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• Human-induced borealization leads to the collapse of Bering Sea snow crab
  Litzow, MA, EJ Fedewa, MJ Malick, BM Connors, L Eisner, DG Kimmel, T Kristiansen, JM Nielsen, ER Ryznar. Nature Climate Change. doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02093-0.

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2024

• Yearly population data at census tract level revealed that more people are now living in highly fire-prone zones in California, USA
  Laszewski, S, S Jia, J Viner, W Ho, B Hoover, SH Kim, MC Kafatos. Environmental Research Communications. 6:031004.

• Climate bottlenecks off Newfoundland and Labrador for Atlantic cod in relation to eastern Canadian marine protected areas
  Thayer, JA, T Kristiansen, CA Konecny, G Koval, R Laing, D Cote. FACETS 9:1-31.

• Diversity of major histocompatibility complex of II B gene and mate choice in a monogamous and long-lived seabird, the Little Auk (Alle alle)
  Wojczulanis-Jakubas, K, B Hoover, D Jakubas, J Fort, D Gremillet, M Gavrilo, S Zielinska, M Zagalska-Neubauer. PLOS ONE 19:e0304275.

• Mechanisms by which marine heatwaves affect seabirds
  Piatt, JF, ML Arimitsu, SA Thompson, R Suryan, RP Wilson, KH Elliott, WJ Sydeman. Marine Ecology Progress Series 737:1-8.

• Modeling the larval growth and survival of Pacific cod (Gadus macrocephalus) in the eastern Bering Sea
  Correa, GM, TP Hurst, WT Stockhausen, L Ciannelli, T Kristiansen, DJ Pilcher. Progress in Oceanography 225:103282.

• Honest signalling of age in a territorial breeder
  Hoover, BA, WH Piper. Animal Behaviour 209:169-177.

• State of the California Current Ecosystem report in 2022: a tale of two La Ninas
  Thompson, AR, and 55 other authors including WJ Sydeman and SA Thompson. Frontiers in Marine Science 11:1294011.

• Statistically downscaled CMIP6 ocean variables for European waters
  Kristiansen, T, M Butenschön, MA Peck. Scientific Reports 14:1209.

• Climate attribution time series track the evolution of human influence on North Pacific sea surface temperature
  Litzow, M, M Malick, T Kristiansen, B Connors, G Ruggerone. Environmental Research Letters 19:014014.

2023

• Pacific cod in the Anthropocene: An early life history perspective under changing thermal habitats
  Laurel, BJ, A Abookire, SJ Barbeaux, LZ Almeida, LA Copeman, J Duffy-Anderson, TP Hurst, MA Litzow, T Kristiansen, JA Miller, W Palsson, S Rooney, HL Thalmann, LA Rogers. Fish and Fisheries 24:959-978.

• Surface temperature and salinity characteristics of the California Current System
  Garcia-Reyes, M, G Koval, J Vazquez-Cuervo. International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium. Pasadena, California.

• Most eastern boundary upwelling regions represent thermal refugia in the age of climate change
  Garcia-Reyes, M, G Koval, WJ Sydeman, D Palacios, L Bedrinana-Romano, K DeForest, C Montenegro Silva, M Sepulveda, and E Hines. Frontiers in Marine Science 10:1158472.

• Environmental variability and krill abundance in the central California Current: Implications for ecosystem monitoring
  Dorman, JG, WJ Sydeman, SA Thompson, JD Warren, HJ Killeen, BA Hoover, JC Field, and JA Santora. Frontiers in Marine Science 10:1099482.

• Effects of currents and temperature on ecosystem productivity in Unimak Pass, Alaska, a premier seabird and biodiversity hotspot
  Sydeman, WJ, SA Thompson, M Garcia-Reyes, C Kroeger, B Hoover, SD Batten, and NA Rojek. Progress in Oceanography 216:103082.

• Identification of sea surface temperature and sea surface salinity fronts along the California Coast: Application using Saildrone and satellite derived products
  Vazquez-Cuervo, J, Garcia-Reyes M, and J Gomez-Valdes. Remote Sensing 15:484.

