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| PISCO Physical Oceanography UC Santa Cruz Long Marine Lab 100 Shaffer Road Santa Cruz, CA 95060 |
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| PISCO Physical Oceanography UC Santa Cruz Long Marine Lab 100 Shaffer Road Santa Cruz, CA 95060 |
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Research Interests
I am a physical oceanographer who studies coupled physical-biological systems in the coastal environment. Specifically, I’m interested in how physical processes across a range of scales affect the distribution of phytoplankton. My graduate work focused on a particular type of plankton distribution, called “thin layers”. Education Ph.D. Ocean Sciences (March 2008), University of California Santa Cruz Advisor: Dr. Margaret McManus (University of Hawaii at Manoa) B.A. Physics (2002), Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA Funding Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) Award (P.I.: Margaret McManus, Univ of Hawaii) Article In 2005 I helped author a DURIP proposal that was used to puchase an Acrobat tow-body. Our goal was to use this platform to map the 3-D spatial distribution of thin phytoplankton layers and physical properties of the water column; we achieved this goal during the 2006 Layered Organization in the Coastal Ocean (LOCO) summer experiment. Awards 2005 Global Oceans Award 2004 Friends of Long Marine Lab Student Research Award 2002 Dean’s Fellowship, UC Santa Cruz 2002 Phi Beta Kappa Publications Cheriton OM, McManus MA, Steinbuck JV, Stacey MT, Sullivan JM (in press) Towed vehicle observations of thin layer structure and a low-salinity intrusion in northern Monterey Bay, CA. Continental Shelf Research, doi:10.1016/j.csr.2009.09.005. Sullivan JM, McManus MA, Cheriton OM, Benoit-Bird KJ, Goodman L, Wang Z, Ryan JP, Stacey MT, Holliday DV, Greenlaw CF, Moline MA, MacFarland M (in press) Layered organization in the coastal ocean: an introduction to planktonic thin layers and the LOCO project. Continental Shelf Research, doi:10.1016/j.csr.2009.09.001. Steinbuck JV, Stacey MT, McManus MA, Cheriton OM, Ryan JP (2009) Observations of turbulent mixing in a phytoplankton thin layer: Implications for formation, maintenance, and breakdown. Limnology and Oceanography 54: 1353-1368. Cheriton OM, McManus MA, Stacey MT, Steinbuck JV, Ryan JP (2009) Physical and biological controls on the maintenance and dissipation of a thin phytoplankton layer. Marine Ecology Progress Series 378: 55-69. pdf Johnston TMS, Cheriton OM, McManus MA, Pennington JT, Chavez FP (2008) Thin Phytoplankton Layer Formation by Current Shear at Eddies, Filaments, and Fronts in a Coastal Upwelling Zone. Deep-Sea Research II 56: 246-259. Cheriton OM, McManus MA, Holliday DV, Greenlaw CF, Donaghay PL, Cowles TM (2007) Effects of mesoscale physical processes on thin zooplankton layers at four sites along the West Coast of the U.S. Estuaries and Coasts 30: 575-590. pdf McManus MA, Cheriton OM, Drake P, Holliday DV, Storlazzi C, Donaghay PL, Greenlaw CF (2005) The effects of physical processes on the structure and transport of thin zooplankton layers in the coastal ocean. Marine Ecology Progress Series 301: 199-215. pdf Manuscripts submitted or in prep Carr M, Woodson CB, Cheriton OM, Malone D, McManus MA, Raimondi P (submitted) Effective assessment of Marine Protected Areas: Why oceanography matters. Cheriton OM, McManus MA, McPhee-Shaw EE, Sevadjian J, Carroll D, (in prep) Insights into the hydrography of a coastal embayment from a decade of observational data. |