Zooglider: An autonomous vehicle for optical and acoustic sensing of zooplankton

MD Ohman, RE Davis, JT Sherman… - Limnology and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
We present the design and preliminary results from ocean deployments of Zooglider, a new
autonomous zooplankton‐sensing glider. Zooglider is a modified Spray glider that includes …

Mesoscale ocean fronts enhance carbon export due to gravitational sinking and subduction

MR Stukel, LI Aluwihare, KA Barbeau… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - pnas.org
Enhanced vertical carbon transport (gravitational sinking and subduction) at mesoscale
ocean fronts may explain the demonstrated imbalance of new production and sinking …

Sub-frontal niches of plankton communities driven by transport and trophic interactions at ocean fronts

I Mangolte, M Lévy, C Haëck, MD Ohman - Biogeosciences, 2023 - bg.copernicus.org
Observations and theory have suggested that ocean fronts are ecological hotspots,
associated with higher diversity and biomass across many trophic levels. The hypothesis …

Contributions of mesozooplankton to vertical carbon export in a coastal upwelling system

MR Stukel, MD Ohman, CR Benitez-Nelson… - Marine Ecology …, 2013 - int-res.com
Mesozooplankton can directly impact global biogeochemical cycles by repackaging
particulate organic carbon (POC) into dense, rapidly sinking fecal pellets and by undertaking …

Environmental drivers of the fine-scale distribution of a gelatinous zooplankton community across a mesoscale front

JY Luo, B Grassian, D Tang, JO Irisson… - Marine Ecology …, 2014 - int-res.com
Mesoscale fronts occur frequently in many coastal areas and often are sites of elevated
productivity; however, knowledge of the fine-scale distribution of zooplankton at these fronts …

The importance of mesozooplankton diel vertical migration for sustaining a mesopelagic food web

TB Kelly, PC Davison, R Goericke… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
We used extensive ecological and biogeochemical measurements obtained from quasi-
Lagrangian experiments during two California Current Ecosystem Long-Term Ecosystem …

Mesozooplankton and particulate matter responses to a deep-water frontal system in the southern California Current System

MD Ohman, JR Powell, M Picheral… - Journal of plankton …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
We analyzed the abundance of mesozooplankton and suspended particulate matter across
the deep-water “A-Front” in the southern sector of the California Current System. We …