K. Zimmer-Faust

  • Odor plumes and how blue crabs use them in finding prey.

    M J Weissburg;R K Zimmer-Faust

  • The fluid dynamical context of chemosensory behavior

    Marc J. Weissburg

  • Chemosensory guidance cues in a turbulent chemical odor plume

    D. R. Webster;M. J. Weissburg

  • The sensory ecology of nonconsumptive predator effects.

    Marc Weissburg;Delbert L. Smee;Matthew C. Ferner

  • Clamming up: environmental forces diminish the perceptive ability of bivalve prey

    Delbert L. Smee;Marc J. Weissburg

  • The Hydrodynamics of Chemical Cues Among Aquatic Organisms

    D.R. Webster;M.J. Weissburg

  • The fluid physics of signal perception by mate-tracking copepods

    Jeannette Yen;Marc J. Weissburg;Michael H. Doall

  • Infrastructure ecology: an evolving paradigm for sustainable urban development

    Arka Pandit;Elizabeth A. Minné;Feng Li;Hillary Brown

  • Hard clams (Mercenaria mercenaria) evaluate predation risk using chemical signals from predators and injured conspecifics.

    Delbert L. Smee;Marc J. Weissburg

  • Ecological consequences of chemically mediated prey perception.

    Marc J. Weissburg;Matthew C. Ferner;Daniel P. Pisut;Delbert L. Smee

  • Slow-moving predatory gastropods track prey odors in fast and turbulent flow

    Matthew C. Ferner;Matthew C. Ferner;Marc J. Weissburg

  • Impacts of Global Warming and Elevated CO2 on Sensory Behavior in Predator-Prey Interactions: A Review and Synthesis

    Alex M. Draper;Marc J. Weissburg

  • Role of olfactory appendages in chemically mediated orientation of blue crabs

    Troy A. Keller;Ian Powell;Marc J. Weissburg

  • Spatial distribution of odors in simulated benthic boundary layer flows.

    Moore Pa;Weissburg Mj;Parrish Jm;Zimmer-Faust Rk

  • Following the invisible trail: kinematic analysis of mate-tracking in the copepod Temora longicornis

    Marc J. Weissburg;M. H. Doall;Jeannette Yen

  • The vacancy chain process: a new mechanism of resource distribution in animals with application to hermit crabs

    Ivan D. Chase;Marc Weissburg;Theodore H. Dewitt

  • Sex and the single forager: gender-specific energy maximization strategies in fiddler crabs

    Marc Weissburg

  • Response of copepods to physical gradients associated with structure in the ocean

    C. B. Woodson;D. R. Webster;M. J. Weissburg;J. Yen

  • Bed roughness effects on boundary‐layer turbulence and consequences for odor‐tracking behavior of blue crabs (Callinectes sapidus)

    J. L. Jackson;D. R. Webster;S. Rahman;M. J. Weissburg

Frequent Co-Authors

Bert Bras
Bert Bras Georgia Institute of Technology
Charles D. Derby
Charles D. Derby Georgia State University
Ashok K. Goel
Ashok K. Goel Georgia Institute of Technology
Craig A. Tovey
Craig A. Tovey Georgia Institute of Technology
Julia Kubanek
Julia Kubanek Georgia Institute of Technology
Paul A. Moore
Paul A. Moore Bowling Green State University
Greg A. Gerhardt
Greg A. Gerhardt University of Kentucky
John C. Crittenden
John C. Crittenden Georgia Institute of Technology
Amatzia Genin
Amatzia Genin Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Howard I. Browman
Howard I. Browman Norwegian Institute of Marine Research

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