Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI)
7700 Sandholdt Road
Moss Landing CA 95039-9644
831-775-1709
FAX: 831-775-1620
Email: chfr@mbari.org
Personal Data:
DOB: 9/8/53, Talara, Peru
Education:
PhD Duke University
Professional Background:
BS Humboldt State University
Botany
Oceanography
1987
1977
2000-present
2000-present
1996-2000
1992-1996
1990-present
1987-1992
1982-1987
Senior Scientist, MBARI
Faculty (courtesy), Stanford University
Associate Scientist (III), MBARI
Associate Scientist (II), MBARI
Research Associate
University of California, Santa Cruz
Assistant Scientist, MBARI
Research Assistant
1981
Duke University Marine Lab
Geologist
US Department of the Interior
Professional Societies:
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Geophysical Union
American Society of Limnology and Oceanography
Selected Professional Activities and Honors
National Science Foundation (NSF) Alan Waterman award committee (2003-2005)
NSF Advisory Committee for the Geoscience Directorate (2003-2005)
Advisory Committee for Instituto del Mar del Peru (2004- )
Board of Directors, Center for Integrated Marine Technologies (2002- )
Board of Governors, Pacific Coastal Ocean Observing System (2004- )
Governing Council (Vice-President) Central and Northern California Ocean Observing
System (2005- )

Scientific Steering committee for OceanSites, international time series program (2004-)
Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of the Sciences. (2005) Honored for distinguished research on the impact of climate variability on oceanic ecosystems and global carbon cycling.
Doctor Honoris Causa (2007) from the Universidad Pedro Ruiz Gallo in Peru in recognition of his distinguished scientific career and for contributing to elevate academic and cultural levels of university communities in particular and society in general.
Member Science Advisory Team for the California Ocean Protection Council (2008-)
Current Research Interests:
Biology and chemistry of the ocean in relation to global change. Instrumentation and systems for long-term ocean observing. Satellite remote sensing.
Graduate Advisor:
Richard T. Barber
Committee Member of Following Graduate Students:
Rafael A. Olivieri (UCSC), M. Celia Villac (Texas A&M), Jonathan Phinney (UCSC),
Elena Mauri (MLML), Amy Little (UCSC).
Post-Doctoral Advisor for:
Chris Scholin, Raphael Kudela, Peter Strutton, Russell Hopcroft, John Ryan, Carmen
Gonzales Castro, Brad Penta, Victor Kuwahara, Kevin Mahoney, Lionel Pawlowski,
David Field, Monique Messie
PUBLICATIONS
Barber, R.T. and F.P. Chavez. 1983. Biological consequences of El Niño. Science,
222 , 1203-1210.
Chavez, F.P., R.T. Barber and H. Soldi S. 1984. Propagated temperature changes during onset and recovery of the 1982-83 El Niño. Nature, 309 , 47-49.
Barber, R.T., J.E. Kogelschatz and F.P. Chavez. 1985. Origin of the biological anomalies during the 1982/83 El Niño. California Cooperative Fisheries
Investigation Reports, 26 , 65-71.
Barber, R.T., F.P. Chavez and J.E. Kogelschatz (1985). Biological effects of El
Niño. In Seminario Regional Ciencia Tecnologia y Agresion Ambiental:
El Fenomeno "El Niño" (ed. Vegas, M.) CONCYTEC, Lima Peru, pp.
399-438.
Chavez, F.P. and R.T. Barber (1985). Plankton production during El Niño. In
International Conference on the TOGA Scientific Programme, World
Climate Research Publications Series No. 4, World Meteorological
Organization, Geneva, pp. 23-32.

Barber, R.T. and F.P. Chavez. 1986. Ocean variability in relation to living resources during the 1982-83 El Niño. Nature, 319 , 279-285.
Chavez, F.P. (1987). El Niño y la Oscilacion del Sur. Investigacion y Ciencia
(Spanish edition of Scientific American), 128 , 46-55.
Chavez, F.P. and R.T. Barber (1987). An estimate of new production in the equatorial Pacific. Deep-Sea Research, 34 , 1229-1243.
Chavez, F.P. (1987). Ocean variability and phytoplankton community structure.
Ph.D. Dissertation. Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 300 p.
Chavez, F.P. (1989). Size distribution of phytoplankton in the central and eastern tropical Pacific. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 3 , 27-35.
Chavez, F.P., R.T. Barber and M.P. Sanderson (1989). The potential primary production of the peruvian upwelling ecosystem, 1953-1984. In: ICLARM
Conference Proceedings Series, 18 (eds. D. Pauly, H. Salzwedel, P. Muck, and J. Mendo), Instituto del Mar del Peru (IMARPE), Callao, Perú;
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ), GmbH,
Eschborn, Federal Republic of Germany; and International Center for
Living Aquatic Resources Management (ICLARM), Manila, Philippines, pp. 50-63.
Chavez, F.P., K.R. Buck and R.T. Barber (1990). Phytoplankton taxa in relation to primary production in the equatorial Pacific. Deep-Sea Research, 37 ,
1733-1752.
Barber, R.T. and F.P. Chavez. 1991. Regulation of primary productivity rate in the equatorial Pacific Ocean. Limnology and Oceanography, 36 , 1803-1815.
Buck, K.R., F.P. Chavez and H.A. Thomsen (1991). Choanoflagellates of the central California waters: abundance and distribution. Ophelia, 33, 179-
186.
Chavez, F.P. and R. C. Brusca (1991). The Galapagos Islands and their relation to oceanographic processes in the tropical Pacific. In: Galapagos Marine
Invertebrates, M.J. James (ed.) Plenum Press, N.Y. pp. 9-33.
Chavez, F.P., R.T. Barber, A. Huyer, P.M. Kosro, S.R. Ramp, T. Stanton and B.
Rojas de Mendiola (1991). Horizontal advection and the distribution of nutrients in the coastal transition zone off northern California: Effects on primary production, phytoplankton biomass and species composition.
Journal of Geophysical Research, 96 , 14833-14848.
Chavez, F.P., K.R. Buck, K.H. Coale, J.H. Martin, G.R. DiTullio, N.A.
Welschmeyer, A.C. Jacobson and R.T. Barber (1991). Growth rates, grazing, sinking and iron limitation of equatorial Pacific phytoplankton.
Limnology and Oceanography, 36 , 1816-1827.
Chavez, F.P., H.W. Jannasch, K.S. Johnson, C.M. Sakamoto, G.E. Friederich,
G.D. Thurmond, R.A. Herlien and L.A. Codispoti (1991). The MBARI program for obtaining real-time measurements in Monterey Bay.
Proceedings Oceans 91, 1:327-333, IEEE, NY, NY.

