Bloom Publications

Wilson, C. (2011). Chlorophyll anomalies along the critical latitude at 30°N in the NE Pacific, Geophysical Research Letters, 38, L15603, doi:10.1029/2011GL048210[abstract]

Villareal, T. A., L. Adornato, C. Wilson, and C. Schoenbaechler (2011) Summer blooms of diatom-diazotroph assemblages and surface chlorophyll in the North Pacific gyre: a disconnect, J. Geophys. Res., 116, C03001, doi:10.1029/2010JC006268 [abstract]

Wilson, C. and X. Qiu (2008), Global distribution of summer chlorophyll blooms in the oligotrophic gyres, Progress in Oceanography, 78, 107-134, doi:10.1016/j.pocean.2008.05.002. [abstract]

Wilson, C., T.A. Villareal, N. Maximenko, S.J. Bograd, J.P. Montoya and C.A. Schoenbaechler (2008) Biological and physical forcings of late summer chlorophyll blooms at 30°N in the oligotrophic Pacific, Journal of Marine Systems, 69, 164-176. [abstract]

'Heartbeat' of sea found in blooms of tiny plants Newspaper article in the Honolulu Advertiser, Dec. 19, 2005.

Wilson, C., T.A. Villareal and S.J. Bograd (2004) Large-scale Forcing of late summer chlorophyll blooms in the oligotrophic Pacific, 2004 Fall AGU poster presentation.

Wilson, C. (2003) Late Summer Chlorophyll Blooms in the Oligotrophic North Pacific Subtropical Gyre. Geophysical Research Letters, 30(18), 1942, doi:10.1029/2003GL017770. [abstract]

Ocean geeks do Haikus...
Rhizo mats, chl blooms
Worthy of NSF funds?
To sea we will know

-Cara Wilson

Blooms of chlorophyll
Rhizo mats, N fixation?
Mystery to solve

-Cara Wilson

Nitrogen is low
Rhizosolenia mats
Sink slow. rise up. grow

-Andy Leising

Rhizo mats float, sink
Into the photic zone now
Fix nitrogen, bloom

-Steven Bograd

Cara and Tracy's
Rhizosolenia mats
Float up and then sink

-Jefferson Hinke

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