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Overview

Parker MacCready is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research has a strong focus on Oceanography, with extensive work also in Global and Planetary Change, Computational Mechanics, Atmospheric Science, and Ecology.

The main topics explored in their research include:

  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses
  • Climate variability and models
  • Fluid Dynamics Simulations and Interactions
  • Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research

MacCready has contributed to numerous publications, frequently appearing in these venues:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • Journal of Physical Oceanography
  • Biogeosciences
  • Global Change Biology

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by MacCready include:

  • Estuarine Circulation, Mixing, and Residence Times in the Salish Sea, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • Coastal processes modify projections of some climate-driven stressors in the California Current System, 2021, Biogeosciences
  • Biological sensitivities to high-resolution climate change projections in the California current marine ecosystem, 2022, Global Change Biology
  • Mixing in a Salinity Variance Budget of the Salish Sea is Controlled by River Flow, 2022, Journal of Physical Oceanography
  • The shelf sources of estuarine inflow, 2021, Journal of Physical Oceanography

Throughout their career, MacCready has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Jan Newton
  • Jilian Xiong
  • Samantha Siedlecki
  • Terrie Klinger
  • Darren Pilcher

Best Publications

  • The Estuarine Circulation

    W. Rockwell Geyer;Parker MacCready

  • Advances in Estuarine Physics

    Parker MacCready;W. Rockwell Geyer

  • Boundary Mixing and Arrested Ekman Layers: Rotating Stratified Flow Near a Sloping Boundary

    C. J. R. Garrett;P. MacCready;P. Rhines

  • A model study of the Salish Sea estuarine circulation

    David A. Sutherland;Parker Maccready;Neil S. Banas;Lucy F. Smedstad;Lucy F. Smedstad

  • Dynamics of Willapa Bay, Washington: A Highly Unsteady, Partially Mixed Estuary

    N. S. Banas;B. M. Hickey;P. MacCready;J. A. Newton

  • Estuarine Adjustment to Changes in River Flow and Tidal Mixing

    Parker MacCready

  • Toward a Unified Theory of Tidally-Averaged Estuarine Salinity Structure

    Parker MacCready

  • A model study of tide- and wind-induced mixing in the Columbia River Estuary and plume

    Parker MacCready;Neil S. Banas;Barbara M. Hickey;Edward P. Dever

  • River Influences on Shelf Ecosystems: Introduction and synthesis

    B. M. Hickey;R. M. Kudela;J. D. Nash;K. W. Bruland

  • Seasonal and interannual variability in the circulation of Puget Sound, Washington: A box model study

    A. L. Babson;M. Kawase;P. MacCready

  • Evaluation of a coastal ocean circulation model for the Columbia River plume in summer 2004

    Yonggang Liu;Yonggang Liu;Parker MacCready;Barbara M. Hickey;Edward P. Dever

  • Slippery Bottom Boundary Layers on a Slope

    Parker MacCready;Peter B. Rhines

  • Calculating Estuarine Exchange Flow Using Isohaline Coordinates

    Parker MacCready

  • Seasonal and interannual oxygen variability on the Washington and Oregon continental shelves

    Samantha A. Siedlecki;Neil S. Banas;Kristen A. Davis;Sarah N. Giddings

  • Estuary-enhanced upwelling of marine nutrients fuels coastal productivity in the U.S. Pacific Northwest

    Kristen A. Davis;Neil S. Banas;Sarah N. Giddings;Samantha A. Siedlecki

  • Estuarine Circulation, Mixing, and Residence Times in the Salish Sea

    Parker MacCready;Ryan M. McCabe;Ryan M. McCabe;Samantha A. Siedlecki;Marvin Lorenz

  • Hindcasts of potential harmful algal bloom transport pathways on the Pacific Northwest coast

    S. N. Giddings;P. MacCready;B. M. Hickey;N. S. Banas

  • The Columbia River plume as cross-shelf exporter and along-coast barrier

    N.S. Banas;P. MacCready;B.M. Hickey

  • Stratified Flow along a Corrugated Slope: Separation Drag and Wave Drag

    Parker MacCready;Geno Pawlak

  • Estuarine Exchange Flow is Related to Mixing through the Salinity Variance Budget

    Parker MacCready;W. Rockwell Geyer;Hans Burchard

  • Form Drag and Mixing Due to Tidal Flow past a Sharp Point

    Kathleen A. Edwards;Parker Maccready;James N. Moum;Geno Pawlak

  • Estuarine salt flux through an isohaline surface

    Parker MacCready;W. Rockwell Geyer

Frequent Co-Authors

Barbara M. Hickey
Barbara M. Hickey University of Washington
W. Rockwell Geyer
W. Rockwell Geyer Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Raphael M. Kudela
Raphael M. Kudela University of California, Santa Cruz
Jan Newton
Jan Newton University of Washington
Hans Burchard
Hans Burchard Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research
Peter B. Rhines
Peter B. Rhines University of Washington
William S. D. Wilcock
William S. D. Wilcock University of Washington
Yonggang Liu
Yonggang Liu University of South Florida St. Petersburg
Richard A. Feely
Richard A. Feely University of Washington
Jonathan D. Nash
Jonathan D. Nash Oregon State University

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