Fiedler, P.C., V. Philbrick and F.P. Chavez (1991). Oceanic upwelling and productivity in the eastern tropical Pacific. Limnology and Oceanography,
36 , 1834-1850.
Huyer, A., P.M. Kosro, J. Fleischbein, S. Ramp, T. Stanton, L. Washburn, F.P.
Chavez and T. Cowles (1991). Currents and water masses of the Coastal
Transition zone off northern California, June to August 1988. Journal of
Geophysical Research, 96 , 14809-14831.
Kosro, P.M., A. Huyer, S.R. Ramp, R.L. Smith, F.P. Chavez, T.J. Cowles, M.R.
Abbott, P.T. Strub, R.T. Barber, P. Jessen, and L.F. Small (1991). The structure of the transition zone between coastal waters and the open ocean off northern California, winter and spring 1987. Journal of Geophysical
Research, 96 , 14707-14730.
Strub, P.T., P.M. Kosro, A. Huyer, K.H. Brink, T.L. Hayward, P.P. Niiler, C.
James, R.K. Dewey, L.J. Walstad, F.P. Chavez, S.R. Ramp, D.L. Mackas,
M.S. Swenson, L. Washburn, J.A. Barth, R.R. Hood, M.R. Abbott, D.C.
Kadko, R.T. Barber, D.B. Haidvogel, M.L. Batteen and R.L. Haney
(1991). The nature of the cold filaments in the California current. Journal of Geophysical Research, 96 , 14743-14768.
Thomsen, H. A., K.R. Buck and F.P. Chavez (1991). Choanoflagellates of the central California waters: Taxonomy and species assemblages. Ophelia,
33 , 131-164.
Dugdale, R.C., F.P. Wilkerson, R.T. Barber and F.P. Chavez (1992). Estimating new production in the Equatorial Pacific Ocean at 150°W. Journal of
Geophysical Research, 97 , 681-686.
Eppley, R.W., F.P. Chavez and R.T. Barber (1992). Standing stocks of particulate carbon and nitrogen in the Equatorial Pacific at 150°W. Journal of
Geophysical Research, 97 , 655-661.
Post, W. M., F.P. Chavez, P.J. Mulholland, J. Pastor, T.H. Peng, K. Prentice and
T. Webb III. (1992). Climate Feedbacks in the global carbon cycle.(D.
Dunnette and R. O'Brien, eds.) Global Environmental Chemistry.
American Chemical Society, Washington, D.C., 392-412.
Buck, K.R., L. Uttal-Cooke, C.H. Pilskaln, D.L. Roelke, M.C. Villac, G.A.
Fryxell, L. Cifuentes and F.P. Chavez (1992). Autoecology of
Pseudonitzschia australis Frenguelli. A suspected domoic acid producer from Monterey Bay, California. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 84 , 293-
302.
Fiedler, P.C., F.P. Chavez, D.W. Behringer and S.B. Reilly (1992). Physical and biological effects of Los Niños in the eastern tropical Pacific. Deep-Sea
Research, 39 , 199-219.
Chavez, F.P., R. Herlien, G. Thurmond and D. Wright (1993). A novel Ocean
Acquisition System for Interdisciplinary Science (OASIS). '93 Marine
Technology Society 93 Proceedings, Washington D.C., 78-84.

Chavez, F. (1993). La relacion entre variaciones en nivel del mar a escala de oceano y la produccion primaria. Memorias del Congreso Iberoamericano y del Caribe, Margarita, Venezuela.
Olivieri, R., A. Cohen and F.P. Chavez (1993). An ecosystem model of Monterey
Bay. In Trophic models of aquatic ecosystems, V. Christensen and D.
Pauly, Editors. ICLARM Conference Proceedings No. 26., pp. 315-322
Bates, T.S., R.P. Kiene, G.V. Wolfe, P.A. Matrai, F.P. Chavez, K.R. Buck, B.W.
Blomquist and R.L. Cuhel (1994). The cycling of sulfur in surface seawater of the Northeast Pacific. Journal of Geophysical Research, 99,
7835-7845..
Scholin, C.A., M.C. Villac, K.R. Buck, J.M. Krupp, D.A. Powers, G.A. Fryxell and F.P. Chavez (1994). Ribosomal DNA sequences discriminate toxic and nontoxic Pseudonitzschia species. Natural Toxins, 2, 152-165.
Chavez, F.P., R. Herlien, and G. Thurmond (1994). OASIS—Acquisition system for moorings/drifters. Sea Technology, 35, 51-59.
Dugdale, R., F. Wilkerson, D. Halpern, F.P. Chavez, and R. Barber (1994).
Remote sensing of seasonal and annual variation of equatorial new production: A model for global estimates. Advances in Space Research,
169-178.
Villac, M.C., G.A. Fryxell, F.P. Chavez and L.A. Cifuentes (1994).
Pseudonitzschia australis Frenguelli and related species from the west coast of the USA: Occurrence and domoic acid production. J. Shellfish
Research, 12, 457-465.
Feely, R.A., R. Wanninkhof, C.E. Cosca, M.J. McPhaden, R.H. Bryne, F.J.
Millero, F. P. Chavez, T. Clayton, D.M. Campbell, and P.P. Murphy
(1994). The effect of tropical instability waves on CO
2
distributions along the equator in the Easter Equatorial Pacific during the 1992 ENSO event.
Geophysical Research Letters, 21, 277-280.
Martin, J.H., and others (1994) Testing the iron hypothesis in ecosystems of the equatorial Pacific Ocean. Nature, 371, 123-129.
Buck, K.R. and K.P. Chavez (1994). Diatom aggregates from the open ocean.
Journal of Plankton Research, 16, 1449-1457.
Thomsen, H.A., K.R. Buck and F.P. Chavez (1994) Haptophytes as components of marine phytoplankton. In The Haptophyte Algae , J.C Green and B.S.C.
Leadbeater (eds.) Clarendon Press, Oxford..
Chavez, F.P., K.R. Buck, R.R. Bidigare, D.M. Karl, D. Hebel, M. Latasa, L.
Campbell, J. Newton (1995). On the chlorophyll a retention properties of glass-fiber GF/F filters. Limnology and Oceanography, 40 , 428-433.
Friederich, G.E., P.G. Brewer, R. Herlein, and F.P. Chavez (1995). Measurement of sea surface partial pressure of CO
2
from a moored buoy. Deep-Sea
Research, 42, 1175-1186.
Vørs, N., K.R. Buck, F. P. Chavez, W. Eikrem, L.E. Hensen, J. B. Ostergaard, and
H.A. Thomsen (1995). Nanoplankton of the equatorial Pacific with

