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Year Authors Title Periodical DOI Link
2023 Bofu Zheng, Andrew J. Lucas, Peter J. S. Franks, Tamara L. Schlosser, Clarissa R. Anderson, Uwe Send, Kristen Davis, Andrew D. Barton, and Heidi M. Sosik Dinoflagellate vertical migration fuels an intense red tide Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) Link
2022 Andrew J. Lucas and Robert Pinkel Observations of Coherent Transverse Wakes in Shoaling Nonlinear Internal Waves Journal of Physical Oceanography Link
2022 Jinbo Wang, Lee-Lueng Fu, Bruce Haines, Matthias Lankhorst, Andrew J. Lucas, J. Thomas Farrar, Uwe Send, Christian Meinig, Oscar Schofield, Richard Ray, Matthew Archer, David Aragon, Sebastien Bigorre, Yi Chao, John Kerfoot, Robert Pinkel, David Sandwell, and Scott Stalin On the Development of SWOT In Situ Calibration/Validation for Short-Wavelength Ocean Topography Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology Link
2022 Colleen A. Durkin, Ivona Cetinić, Margaret Estapa, Zrinka Ljubešić, Maja Mucko, Aimee Neeley & Melissa Omand Tracing the path of carbon export in the ocean though DNA sequencing of individual sinking particles The ISME Journal Link
2021 Bofu Zheng, Andrew J. Lucas, Robert Pinkel, and Arnaud Le Boyer Fine-Scale Velocity Measurement on the Wirewalker Wave-Powered Profiler Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology Link
2021 Melissa M. Omand, Deborah K. Steinberg, and Karen Stamieszkin Cloud shadows drive vertical migrations of deep-dwelling marine life Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Link
2021 MacKinnon, J.A., Simmons, H.L., Hargrove, J. et al. A warm jet in a cold ocean Nature Communications Link
2021 Azevedo, C. C., Camargo, C. M. L., Alves, J., & Caldeira, R. M. A. Convection and Heat Transfer in Island (Warm) Wakes Journal of Physical Oceanography Link
2021 Garwood, J.C., Lucas, A.J., Naughton, P., Roberts, P.L.D., Jaffe, J.S., deGelleke, L. and Franks, P.J.S. Larval cross‐shore transport estimated from internal waves with a background flow: The effects of larval vertical position and depth regulation Limnology and Oceanography Link
2021 Le Boyer, A., Alford, M. H., Couto, N., Goldin, M., Lastuka, S., Goheen, S., Nguyen, S., Lucas, A. J., & Hennon, T. D. Modular, Flexible, Low-Cost Microstructure Measurements: The Epsilometer Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology Link
2020 Drysdale, Lewis; Hopkins, Joanne ; Wakelin, Sarah The impact that resolving the internal tide in shelf sea models makes to the dynamics and variability of phytoplankton growth with the subsurface chlorophyll maximum [Poster] In: Ocean Sciences Meeting, San Diego, California, 16-21 February 2020 Link
2020 Feen, Melanie Chlorophyll Fluorescence Corrections From A Rapid-Profiling, Autonomous Wirewalker Open Access Master's Theses Link
2020 Garwood, J.C., Lucas, A.J., Naughton, P., Alford, M.H., Roberts, P.L.D., Jaffe, J.S., deGelleke, L. and Franks, P.J.S. A novel cross‐shore transport mechanism revealed by subsurface, robotic larval mimics: Internal wave deformation of the background velocity field Limnology and Oceanography Link
2020 Grimes, D. J., Feddersen, F., Giddings, S. N., & Pawlak, G. Cross-Shore Deformation of a Surfzone-Released Dye Plume by an Internal Tide on the Inner Shelf Journal of Physical Oceanography Link
2020 Fearon, G., Herbette, S., Veitch, J., Cambon, G., Lucas, A. J., Lemarié, F., & Vichi, M. Enhanced vertical mixing in coastal upwelling systems driven by diurnal‐inertial resonance: Numerical experiments Journal of Geophysical Research Link
