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Nathan J. Mantua is affiliated with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with 43 documented publications in this field. Within environmental science, they have contributed to several subfields including global and planetary change, ecology, nature and landscape conservation, atmospheric science, and water science and technology.

Their work spans multiple main research topics such as fish ecology and management studies, marine and fisheries research, climate variability and models, marine bivalve and aquaculture studies, hydrology and watershed management studies, meteorological phenomena and simulations, and Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics.

Mantua has published multiple papers in well-known academic journals. Some of the recent notable publications include:

  • Habitat compression and ecosystem shifts as potential links between marine heatwave and record whale entanglements (2020), published in Nature Communications
  • Are Long-Term Changes in Mixed Layer Depth Influencing North Pacific Marine Heatwaves? (2021), published in Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Glacier Retreat and Pacific Salmon (2020), published in BioScience
  • Impacts of Climate Variability and Change, Pacific Northwest (2021), published in ResearchWorks at the University of Washington
  • One hundred-seventy years of stressors erode salmon fishery climate resilience in California's warming landscape (2022), published in Global Change Biology

Frequent coauthors who have worked alongside Mantua include:

  • Steven T. Lindley
  • William H. Satterthwaite
  • Jarrod A. Santora
  • John C. Field
  • Brian K. Wells

The scientist commonly publishes in venues such as ResearchWorks at the University of Washington, Frontiers in Marine Science, Global Change Biology, Fish and Fisheries, and Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.

Best Publications

  • A Pacific interdecadal climate oscillation with impacts on salmon production

    Nathan J. Mantua;Steven R. Hare;Yuan Zhang;John M. Wallace

  • The Pacific Decadal Oscillation

    Nathan J. Mantua;Steven R. Hare

  • Empirical evidence for North Pacific regime shifts in 1977 and 1989

    Steven R Hare;Nathan J Mantua

  • Causes and impacts of the 2014 warm anomaly in the NE Pacific

    Nicholas A. Bond;Meghan F. Cronin;Howard Freeland;Nathan Mantua

  • The Pacific Decadal Oscillation, Revisited

    Matthew Newman;Matthew Newman;Michael A. Alexander;Toby R. Ault;Kim M. Cobb

  • Multi-year persistence of the 2014/15 North Pacific marine heatwave

    Emanuele Di Lorenzo;Nathan Mantua

  • Climate change impacts on streamflow extremes and summertime stream temperature and their possible consequences for freshwater salmon habitat in Washington State

    Nathan Mantua;Ingrid Tohver;Alan Hamlet

  • Potential responses to climate change in organisms with complex life histories: evolution and plasticity in Pacific salmon

    L. G. Crozier;A. P. Hendry;P. W. Lawson;T. P. Quinn

  • Inverse Production Regimes: Alaska and West Coast Pacific Salmon

    Steven R. Hare;Nathan J. Mantua;Robert C. Francis

  • Impacts of climate variability and future climate change on harmful algal blooms and human health.

    Stephanie K Moore;Stephanie K Moore;Vera L Trainer;Nathan J Mantua;Micaela S Parker

  • Preparing for Climatic Change: The Water, Salmon, and Forests of the Pacific Northwest

    Philip W. Mote;Edward A. Parson;Alan F. Hamlet;William S. Keeton

  • RESTORING SALMON HABITAT FOR A CHANGING CLIMATE

    T. Beechie;H. Imaki;J. Greene;A. Wade

  • Seabirds as indicators of marine ecosystems

    John F. Piatt;William J. Sydeman;Francis Wiese

  • Tracking environmental processes in the coastal zone for understanding and predicting Oregon coho (Oncorhynchus kisutch) marine survival

    E.A. Logerwell;N. Mantua;P.W. Lawson;R.C. Francis

  • ATMOSPHERIC, CLIMATIC, AND ECOLOGICAL CONTROLS ON EXTREME WILDFIRE YEARS IN THE NORTHWESTERN UNITED STATES

    Ze'ev Gedalof;David L. Peterson;Nathan J. Mantua

  • Detecting regime shifts in the ocean: Data considerations

    B. deYoung;R. Harris;J. Alheit;G. Beaugrand

  • Habitat compression and ecosystem shifts as potential links between marine heatwave and record whale entanglements.

    Jarrod A. Santora;Nathan J. Mantua;Isaac D. Schroeder;John C. Field

  • Environmental factors influencing freshwater survival and smolt production in Pacific Northwest coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch)

    P. W. Lawson;E. A. Logerwell;N. J. Mantua;R. C. Francis

  • A multi-century perspective of variability in the Pacific Decadal Oscillation: new insights from tree rings and coral

    Ze'ev Gedalof;Nathan J. Mantua;David L. Peterson

  • Delayed coastal upwelling along the U.S. West Coast in 2005: A historical perspective

    Franklin B. Schwing;Nicholas A. Bond;Steven J. Bograd;Todd Mitchell

Frequent Co-Authors

Alan F. Hamlet
Alan F. Hamlet University of Notre Dame
Philip W. Mote
Philip W. Mote Oregon State University
David L. Peterson
David L. Peterson University of Washington
Michael A. Alexander
Michael A. Alexander National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Kyle S. Van Houtan
Kyle S. Van Houtan Duke University
Eric P. Salathé
Eric P. Salathé University of Washington
John C. Field
John C. Field National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Jack A. Stanford
Jack A. Stanford University of Montana
William J. Sydeman
William J. Sydeman Farallon Institute
Steven J. Bograd
Steven J. Bograd National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

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