Mark Abbott (OSU), ISAB Member

Dean and Professor, College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University at Corvallis

Education:

•   Ph.D., University of California, Davis (Ecology)
•   B.S., University of California, Berkeley (Natural Resources)

Research Interests:

• Coupling of biological and physical processes in the upper ocean
• Remote sensing of ocean color and sea surface temperature
• Phytoplankton fluorescence
• Length and time scales of phytoplankton variability.

Current Research:

• Relationship of time/space variability of phytoplankton to wind forcing in the California Current
• Lagrangian observations of upper ocean optical properties 
• Filaments in the California Current 
• Mesoscale variability in the Southern Ocean
• Phytoplankton fluorescence.