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Overview

Sergio A. Sañudo-Wilhelmy is affiliated with the University of Southern California in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Neuroscience, with a strong focus on Oceanography, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Ecology. Additional areas of study include Endocrine and Autonomic Systems and Cognitive Neuroscience.

The main topics explored in their work cover Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Photoreceptor and Optogenetics Research, Circadian Rhythm and Melatonin, Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, and Neural Dynamics and Brain Function.

Recent publications by Sergio A. Sañudo-Wilhelmy include:

  • Global variability of high-nutrient low-chlorophyll regions using neural networks and wavelet coherence analysis, 2023, Ocean Science
  • Microbial rhodopsins are increasingly favoured over chlorophyll in High Nutrient Low Chlorophyll waters, 2021, Environmental Microbiology Reports
  • The Enzymology of Ocean Global Change, 2021, Annual Review of Marine Science
  • Growth rate-dependent synthesis of halomethanes in marine heterotrophic bacteria and its implications for the ozone layer recovery, 2020, Environmental Microbiology Reports
  • Temporal variation in vitamin B12 concentration and their impact on phytoplankton composition of surface waters of a coastal ocean off Japan (Ariake Sea), 2024, Journal of Oceanography

Collaborations are evident with several frequent co-authors, including Laura Gómez-Consarnau, Babak Hassanzadeh, Laura Steindler, Blair Thomson, and Fenella Deans.

Sergio has published in a variety of scientific journals and venues. Notable publication venues include Environmental Microbiology Reports, Ocean Science, Annual Review of Marine Science, Journal of Oceanography, and the Open Access Server of the Woods Hole Scientific Community.

Best Publications

  • Phosphorus limitation of nitrogen fixation by Trichodesmium in the central Atlantic Ocean

    Sergio A. Sañudo-Wilhelmy;Adam B. Kustka;Christopher J. Gobler;David A. Hutchins

  • Release and bioavailability of C, N, P Se, and Fe following viral lysis of a marine chrysophyte

    Christopher J. Gobler;David A. Hutchins;Nicholas S. Fisher;Elizabeth M. Cosper

  • Amazon River enhances diazotrophy and carbon sequestration in the tropical North Atlantic Ocean.

    A. Subramaniam;P. L. Yager;E. J. Carpenter;C. Mahaffey

  • The Role of B Vitamins in Marine Biogeochemistry

    Sergio A. Sañudo-Wilhelmy;Laura Gómez-Consarnau;Christopher Suffridge;Eric A. Webb

  • FeCycle: Attempting an iron biogeochemical budget from a mesoscale SF6 tracer experiment in unperturbed low iron waters

    P W Boyd;Cliff S Law;D A Hutchins;E R Abraham

  • Dissolved trace element cycles in the San Francisco Bay estuary

    A.R. Flegal;G.J. Smith;G.A. Gill;S. Sañudo-Wilhelmy

  • Quantifying Trace Elements in Individual Aquatic Protist Cells with a Synchrotron X-ray Fluorescence Microprobe

    Benjamin S. Twining;Stephen B. Baines;Nicholas S. Fisher;Jörg Maser

  • The impact of surface-adsorbed phosphorus on phytoplankton Redfield stoichiometry

    Sergio A. Sañudo-Wilhelmy;Antonio Tovar-Sanchez;Antonio Tovar-Sanchez;Fei-Xue Fu;Douglas G. Capone

  • Iron requirements for dinitrogen- and ammonium-supported growth in cultures of Trichodesmium (IMS 101): Comparison with nitrogen fixation rates and iron: carbon ratios of field populations

    Adam B. Kustka;Sergio A. Sañudo-Wilhelmy;Edward J. Carpenter;Douglas Capone

  • Anthropogenic silver in the Southern California Bight: a new tracer of sewage in coastal waters

    Sergio A. Sanudo-Wilhelmy;A. Russell Flegal

  • A trace metal clean reagent to remove surface-bound iron from marine phytoplankton

    Antonio Tovar-Sanchez;Sergio A Sañudo-Wilhelmy;Manuel Garcia-Vargas;Richard S Weaver

  • Multiple B-vitamin depletion in large areas of the coastal ocean

    Sergio A. Sañudo-Wilhelmy;Lynda S. Cutter;Reginaldo Durazo;Emily A. Smail

  • Uptake of dissolved organic carbon and trace elements by zebra mussels

    Hudson A. Roditi;Nicholas S. Fisher;Sergio A. Sañudo-Wilhelmy

  • Interactions between changing pCO2, N2 fixation, and Fe limitation in the marine unicellular cyanobacterium Crocosphaera

    Fei-Xue Fu;Margaret R. Mulholland;Nathan S. Garcia;Aaron Beck

  • A REVISED ESTIMATE OF THE IRON USE EFFICIENCY OF NITROGEN FIXATION, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE MARINE CYANOBACTERIUM TRICHODESMIUM SPP. (CYANOPHYTA)1

    Adam Kustka;Sergio Sañudo‐Wilhelmy;Edward J. Carpenter;Douglas G. Capone

  • Importance of geochemical transformations in determining submarine groundwater discharge-derived trace metal and nutrient fluxes

    Aaron J. Beck;Yoko Tsukamoto;Antonio Tovar-Sánchez;Miguel A. Huerta-Diaz

  • Discovery of a SAR11 growth requirement for thiamin's pyrimidine precursor and its distribution in the Sargasso Sea.

    Paul Carini;Paul Carini;Emily O Campbell;Jeff Morré;Sergio A Sañudo-Wilhelmy

  • Temporal variability of groundwater seepage and brown tide blooms in a Long Island embayment

    Christopher J. Gobler;Sergio A. Sañudo-Wilhelmy

  • Iron and marine nitrogen fixation: progress and future directions.

    Adam Kustka;Edward J. Carpenter;Sergio A. Sañudo-Wilhelmy

  • Microbial rhodopsins are major contributors to the solar energy captured in the sea

    Laura Gómez-Consarnau;Laura Gómez-Consarnau;John A. Raven;John A. Raven;John A. Raven;Naomi M. Levine;Lynda S. Cutter

  • Particulate iron dynamics during FeCycle in subantarctic waters southeast of New Zealand

    Russell D. Frew;David A. Hutchins;Scott D. Nodder;Sergio A. Sañudo-Wilhelmy

  • Trace metals in marine copepods: a field test of a bioaccumulation model coupled to laboratory uptake kinetics data

    Nicholas S. Fisher;Ian Stupakoff;Sergio A. Sanudo-Wilhelmy;Wenxiong Wang

Frequent Co-Authors

Antonio Tovar-Sánchez
Antonio Tovar-Sánchez Spanish National Research Council
Christopher J. Gobler
Christopher J. Gobler Stony Brook University
David A. Hutchins
David A. Hutchins University of Southern California
Douglas G. Capone
Douglas G. Capone University of Southern California
Carlos M. Duarte
Carlos M. Duarte King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Gordon T. Taylor
Gordon T. Taylor Stony Brook University
A. Russell Flegal
A. Russell Flegal University of California, Santa Cruz
Nicholas S. Fisher
Nicholas S. Fisher Stony Brook University
Jed A. Fuhrman
Jed A. Fuhrman University of Southern California
Karine Leblanc
Karine Leblanc Aix-Marseille University

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