emphasis on the heterotrophic protists. Deep-Sea Research, Part II, 42 ,
585-602.
Chavez, F.P. and S.S. Smith (1995). Biological and chemical consequences of open ocean upwelling systems, In Upwelling in the Ocean: Modern
Processes and Ancient Records. Summerhayes, C.P., Emeis, K.C., Angel,
M.V., Smith, R.L., and Zeitzschel, B., (eds.), p.149-169, J. Wiley & Sons,
Chichester.
Chavez, F.P. and J.R. Toggweiler (1995). Physical estimates of global new production: the upwelling contribution, In Upwelling in the Ocean:
Modern Processes and Ancient Records. Summerhayes, C.P., Emeis, K.C.,
Angel, M.V., Smith, R.L., and Zeitzschel, B., (eds.), p. 313-320, J. Wiley
& Sons, Chichester.
Chavez, F.P. (1995) A comparison of ship and satellite chlorophyll from
California and Peru. Journal of Geophysical Research, 100 , 24855-24862.
Lenarz, W.H., D. VanTresca, W.M. Graham, F.B. Schwing, F.P. Chavez (1995)
Explorations of El Niño and associated biological population dynamics off central California, In
El Niño off Central California.
CalCOFI Reports 36 ,
106-119.
Olivieri, R.A. and F.P. Chavez (1996) Peru-Chile coast. In Hall, J., S.V. Smith and P.R. Boudreau (eds.) 1996. International Workshop on Continental
Shelf Fluxes of Carbon, Nitrogen and Phosphorus. LOICZ Reports &
Studies No. 9, ii +50 pp. LOICZ, Texel, The Netherlands.
Anbar, A.D., Y.L. Yung and F.P. Chavez (1996) Methyl bromide: Ocean sources, ocean sinks, and climate sensitivity. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 10 ,
175-190.
Chavez, F.P. (1996) Forcing and biological impact of onset of the 1992 El Niño in central California. Geophysical Research Letters 23 , 265-268.
Buck, K.R., F.P. Chavez and L. Campbell (1996) Basin-wide distributions of living carbon components and the inverted trophic pyramid of the central gyre of the North Atlantic Ocean, Summer 1993. Aquatic Microbial
Ecology.
10 , 283-298.
Scholin, C.A., K.R. Buck, T. Britschgi, G. Cangelosi and F.P. Chavez (1996)
Identification of Pseudo-nitzschia australis (Bacillariophyceae) using rRNA-targeted probes in whole cell and sandwich hybridization formats.
Phycologia 35 , 190-197.
Chavez, F.P., S.K. Service and S. Buttrey (1996) Temperature-nitrate relationships in the central and eastern tropical Pacific. Journal of
Geophysical Research 101 , 20,553-20,564.
Coale, K.H., K.S. Johnson, S.E. Fitzwater, R.M. Gordon, S. Tanner, F.P. Chavez,
L. Ferioli, C. Sakamoto, P. Rogers, F. Millero, P. Steinberg, P.
Nightingale, D. Cooper, W. Cochlan, M. Landry, J. Constantinou, G.
Rollwagen, A. Transviña and R. Kudela (1996) A massive phytoplankton

bloom induced by an ecosystem-scale iron fertilization experiment in the equatorial Pacific Ocean. Nature 383 , 495-501.
Barber, R.T., M.P. Sanderson, S.T. Lindley, F. Chai, J. Newton, C.C. Trees, D.G.
Foley and F.P. Chavez (1996) Primary productivity and its regulation in the equatorial Pacific during and following the 1991-92 El Niño. Deep-
Sea Research II, 43 , 933-970.
Scholin, C.A., P.E. Miller, K.R. Buck, F.P. Chavez, G. Cangelois, P. Haydock, J.
Howard, and P. Harris (1996) DNA probe-based detection of harmful algal species using Pseudonitzschia australis as models. In Harmful Algal
Blooms, T. Tasumoto, Y. Oshima and Y. Fukuyo (eds.) p. 439-442.
Chavez, F.P., K.R. Buck, S.K. Service, J. Newton, and R. T. Barber (1996)
Phytoplankton variability in the eastern and central tropical Pacific. Deep-
Sea Research II, 43 , 835-870.
Paytan, A., M. Kastner, and F.P. Chavez (1996) Glacial to interglacial fluctuations in productivity in the Equatorial Pacific as indicated by marine barite.
Science, 274 , 1355-1377.
Sakamoto, C.M., G.E. Friederich, S.K. Service, and F.P. Chavez (1996)
Development of automated surface seawater nitrate mapping systems for use in open ocean and coastal waters. Deep-Sea Research, 43 , 1763-
1776..
Hayward, T.L., S.L. Cummings, D.R. Cayan, F.P. Chavez, R.J. Lynn, A.W.
Mantyla, P.P. Niiler, F.B. Schwing, R.R. Veit, E.L. Venrick (1996) The state of the California Current in 1995-96: Continuing declines in macrozooplankton biomass during a period of nearly normal circulation.
CalCOFI Reports 37 , 22-37.
Pilskaln, C.H., J.B. Paduan, F.P. Chavez, R.Y. Anderson, and W.M. Berelson
(1996) Carbon export and regeneration in the coastal upwelling system of
Monterey Bay, central California. Journal of Marine Research 54 ,1-31.
Kudela, R.M. and F.P. Chavez (1996) Bio-optical properties in relation to an algal bloom caused by iron enrichment in the equatorial Pacific. Geophysical
Research Letters 23 , 3751-3754.
Kudela, R. M. and F.P. Chavez (1997) Estimating new production from the quantum yield of nitrate uptake. SPIE, Ocean Optics XIII 2963 , 471-476
Scholin, C.A., P. Miller, K.R. Buck, F.P. Chavez, P. Harris, P. Haydock, J.
Howard, G. Cangelosi (1997) Detection and quantification of Pseudonitzschia australis in cultured and natural populations using LSU rRNAtargeted probes. Limnology and Oceanography 42 , 1265-1272.
Brezinski, M.A., D.R. Phillips, F.P. Chavez, G.E. Friederich and R.C. Dugdale
(1997) Silica production in the Monterey Bay upwelling system.
Limnology and Oceanography 42 , 1694-1705.
Schwing F.B., Hayward, T.L., K.M. Sakuma, T. Murphree, A. Mascarenas Jr., S.
Larios Castillo, A.W. Mantyla, S.L. Cummings, F.P. Chavez, K. Baltz,

and D.G. Ainley (1997) The state of the California Current in 1996-97:
Mixed signals from the tropics. CalCOFI Reports 38 , 1-26.
Chavez, F.P., J.T. Pennington, R. Herlien, H. Jannasch, G. Thurmond and G.E.
Friederich (1997) Moorings and drifters for real-time interdisciplinary oceanography. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology 14, 1199-
1211.
Sakamoto, C.M., F.J. Millero, W. Yao, G.E. Friederich and F.P. Chavez (1998)
Surface seawater distributions of inorganic carbon and nutrients around the Galapagos Islands: Results from the PlumEx experiment using automated chemical mapping. Deep-Sea Research II 45 , 1055-1071.
Robison, B. H., K. R. Reisenbichler, R. E. Sherlock, J. M. B. Silguero, and F. P.
Chavez (1998) Seasonal abundance of the siphonophore, Nanomia bijuga, in Monterey Bay. Deep-Sea Research II, 45 , 1741-1752.
Silver, M. W., S. L. Coale, C. H. Pilskaln, and F. P. Chavez (1998) Exploratory observations of marine aggregates at sub-euphotic depths. Deep-Sea
Research II, 45 , 1839-1862.
Rau, G. H., C. Low, J. T. Pennington, K. R. Buck, and F. P. Chavez (1998)
Suspended particulate nitrogen
 15
N versus nitrate utilization:
Observations in Monterey Bay, CA. Deep-Sea Research II, 45 , 1603-1616.
Service, S.K., J.A. Rice and F.P. Chavez (1998) Relationship between physical and biological variables during the upwelling period in Monterey Bay, CA.
Deep-Sea Research II 45 , 1669-1686.
Chavez, F.P. and C. Collins,eds. (1998) Studies of the California Current System,
Deep-Sea Research II, Volume 45 .
Chavez, F.P., P.G. Strutton and M. J. McPhaden (1998) Biological-physical coupling in the central equatorial Pacific during the onset of the 1997-98
El Niño, Geophysical Research Letters, 25 , 3543-3546.
Altabet, M., C. Pilskaln, R. Thunnell, R. Pride, D. Sigman, F.P. Chavez, and R.
Francois (1999) The nitrogen isotope biogeochemistry of sinking particles from the margin of the eastern North Pacific. Deep-Sea Research, 46 , 655-
679.
Johnson, K.S., F.P. Chavez and G.E. Friederich (1999) Continental shelf sediment as a primary source of iron for coastal phytoplankton. Nature 398 , 697-
700.
Scholin, C.A., F. Gulland, G.J. Doucette, S. Benson, M. Busman F. P. Chavez and others (1999) A bloom of toxic diatoms linked to illness and death of sea lions along Central California. Nature, 403 , 80-84.
Miller, A.J., J.C. McWilliams, N. Schneider, J.S. Allen, J.A. Barth, R.C.
Beardsley, F.P. Chavez and others (1999) observing and modeling the
California Current System. EOS, 80 , 533-539.
Chavez, F.P., P.G. Strutton, G.E. Friederich, R.A. Feely, G.A. Feldman, D. Foley, and M.J. McPhaden. (1999) Biological and chemical response of the

