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Maria Vernet is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science, with significant contributions to related subfields such as Ecology, Oceanography, Atmospheric Science, Molecular Biology, and Biomaterials.

Their work addresses a range of topics concentrated on marine and coastal ecosystems, microbial community ecology and physiology, polar research and ecology, marine biology and ecology research, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, protist diversity and phylogeny, and diatoms and algae research.

Recent publications by Maria Vernet include:

  • Environmental drivers of phytoplankton taxonomic composition in an Antarctic fjord, 2020, Progress In Oceanography
  • Spatial variability in rates of net primary production (NPP) and onset of the spring bloom in Greenland shelf waters, 2021, Progress In Oceanography
  • Seasonal dispersal of fjord meltwaters as an important source of iron and manganese to coastal Antarctic phytoplankton, 2021, Biogeosciences
  • Polar Tourism as an Effective Research Tool: Citizen Science in the Western Antarctic Peninsula, 2020, Oceanography
  • Microplanktonic diatom assemblages dominated the primary production but not the biomass in an Antarctic fjord, 2021, Journal of Marine Systems

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Maria Vernet include:

  • B. Jack Pan
  • Mattias Cape
  • Martina Mascioni
  • Gastón O. Almandoz
  • Mark Hildebrand

Their research has been published in several venues where they have multiple works, such as:

  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data (PANGAEA) (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research)
  • Progress In Oceanography
  • Oceanography

Best Publications

  • Marine pelagic ecosystems: the West Antarctic Peninsula

    Hugh W Ducklow;Karen Baker;Douglas G Martinson;Langdon B Quetin

  • Alteration of the Food Web Along the Antarctic Peninsula in Response to a Regional Warming Trend

    Mark A. Moline;Herve Claustre;Thomas K. Frazer;Oscar Schofield

  • Marine Ecosystem Sensitivity to Climate Change

    Raymond C. Smith;David Ainley;Karen Baker;Eugene Domack

  • Glacial meltwater dynamics in coastal waters west of the Antarctic peninsula

    Heidi M. Dierssen;Raymond C. Smith;Maria Vernet

  • Western Antarctic Peninsula physical oceanography and spatio-temporal variability

    Douglas G. Martinson;Douglas G. Martinson;Sharon E. Stammerjohn;Sharon E. Stammerjohn;Richard A. Iannuzzi;Raymond C. Smith

  • Free-drifting icebergs : Hot spots of chemical and biological enrichment in the weddell sea

    Kenneth L. Smith;Bruce H. Robison;John J. Helly;Ronald S. Kaufmann

  • The effects of UV radiation in the marine environment

    Stephen De Mora;Serge Demers;Maria Vernet

  • Primary production within the sea-ice zone west of the Antarctic Peninsula: I—Sea ice, summer mixed layer, and irradiance

    Maria Vernet;Douglas Martinson;Richard Iannuzzi;Sharon Stammerjohn

  • Physical forcing of phytoplankton dynamics in the southwestern Ross Sea

    Kevin R. Arrigo;Andrea M. Weiss;Walker O. Smith

  • Mass sedimentation of Phaeocystis pouchetii in the Barents Sea

    P. Wassmann;M. Vernet;BG Mitchell;F. Rey

  • Phytoplankton spatial distribution patterns along the western Antarctic Peninsula (Southern Ocean)

    Irene A. Garibotti;María Vernet;Martha Elba Ferrario;Raymond C. Smith

  • The Palmer LTER: A Long-Term Ecological Research Program at Palmer Station, Antarctica

    Raymond C. Smith;Karen S. Baker;William R. Fraser;Eileen E. Hofmann

  • Spring Bloom Development in the Marginal Ice Zone and the Central Barents Sea

    Paul Wassmann;Tatjana Ratkova;Inger Andreassen;Maria Vernet

  • The Weddell Gyre, Southern Ocean: Present Knowledge and Future Challenges

    M. Vernet;Walter Geibert;Mario Hoppema;P.J. Brown

  • Growth limitation in young Euphausia superba under field conditions

    Robin M. Ross;Langdon B. Quetin;Karen S. Baker;Maria Vernet

  • Extreme Anomalous Atmospheric Circulation in the West Antarctic Peninsula Region in Austral Spring and Summer 2001/02, and Its Profound Impact on Sea Ice and Biota*

    Robert A. Massom;Sharon E. Stammerjohn;Raymond C. Smith;Michael J. Pook

  • Foehn winds link climate-driven warming to ice shelf evolution in Antarctica

    Mattias R. Cape;Mattias R. Cape;Maria Vernet;Pedro Skvarca;Sebastian Marinsek

  • Dynamics of the vernal bloom in the marginal ice zone of the Barents Sea: Dimethyl sulfide and dimethylsulfoniopropionate budgets

    Patricia A. Matrai;María Vernet

  • Methanococcus vulcanius sp. nov., a novel hyperthermophilic methanogen isolated from East Pacific Rise, and identification of Methanococcus sp. DSM 4213T as Methanococcus fervens sp. nov.

    C. Jeanthon;S. L'Haridon;A.-L. Reysenbach;E. Corre

  • Release of ultraviolet-absorbing compounds by the red-tide dinoflagellate Lingulodinium polyedra

    M. Vernet;K. Whitehead

  • Modeling of light-dependent algal photosynthesis and growth: experiments with the Barents sea diatoms Thalassiosira nordenskioldii and Chaetoceros furcellatus

    Egil Sakshaug;Geir Johnsen;Kjersti Andresen;Maria Vernet

Frequent Co-Authors

Raymond C. Smith
Raymond C. Smith University of California, Santa Barbara
Sharon Stammerjohn
Sharon Stammerjohn Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research
Langdon B. Quetin
Langdon B. Quetin University of California, Santa Barbara
Robin M. Ross
Robin M. Ross University of California, Santa Barbara
Serge Demers
Serge Demers Université du Québec à Rimouski
Marit Reigstad
Marit Reigstad University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Douglas G. Martinson
Douglas G. Martinson Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Patricia A. Matrai
Patricia A. Matrai Bigelow Laboratory For Ocean Sciences
Irene R. Schloss
Irene R. Schloss Argentine Antarctic Institute
Heidi M. Dierssen
Heidi M. Dierssen University of Connecticut

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