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Overview

Michael G. Jacox is affiliated with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with significant contributions in global and planetary change and oceanography.

The scientist's work encompasses multiple subfields including ecology, atmospheric science, and ecological modeling. Their research topics center on marine and fisheries research, oceanographic and atmospheric processes, climate variability and models, coral and marine ecosystems studies, marine and coastal ecosystems, marine bivalve and aquaculture studies, and ocean acidification effects and responses.

Frequent publication venues for Michael G. Jacox include:

  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • PLOS Climate
  • Progress In Oceanography
  • Fish and Fisheries

Their collaboration network includes frequent co-authors such as Steven J. Bograd, Elliott L. Hazen, Mercedes Pozo Buil, Stephanie Brodie, and Michael A. Alexander.

Notable recent publications by Michael G. Jacox include:

  • Global seasonal forecasts of marine heatwaves, 2022, Nature
  • Thermal displacement by marine heatwaves, 2020, Nature

Other relevant publications in the field, although not authored by Jacox but within their research scope, include:

  • Climate Change Impacts on Eastern Boundary Upwelling Systems, 2022, Annual Review of Marine Science
  • Marine heatwaves need clear definitions so coastal communities can adapt, 2023, Nature
  • A Dynamically Downscaled Ensemble of Future Projections for the California Current System, 2021, Frontiers in Marine Science

Best Publications

  • Impacts of the 2015–2016 El Niño on the California Current System: Early assessment and comparison to past events

    Michael G. Jacox;Michael G. Jacox;Elliott L. Hazen;Katherine D. Zaba;Daniel L. Rudnick

  • Marine top predators as climate and ecosystem sentinels

    Elliott L Hazen;Elliott L Hazen;Briana Abrahms;Stephanie Brodie;Stephanie Brodie;Gemma Carroll;Gemma Carroll

  • Coastal Upwelling Revisited: Ekman, Bakun, and Improved Upwelling Indices for the U.S. West Coast

    Michael G. Jacox;Michael G. Jacox;Christopher A. Edwards;Elliott L. Hazen;Steven J. Bograd

  • Memory and resource tracking drive blue whale migrations.

    Briana Abrahms;Elliott L Hazen;Ellen O Aikens;Matthew S Savoca

  • Global seasonal forecasts of marine heatwaves

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  • Climate Change Impacts on Eastern Boundary Upwelling Systems.

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  • Thermal displacement by marine heatwaves

    Michael G. Jacox;Michael G. Jacox;Michael G. Jacox;Michael A. Alexander;Steven J. Bograd;Steven J. Bograd;James D. Scott;James D. Scott

  • ENSO and the California Current coastal upwelling response

    Michael G. Jacox;Jerome Fiechter;Andrew M. Moore;Christopher A. Edwards

  • Marine heatwaves need clear definitions so coastal communities can adapt

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  • Dynamic ensemble models to predict distributions and anthropogenic risk exposure for highly mobile species

    Briana Abrahms;Heather Welch;Heather Welch;Stephanie Brodie;Stephanie Brodie;Michael G. Jacox;Michael G. Jacox

  • Scale of inference: on the sensitivity of habitat models for wide-ranging marine predators to the resolution of environmental data

    Kylie L. Scales;Kylie L. Scales;Elliott L. Hazen;Michael G. Jacox;Michael G. Jacox;Christopher A. Edwards

  • Spatially resolved upwelling in the California Current System and its connections to climate variability

    M. G. Jacox;A. M. Moore;C. A. Edwards;J. Fiechter

  • An historical analysis of the California Current circulation using ROMS 4D-Var: System configuration and diagnostics

    Emilie Neveu;Andrew M. Moore;Christopher A. Edwards;Jérôme Fiechter

  • A Dynamically Downscaled Ensemble of Future Projections for the California Current System

    Mercedes Pozo Buil;Mercedes Pozo Buil;Michael G. Jacox;Michael G. Jacox;Michael G. Jacox;Jerome Fiechter;Michael A. Alexander

  • State of the California current 2015-16: Comparisons with the 1997-98 el niÑo

    S McClatchie;R Goericke;A Leising;TD Auth

  • Forcing of Multiyear Extreme Ocean Temperatures that Impacted California Current Living Marine Resources in 2016

    Michael G. Jacox;Michael A. Alexander;Nathan J. Mantua;James D. Scott

  • Recommendations for quantifying and reducing uncertainty in climate projections of species distributions

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  • Bottom marine heatwaves along the continental shelves of North America

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  • Integrating Dynamic Subsurface Habitat Metrics Into Species Distribution Models

    Stephanie Brodie;Stephanie Brodie;Michael G. Jacox;Michael G. Jacox;Michael G. Jacox;Steven J. Bograd;Steven J. Bograd;Heather Welch;Heather Welch

  • Seasonal-to-interannual prediction of North American coastal marine ecosystems: Forecast methods, mechanisms of predictability, and priority developments

    Michael G. Jacox;Michael G. Jacox;Michael A. Alexander;Samantha Siedlecki;Ke Chen

  • Predicting cetacean abundance and distribution in a changing climate

    Elizabeth A. Becker;Elizabeth A. Becker;Karin A. Forney;Karin A. Forney;Jessica V. Redfern;Jay Barlow

  • Next-generation regional ocean projections for living marine resource management in a changing climate

    Elizabeth J Drenkard;Charles Stock;Andrew C Ross;Keith W Dixon

  • Sensitivity of the California Current nutrient supply to wind, heat, and remote ocean forcing

    Michael G. Jacox;Michael G. Jacox;Steven J. Bograd;Elliott L. Hazen;Jerome Fiechter

  • Marine heatwaves in a changing climate

    Michael G. Jacox

  • Fisheries bycatch risk to marine megafauna is intensified in Lagrangian coherent structures.

    Kylie L. Scales;Elliott L. Hazen;Michael G. Jacox;Frederic Castruccio

  • Predictability of Species Distributions Deteriorates Under Novel Environmental Conditions in the California Current System

    Barbara A. Muhling;Barbara A. Muhling;Stephanie Brodie;Stephanie Brodie;James A. Smith;James A. Smith;Desiree Tommasi;Desiree Tommasi

  • Practical considerations for operationalizing dynamic management tools

    Heather Welch;Heather Welch;Elliott L. Hazen;Steven J. Bograd;Michael G. Jacox

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven J. Bograd
Steven J. Bograd National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Elliott L. Hazen
Elliott L. Hazen National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Christopher A. Edwards
Christopher A. Edwards University of California, Santa Cruz
Michael A. Alexander
Michael A. Alexander National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Albert J. Hermann
Albert J. Hermann National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Antonietta Capotondi
Antonietta Capotondi National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Andrew M. Moore
Andrew M. Moore University of California, Santa Cruz
William J. Sydeman
William J. Sydeman Farallon Institute
Mati Kahru
Mati Kahru University of California, San Diego
John C. Field
John C. Field National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

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