• Chapter 8: Climate change: The ecological backdrop of seabird conservation
  Pistorius, PA, WJ Sydeman, Y Watanuki, SA Thompson, and F Orgeret. Pages 245-276 in: Conservation of Marine Birds. Young, L, and E VanderWerf, Eds.

• Chapter 16: Fisheries regulation and conserving prey bases
  Tasker, ML, and WJ Sydeman. Pages 439-455 in: Conservation of Marine Birds. Young, L, and E VanderWerf, Eds.

• Climate change impacts on eastern boundary upwelling systems
  Bograd, SJ, MG Jacox, EL Hazen, E Lovecchio, I Montes, M Pozo Buil, LJ Shannon, WJ Sydeman, and RR Rykaczewski. Annual Review of Marine Science 15:4.1-4.26.

2022

• Using Saildrones to assess the SMAP sea surface retrieval in the coastal regions
  Tang, W, SH Yueh, IEEE, AG Fore, J Vazquez-Cuervo, C Gentemann, AK Hayashi, A Akins, and M Garcia-Reyes. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing 15:7042-7051.

• An anchovy ecosystem indicator of marine predator foraging and reproduction
  Fennie, HW, R Seary, BA Muhling, SJ Bograd, S Brodie, MA Cimino, EL Hazen, MG Jacox, EA McHuron, S Melin, JA Santora, JJ Suca, JA Thayer, AR Thompson, P Warzybok, and D Tommasi. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 290:20222326.

• Coastal ocean temperature. In 2022 Report: Indicators of Climate Change in California
  Garcia-Reyes, M, A Leising, R Asch, S Bograd, and TM Hill.

• Food limitation of seabirds in the Benguela ecosystem and management of their prey base
  Crawford, RJM, WJ Sydeman, DB Tom, JA Thayer, RB Sherley, LJ Shannon, AM McInnes, AB Makhado, C Hagen, RW Furness, T Carpenter-Kling, and C Saraux. Namibian Journal of Environment 6(Section A):1-17.

• African penguins and localized fisheries management: Response to Butterworth and Ross-Gillespie
  Sydeman, WJ, GL Hunt Jr., EK Pikitch, JK Parrish, JF Piatt, PD Boersma, L Kaufman, DW Anderson, SA Thompson, and RB Sherley. ICES Journal of Marine Science 79:1972-1978.

• State of the California Current Ecosystem in 2021: Winter is coming?
  Thompson, AR, 43 other authors, including WJ Sydeman and SA Thompson. Frontiers in Marine Science 9:958727.

• Global decline in ocean memory over the 21st century
  Shi, H, F-F Jin, RCJ Wills, MG Jacox, DJ Amaya, BA Black, RR Rykaczewski, SJ Bograd, M Garcia-Reyes, and WJ Sydeman. Science Advances 8:eabm3468.

• Winter oceanographic conditions predict summer bull kelp canopy cover in northern California
  Garcia-Reyes, M, SA Thompson, L Rogers-Bennett, and WJ Sydeman. PLoS ONE 17:e0267737.

• Effects of a marine heatwave on adult body length of three numerically dominant krill species in the California Current Ecosystem
  Killeen, H, J Dorman, W Sydeman, C Dibble, and S Morgan. ICES Journal of Marine Science 79:761-774.

• Seabird reproductive responses to changing climate and prey communities are mediated by prey packaging
  Watanuki, Y, M Yamamoto, J Okado, M Ito, and WJ Sydeman. Marine Ecology Progress Series 683:179-194.

• Integrating seabird dietary and groundfish stock assessment data: Can puffins predict pollock spawning stock biomass in the North Pacific?
  Sydeman, WJ, SA Thompson, JF Piatt, S Zador, and MW Dorn. Fish and Fisheries 23:213-226.

• Climate change impacts on seabirds and marine mammals: The importance of study duration, thermal tolerance and generation time
  Orgeret, F, A Thiebault, KM Kovacs, C Lydersen, MA Hindell, SA Thompson, WJ Sydeman, and PA Pistorius. Ecology Letters 25:218-239.

