2026 Peter H. Wiebe: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	69	1802	1716	759	701	305	15700

Research.com Recognitions

1984 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Peter H. Wiebe is affiliated with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in the United States. Their research primarily spans Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions in subfields such as Ecology, Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, Molecular Biology, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

Wiebe's work addresses various topics including Marine and fisheries research, Identification and Quantification in Food, Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Marine animal studies overview, and Marine and coastal ecosystems.

The recent publications reflect the scientist's focus on marine biodiversity and oceanographic technologies. Significant papers include:

Toward a global reference database of COI barcodes for marine zooplankton, 2021, Marine Biology
A hybrid underwater robot for multidisciplinary investigation of the ocean twilight zone, 2021, Science Robotics
Exploring the Use of Environmental DNA (eDNA) to Detect Animal Taxa in the Mesopelagic Zone, 2021, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
Assessing mesopelagic fish diversity and diel vertical migration with environmental DNA, 2023, Frontiers in Marine Science
Drivers of variability of Calanus finmarchicus in the Gulf of Maine: roles of internal production and external exchange, 2021, ICES Journal of Marine Science

Frequent collaborators in their research include Ann Bucklin, Nancy Copley, Jennifer M. Questel, Annette F. Govindarajan, and Joel K. Llopiz. These partnerships have supported work published in various venues repeatedly, particularly:

Frontiers in Marine Science
Deep Sea Research Part II Topical Studies in Oceanography
Marine Biology
ICES Journal of Marine Science
Science Robotics

Wiebe has also contributed to book publications, with multiple titles released through Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution eBooks, mainly in 2020, such as "Capturing Provenance of Data Curation at BCO-DMO" and "Data Help Desk BCO-DMO Lightning Talk." Additionally, there is a more recent publication through Frontiers Media in 2023 titled "Technological Advances for Measuring Planktonic Components of the Pelagic Ecosystem: An Integrated Approach to Data Collection and Analysis."

Among the honors received, Peter H. Wiebe is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), awarded in 1984.

Best Publications

Patterns and Processes in the Time-Space Scales of Plankton Distributions

L. R. Haury;J. A. McGowan;P. H. Wiebe

959
Citations
Vertical distribution and isotopic fractionation of living planktonic foraminifera from the Panama Basin

Richard G. Fairbanks;Marc Sverdlove;Rosemary Free;Peter H. Wiebe

833
Citations
New development in the MOCNESS, an apparatus for sampling zooplankton and micronekton

P. H. Wiebe;A. W. Morton;A. M. Bradley;R. H. Backus

598
Citations
A MULTIPLE OPENING/CLOSING NET AND ENVIRONMENTAL SENSING SYSTEM FOR SAMPLING ZOOPLANKTON.

Ph Wiebe;Wiebe Ph;Burt Kh;Boyd Sh

526
Citations
Vertical Distribution and Isotopic Composition of Living Planktonic Foraminifera in the Western North Atlantic

Richard G. Fairbanks;Peter H. Wiebe;Allan W. H. Bé

409
Citations
From the Hensen net toward four-dimensional biological oceanography

Peter H Wiebe;Mark C Benfield

397
Citations
Foraminifera and chlorophyll maximum: vertical distribution, seasonal succession, and paleoceanographic significance.

Richard G. Fairbanks;Peter H. Wiebe

388
Citations
Whale distribution in relation to prey abundance and oceanographic processes in shelf waters of the Western Antarctic Peninsula

Ari S. Friedlaender;Patrick N. Halpin;Song S. Qian;Gareth L. Lawson

318
Citations
Gulf Stream cold-core rings: Their physics, chemistry, and biology

Richard H. Backus;Glenn R. Flierl;Dana R. Kester;Donald B. Olson

300
Citations
Zooplankton Methodology Manual

Jürgen Lenz;R.P. Harris;P.H. Wiebe;H.R. Skjoldal

289
Citations
Sound scattering by several zooplankton groups. II. Scattering models

Timothy K. Stanton;Dezhang Chu;Peter H. Wiebe

275
Citations
On acoustic estimates of zooplankton biomass

Timothy K. Stanton;Peter H. Wiebe;Dezhang Chu;Mark C. Benfield

260
Citations
Diel vertical migration bySalpa aspera and its potential for large-scale particulate organic matter transport to the deep-sea

P. H. Wiebe;L. P. Madin;L. R. Haury;G. R. Harbison

253
Citations
Phenology in Calanus finmarchicus; hypotheses about control mechanisms

Charles B. Miller;Timothy J. Cowles;Peter H. Wiebe;Nancy J. Copley

234
Citations
Particulate matter sinking to the deep-sea floor at 2000 M in the Tongue of the Ocean, Bahamas, with a description of a new sedimentation trap

Peter H. Wiebe;Steven H. Boyd;Clifford L. Winget

230
Citations
Determining dominant scatterers of sound in mixed zooplankton populations

Andone C. Lavery;Peter H. Wiebe;Timothy K. Stanton;Gareth L. Lawson

226
Citations
Micropatchiness, turbulence and recruitment in plankton

Cabell S. Davis;Glenn R. Flierl;P. H. Wiebe;P. J. S. Franks

221
Citations
Acoustic scattering characteristics of several zooplankton groups

Timothy K. Stanton;Dezhang Chu;Peter H. Wiebe

191
Citations
A “Rosetta Stone” for metazoan zooplankton: DNA barcode analysis of species diversity of the Sargasso Sea (Northwest Atlantic Ocean)

Ann Bucklin;Brian D. Ortman;Robert M. Jennings;Lisa M. Nigro

190
Citations
Intercomparison of zooplankton (net) sampling systems: Results from the ICES/GLOBEC sea-going workshop

Hein Rune Skjoldal;Peter H. Wiebe;Lutz Postel;Tor Knutsen

181
Citations
Does the marine biosphere mix the ocean

W. K. Dewar;R. J. Bingham;R. L. Iverson;D. P. Nowacek

170
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Charles H. Greene Cornell University

Ann Bucklin University of Connecticut

Cabell S. Davis Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Carin J. Ashjian Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Pascal Hitzler Kansas State University

Suzanne M. Carbotte Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Tim Finin University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Krzysztof Janowicz University of California, Santa Barbara

Laurence P. Madin Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Scott M. Gallager Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

External Links

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