equatorial Pacific Ocean to the 1997 and 1998
El Niño. Science
286 , 2126-
2131.
Olivieri, R.O. and F.P. Chavez (2000) A model of plankton dynamics for the coastal upwelling system of Monterey Bay, California. Deep-Sea Research
II, 47 , 1077-1105.
Kudela, R.M. and F.P. Chavez (2000) Modeling the impact of the 1992 El Niño on new production in Monterey Bay, California, Deep-Sea Research II, 47 ,
1055-1075.
Chavez, F.P., D. Wright, R. Herlien, M. Kelley, F. Shane and P.G. Strutton (2000)
A device for protecting moored spectroradiometers from bio-fouling.
Journal of Oceanographic and Atmospheric Technology, 17 , 215-219.
Wilkerson, F.P., R.C. Dugdale, R.M. Kudela, and F.P. Chavez (2000) Biomass and productivity in Monterey Bay, California: Contribution of the large phytoplankton, Deep-Sea Research II, 47 , 1003-1021.
Pennington, J.T. and F.P. Chavez (2000) Seasonal fluctuations of temperature, salinity, nitrate, chlorophyll and primary production at station H3/M1 over
1989-1996 in Monterey Bay, California. Deep-Sea Research II, 47 , 947-
973.
Chavez, F.P. and C. Collins,eds. (2000) Studies of the California Current System
Part 2, Deep-Sea Research II, 47 , 5-6.
Chavez, F.P. and C.A. Collins (2000) Studies of the California Current System: present, past and future. Deep-Sea Research II, 47 , 761-763.
Strutton, P.G. and F.P. Chavez (2000) Primary productivity in the equatorial
Pacific during the 1997-98 El Niño. Journal of Geophysical Research, 105 ,
26,089-26,101.
Johnson, K.S., F.P. Chavez, V.A. Elrod, S.E. Fitzwater, J.T. Pennington, K.R.
Buck, and P.M. Walz. (2001) The annual cycle of iron and the biological response in central California coastal waters. Geophysical Research
Letters, 28 , 1247-1250.
Strutton, P.G., J.P. Ryan and F.P. Chavez (2001) Enhanced chlorophyll associated with tropical instability waves in the equatorial Pacific. Geophysical
Research Letters, 28 , 2005-2008.
Rau, G.H, F.P. Chavez, and G.E. Friederich (2001) Plankton
13
C/
12
C variations in
Monterey Bay, California: evidence of non-diffusive inorganic carbon uptake by phytoplankton in an upwelling environment. Deep-Sea
Research, 48, 79-84.
Polito, S.P., J.P. Ryan, W. T. Liu and F.P. Chavez (2001) Oceanic and atmospheric anomalies of tropical instability waves. Geophysical Research
Letters, 28 , 2233-2236.
Susuzi, M.T., C.M. Preston, F.P. Chavez, and E. F. DeLong (2001) Quantitative mapping of bacterioplankton populations in seawater: field tests across an

upwelling plume in Monterey Bay. Aquatic Microbial Ecology, 24 , 117-
127.
Hopcroft, R.R., J.C. Roff and F.P. Chavez (2001) Size paradigms in copepod communities: a re-examination. Hydrobiologia, 453/454: 133–141.
Rau, G.H, S. Ralston, J.R. Southon, F.P. Chavez (2001) Upwelling and the condition and diet of juvenile rockfish: A study using
14
C,
13
C, and
15
N natural abundances. Limnology and Oceanography, 46 , 1565-1570.
Johnson, K.S., C.K. Paull, J.P. Barry and F.P. Chavez (2001) A decadal record of underflows from a coastal river into the deep sea. Geology, 29 , 1019-1022.
Schwarz, J.N., P. Kowalczuk, S. Kaczmarek, G. F. Cota, B. G. Mitchell,M.
Kahru, F.P. Chavez, A. Cunningham, D. McKee, P. Gege, M. Kishino,
D.A. Phinney and R. Raine (2002) Two models for absorption by coloured dissolved organic matter (CDOM). Oceanologia, 44 , 209-241.
Castro, C.G., F.P. Chavez and C. Collins (2001) The role of the California
Undercurrent in the export of denitrified waters from the eastern tropical
North Pacific. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 21 , 819-830.
Collins C.A., C.G. Castro, Asanuma, T.A. Rago, Sang-Kyu Han, R.Durazo and
F.P. Chavez (2002) Changes in the Hydrography of Central California
Waters Associated with the 1997-8 El Niño. Progress in Oceanography ,
54 , 129-148.
Benson, S.R. D. A. Croll, B. Marinovic, F.P. Chavez and J. T. Harvey (2002)
Temporal Variability in the Cetacean Assemblage of a Coastal Upwelling
Center Spanning an El Niño. Progress in Oceanography
, 54 , 279-292.
Marinovic, B. D. A. Croll, N. Gong, S. Benson and F.P. Chavez (2002) Effects of the 1997-98 El Niño on Zooplankton within the Monterey Bay Coastal
Upwelling System with Emphasis on the Euphausiid Community. Progress in Oceanography , 54 , 265-278 .
Kudela, R.M. and F.P. Chavez (2002) Multi-Platform Remote Sensing of New
Production in Central California During the 1997-1998 El Niño. Progress in Oceanography , 54 , 233-250 .
Hopcroft, R.R. C. Clark and F. P. Chavez (2002) Copepod Communities in
Monterey Bay During the 1997 to 1999 EL Niño and La Nina. Progress in
Oceanography , 54 , 251-264 .
Castro, C.G., C.A. Collins, P.Walz, J.T. Pennington, R.P. Michisaki, G.
Friederich and F.P. Chavez (2002) Chemical variability during the 1997-
98 El Niño off Central California. Progress in Oceanography
,
54 , 171-184
Castro C. G., T. R. Baumgartner, S. Bograd, R. Castro, F. P. Chavez, C. A.
Collins, R. Durazo, J. Garcý´a, G. Gaxiola-Castro, T. Hayward, A. Huyer,
R. Lynn, A. S. Mascarenhas, M. R. D. Robert, R. L. Smith, P. A. Wheeler and F. A. Whitney (2002) Introduction to ‘The 1997–8 El Niño Atlas of oceanographic conditions along the west coast of North America (23°N–
50°N). Progress in Oceanography, 54 , 501-508.

