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Current Research Projects:
Kudela, R.M. and F. P. Chavez. Compound remote sensing for the determination of new primary production in coastal waters. Funded by NASA grant NAG5-6563. 1997-2000 (MBARI).

Kudela, R.M. Monitoring ecosystem condition and stress in the San Pablo Bay, CA region. Funded by NASA grant NAG5-7632. 1998-2001 (San Francisco State University).

Kudela, R.M. and D.R. Phillips. New multi-tracer methods in biological oceanographic research. Funded by DOE and Los Alamos National Laboratory, UC system (1998-2000).

Chavez, F., D. Davis, G. Friederich, R. Herlien, R. Hopcroft, H. Jannasch, K. Johnson, R. Kudela, M. Silver, and P. Strutton. Biogeochemical responses to changes in climate and ocean circulation. Funded by MBARI (1998).

Chavez, F., T. Anderson, R. Hopcroft, K. Johnson, R. Kudela, R. Michisaki, and T. Pennington. Biogeochemical responses to changes in climate and ocean circulation. Funded by MBARI (1999-2001).

Chavez, F., R. Kudela, J. Paduan, E. Reinecker and C. Scholin. Generation of near real-time satellite products. Funded by MBARI (1999).

Research Publications:

Kudela, R.M. and W.P. Cochlan. 2000. Nitrogen and Carbon Uptake Kinetics and the Influence of Irradiance for a Red Tide Bloom Off Southern California. Aquat. Microb. Ecol. 21: 31-47.

Kudela, R.M. and F.P. Chavez. 2000. The impact of the 1992 El Niño on new production in Monterey Bay, California. Deep-Sea Res. II 47: 1055-1076.

Kudela, R.M. and R.C. Dugdale. 2000. Regulation of phytoplankton new production as determined by enclosure experiments with nutrient additions in Monterey Bay, California. Deep-Sea Res. II 47: 1023-1053.

Wilkerson, F.P. R.C. Dugdale, F.P. Chavez, and R.M. Kudela. 2000. Biomass and productivity in Monterey Bay, CA: contribution of the larger autotrophs. Deep-Sea Res. II 47:1003-1022.

Kudela, R.M., W.P. Cochlan and R.C. Dugdale. 1997. Carbon and nitrogen uptake response to light by phytoplankton during an upwelling event. J. Plankton Res. 19: 609-630.

Kudela, R.M. and F.P. Chavez. 1996. Bio-optical properties in relation to an algal bloom caused by iron enrichment in the equatorial Pacific. Geophys. Res. Letters, 23: 3751-3754.

Coale, K.H., K.S. Johnson, S.E. Fitzwater, R.M. Gordon, S. Tanner, F.P. Chavez, L. Ferioli, C. Sakamoto, P. Rogers, F. Millero, P. Steinberg, P. Nightingale, D. Cooper, W. Cochlan, M.R. Landry, J. Constantinou, G. Rollwagen, A. Trasvina and R. Kudela. 1996. A massive phytoplankton bloom induced by an ecosystem-scale iron fertilization experiment in the equatorial Pacific Ocean. Nature 383: 495-501.

Kudela, R.M. 1995. Characterization and Prediction of Planktonic Nitrogenous Nutrition and New Production in Monterey Bay, California: Nutrient and Physiological Interactions. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Southern California.

Scientific Reports

New Applications for Satellite Oceanography in WEST, Fall 2000, Newsletter of Coastal Ocean Processes (in pdf format).

Website References
1) Thurman, H.V., and A.P. Trujillo, 1999, "Essentials of Oceanography", Prentice Hall, 527 pp.

2) Butcher, S.S., R.J. Charlson, G.H. Orians, G.V. Wolfe, editors, 1992, "Global Biogeochemical Cycles", Academic Press Ltd., 364 pp.

Posters

Changes in Phytoplankton Structure During the 1997 - 1998 El Niño in Cental California

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