2021

• Fisheries-Climate Change Assessment for the Quinault Indian Nation
  Kristiansen T, Thayer J, Thompson SA, García-Reyes, Hui Shi D, and Sydeman WJ.

• South Africa’s experimental fisheries closures and recovery of the endangered African penguin
  Sydeman, WJ, GL Hunt, Jr., EK Pikitch, JK Parrish, JF Piatt, PD Boersma, L Kaufman, DW Anderson, SA Thompson, and RB Sherley. ICES Journal of Marine Science 78:3538-3543.

• Science storms the cloud
  Gentemann, CL, C Holdgraf, R Abernathey, D Crichton, J Colliander, EJ Kearns, Y Panda, and RP Signell. AGU Advances 2:e2020AV000354.

• Modeling at-sea density of marine birds to support renewable energy planning on the Pacific Outer Continental Shelf of the contiguous United States
  Leirness, JB, J Adams, LT Ballance, M Coyne, JJ Felis, T Joyce, DM Pereksta, AJ Winship, CFG Jeffrey, D Ainley, D Croll, J Evenson, J Jahncke, W McIver, PI Miller, S Pearson, C Strong, W Sydeman, JE Waddell, JE Zamon, and J Christensen. OCS Study BOEM 2021-014. US Department of the Interior, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management. 385 pp.

• Co-occurrence of California drought and Northeast Pacific marine heatwaves under climate change
  Shi, H, M Garcia-Reyes, MG Jacox, RR Rykaczewski, BA Black, SJ Bograd, and WJ Sydeman. Geophysical Research Letters 48:e2021GL092765.

• Temperature and patterns of occurrence and abundance of key copepod taxa in the Northeast Pacific
  Ashlock, L, M Garcia-Reyes, C Gentemann, S Batten, and WJ Sydeman. Frontiers in Marine Science 8:670795.

• State of the California Current 2019-2020: Back to the future with marine heatwaves?
  Weber, ED, with 47 others including WJ Sydeman and SA Thompson. Frontiers in Marine Science 8:709454.

• Hemispheric asymmetry in ocean change and the productivity of ecosystem sentinels
  Sydeman, WJ, DS Schoeman, SA Thompson, BA Hoover, M Garcia-Reyes, F Daunt, P Agnew, T Anker-Nilssen, C Barbraud, R Barrett, PH Becker, E Bell, PD Boersma, S Bouwhuis, B Cannell, RJM Crawford, P Dann, K Delord, G Elliott, KE Erikstad, E Flint, RW Furness, MP Harris, S Hatch, K Hilwig, JT Jahncke, JA Mills, TK Reiertsen, H Renner, RB Sherley, C Surman, G Taylor, JA Thayer, PN Trathan, E Velarde, K Walker, S Wanless, P Warzybok, and Y Watanuki. Science 372:980-983.

• Seabird-induced natural mortality of forage fish varies with fish abundance: Evidence from five ecosystems
  Saraux, C, WJ Sydeman, JF Piatt, T Anker-Nilssen, J. Hentati-Sundberg, S Bertrand, PM Cury, RW Furness, JA Mills, H Osterblom, G Passuni, J-P Roux, LJ Shannon, and RJM Crawford. Fish and Fisheries 22:262-279.

• Inter-annual variability in forage fish population size structure: Comparison of selectivity of traditional vs. non-traditional sampling devices
  Thayer, JA, Z Burr, JC Field, RD Carle, and P Warzybok. Fisheries Research 234:105801.

• Spatio-temporal persistence of zooplankton communities in the Gulf of Alaska
  Hoover, BA, M Garcia-Reyes, SD Batten, CL Gentemann, and WJ Sydeman. PLoS ONE 16:e0244960.

2020

• May 2019 R/V Lasker Cruise Report
  Warren, J, and B Lucca.