2020 Mahadevan, A., Pascual, A., Rudnick, D. L., Ruiz, S., Tintoré, J., & D’Asaro, E. Coherent Pathways for Vertical Transport from the Surface Ocean to Interior Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society Link
2020 Poulain, P.-M., Cozzani, E., Pennucci, G., Lewis, C., Lathuiliere, C., Bordoix, L., and Centurioni, L. High-frequency dynamics near the shelf break southwest of Svalbard EGU General Assembly, Online, 4–8 May 2020 Link
2020 Smith, J. A. A Comparison of Two Methods Using Thorpe Sorting to Estimate Mixing Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology Link
2020 Zheng, B, Lucas, AJ, Pinkel, R. Motion Characterization and Correction of Fine-scale Velocity Measurement on Wirewalker [Poster] Ocean Science Meeting; Feb 20, 2020; San Diego Link
2019 Katherine Adams, Jennifer MacKinnon, Andrew J. Lucas, Jonathan Nash, Emily Shroyer, J. Thomas Farrar. Multi-platform observations of small-scale lateral mixed layer variability in the northern Bay of Bengal Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography Link
2019 S. C. Cumbee WireWalker Experiences with Two Navy-Funded Systems Utilizing Iridium Communications OCEANS 2019 MTS/IEEE SEATTLE, Seattle, WA Link
2019 Madeleine M. Hamann The dynamics of internal tides and mixing in coastal systems 2019 PhD thesis None
2019 R. Pinkel, A. J. Lucas, M. A. Goldin, M. H. Alford and J. MacKinnon Ocean Current Measurement in a Density Following Reference Frame IEEE/OES Twelfth Current, Waves and Turbulence Measurement (CWTM), San Diego, CA Link
2019 Shaun Johnston , Jennifer A. MacKinnon, Patrick L. Colin, Patrick J. Haley Jr., Pierre F.J. Lermusiaux, Andrew J. Lucas, Mark A. Merrifield, Sophia T. Merrifield, Chris Mirabito, Jonathan D. Nash, Celia Y. Ou, Mika Siegelman, Eric J. Terrill, Amy F. Waterhouse Energy and Momentum Lost to Wake Eddies and Lee Waves Generated by the North Equatorial Current and Tidal Flows at Peleliu, Palau Oceanography Link
2019 Mazzini, P. L. F., Chant, R. J., Scully, M. E., Wilkin, J., Hunter, E. J., & Nidzieko, N. J. The impact of wind forcing on the thermal wind shear of a river plume Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans Link
2019 Schlosser, T. L., Jones, N. L., Musgrave, R. C., Bluteau, C. E., Ivey, G. N., & Lucas, A. J. Observations of Diurnal Coastal-Trapped Waves with a Thermocline-Intensified Velocity Field Journal of Physical Oceanography Link
2019 Schlosser, T. L., Jones, N. L., Bluteau, C. E., Alford, M. H., Ivey, G. N., & Lucas, A. J. Generation and Propagation of Near-Inertial Waves in a Baroclinic Current on the Tasmanian Shelf Journal of Physical Oceanography Link
2019 Walcutt NL, Knörlein B, Sgouros T, Cetinić I and Omand MM Virtual Reality and Oceanography: Overview, Applications, and Perspective Frontiers in Marine Science Link
2018 Fernández‐Castro, B., Gilcoto, M., Naveira‐Garabato, A. C., Villamaña, M., Graña, R., & Mouriño‐Carballido, B. Modulation of the semidiurnal cycle of turbulent dissipation by wind‐driven upwelling in a coastal embayment Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans Link
2018 Grant C. Pitcher, Francisco G. Figueiras, Raphael M. Kudela, Teresa Moita, Beatriz Reguera, Manuel Ruiz-Villareal Key questions and recent research advances on harmful algal blooms in eastern boundary upwelling systems In: Global ecology and oceanography of harmful algal blooms Link
2018 Ramachandran, S., Tandon, A., Mackinnon, J., Lucas, A. J., Pinkel, R., Waterhouse, A. F., Nash, J., Shroyer, E., Mahadevan, A., Weller, R. A., & Farrar, J. T. Submesoscale Processes at Shallow Salinity Fronts in the Bay of Bengal: Observations during the Winter Monsoon Journal of Physical Oceanography Link