Chavez, F.P., J.T. Pennington, C.G. Castro, J.P. Ryan, R.M. Michisaki, B.
Schlining, P. Walz, K.R. Buck, A. McFayden and C.A. Collins (2002)
Biological and chemical consequences of the 1997-98 El Niño in central
California waters. Progress in Oceanography , 54 , 205-232 .
Friederich, G., P. Walz, M. Burczynski and F.P. Chavez (2002) Inorganic Carbon in the Central California Upwelling System During the 1997-1999 El Niño
-La Nina Event. Progress in Oceanography, 54 , 185-204.
Chavez, F.P, C.A. Collins, A. Huyer, and D. Mackas eds. (2002) El Niño along the west coast of North America. Progress in Oceanography, 54 , 1-6.
Chavez, F.P, C.A. Collins, A. Huyer, and D. Mackas eds.(2002) Observations of the 1997-98 El Niño along the west coast of North America. Progress in
Oceanography, 54, 1-4.
Ryan, J. P., P. S. Polito, P. G. Strutton and F. P. Chavez. (2002) Unusual largescale blooms in the equatorial Pacific. Progress in Oceanography, 55 , 263-
285.
Kindle, J. C., R. M. Hodur, S. deRada, J. D. Paduan, L. K. Rosenfeld, and F. P.
Chavez (2002) A COAMPS™ Reanalysis for the Eastern Pacific:
Properties of the Diurnal Sea Breeze along the Central California Coast.
Geophysical Research Letters. 29 , 2203, doi:10.1029/2002GL015566.
Chavez, F.P., J.P. Ryan, S. Lluch-Cota and M. Ñiquen C. (2003) From anchovies to sardines and back-Multidecadal change in the Pacific Ocean. Science
299 , 217-221.
Chavez FP, Ryan J, Lluch-Cota SE, Niquen M (2003) Sardine fishing in the early
20th century – Response. Science 300: 2033.
Chao, Y., Z. Li, J. C.Kindle, J. D. Paduan, and F. P. Chavez (2003) A High-
Resolution Surface Vector Wind Product for Coastal Oceans: Blending
Satellite Scatterometer Measurements with Regional Mesoscale
Atmospheric Model Simulations. Geophysical Research Letters.
Berelson, W., J. McManus, K. Coale, K. Johnson, D. Burdige, T. Kilgore, D.
Colodner, F. Chavez, R. Kudela and J. Boucher (2003) A time series of benthic flux measurements from Monterey Bay, CA. Continental Shelf
Research, 23 , 457-481.
Cosca, C.E., R. A. Feely, J. Boutin, J. Etcheto, M. J. McPhaden, F. P. Chavez, and
P. G. Strutton (2003) Seasonal and interannual CO2 fluxes for the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean as determined from fCO2-SST relationships. Journal of Geophysical Research, 108 , 3278, doi:10.1029/2000JC000677.
Strutton, P.G. and F. P. Chavez (2003) Scales of Biological-Physical Coupling in the Equatorial Pacific. In, Handbook of Scaling Methods in Aquatic
Ecology: Measurement, Analysis and Simulation. CRC Press, LLC.
Collins, C.A. J.T. Pennington, C.G. Castro, T.A. Rago and F.P. Chavez (2003)
The California Current system off Monterey, California: Physical and

biological coupling. Deep-Sea Research II. doi:10.1016/S0967-
0645(03)00134-6
Bac , M. G., K. R. Buck, F. P. Chavez, S. C. Brassell (2006) Seasonal variation in alkenones, bulk suspended POM, plankton and temperature in Monterey
Bay, California: implications for carbon cycling and climate assessment.
Organic Geochemistry 34 (2003) 837–855.
Johnson, K.S., V A. Elrod, S E. Fitzwater, J N. Plant, F P. Chavez, S J. Tanner, R.
M Gordon, D L. Westphal, K D. Perry, J Wu, and D M. Karl (2003)
Surface ocean-lower atmosphere interactions in the Northeast Pacific
Ocean Gyre: Aerosols, iron, and the ecosystem response. Global
Biogeochemical Cycles, VOL. 17, NO. 2, 1063, doi:10.1029/2002GB002004
Fitzwater, S.E., K. S. Johnson, V. A. Elrod, J. P. Ryan, L. J.Coletti, S. J. Tanner,
R. M. Gordon and F. P. Chavez (2003) Iron, nutrient and phytoplankton biomass relationships in upwelled waters of the California coastal system.
Continental Shelf Research, 23 , 1523-1544.
Strutton, P.G. and F.P. Chavez (2004) Biological heating in the equatorial Pacific:
Observed variability and potential for real-time calculation. Journal of
Climate, 17 , 1097-1109.
Strutton, P.G., Chavez, F.P., Dugdale, R.C. and Hogue, V. (2004) Primary productivity in the central equatorial Pacific (3°S 130°W) during GasEx-
2001.
J. Geophys. Res., Vol. 109, No. C8, C08S06
10.1029/2003JC001790
Coale, K.H., K.J. Johnson, F.P. Chavez and others (2004) Southern Ocean Iron
Enrichment Experiments (SOFeX): Carbon and Silicon Cycling in
Antarctic Waters, Science, 304 , 408-414.
Kudela, R.M. and F.P. Chavez (2004) The Impact of Coastal Runoff on Ocean
Color During an El Niño Year in Central California. Deep-Sea Research
II. doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2004.04.002
Ryan, J.P., F.P. Chavez and J.G. Belingham (2005) Physical-biological coupling in Monterey Bay, California: topographic influences on phytoplankton ecology. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 287 , 23-32.
Croll, D.A., B. Marinovic, S. Benson, F.P. Chavez, N. Black, R. Ternullo, B.R.
Tershy (2005) From wind to whales: trophic links in a coastal upwelling system. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 289 , 117-130.
Chavez, F.P. (2005) Biological consequences of interannual to multidecadal variability. Chapter 16 In The Sea, Volume 13, A. Robinson and K. Brink
(eds.), Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachussetts, pp. 643-679.
Ryan, JP, HM Dierssen, RM Kudela, CA Scholin, KS Johnson, JM Sullivan, AM
Fischer, EV Rienecker, PR McEnaney and FP Chavez. (2005) Coastal
Ocean Physics and Red Tides: An Example from Monterey Bay,
California. Oceanography , 18:246-255.

