# overview
My research focuses on phytoplankton population dynamics; harmful algal blooms and mechanisms of bloom formation; transcriptomics and metabolomics of marine dinoflagellates; ocean observing systems; and flow cytometry and imaging-in-flow cytometry.

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3709 Physical Geography And Environmental Geoscience

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1.1 Normal Biological Development And Functioning

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1.1 Normal Biological Development And Functioning

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Harmful Algal Bloom Integrated Observing System

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Gulf Of Mexico Coastal Ocean Observing System

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4101 Climate Change Impacts And Adaptation

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30 Agricultural, Veterinary And Food Sciences

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3709 Physical Geography And Environmental Geoscience

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University of California, Santa Cruz - (Santa Cruz, California, United States)

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Stony Brook University - (Stony Brook, New York, United States)

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Stony Brook University - (Stony Brook, New York, United States)

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Association of Former Students College-Level Teaching Distinguished Achievement Award, The

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Womens Faculty Network Outstanding Mentoring Award

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Predicting bloom initiation on the Texas (USA) coast: Combining satellite imagery with an individual-based model

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International Society for the Study of Harmful Algae

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FIRST HARMFUL DINOPHYSIS (DINOPHYCEAE, DINOPHYSIALES) BLOOM IN THE US IS REVEALED BY AUTOMATED IMAGING FLOW CYTOMETRY

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The Florida red tide dinoflagellate Karenia brevis: New insights into cellular and molecular processes underlying bloom dynamics

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Vertical structure of the phytoplankton community associated with a coastal plume in the Gulf of Mexico

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Identification and phylogeny of putative PEPC genes in three toxin-producing Karenia (Dinophyta) species.

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DIEL PATTERNS OF CELL-DIVISION IN MARINE SYNECHOCOCCUS SPP (CYANOBACTERIA) - USE OF THE FREQUENCY OF DIVIDING CELLS TECHNIQUE TO MEASURE GROWTH-RATE

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Variation in brevetoxin and brevenal content among clonal cultures of Karenia brevis may influence bloom toxicity.

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PICOPLANKTON AND ULTRAPLANKTON SARGASSO SEA COMMUNITIES - VARIABILITY AND COMPARATIVE DISTRIBUTIONS OF SYNECHOCOCCUS SPP AND ALGAE

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ASLO February 2016 Board Meeting Highlights

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Identifying bloom origins of the toxic dinoflagellate Karenia brevis in the western Gulf of Mexico using a spatially explicit individual-based model

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Physiology and evolution of nitrate acquisition in Prochlorococcus.

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Predicting harmful algal blooms: a case study with Dinophysis ovum in the Gulf of Mexico

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Basin-wide distributions of living carbon components and the inverted trophic pyramid of the central gyre of the North Atlantic Ocean, summer 1993

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Occurrence and metabolic activity of organisms under the ross ice shelf, antarctica, at station j9.

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American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

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IDENTIFICATION OF SYNECHOCOCCUS SPP IN THE SARGASSO SEA BY IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE AND FLUORESCENCE EXCITATION SPECTROSCOPY PERFORMED ON INDIVIDUAL CELLS

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Drivers of microplankton community assemblage following tropical cyclones

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Annual variability of phytoplankton and bacteria in the subtropical North Pacific Ocean at Station ALOHA during the 1991-1994 ENSO event

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Picoplankton community structure within and outside a Trichodesmium bloom in the southwestern Pacific Ocean

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Global oceanic diazotroph database version 2 and elevated estimate of globaloceanic N₂ fixation

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Genomic diversity in time and space in the toxic diatom Pseudo-nitzschia multistriata

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Message from the Secretary: ASLO February 2015 Board Meeting Highlights

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Spatial and temporal distributions of bromoform and dibromomethane in the Atlantic Ocean and their relationship with photosynthetic biomass

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Phytoplankton assemblage structure and primary productivity along 170W in the South Pacific Ocean

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Osmotic stress does trigger brevetoxin production in the dinoflagellate Karenia brevis.

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Characterization of Dinophysis spp. (Dinophyceae, Dinophysiales) from the mid-Atlantic region of the United States1.

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A new buoy-based in situ optical early warning system for harmful algal blooms in the Gulf of Mexico

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Immunofluorescence Approaches in the Study of Phytoplankton

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Accurate assessment of functional abilities in pre-schoolers for diagnostic and funding purposes: A comparison of the Vineland-3 and the PEDI-CAT.

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BOOK REVIEW | Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Introduction to Marine Science

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ON THE CHLOROPHYLL-A RETENTION PROPERTIES OF GLASS-FIBER GF/F FILTERS

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Knowledge and Wonder: The Natural World as Man Knows it. Victor F. Weisskopf

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Spatial patterns in phytoplankton growth and microzooplankton grazing in the Arabian Sea during monsoon forcing

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Genetic characterisation of Emiliania huxleyi (Haptophyta)

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De novo transcriptome assembly and gene annotation for the toxic dinoflagellate Dinophysis.

