| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Biological structures as a source of habitat heterogeneity and biodiversity on the deep ocean margins | Marine Ecology | 2010 | 490 |
| 2 | Assessing the dynamics and ecology of marine picophytoplankton: The importance of the eukaryotic component | Limnology and Oceanography | 2004 | 469 |
| 3 | Towards Automated Annotation of Benthic Survey Images: Variability of Human Experts and Operational Modes of Automation | PLoS ONE | 2015 | 250 |
| 4 | Free-Drifting Icebergs: Hot Spots of Chemical and Biological Enrichment in the Weddell Sea | Science | 2007 | 210 |
| 5 | Cryptic speciation on the high seas; global phylogenetics of the copepod family Eucalanidae | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 2003 | 175 |
| 6 | The near-coastal microseism spectrum: Spatial and temporal wave climate relationships | Journal of Geophysical Research | 2002 | 163 |
| 7 | Mid-ocean microseisms | Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems | 2005 | 163 |
| 8 | Coherence of long-term variations of zooplankton in two sectors of the California Current System | Progress in Oceanography | 2007 | 155 |
| 9 | Dynamical suppression of sea level rise along the Pacific coast of North America: Indications for imminent acceleration | Journal of Geophysical Research | 2011 | 142 |
| 10 | Physical-biological sources for dense algal blooms near the Changjiang River | Geophysical Research Letters | 2003 | 135 |
| 11 | Storminess Variability along the California Coast: 1858–2000 | Journal of Climate | 2003 | 128 |
| 12 | Oxygen in the Southern California Bight: Multidecadal trends and implications for demersal fisheries | Geophysical Research Letters | 2010 | 116 |
| 13 | Long-term changes in pelagic tunicates of the California Current | Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography | 2003 | 112 |
| 14 | A short-term in situ CO2 enrichment experiment on Heron Island (GBR) | Scientific Reports | 2012 | 104 |
| 15 | Gut Microbial Ecosystem in Parkinson Disease: New Clinicobiological Insights from Multi‐Omics | Annals of Neurology | 2021 | 99 |
| 16 | Genetic tool development in marine protists: emerging model organisms for experimental cell biology | Nature Methods | 2020 | 97 |
| 17 | Large diurnal temperature fluctuations in the nearshore water column | Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science | 2003 | 84 |
| 18 | Wave spectral energy variability in the northeast Pacific | Journal of Geophysical Research | 2005 | 84 |
| 19 | The California coastal wave monitoring and prediction system | Coastal Engineering | 2016 | 83 |
| 20 | Three-Dimensional Wind-Driven Flow in an Elongated, Rotating Basin | Journal of Physical Oceanography | 2004 | 81 |
| 21 | Spatial and temporal variation in trace elemental fingerprints of mytilid mussel shells: A precursor to invertebrate larval tracking | Limnology and Oceanography | 2005 | 80 |
| 22 | Green fluorescent protein regulation in the coral Acropora yongei during photoacclimation | Journal of Experimental Biology | 2010 | 77 |
| 23 | Denitrification potential of the eastern oyster microbiome using a 16S rRNA gene based metabolic inference approach | PLoS ONE | 2017 | 76 |
| 24 | A comparative study of Calanus finmarchicus mortality patterns at five localities in the North Atlantic | ICES Journal of Marine Science | 2004 | 72 |
| 25 | Three-Dimensional Residual Tidal Circulation in an Elongated, Rotating Basin | Journal of Physical Oceanography | 2008 | 72 |
| 26 | Climate effect on food supply to depths greater than 4,000 meters in the northeast Pacific | Limnology and Oceanography | 2006 | 70 |
| 27 | The response of giant kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera) in southern California to low‐frequency climate forcing | Limnology and Oceanography | 2010 | 69 |
| 28 | Domoic acid in phytoplankton and fish in San Diego, CA, USA | Harmful Algae | 2006 | 67 |
| 29 | Global population genetic structure and biogeography of the oceanic copepods Eucalanus hyalinus and E. spinifer | Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution | 2005 | 67 |
| 30 | Enhanced silica ballasting from iron stress sustains carbon export in a frontal zone within the California Current | Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans | 2015 | 64 |
| 31 | Three-Dimensional Tidal Flow in an Elongated, Rotating Basin | Journal of Physical Oceanography | 2007 | 63 |
| 32 | Diatom centromeres suggest a mechanism for nuclear DNA acquisition | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2017 | 62 |
| 33 | The emergence of Cochlodinium along the California Coast (USA) | Harmful Algae | 2008 | 61 |
| 34 | Short-term retreat statistics of a slowly eroding coastal cliff | Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences | 2011 | 61 |
| 35 | Marine Reserve Design: Optimal Size, Habitats, Species Affinities, Diversity, And Ocean Microclimate | | 2006 | 60 |
| 36 | Rain, waves, and short-term evolution of composite seacliffs in southern California | Marine Geology | 2009 | 60 |
| 37 | GLOBAL POPULATIION GENETIC STRUCTURE AND BIOGEOGRAPHY OF THE OCEANIC COPEPODS EUCALANUS HYALINUS AND E. SPINIFER | Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution | 2005 | 54 |
| 38 | Cross‐shore surfzone tracer dispersion in an alongshore current | Journal of Geophysical Research | 2010 | 53 |
| 39 | Export production and its regulating factors in the West Antarctica Peninsula region of the Southern Ocean | Global Biogeochemical Cycles | 2012 | 53 |
| 40 | Free-ocean CO<sub>2</sub> enrichment (FOCE) systems: present status and future developments | Biogeosciences | 2014 | 51 |
| 41 | Archaea in metazoan diets: implications for food webs and biogeochemical cycling | ISME Journal | 2012 | 49 |
| 42 | Surface boundary-layer variability off Northern California, USA, during upwelling | Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography | 2006 | 48 |
| 43 | Coastal cliff ground motions and response to extreme storm waves | Geophysical Research Letters | 2015 | 48 |
| 44 | Trends in tuna carbon isotopes suggest global changes in pelagic phytoplankton communities | Global Change Biology | 2020 | 47 |
| 45 | Tracing abyssal food supply back to upper-ocean processes over a 17-year time series in the northeast Pacific | Limnology and Oceanography | 2008 | 46 |
| 46 | Who are the users? Who are the developers? Webs of users and developers in the development process of a technical standard | Information Systems Journal | 2010 | 45 |
| 47 | Dinoflagellates alter their carbon and nutrient metabolic strategies across environmental gradients in the central Pacific Ocean | Nature Microbiology | 2021 | 45 |
| 48 | Observations of drifter dispersion in the surfzone: The effect of sheared alongshore currents | Journal of Geophysical Research | 2009 | 41 |
| 49 | Response of the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica, to ocean gravity-wave forcing | Annals of Glaciology | 2012 | 41 |
| 50 | Statistics of Internal Tide Bores and Internal Solitary Waves Observed on the Inner Continental Shelf off Point Sal, California | Journal of Physical Oceanography | 2018 | 39 |