Ramp, S.R., J. D. Paduan, I. Shulman, J. Kindle, F. L. Bahr, and F. P. Chavez
(2005) Observations of Upwelling and Relaxation Events in the Northern
Monterey Bay during August 2000. Journal of Geophysical Research 110,
C07013, doi:10.1029/2004JC002538.
Graybeal J., J.G. Bellingham, and F.P. Chavez (2005) Data systems for ocean observation systems. Sea Technology 46 (9): 23-25.
Buck, K.R., R. Marin III, F.P. Chavez (2005) Heterotrophic dinoflagellate fecal pellet production: grazing of large, chain-forming diatoms during upwelling events in Monterey Bay, California. Aquatic Microbial Ecology,
40, 293-298.
Hendricks M. B., M. L. Bender, B. A. Barnett, P. Strutton, and F. P. Chavez
(2005) The triple oxygen isotope composition of dissolved O2 in the equatorial Pacific: a tracer of mixing, production, and respiration. Journal of Geophysical Research, 110 , C12021, doi:10.1029/2004JC002735.
Goericke, R., E. Venrick, A. Mantyla, S. J. Bograd, F. B. Schwing, A. Huyer, R.
L. Smith, P. A. Wheeler, R. Hooff, W. T. Peterson, F. Chavez, C. Collins,
B. Marinovic, N. Lo, G. Gaxiola-Castro, R. Durazo, K. D. Hyrenbach, and
W. J. Sydeman. (2005) The state of California current, 2004
–
2005: still cool? California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations Reports.
46:32
–
72.
Johnson, K. S., L. J. Coletti and F. P. Chavez (2006) Diel nitrate cycles observed with in situ sensors predict monthly and annual new production. Deep-Sea
Research I, 53 , 561–573.
Lucier, A., M. Palmer, H. Mooney, K. Nadelhoffer, D. Ojima, and F. Chavez
(2006) Ecosystems and Climate Change: Research Priorities for the U.S.
Climate Change Science Program. Recommendations from the Scientific
Community. Special Series No. SS-92-06 of the University of Maryland
Center for Environmental Science, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory,
Solomons, MD.
Ryan, J. P., I. Ueki, Y. Chao, H. Zhang, P. S. Polito, and F. P. Chavez (2006),
Western Pacific modulation of large phytoplankton blooms in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific, Journal of Geophysical Research, 111 ,
G02013, doi:10.1029/2005JG000084.
Pennington, J.T., Mahoney, K.L., Kuwahara, V.S., Kolber, D.D., Calienes, R.,
Chavez, F.P. (2006) Primary production in the eastern tropical Pacific: A review. Progress in Oceanography 69 : 285-317.
Behrenfeld M. J., K. Worthington, R. M. Sherrell, F. P.Chavez, P. Strutton, M.
McPhaden and D. M. Shea (2006) Controls on tropical Pacific ocean productivity revealed through nutrient stress diagnostics. Nature, 442 ,
1025-1028.
Field, D., D. Cayan, and F. Chavez (2006) Secular Warming in the California
Current and North Pacific. California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries
Investigations Reports, 47.

Peterson, B., R. Emmett, R. Goericke, E. Venrick, A. Mantyla, S. J. Bograd, F. B.
Schwing, R. Hewitt, N. Lo, W. Watson, J. Barlow, M. Lowry, C. Reiss, S.
Ralston, K. A. Forney, S. Benson, B. E. Lavaniegos, W. J. Sydeman, D.
Hyrenbach, R. W.Bradley, P. Warzybok, F. Chavez, K. Hunter, M. Weise and J. Harvey (2006) The State of the California Current, 2005-2006:warm in the north, cool in the south. California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries
Investigations Reports, 47.
Paduan, J.D., K.C. Kim, M.S. Cook and F.P. Chavez (2006) Calibration and validation of direction-finding high-frequency radar ocean surface current observations. Journal of Oceanic Engineering, 31, 862-875.
Montecino, V., P.T. Strub, F. Chavez, A. Thomas, J. Tarazona, and T.
Baumgartner (2006) Bio-physical interactions off western South-America.
Chapter 10 In The Sea, Volume 14, A. Robinson and K. Brink (eds.),
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachussetts, pp. 321-390.
McLaughlin, K., F.P. Chavez, J.T. Pennington, and A. Paytan (2006) A time series investigation of the oxygen isotopic composition of dissolved inorganic phosphate in Monterey Bay, California, Limnol. Oceanogr.,
51(5), 2370–2379.
Wankel, S.D., C. Kendall, J. T. Pennington, F. P. Chavez, and A. Paytan (2007)
Nitrification in the euphotic zone as evidenced by nitrate dual isotopic composition: Observations from Monterey Bay, California, Global
Biogeochemical Cycles, 21, GB2009, doi:10.1029/2006GB002723.
Chai F., M.-S. Jiang, Y. Chao, R. C. Dugdale, F. Chavez, R. T. Barber (2007)
Modeling responses of diatom productivity and biogenic silica export to iron enrichment in the equatorial Pacific Ocean, Global Biogeochem.
Cycles, 21, GB3S90, doi:10.1029/2006GB002804.
De La Cruz-Orozco, M.E., G. Gaxiola-Castro, J. Garcia-Cordova, G. Friederich,
F. Chavez y J.Gomez-Valdes 2007. Presion parcial del bioxido de carbono
(pCO2) frente a Baja California. In B. Hernandez de la Torre y G. Gaxiola
Castro, Carbono en ecosistemas acuaticos de Mexico (pp. 397-409).
Instituto National Ecologica, Mexico, D.F.
Chavez, F.P., T. Takahashi, W.-J. Cai, G. Friederich, B. Hales, R. Wanninkhof, and R.A. Feely (2007) Coastal Oceans. In: The First State of the Carbon
Cycle Report (SOCCR): The North American Carbon Budget and
Implications for the Global Carbon Cycle . A Report by the U.S. Climate
Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change
Research[King, A.W., L. Dilling, G.P. Zimmerman, D.M. Fairman, R.A.
Houghton, G. Marland, A.Z. Rose, and T.J. Wilbanks (eds.)]. National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Climatic Data Center,
Asheville, NC, USA, pp. 157-166.
Shulman, I., Kindle, J., Martin, P., deRada, S., Doyle, J., Penta, B., Anderson, S.,
Chavez, F., Paduan, J., Ramp, S. (2009) Modeling of upwelling/relaxation