2018 Jayme Smith, Alyssa G Gellene, Katherine A Hubbard, Holly A Bowers, Raphael M Kudela, Kendra Hayashi, David A Caron Pseudo-nitzschia species composition varies concurrently with domoic acid concentrations during two different bloom events in the Southern California Bight Journal of Plankton Research Link
2018 Yalin Fan, Ewa Jarosz, Zhitao Yu, W. Erick Rogers, Tommy G. Jensen, and Jun-hong Liang The Effect of Background Salinity Gradient on Langmuir Turbulence Ocean Sciences Meeting, Feb 2018, Portland, OR Link
2017 City of Los Angeles, Environmental Monitoring Division Fall 2015 Hyperion Treatment Plant Effluent Diversion to the 1-Mile Outfall Comprehensive Monitoring Program Final Report. April 26, 2017 Environmental Monitoring Division, LA None
2017 Alberty, M. S., Billheimer, S., Hamann, M. M., Ou, C. Y., Tamsitt, V., Lucas, A. J., and Alford, M. H. A reflecting, steepening, and breaking internal tide in a submarine canyon Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans Link
2017 Centurioni, L.R., V. Hormann, L.D. Talley, I. Arzeno, L. Beal, M. Caruso, P. Conry, R. Echols, H.J.S. Fernando, S.N. Giddings, A. Gordon, H. Graber, R.R. Harcourt, S.R. Jayne, T.G. Jensen, C.M. Lee, P.F.J. Lermusiaux, P. L’Hegaret, A.J. Lucas, A. Mahadevan, J.L. McClean, G. Pawlak, L. Rainville, S.C. Riser, H. Seo, A.Y. Shcherbina, E. Skyllingstad, J. Sprintall, B. Subrahmanyam, E. Terrill, R.E. Todd, C. Trott, H.N. Ulloa, and H. Wang Northern Arabian Sea Circulation-Autonomous Research (NASCar): A research initiative based on autonomous sensors Oceanography Link
2017 Hosegood, Phil & Nightingale, Philip & Rees, Andrew & Widdicombe, Claire & Woodward, E. & Clark, Darren & Torres, Ricardo Nutrient Pumping by Submesoscale Circulations in the Mauritanian Upwelling System Progress in Oceanography Link
2017 Lucas, A.J., R. Pinkel, and M. Alford Ocean wave energy for long endurance, broad bandwidth ocean monitoring Oceanography Link
2017 Meredith D.A. Howard, Raphael M. Kudela, Karen McLaughlin New insights into impacts of anthropogenic nutrients on urban ecosystem processes on the Southern California coastal shelf: Introduction and synthesis Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science Link
2017 Omand, M., Cetinić, I., & Lucas, A Using Bio-Optics to Reveal Phytoplankton Physiology from a Wirewalker Autonomous Platform Oceanography Link
2016 Balfour, C.; Hopkins, J. ; Kenny, J.; Jones, D.S.; Jones, E. NOC Liverpool report for the Wirewalker underwater profiler deployment for the RidgeMix research programme National Oceanography Centre Research and Consultancy Report Link
2016 Feddersen, F., M. Olabarrieta, R. T. Guza, D. Winters, B. Raubenheimer, and S. Elgar Observations and modeling of a tidal inlet dye tracer plume Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans Link
2016 Hemantha Wijesekera, Emily Shroyer, Amit Tandon, M. Ravichandran, Debasis Sengupta, S.U.P. Jinadasa, Harindra Fernando, A. J. Lucas, et al SIRI: An Ocean-Atmosphere Initiative for Bay of Bengal Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society Link
2016 Lucas, A.J., J.D. Nash, R. Pinkel, J.A. MacKinnon, A. Tandon, A. Mahadevan, M.M. Omand, M. Freilich, D. Sengupta, M. Ravichandran, and A. Le Boyer Adrift upon a salinity-stratified sea: A view of upper-ocean processes in the Bay of Bengal during the southwest monsoon Oceanography Link
2016 Lotliker, A.A., M.M. Omand, A.J. Lucas, S.R. Laney, A. Mahadevan, and M. Ravichandran Penetrative radiative flux in the Bay of Bengal Oceanography Link
2016 T.L. Schlosser , N.L. Jones , C.E. Bluteau , A.J. Lucas and G. Ivey A dominant near-inertial internal wave field on the Tasmanian Continental Shelf 20th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference, 5-8 December 2016, Perth, Aus Link
