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Overview

Sanae Chiba is affiliated with the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, covering a range of topics related to marine and coastal ecosystems and pollution.

Their work encompasses several key fields of study, including:

  • Environmental Science
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Pollution
  • Oceanography
  • Ecology
  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

Main topics addressed in their research cover:

  • Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Recycling and Waste Management Techniques
  • Coastal and Marine Management
  • Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies

Sanae Chiba has contributed to multiple publications, including papers on climate change indicators and marine pollution. Selected recent papers include:

  • An Overview of Ocean Climate Change Indicators: Sea Surface Temperature, Ocean Heat Content, Ocean pH, Dissolved Oxygen Concentration, Arctic Sea Ice Extent, Thickness and Volume, Sea Level and Strength of the AMOC (Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation), 2021, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • The quest for seafloor macrolitter: a critical review of background knowledge, current methods and future prospects, 2020, Environmental Research Letters
  • Testing Bergmann's rule in marine copepods, 2021, Ecography
  • Distribution of microplastics in bathyal- to hadal-depth sediments and transport process along the deep-sea canyon and the Kuroshio Extension in the Northwest Pacific, 2023, Marine Pollution Bulletin
  • Massive occurrence of benthic plastic debris at the abyssal seafloor beneath the Kuroshio Extension, the North West Pacific, 2021, Marine Pollution Bulletin

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Sanae Chiba include:

  • Sonia Batten
  • Masashi Tsuchiya
  • Katsunori Fujikura
  • Tomo Kitahashi
  • Jörn Schmidt

Key publication venues for their work are:

  • ICES Journal of Marine Science
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Marine Pollution Bulletin
  • HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Best Publications

  • Human footprint in the abyss: 30 year records of deep-sea plastic debris

    Sanae Chiba;Sanae Chiba;Hideaki Saito;Ruth Fletcher;Takayuki Yogi

  • Essential ocean variables for global sustained observations of biodiversity and ecosystem changes

    Patricia Miloslavich;Nicholas J. Bax;Nicholas J. Bax;Samantha E. Simmons;Eduardo Klein

  • Changing zooplankton seasonality in a changing ocean: Comparing time series of zooplankton phenology

    DL Mackas;W Greve;M Edwards;S Chiba

  • Advancing marine biological observations and data requirements of the complementary Essential Ocean Variables (EOVs) and Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs) Frameworks

    Frank E. Muller-Karger;Patricia Miloslavich;Patricia Miloslavich;Nicholas Bax;Nicholas Bax;Samantha E. Simmons

  • An Overview of Ocean Climate Change Indicators: Sea Surface Temperature, Ocean Heat Content, Ocean pH, Dissolved Oxygen Concentration, Arctic Sea Ice Extent, Thickness and Volume, Sea Level and Strength of the AMOC (Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation)

    Carlos Garcia-Soto;Carlos Garcia-Soto;Lijing Cheng;Levke Caesar;Levke Caesar;S. Schmidtko

  • Synthesis of Pacific Ocean Climate and Ecosystem Dynamics

    Emanuele Di Lorenzo;Vincent Combes;Julie E. Keister;P. Ted Strub

  • Seasonal and interannual variability of sea surface chlorophyll a concentration in the Japan/East Sea (JES)

    Keiko Yamada;Joji Ishizaka;Sinjae Yoo;Hyun-cheol Kim

  • Global latitudinal variations in marine copepod diversity and environmental factors

    Isabelle Rombouts;Isabelle Rombouts;Grégory Beaugrand;Frédéric Ibaňez;Stéphane Gasparini

  • The quest for seafloor macrolitter: a critical review of background knowledge, current methods and future prospects

    Miquel Canals;Christopher K Pham;Melanie Bergmann;Lars Gutow

  • Effects of decadal climate change on zooplankton over the last 50 years in the western subarctic North Pacific

    Sanae Chiba;Kazuaki Tadokoro;Kazuaki Tadokoro;Hiroya Sugisaki;Toshiro Saino;Toshiro Saino

  • Decadal-scale climate and ecosystem interactions in the North Pacific Ocean

    Arthur J. Miller;Fei Chai;Sanae Chiba;John R. Moisan

  • Prediction of unprecedented biological shifts in the global ocean

    G. Beaugrand;A. Conversi;A. Atkinson;James Cloern

  • Climate forcing and the Kuroshio/Oyashio ecosystem

    Akihiko Yatsu;Sanae Chiba;Yasuhiro Yamanaka;Shin-ichi Ito

  • From climate regime shifts to lower-trophic level phenology: Synthesis of recent progress in retrospective studies of the western North Pacific

    Sanae Chiba;Maki N. Aita;Kazuaki Tadokoro;Toshiro Saino;Toshiro Saino

  • Identifying global synchronies in marine zooplankton populations: issues and opportunities

    R.Ian Perry;Harold P Batchelder;David L Mackas;Sanae Chiba

  • Synchronous marine pelagic regime shifts in the Northern Hemisphere

    G. Beaugrand;A. Conversi;A. Conversi;S. Chiba;M. Edwards

  • KRILLBASE: a circumpolar database of Antarctic krill and salp numerical densities, 1926–2016

    Angus Atkinson;Simeon L Hill;Evgeny A Pakhomov;Volker Siegel

  • A Global Plankton Diversity Monitoring Program

    Sonia D. Batten;Rana Abu-Alhaija;Sanae Chiba;Sanae Chiba;Martin Edwards

  • Interdecadal change in the upper water column environment and spring diatom community structure in the Japan Sea: an early summer hypothesis

    Sanae Chiba;Toshiro Saino

  • Interannual variation in Neocalanus biomass in the Oyashio waters of the western North Pacific

    Kazuaki Tadokoro;Sanae Chiba;Tsuneo Ono;Takashi Midorikawa

  • Zooplankton monitoring to contribute towards addressing global biodiversity conservation challenges

    Sanae Chiba;Sonia Batten;Corinne S Martin;Sarah Ivory

Frequent Co-Authors

Sonia D. Batten
Sonia D. Batten North Pacific Marine Science Organization
Patricia Miloslavich
Patricia Miloslavich University of Tasmania
Nicholas J. Bax
Nicholas J. Bax Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Toshiro Saino
Toshiro Saino Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Anthony J. Richardson
Anthony J. Richardson University of Queensland
Frank E. Muller-Karger
Frank E. Muller-Karger University of South Florida
Yunne-Jai Shin
Yunne-Jai Shin Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Raphael M. Kudela
Raphael M. Kudela University of California, Santa Cruz
David Obura
David Obura Coastal Oceans Research and Development in the Indian Ocean
J. Emmett Duffy
J. Emmett Duffy Smithsonian Institution

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