events with the Navy Coastal Ocean Model Journal of Geophysical
Research, 112 (6), C06023.
Chavez, F. (2007) Variability, Multidecadal. In: Encyclopedia of Tidepools &
Rocky Shores. [M.W. Denny and S. D. Gaines, eds.] University of
California Press, Berkeley, pp. 608-611.
Carr, S.D., X.J. Capet, J.C. McWilliams, J.T. Pennington and F. P. Chavez (2008)
The influence of diel vertical migration on zooplankton transport and recruitment in an upwelling region: estimates from a coupled behavioralphysical model. Fisheries Oceanography, 17 , 1-15.
Buck, K.R., Chavez, F.P, Davis, A.S. (2008) Minidiscus trioculatus , a small diatom with a large presence in the upwelling systems of central
California. Nova Hedwigia, Beiheft 133 :1-6.
Strutton, P. G., W. Evans, and F. P. Chavez (2008), Equatorial Pacific chemical and biological variability, 1997–2003, Global Biogeochem.Cycles, 22 ,
GB2001, doi:10.1029/2007GB003045.
Saba, V., J. Spotila, F. P. Chavez, and J. Musick (2008) Bottom-up and climatic forcing on the worldwide populations of leatherback turtles. Ecology,
89 .1414-1427.
Bograd, S. C. G. Castro, E. Di Lorenzo, D. M. Palacios, H. Bailey, W. Gilly, and
F P. Chavez (2008) Oxygen declines and the shoaling of the hypoxic boundary in the California Current. Geophysical Research Letters, 35,
L12607, doi:10.1029/2008GL034185
Ryan, J.P., J. F. R. Gower, S. A. King, W. P. Bissett, A. M. Fischer, R. M.
Kudela, Z. Kolber, F. Mazzillo, E. V. Rienecker, and F. P. Chavez (2008)
A coastal ocean extreme bloom incubator. Geophysical Research Letters,
35, L12602, doi:10.1029/2008GL034081.
Ryan, J. P., M. A. McManus, J. D. Paduan, F. P. Chavez (2008) Phytoplankton thin layers caused by shear infrontal zones of a coastal upwelling system.
Marine Ecology Progress Series, 354, 21-34, doi: 10.3354/meps07222
Friederich, G.E., J. Ledesma, O. Ulloa and F.P. Chavez (2008) Air-Sea carbon dioxide fluxes in the coastal southeastern tropical Pacific. Progress in
Oceanography, 79, 156-166.
Bertrand, A., Gerlotto, F., Bertrand, S., Gutiérrez, M., Alza, L., Chipollini, A.,
Diaz, E., Espinoza, P., Ledesma, L., Quesquén, R., Peraltilla, S., Chavez.,
F.P. (2008). Schooling behaviour and environmental forcing in relation to anchoveta distribution: an analysis across multiple spatial scales. Progress in Oceanography, 79, 264-277.
Chavez, F.P., A. Bertrand, R. Guevara, P. Soler, and J. Csirke (2008) The northern Humboldt Current System: brief history, present status and a view towards the future. Progress in Oceanography, 79, 95-105.
Bertrand, A., R. Guevara-Carrasco, P. Soler, J. Csirke, and F.P. Chavez eds.
(2008) The Northern Humboldt Current Ecosystem: Ocean Dynamics,
Ecosystem Processes, and Fisheries, 79, Nos., 2-4.

Evans, W. P. G. Strutton and F.P. Chavez (2009) Impact of tropical instability waves on nutrient and chlorophyll distributions in the equatorial Pacific.
Deep-Sea Research, 56, 178-188.
Leinweber, A., N. Gruber, H. Frenzel, G.E. Friederich, and F.P. Chavez (2009)
Diurnal carbon cycling in the surface ocean and lower atmosphere of Santa
Monica Bay, California, Geophysical Research Letters, 36 , L08601, doi:10.1029/2008GL037018,
Pennington, J.T., Castro, C.G., Collins, C.A., Evans, W.W. IV, Friederich, G.E.,
Michisaki, R.P., Chavez, F.P. (2009) The Northern and Central California
Coastal Upwelling System, Chapter 2.2, In K.-K. Liu et al. (eds.), Carbon and Nutrient Fluxes in Continental Margins , Global Change – The IGBP
Series, 25 DOI 10.1007/978-3-540-92735-2 2, Springer-Verlag Berlin
Heidelberg, pp. 29-44.
Quinones, R.A., M. H. Gutierrez, G. Daneri, D. Gutierrez A.,H. E. Gonzalez, F.P.
Chavez, (2009) The Humboldt Current System, Chapter 2.3, In K.-K. Liu et al. (eds.), Carbon and Nutrient Fluxes in Continental Margins , Global
Change – The IGBP Series, 25 DOI 10.1007/978-3-540-92735-2 2,
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 44-64.
Freon, P. C. Werner and F.P. Chavez (2009) Conjectures on the influence of climate change on ocean ecosystems dominated by small pelagic fish. In
D. Checkley, C. Roy and J. Alheit (Eds). Predicted effects of climate change on SPACC systems.
Cambridge University Press pp. 312-343.
Takahashi, T. S. C. Sutherland, R. Wanninkhof, C. Sweeney, R. A. Feely, D. W.
Chipman, B. Hales, G. Friederich, F. P. Chavez, C. Sabine, A. Watson, D.
C. E. Bakker, U. Schuster, N. Metzl, H. Yoshikawa-Inoue, Masao Ishii, T.
Midorikawa, Y. Nojiri, A. Körtzinger, T. Steinhoff, M. Hoppema, J.
Olafsson, T. S. Arnarson, B. Tilbrook, T. Johannessen, A. Olsen, R.
Bellerby, C. S. Wong, Bruno Delille, N. R. Bates and H. J. W. de Baar
(2009) Climatological Mean and Decadal Change in Surface Ocean pCO2,
Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 56 (8-10), pp. 554-577and Net Sea-air CO2 Flux over the Global Oceans. Deep-Sea
Research II.
Gutiérrez, D., A. Sifeddine, D. B. Field, L. Ortlieb, G. Vargas, F. Chávez, F.P.
Velazco, V. Ferreira, P. Tapia, R. Salvatteci, H. Boucher, M. C. Morales,
J. Valdés, J.-L. Reyss, A. Campusano, M. Boussafir, M. Mandeng-Yogo,
M. García and T. Baumgartner (2009). Rapid reorganization in ocean biogeochemistry off Peru towards the end of the Little Ice Age.
Biogeosciences, 6, 835–848.
Shadden,S.C., F. Leiken, J.D. Paduan, F.P. Chavez and J.E. Marsden (2009) The correlation between surface drifters and coherent structures based on high- frequency radar data in Monterey Bay .Deep-Sea Research II, doi: 10.1016/j.