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Bacterial community composition during two consecutive NE Monsoon periods in the Arabian Sea studied by denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) of rRNA genes

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Regulation of ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase gene expression in natural phytoplankton communities .1. Diel rhythms

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Energetics and growth kinetics of a deep Prochlorococcus spp. population in the Arabian Sea

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Flow cytometry in molecular aquatic ecology

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No difference found in ribosomal DNA sequences from physiologically diverse clones of Karenia brevis (Dinophyceae) from the Gulf of Mexico

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De novo assembly and characterization of the transcriptome of the toxic dinoflagellate Karenia brevis.

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PCR amplification of microsatellites from single cells of Karenia brevis preserved in Lugol's iodine solution.

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Identification and enumeration of marine chroococcoid cyanobacteria by immunofluorescence.

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Flow cytometry in molecular aquatic ecology

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Increased Oxidative Stress and Genomic Instability in Peripheral Blood and Bone Marrow of Individuals with Fanconi Anemia

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CONTRIBUTION OF SYNECHOCOCCUS SPP TO SIZE-FRACTIONED PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY IN 3 WATER MASSES IN THE NORTHWEST ATLANTIC-OCEAN

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OCCURRENCE AND METABOLIC-ACTIVITY OF LIVING ORGANISMS UNDER ROSS ICE SHELF

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Analysis of ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase gene expression in natural phytoplankton communities by group-specific gene probing

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Cyanobacterial assimilatory nitrate reductase gene diversity in coastal and oligotrophic marine environments.

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Genetic diversity among clonal isolates of Karenia brevis as measured with microsatellite markers

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PRESENCE OF PHYCOERYTHRIN IN TWO STRAINS OF PROCHLOROCOCCUS (CYANOBACTERIA) ISOLATED FROM THE SUBTROPICAL NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN.

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Green fluorescent protein as a reporter of transcriptional activity in a prokaryotic system.

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Integrating Observing Systems to Benefit Stakeholders: A Case Study in the Gulf of Mexico

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

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Continuous automated imaging-in-flow cytometry for detection and early warning of Karenia brevis blooms in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Osmotic stress triggers toxin production by the dinoflagellate Karenia brevis (vol 108, pg 10597, 2011)

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Screening peptide/protein libraries fused to the lambda repressor DNA-binding domain in E. coli cells.

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Ocean World Encyclopedia. Donald G. Groves , Lee M. Hunt

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A full-length 18S ribosomal DNA metabarcoding approach for determining protist community diversity using Nanopore sequencing.

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Tropical cyclones: what are their impacts on phytoplankton ecology?

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EFFECTS OF LIGHT-INTENSITY AND NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY ON DIEL PATTERNS OF CELL-METABOLISM AND GROWTH IN POPULATIONS OF SYNECHOCOCCUS SPP

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An application of the fmax approach

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Prochlorococcus growth rates in the central equatorial Pacific

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Nitrogen uptake by phytoplankton and bacteria during an induced Phaeocystis pouchetii bloom, measured using size fractionation and flow cytometric sorting

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Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus growth rates and contributions to production in the Arabian Sea during the 1995 Southwest and Northeast Monsoons

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Heterotrophic bacterioplankton in the Arabian Sea: Basinwide response to year-round high primary productivity

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Comments on carbon cycling in a shallow turbid estuary of Southeast Texas: The use of plant pigment biomarkers and water quality parameters by Bianchi, Baskaran, DeLord and Ravichandran,Estuaries 20:404415

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The Marine Microbial Eukaryote Transcriptome Sequencing Project (MMETSP): illuminating the functional diversity of eukaryotic life in the oceans through transcriptome sequencing.

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Chemical analysis of Karenia papilionacea.

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Response of microbial community structure to environmental forcing in the Arabian Sea

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A survey of Dinophysis spp. and their potential to cause diarrhetic shellfish poisoning in coastal waters of the United States.

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Photoacclimation and photophysiology of four species of toxigenic Dinophysis.

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Metabarcoding reveals high genetic diversity of harmful algae in the coastal waters of Texas, Gulf of Mexico.