2016 Son, Y. T., Chang, K. I. , Nam, S., Kang, D. J. Variation of subsurface chlorophyll maximum layer from the vertical profiler and in-situ observation in the eastern coastal region of Korea (the East/Japan Sea) Conference proceedings Ocean Sciences Meeting, Feb 21-26, 2016. New Orleans, LA None
2015 LA Sanitation W LA SANITATION, HYPERION WATER RECLAMATION PLANT 5-MILE EFFLUENT DIVERSION TO THE 1-MILE OUTFALL POST-MONITORING FACT SHEET Fall 2015 Online Link
2015 Kudela, R.M., Lucas, A.J., Hayashi, K, Howard, M. Death from below: Investigation of inhibitory factors in bloom development during a wastewater effluent diversion Estuarine, Coastal, and Shelf Science Link
2015 Lucas, A.J., Kudela, R.M. The fine-scale vertical variability of a wastewater plume in shallow, stratified coastal waters Estuarine, Coastal, and Shelf Science Link
2015 Spydell, M. S., F. Feddersen, M. Olabarrieta, J. Chen, R. T. Guza, B. Raubenheimer, and S. Elgar Observed and modeled drifters at a tidal inlet Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans Link
2014 Lucas, A. J., E. L. Shroyer, H. W. Wijesekera, H. J. S. Fernando, E. D'Asaro, M. Ravichandran, S. U. P. Jinadasa et al. Mixing to Monsoons: Air-Sea Interactions in the Bay of Bengal Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union Link
2014 Lucas, AJ, Pitcher GC, Probyn TA, Kudela RM. The influence of diurnal winds on phytoplankton dynamics in a coastal upwelling system off southwestern Africa Deep-Sea Research Part II-Topical Studies in Oceanography Link
2014 Pitcher, GC, Probyn TA, du Randt A, Lucas AJ, Bernard S, Evers-King H, Lamont T, Hutchings L. ynamics of oxygen depletion in the nearshore of a coastal embayment of the southern Benguela upwelling system Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans Link
2012 Omand, M. M., Feddersen, F., Guza, R. T., Franks, P. J. S. Episodic vertical nutrient fluxes and nearshore phytoplankton blooms in Southern California Limnology and Oceanography Link
2012 Ullman, D. S., Codiga, D. L., Hebert, D., Decker, L. B., and Kincaid, C. R. Structure and dynamics of the midshelf front in the New York Bight Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans Link
2011 Smith, JA, Pinkel R, Goldin M, Sun O, Nguyen S, Hughen T, Bui M, Aja A. Wirewalker dynamics Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology Link
2011 Omand, MM, Leichter JJ, Franks PJS, Guza RT, Lucas AJ, Feddersen F. Physical and biological processes underlying the sudden surface appearance of a red tide in the nearshore Limnology and Oceanography Link
2011 Pinkel, R, Goldin MA, Smith JA, Sun OM, Aja AA, Bui MN, Hughen T. The Wirewalker: a vertically profiling instrument carrier powered by ocean waves Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology Link
2011 Lucas, AJ, Dupont CL, Tai V, Largier JL, Palenik B, Franks PJS. The green ribbon: Multiscale physical control of phytoplankton productivity and community structure over a narrow continental shelf Limnology and Oceanography Link
2011 Lucas, AJ, Franks PJS, Dupont CL. Horizontal internal-tide fluxes support elevated phytoplankton productivity over the inner continental shelf Limnology and Oceanography Link
2007 Codiga, D.L., J.R. Fontaine, D.S. Ullman, and D.L. Hebert Final Report on Moored Wirewalker Deployments off New Jersey in Winter for Mid-Shelf Fronts Project URI Technical Report Link
2001 Rainville, L., and R. Pinkel Wirewalker: An autonomous wave-powered vertical profiler Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology Link

 

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