Johnston, M. S., O. M. Cheriton, M. A. McManus, J. T. Pennington, F. P. Chavez
(2009). Thin Phytoplankton Layer Formation by Current Shear at Eddies,
Filaments, and Fronts in a Coastal Upwelling Zone. Deep-Sea Research
Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 56 (3-5), pp. 246-259.
Ramp, S.R., R.E. Davis, N.E. Leonard, I. Shulman, Y. Chao, A.R. Robinson, J.
Marsden, P. Lermusiaux, D. Fratantoni, J.D. Paduan, F. Chavez, F.L.
Bahr, S. Liang, W. Leslie, Z. Li (2009) Preparing to predict: The second autonomous ocean sampling network (AOSN-II) experiment in the
Monterey Bay. Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in
Oceanography, 56 (3-5), pp. 68-86.
Haley Jr. P.J., P.F.J. Lermusiaux, A.R. Robinson, W.G. Leslie, O. Logoutov, G.
Cossarini, X.S. Liang, P. Moreno, S.R. Ramp, J.D. Doyle, J. Bellingham,
F. Chavez, S. Johnston (2009) Forecasting and reanalysis in the Monterey
Bay/California Current region for the Autonomous Ocean Sampling
Network-II experiment. Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in
Oceanography, 56 (3-5), pp. 127-148.
Chao, Y. Z. Li, J. Farrara, J. C. McWilliams, J. Bellingham, X. Capet, F. Chavez,
J-K. Choi, R. Davis, J. Doyle, D. Frantaoni, P. Li, P. Marchesiello, M. A.
Moline, J. Paduan, S. Ramp (2009) Development, implementation and evaluation of a data-assimilative ocean forecasting system off the central
California coast. Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in
Oceanography, 56 (3-5), pp. 100-126.
Shulman, I., C. Rowley, S. Anderson, S. DeRada, J. Kindle, P. Martin, J. Doyle, J.
Cummings, S. Ramp, F. Chavez, D. Fratantoni, R. Davis (2009) Impact of glider data assimilation on the Monterey Bay model. Deep-Sea Research
Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 56 (3-5), pp. 188-198.
Ryan, J.P., Fischer, A.M., Kudela, R.M., Gower, J.F.R., King, S.A., Marin III, R.,
Chavez, F.P. (2009) Influences of upwelling and downwelling winds on red tide bloom dynamics in Monterey Bay, California(2009) Continental
Shelf Research, 29 (5-6), pp. 785-795.
Conway, C., F. J. Black, M. Gault-Ringold, J. T. Pennington, F. P. Chavez and R.
Flegal (2009) Dimethylmercury in Coastal Upwelling Waters, Monterey
Bay, California. Environmental Science and Technology, 43 (5), pp. 1305-
1309.
Dickey, T., Bates, N., Byrne, R.H., Chang, G., Chavez, F.P., Feely, R.A., Hanson,
A.K., Karl, D.M., Manov, D., Moore, C., Sabine, C.L., Wanninkhof, R.,
2009. The NOPP O-SCOPE and MOSEAN projects advanced sensing for ocean observing systems. Oceanography 22 (2), 168-181.
Messié, M., Ledesma, J., Kolber, D. D., Michisaki, R. P., Foley, D. G. and
Chavez, F. P. (2009). Potential new production estimates in four eastern boundary upwelling ecosystems. Progress in Oceanography , doi:
10.1016/j.pocean.2009.07.018
.

Chavez, F., M. Niquen, J. Csirke, A. Bertrand, C. Wostnitza and R. Guevara-
Carrasco (2009) Fifth International Panel on the Anchoveta: towards an ecosystem approach to fisheries. GLOBEC International Newsletter, 15, 8-
9.
Chavez, F. P and M. Messie (2009) A comparison of eastern boundary upwelling ecosystems. Progress in Oceanography , doi:
10.1016/j.pocean.2009.07.032
.
Lester, S. E., K. L. McLeod, H. Tallis, M. Ruckelshaus, B. S. Halpern, P. S.
Levin, F. P. Chavez, C. Pomeroy, B. J. McCay, C. Costello, S. D. Gaines,
A. J. Mace, J. A. Barth, D. L. Fluharty, J. K. Parrish (2010) Science in support of ecosystem-based management for the US West Coast and beyond. Biological conservation, 143 (2010) 576–587.
Cuvelier, M.L., A. E. Allen, A. Monier, J. P. McCrow, M. Messié, S. G. Tringe,
T. Woyke, R. Welsh, T. Ishoey, Jae-Hyeok Lee, B. J. Binder, C. L.
DuPont, M. Latasa, C. Guigand, K. R. Buck, J. Hilton, M. Thiagarajan, E.
Caler, B. Read , R. S. Lasken, F. P. Chavez and A. Z. Worden (2010)
Targeted metagenomics and ecology of globally important uncultured eukaryotic phytoplankton. Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences, 107, 14679-14684, doi:10.1073/pnas.1001665107.
Field, D. B., F. P. Chavez, C. B. Lange and P. E. Smith (2011) Variations in fisheries and complex ocean environments. In Shifting Baselines. J.B.C.
Jackson, K.E. Alexanfer and E. Sala (eds.) Island Press, Washington, DC.
Chavez, F. P. M.
Messié
, and J.T. Pennington (2011) Marine primary production in relation to climate variability and change. Annual Review of Marine
Science, 3:227–60, doi:10.1146/annurev.marine.010908.163917.
Messié, M. and F.P. Chavez (2011)
Global modes of sea surface temperature variability in relation to regional climate indices. Journal of Climate, 24:
4314-4331. doi: 10.1175/2011JCLI3941.1.
Paerl, R.W., K. S. Johnson, R. M. Welsh, A. Z. Worden, F. P. Chavez, and J. P.
Zehr (2011) Differential Distributions of Synechococcus Subgroups
Across the California Current System. Frontiers in Microbiology, 2, 59.
Doi: 10.3389/micb.2011.00059.
Paerl, R. W., Turk, K. A., Beinart, R. A., Chavez, F. P. and Zehr, J. P. 2011.
Seasonal change in the abundance of Synechococcus and multiple distinct phylotypes in Monterey Bay determined by rbcL and narB quantitative
PCR. Environmental Microbiology. doi: 10.1111/j.1462-
2920.2011.02594.x
Castro, C.G., C.A. Collins, J.T. Pennington, D. Zuniga and F.P. Chavez (2011)
Spatial distribution and offshore export of total organic carbon along the eastern boundary of the Subtropical North Pacific." Advances in
Oceanography and Limnology 2 (2): 93-106. Doi:
10.1080/19475721.2011.626941.

Bertrand , A., Chaigneau, A., Peraltilla S., Ledesma J. , Graco M., Monetti, F. and
F.P. Chavez (2011) Oxygen: A Fundamental Property Regulating Pelagic
Ecosystem Structure in the Coastal Southeastern Tropical Pacific. PLoS
ONE 6(12): e29558. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0029558
Hales, B., P.G. Strutton, Saraceno, Letelier, Takahashi, Sabine, Feely and F.
Chavez (2012). Satellite-based prediction of pCO2 in coastal waters of the eastern North Pacific. Progress in Oceanography, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2012.03.001
Frolov, S., J.P. Ryan and F.P. Chavez (2012) Predicting euphotic-depth-integrated chlorophyll-a from discrete-depth and satellite-observable chlorophyll-a off central California. Journal of Geophysical Research, 117, C05042, doi:10.1029/2011JC007322
Gomez, F., A. Montecinos, S. Hormazabal, L.A. Cubillos M. Correa-Ramirez, and F.P. Chavez (2012) Impact of spring upwelling variability off southern-central Chile on common sardine ( Strangomera bentincki ) recruitment. Fisheries Oceanography, in press.
Jolliff, J.K., R.W. Gould Jr., B. Penta, W.J. Teague, S. deRada, F.P. Chavez, R.A.
Arnone (2012) Water mass bio-optical properties in the Monterey Bay region: Fluorescence-based inference of shifts in phytoplankton photophysiology Journal of Geophysical Research, in press.
Messié, M. and F.P. Chavez (2012) A global analysis of ENSO synchrony: the oceans biological response to physical forcing. Journal of Geophysical
Research , in press