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A modified assay to determine hemolytic toxin variability among Karenia clones isolated from the Gulf of Mexico

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Cell cycle and physiological characteristics of Synechococcus (WH7803) in chemostat culture

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BLUE-GREEN LIGHT EFFECTS ON LIGHT-LIMITED RATES OF PHOTOSYNTHESIS - RELATIONSHIP TO PIGMENTATION AND PRODUCTIVITY ESTIMATES FOR SYNECHOCOCCUS POPULATIONS FROM THE SARGASSO SEA

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Immunochemical Approaches to the Identification of the Ultraplankton: Assets and Limitations

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TAXONOMIC AFFINITIES OF MARINE COCCOID ULTRAPHYTOPLANKTON - A COMPARISON OF IMMUNOCHEMICAL SURFACE-ANTIGEN CROSS-REACTIONS AND HPLC CHLOROPLAST PIGMENT SIGNATURES

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Relationship Functioning and Post-treatment Quality of Life Among African American Prostate Cancer Survivors and Their Intimate Partners

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Population-genetic structure of the toxic dinoflagellate Karenia brevis from the Gulf of Mexico

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IMMUNOCHEMICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF EUKARYOTIC ULTRAPLANKTON FROM THE ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC OCEANS

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Imaging FlowCytobot provides novel insights on phytoplankton community dynamics

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International Society for the Study of Harmful Algae

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Origins of Karenia brevis harmful algal blooms along the Texas coast

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Continued Development of the Gulf of Mexico Coastal Ocean Observing System

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DIFFERENT CHEMICAL TYPES OF PLOCAMIUM-VIOLACEUM (RHODOPHYTA) FROM MONTEREY BAY REGION, CALIFORNIA

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Spatial distribution of brominated very short-lived substances in the eastern Pacific

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Microbial community dynamics and taxon-specific phytoplankton production in the Arabian Sea during the 1995 monsoon seasons

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KARENIA: The biology and ecology of a toxic genus.

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Osmotic stress triggers toxin production by the dinoflagellate Karenia brevis.

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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EXPLORING PSEUDO-NITZSCHIA MULTISTRIATA EVOLUTION AND STRAIN DIVERSITY THROUGH GENOME RESEQUENCING

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MICROBIAL LIFE BENEATH THE ROSS ICE SHELF

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Flow cytometric analysis of autotrophic picoplankton

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Morphology and Phylogeny of Prorocentrum texanum sp. nov. (Dinophyceae): A New Toxic Dinoflagellate from the Gulf of Mexico Coastal Waters Exhibiting Two Distinct Morphologies.

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A new master's level certificate in ocean observing systems at Texas A&M University

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Immunochemical Approaches to the Identification of the Ultraplankton: Assets and Limitations

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Picophytoplankton dynamics and production in the Arabian Sea during the 1995 Southwest Monsoon

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New alleles in the mating type determination region of West Atlantic strains of Pseudo-nitzschia multistriata.

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SEASONAL VARIABILITY IN THE PHYTOPLANKTON COMMUNITY OF THE NORTH PACIFIC SUBTROPICAL GYRE

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Beyond Cape Horn. Travels in the Antarctic . Charles Neider

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Prochlorococcus growth rate and contribution to primary production in the equatorial and subtropical North Pacific Ocean

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Oligonucleotide probes for the identification of three algal groups by dot blot and fluorescent whole-cell hybridization.

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Microsatellite DNA markers for population genetic studies in the dinoflagellate Karenia brevis

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Integrating imaging and molecular approaches to assess phytoplankton diversity

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Marine ecology - Microbial microdiversity

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inferences from grazing experiments and photosynthetic studies using ¹⁴C and ¹⁸O in the Arabian Sea

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Carbon cycling in primary production bottle incubations

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Convergent blooms of Karenia brevis along the Texas coast

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Responses of the coastal phytoplankton community to tropical cyclones revealed by high-frequency imaging flow cytometry

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Growth response of Dinophysis, Mesodinium, and Teleaulax cultures to temperature, irradiance, and salinity.

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Trends in phytoplankton over space and time COMMENT

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Reponses of the dinoflagellate Karenia brevis to climate change: pCO₂ and sea surface temperatures

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Combining new technologies for determination of phytoplankton community structure in the northern Gulf of Mexico

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PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS OF BRACHIDINIUM CAPITATUM (DINOPHYCEAE) FROM THE GULF OF MEXICO INDICATES MEMBERSHIP IN THE KARENIACEAE(1).

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ASLO February 2017 Board Meeting Highlights

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Picophytoplankton biomass distribution in the global ocean

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Application of a convolutional neural network to improve automated early warning of harmful algal blooms.

