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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2014 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Mark D. Ohman is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a significant focus on Oceanography and Ecology among related subfields. Additionally, their work covers Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

Ohman's research topics reflect a strong emphasis on marine environments, including Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Marine and Fisheries Research, Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, and Fish Ecology and Management Studies.

The following is a selection of recent publications authored or co-authored by Ohman:

  • "Machine learning techniques to characterize functional traits of plankton from image data," 2022, Limnology and Oceanography
  • "Timing is everything: Drivers of interannual variability in blue whale migration," 2020, Scientific Reports
  • "Marine Pelagic Ecosystem Responses to Climate Variability and Change," 2022, BioScience
  • "Vertical niche definition of test-bearing protists (Rhizaria) into the twilight zone revealed by in situ imaging," 2020, Limnology and Oceanography
  • "Cross-Shore Flow and Implications for Carbon Export in the California Current Ecosystem: A Lagrangian Analysis," 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans

Frequent co-authors in Ohman's work include:

  • Michael R. Stukel (5 co-authored publications)
  • Michael R. Landry (5 co-authored publications)
  • Stephanie A. Matthews (3 co-authored publications)
  • Andrew R. Thompson (3 co-authored publications)
  • Jeffrey Ellen (2 co-authored publications)

Ohman has published multiple times in several key scientific venues, with their most frequent publication venues listed as:

  • Limnology and Oceanography (8 publications)
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans (3 publications)
  • BioScience (2 publications)
  • Nature Communications (2 publications)
  • Limnology and Oceanography Methods (2 publications)

Among the awards received, Ohman was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2014.

Best Publications

  • Long-term aging and degradation of microplastic particles: Comparing in situ oceanic and experimental weathering patterns.

    Jennifer Brandon;Miriam Goldstein;Mark D. Ohman

  • Digital zooplankton image analysis using the ZooScan integrated system

    Gaby Gorsky;Gaby Gorsky;Mark D. Ohman;Marc Picheral;Marc Picheral;Stéphane Gasparini;Stéphane Gasparini

  • Trait-based approaches to zooplankton communities

    Elena Litchman;Elena Litchman;Mark D. Ohman;Thomas Kiørboe

  • Reverse Diel Vertical Migration: An Escape from Invertebrate Predators

    Mark D. Ohman;Bruce W. Frost;Edward B. Cohen

  • The Demographic Benefits of Diel Vertical Migration by Zooplankton

    Mark D. Ohman

  • Sustained fecundity when phytoplankton resources are in short supply: Omnivory by Calanus finmarchicus in the Gulf of St. Lawrence

    Mark D. Ohman;Jefrey A. Runge

  • Globally consistent quantitative observations of planktonic ecosystems

    F. Lombard;F. Lombard;E. Boss;A.M. Waite;J. Uitz

  • Multidecadal increase in plastic particles in coastal ocean sediments.

    Jennifer A. Brandon;William Jones;Mark D. Ohman

  • Analysis of abrupt transitions in ecological systems

    Brandon T. Bestelmeyer;Aaron M. Ellison;William R. Fraser;Kristen B. Gorman

  • Density-dependent mortality in an oceanic copepod population

    M. D. Ohman;Hans-Jürgen Hirche

  • Coherence of long-term variations of zooplankton in two sectors of the California Current System

    Bertha E. Lavaniegos;Mark D. Ohman

  • Planktivorous auklet Ptychoramphus aleuticus responses to ocean climate, 2005: Unusual atmospheric blocking?

    William J. Sydeman;Russell W. Bradley;Pete Warzybok;Christine L. Abraham

  • Lagrangian studies of phytoplankton growth and grazing relationships in a coastal upwelling ecosystem off Southern California

    Michael R. Landry;Mark D. Ohman;Ralf Goericke;Michael R. Stukel

  • Long-term changes in pelagic tunicates of the California Current

    Bertha E. Lavaniegos;Mark D. Ohman

  • Planktonic Foraminifera of the California Current Reflect 20th-Century Warming

    David B. Field;Timothy R. Baumgartner;Christopher D. Charles;Vicente Ferreira-Bartrina

  • Synthesis of Pacific Ocean Climate and Ecosystem Dynamics

    Emanuele Di Lorenzo;Vincent Combes;Julie E. Keister;P. Ted Strub

  • Mesoscale ocean fronts enhance carbon export due to gravitational sinking and subduction

    Michael R. Stukel;Lihini I. Aluwihare;Katherine A. Barbeau;Alexander M. Chekalyuk

  • Robust empirical relationships for estimating the carbonate system in the southern California Current System and application to CalCOFI hydrographic cruise data (2005–2011)

    Simone R. Alin;Richard A. Feely;Andrew G. Dickson;J. Martín Hernández-Ayón

  • Zooplankton anomalies in the California Current system before and during the warm ocean conditions of 2005

    D. L. Mackas;W. T. Peterson;M. D. Ohman;B. E. Lavaniegos

  • A double-integration hypothesis to explain ocean ecosystem response to climate forcing.

    Emanuele Di Lorenzo;Mark D. Ohman

  • Growth kinetics of the omnivorous oligotrich ciliate Strombidium sp

    Mark D. Ohman;Richard A. Snyder

Frequent Co-Authors

Marc Picheral
Marc Picheral Université Paris Cité
Lars Stemmann
Lars Stemmann Sorbonne University
Stephane Pesant
Stephane Pesant University of Bremen
Gabriel Gorsky
Gabriel Gorsky Sorbonne University
Ralf Goericke
Ralf Goericke Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Michael R. Landry
Michael R. Landry University of California, San Diego
Jeffrey A. Runge
Jeffrey A. Runge University of Maine
Peter Franks
Peter Franks University of California, Davis
Dag L. Aksnes
Dag L. Aksnes University of Bergen
William T. Peterson
William T. Peterson National Marine Fisheries Service

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