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Richard E. Thomson

Richard E. Thomson

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Earth Science

D-Index
64
Citations
17057
World Ranking
1473
National Ranking
66

Overview

Richard E. Thomson is affiliated with Fisheries and Oceans Canada in Canada. Their research spans primarily the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a strong focus on geophysics and oceanography as subfields of study.

Their work addresses a wide range of topics including earthquake and tectonic studies, oceanographic and atmospheric processes, earthquake detection and analysis, tropical and extratropical cyclones research, seismic waves and analysis, geology and paleoclimatology research, and crustacean biology and ecology.

Frequent publication venues for their research include the Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans, Natural Hazards, Journal of Physical Oceanography, Pure and Applied Geophysics, and the Journal of Shellfish Research.

Thomson has published notable recent papers such as:

  • "The meteorological tsunami of 1 November 2010 in the southern Strait of Georgia: a case study" (2020), published in Natural Hazards
  • "A Role for Gravity Currents in Cross-Sill Estuarine Exchange and Subsurface Inflow to the Southern Strait of Georgia" (2020), published in Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • "Ocean Indicators Predict Range Expansion of an Introduced Species: Invasion History of the European Green Crab Carcinus maenas on the North American Pacific Coast" (2021), published in Journal of Shellfish Research
  • "The 2022 Tonga Tsunami on the Pacific and Atlantic Coasts of the Americas" (2024), published in Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • "A review of zooplankton and deep carbon fixation contributions to carbon cycling in the dark ocean" (2022), published in Journal of Marine Systems

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Richard E. Thomson include Alexander B. Rabinovich, William J. Emery, Lucinda J. Leonard, Gwyn Lintern, and Jadranka Šepić.

Best Publications

  • Data Analysis Methods in Physical Oceanography

    William J. Emery;Richard E. Thomson

  • Bottom-up ecosystem trophic dynamics determine fish production in the Northeast Pacific.

    Daniel M. Ware;Richard E. Thomson

  • Oceanography of the British Columbia Coast

    Richard E. Thomson

  • An unprecedented coastwide toxic algal bloom linked to anomalous ocean conditions

    Ryan M. McCabe;Barbara M. Hickey;Raphael M. Kudela;Kathi A. Lefebvre

  • Data Analysis Methods in Physical Oceanography

    M. R. Nayak;William J. Emery;Richard E. Thomson

  • The Global Reach of the 26 December 2004 Sumatra Tsunami

    Vasily Titov;Alexander B. Rabinovich;Alexander B. Rabinovich;Harold O. Mofjeld;Richard E. Thomson

  • The Grand Banks landslide-generated tsunami of November 18, 1929: preliminary analysis and numerical modeling

    I.V. Fine;A.B. Rabinovich;B.D. Bornhold;R.E. Thomson

  • Changes in the zooplankton community of the British Columbia continental margin, 1985-1999, and their covariation with oceanographic conditions

    D L Mackas;Richard E Thomson;Moira Galbraith

  • Estimating Mixed Layer Depth from Oceanic Profile Data

    Richard E. Thomson;Isaac V. Fine

  • Physical forcing of phytoplankton dynamics in the southwestern Ross Sea

    Kevin R. Arrigo;Andrea M. Weiss;Walker O. Smith

  • Physical and biological processes over a submarine canyon during an upwelling event

    S. E. Allen;C. Vindeirinho;R. E. Thomson;M. G. G. Foreman

  • Developing a Mechanistic Understanding of Fish Migrations by Linking Telemetry with Physiology, Behavior, Genomics and Experimental Biology: An Interdisciplinary Case Study on Adult Fraser River Sockeye Salmon

    Steven J. Cooke;S. G. Hinch;A. P. Farrell;D. A. Patterson

  • Poleward reach of the California Undercurrent extension

    Richard E. Thomson;Maxim V. Krassovski

  • Link Between Long-Term Variability in Upwelling and Fish Production in the Northeast Pacific Ocean

    Daniel M. Ware;Richard E. Thomson

  • The 26 December 2004 Sumatra Tsunami: Analysis of Tide Gauge Data from the World Ocean Part 1. Indian Ocean and South Africa

    Alexander B. Rabinovich;Richard E. Thomson

  • The landslide tsunami of November 3, 1994, Skagway Harbor, Alaska

    Evgueni A. Kulikov;Alexander B. Rabinovich;Richard E. Thomson;Brian D. Bornhold

  • Currents along the pacific coast of Canada

    H.J. Freeland;W.R. Crawford;R.E. Thomson

  • A basin‐scale oceanic instability event in the Gulf of Alaska

    Richard E. Thomson;James F. R. Gower

  • Hydrothermal event plumes from the CoAxial seafloor eruption site, Juan de Fuca Ridge

    E. T. Baker;G. J. Massoth;R. A. Feely;R. W. Embley

  • Rectilinear leads and internal motions in the ice pack of the western Arctic Ocean

    John R. Marko;Richard E. Thomson

Frequent Co-Authors

Alexander B. Rabinovich
Alexander B. Rabinovich Institute of Oceanology. PP Shirshov Russian Academy of Sciences
Stephen E. Calvert
Stephen E. Calvert University of British Columbia
Earl E. Davis
Earl E. Davis Geological Survey of Canada
William J. Emery
William J. Emery University of Colorado Boulder
William R. Crawford
William R. Crawford Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Brian D. Bornhold
Brian D. Bornhold Geological Survey of Canada
Barbara M. Hickey
Barbara M. Hickey University of Washington
Edward T. Baker
Edward T. Baker Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean
Richard A. Feely
Richard A. Feely University of Washington
Reinhard Pienitz
Reinhard Pienitz Université Laval

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