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Overview

Mark W. Denny is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant focus on subfields such as Ecology, Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, Ocean Engineering, and Earth-Surface Processes.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
  • Physiological and biochemical adaptations
  • Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses
  • Marine and coastal plant biology
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
  • Marine Biology and Environmental Chemistry

Mark W. Denny has contributed to various notable publication venues, including:

  • Journal of Experimental Biology
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • Annals of Botany
  • Global Ecology and Biogeography

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Denny are:

  • "A series of unfortunate events: characterizing the contingent nature of physiological extremes using long-term environmental records," 2020, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • "A single heat-stress bout induces rapid and prolonged heat acclimation in the California mussel,Mytilus californianus," 2020, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • "Mussels' acclimatization to high, variable temperatures is lost slowly upon transfer to benign conditions," 2020, Journal of Experimental Biology
  • "Wave Dissipation by Bottom Friction on the Inner Shelf of a Rocky Shore," 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • "Rapid Range Expansion of a Marine Ectotherm Reveals the Demographic and Ecological Consequences of Short-Term Variability in Seawater Temperature and Dissolved Oxygen," 2021, The American Naturalist

In addition to journal articles, Denny has published a book titled Air and Water in 2020 through Princeton University Press.

Denny frequently collaborates with other researchers, including:

  • Nicole E. Moyen
  • R. L. Crane
  • George N. Somero
  • W. Wesley Dowd
  • Jamie MacMahan

Best Publications

  • Biology and the Mechanics of the Wave-Swept Environment

    Mark W. Denny

  • Air and Water: The Biology and Physics of Life's Media

    Mark W. Denny

  • The structure and properties of spider silk

    John M. Gosline;M.Edwin DeMont;Mark W. Denny

  • Mechanical Limits to Size in Wave-Swept Organisms

    Mark W. Denny;Thomas L. Daniel;M. A. R. Koehl

  • Discovery of Lignin in Seaweed Reveals Convergent Evolution of Cell-Wall Architecture

    Patrick T. Martone;José M. Estevez;Fachuang Lu;Fachuang Lu;Katia Ruel

  • CONSEQUENCES OF SURF-ZONE TURBULENCE FOR SETTLEMENT AND EXTERNAL FERTILIZATION

    Mark W. Denny;Mark F. Shibata

  • Spider silk as rubber

    John M. Gosline;Mark W. Denny;M. Edwin DeMont

  • THE PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF SPIDER'S SILK AND THEIR ROLE IN THE DESIGN OF ORB-WEBS

    Mark Denny

  • Settlement of Marine Organisms in Flow

    Avigdor Abelson;Mark Denny

  • The largest, smallest, highest, lowest, longest, and shortest: extremes in ecology

    Steven D. Gaines;Mark W. Denny

  • Pulsed delivery of subthermocline water to Conch Reef (Florida Keys) by internal tidal bores

    James J. Leichter;Stephen R. Wing;Steven L. Miller;Mark W. Denny

  • Predicting Physical Disturbance: Mechanistic Approaches to the Study of Survivorship on Wave‐Swept Shores

    Mark Denny

  • Mechanical Consequences of Size in Wave‐Swept Algae

    Brian Gaylord;Carol A. Blanchette;Mark W. Denny

  • Thermal Variation, Thermal Extremes and the Physiological Performance of Individuals

    W. Wesley Dowd;Felicia A. King;Mark W. Denny

  • Quantifying «wave exposure»: a simple device for recording maximum velocity and results of its use at several field sites

    Emily Carrington Bell;Mark W. Denny

  • Locomotion: the cost of gastropod crawling

    Mark Denny

  • Organismal climatology: analyzing environmental variability at scales relevant to physiological stress.

    Brian Helmuth;Bernardo R. Broitman;Bernardo R. Broitman;Lauren Yamane;Sarah E. Gilman

  • The mechanics of wave-swept algae.

    Mark Denny;Brian Gaylord

  • The role of gastropod pedal mucus in locomotion

    Mark Denny

  • Spreading the risk: Small-scale body temperature variation among intertidal organisms and its implications for species persistence

    Mark W. Denny;W. Wesley Dowd;Lisa Bilir;Katharine J. Mach

  • Life in moving fluids: The physical biology of Flow

    Mark W. Denny

Frequent Co-Authors

Katharine J. Mach
Katharine J. Mach University of Miami
Christopher D. G. Harley
Christopher D. G. Harley University of British Columbia
Brian Gaylord
Brian Gaylord University of California, Davis
Brian Helmuth
Brian Helmuth Northeastern University
George N. Somero
George N. Somero Stanford University
Carol A. Blanchette
Carol A. Blanchette University of California, Santa Barbara
M. A. R. Koehl
M. A. R. Koehl University of California, Berkeley
Michael J. O'Donnell
Michael J. O'Donnell McMaster University
Stephen G. Monismith
Stephen G. Monismith Stanford University
Bernardo R. Broitman
Bernardo R. Broitman Adolfo Ibáñez University

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