• Present and future trends in winds and SST off central East Africa
  Garcia-Reyes, M, and SB Mahongo. Western Indian Ocean Journal of Marine Science Special Issue 1:63-70.

• Similar foraging energetics of two sympatric albatrosses despite contrasting life histories and wind-mediated foraging strategies
  Kroeger, CE, DE Crocker, RA Orben, DR Thompson, LG Torres, PM Sagar, LA Sztukowski, T Andriese, DP Costa, and SA Shaffer. Journal of Experimental Biology 223:jeb228585.

• Comparing feedback and spatial approaches to advance ecosystem-based fisheries management in an changing Antarctic
  Klein, ES, and GM Watters. PLoS ONE 15:e0231954.

• What’s the catch? Profiling the benefits and costs associated with marine protected areas and displaced fishing in the Scotia Sea
  Klein, ES, and GM Watters. PLoS ONE 15:e0237425.

• Implementing ecosystem considerations in forage fisheries: San Francisco Bay herring case study
  Thayer, JA, EL Hazen, M Garcia-Reyes, A Szoboszlai, and WJ Sydeman. Marine Policy 118:103884.

• FluxSat: Measuring the ocean-atmosphere turbulent exchange of heat and moisture from space
  Gentemann, CL, CA Clayson, S Brown, T Lee, R Parfitt, JT Farrar, M Bourassa, PJ Minnett, H Seo, ST Gille, and V Zlotnicki. Remote Sensing 12:1796.

• Sixty-five years of northern anchovy population studies in the southern California Current: a review and suggestion for sensible management
  Sydeman, WJ, S Dedman, M Garcia-Reyes, SA Thompson, JA Thayer, A Bakun, and AD MacCall. ICES Journal of Marine Science 77:486-499.

• State of the California Current 2018-2019: A novel anchovy regime and a new marine heat wave?
  Thompson, AR, ID Schroeder, SJ Bograd, EL Hazen, MG Jacox, A Leising, BK Wells, JL Largier, JL Fisher, KC Jacobson, SM Zeman, EP Bjorkstedt, RR Robertson, M Kahru, R Goericke, CE Peabody, TR Baumgartner, BE Lavaniegos, LE Miranda, E Gomez-Ocampo, J Gomez-Valdes, TD Auth, EA Daly, CA Morgan, BJ Burke, JC Field, KM Sakuma, ED Weber, W Watson, JM Porquez, J Dolliver, DE Lyons, RA Orben, JE Zamon, P Warzybok, J Jahncke, JA Santora, SA Thompson, B Hoover, W Sydeman, and SR Melin. CalCOFI Reports 60: 1-65.

• Habitat compression and ecosystem shifts as potential links between marine heatwave and record whale entanglements
  Santora, JA, NJ Mantua, ID Schroeder, JC Field, EL Hazen, SJ Bograd, WJ Sydeman, BK Wells, J Calambokidis, L Saez, D Lawson, and KA Forney. Nature Communications 11:536.

• Seabirds on the CalCOFI/CCE-LTER Survey, Winter 2020 Data Report
  Sydeman, WJ, J Garrett, and SA Thompson. Farallon Institute Report

• Two decades of the North Pacific CPR program
  Batten, S, S Chiba, and W Sydeman. PICES Press 28 (Winter 2020):18-21.

• PICES on the cloud
  Gentemann, C, M Garcia-Reyes, T Kristiansen, and W Sydeman. PICES Press 28 (Winter 2020):33-35.

• Extreme mortality and reproductive failure of common murres resulting from the northeast Pacific marine heatwave of 2014-2016
  Piatt, JF, JK Parrish, HM Renner, SK Schoen, TT Jones, ML Arimitsu, KJ Kuletz, B Bodenstein, M Garcia-Reyes, RS Duerr, RM Corcoran, RSA Kaler, GJ McChesney, RT Golightly, HA Coletti, RM Suryan, HK Burgess, J Lindsey, K Lindquist, PM Warzybok, J Jahncke, J Roletto, and WJ Sydeman. PLoS ONE 15:e0226087.