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PHOTOSYNTHETIC PICOPLANKTON COMMUNITY STRUCTURE IN THE SUBTROPICAL NORTH PACIFIC-OCEAN NEAR HAWAII (STATION ALOHA)

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A Longitudinal Assessment of Glycaemic Control in Pregnancy

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GROWTH AND MORTALITY-RATES OF PROCHLOROCOCCUS AND SYNECHOCOCCUS MEASURED WITH A SELECTIVE INHIBITOR TECHNIQUE

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The use of plant pigment biomarkers and water quality parameters" by Bianchi, Baskaran, DeLord and Ravichandran, Estuaries 20:404-415

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Comments on "Carbon cycling in a shallow turbid estuary of southeast Texas

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ADENINE-NUCLEOTIDE EXTRACTION FROM MULTICELLULAR ORGANISMS AND BEACH SAND - ATP RECOVERY, ENERGY-CHARGE RATIOS AND DETERMINATION OF CARBON-ATP RATIOS

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Satellite captures trichodesmium blooms in the southwestern tropical Pacific

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Chapter 5 Integrating imaging and molecular approaches to assess phytoplankton diversity

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ESTIMATING THE GRAZING PRESSURE OF HETEROTROPHIC NANOPLANKTON ON SYNECHOCOCCUS SPP USING THE SEA-WATER DILUTION AND SELECTIVE INHIBITOR TECHNIQUES

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Form IA rbcL transcripts associated with a low salinity/high chlorophyll plume ('Green River') in the eastern Gulf of Mexico

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Message from the Secretary: Aquatic scientists let loose in the desert: ASLO board visioning retreat

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DIEL PATTERNS OF CELL-DIVISION AND GROWTH-RATES OF SYNECHOCOCCUS SPP IN LONG-ISLAND SOUND

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Detection and quantification of Karenia mikimotoi using real-time nucleic acid sequence-based amplification with internal control RNA (IC-NASBA)

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Microbial food web structure in the Arabian Sea: a US JGOFS study

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Diversity of the ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase form I gene (rbcL) in natural phytoplankton communities.

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Picophytoplankton and bacterioplankton in the Mississippi River plume and its adjacent waters

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Role of turbulence in Dinophysis spp. growth, feeding, and toxin leakage in culture.

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A NITRATE-DEPENDENT SYNECHOCOCCUS BLOOM IN SURFACE SARGASSO SEA-WATER

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Immunofluorescence method for the detection and characterization of marine microbes

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THE IMPORTANCE OF PROCHLOROCOCCUS TO COMMUNITY STRUCTURE IN THE CENTRAL NORTH PACIFIC-OCEAN

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A new Master of Sciences Degree in Ocean Observing Systems at Texas A&M University

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

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Phylogenetic diversity of Synechococcus in the Chesapeake Bay revealed by ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase-oxygenase (RuBisCO) large subunit gene (rbcL) sequences

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Picophytoplankton biomass distribution in the global ocean

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RAPID: Hurricane Impact on Phytoplankton Community Dynamics and Metabolic Response

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National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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REU Site:  Ocean Observing Technology for Emerging Ocean Scientists

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National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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Continuing the development of the Gulf of Mexico Coastal Ocean Observing System

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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States)

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ECOHAB2017: Cross-regional comparison of Dinophysis bloom dynamics, drivers, and toxicity

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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States)

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Ecohab: Mechanism of Harmful Algal Bloom Initiation In the Western Gulf of Mexico

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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States)

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National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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ECOHAB 2017: Life and Death of a Karenia bloom

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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States)

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National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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ECOHAB19: Multidisciplinary approach to a cross-regional problem: Dinophysis and DSP toxicity.

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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States)

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PCMHAB: Expanding Harmful Algal Bloom Mitigation in the Gulf of Mexico with Operational Support and Training for the Imaging FlowCytobot Network

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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States)

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Continued Development of the Gulf of Mexico Coastal Ocean Observing System

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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States)

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Supplement request for PCMHAB: Expanding Harmful Algal Bloom Mitigation in the Gulf of Mexico with Operational Support and Training for the Imaging FlowCytobot Network

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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States)

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Texas A&M University; Oceanography; 3146 TAMU

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Fiorendino, James Michael (2022-08). Identifying Drivers of Toxic Dinophysis Bloom Dynamics Along the Texas Coast. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Thompson, Natalie (2011-08). Brevetoxin: How Is It Made and Why. Master's Thesis.

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Neely, Tatum Elizabeth (2003-05). Differences in growth and toxicity of Karenia. Master's Thesis.

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Wyatt, Leigh A (2014-12). Attitudes and Experiences of Dental Hygiene Faculty Regarding Interactions with Current Undergraduate Dental Hygiene Students on Facebook. Master's Thesis.

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Harred, Laura B (2014-05). Predicting Harmful Algal Blooms: A Case Study with Dinophysis ovum in the Gulf of Mexico. Master's Thesis.

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Henrichs, Darren 1983- (2012-12). Investigation of the Population Genetic Structure of the Toxic Dinoflagellate Karenia brevis in the Gulf of Mexico. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Daugherty, Mckensie Nicole (2017-12). Transcriptomic Response of Karenia brevis to Environmental Stress. Master's Thesis.

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Errera, Reagan Michelle (2013-05). Response of the Toxic Dinoflagellate Karenia brevis to Current and Projected Environmental Conditions: Salinity and Global Climate Change. Doctoral Dissertation.