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Karen Wishner

Karen Frances Wishner is an American oceanographer currently at University of Rhode Island and an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Her interests include coastal shelf and zooplankton behavior and environment, and has published her findings.[1][2]

Karen Wishner
Alma materUniversity of California, San Diego
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Rhode Island
ThesisThe biomass and ecology of the deep-sea benthopelagic (near-bottom) plankton (1980)

Education and career

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Wishner has a Bachelor of Arts degree in biology from the University of Chicago[3] and as a sophomore participated in a field project in Costa Rica which sparked her interest in marine science.[4][5] Wishner earned her Ph.D. in oceanography from the University of California, San Diego and Scripps Institution of Oceanography where she worked on the ecology of deep-sea plankton.[6] During her dissertation research she collected plankton using nets attached to Deep Tow, the camera system designed by Fred Spiess.[4] Wishner spent one term teaching at the University of California, Santa Cruz after an invitation to do so from Mary Wilcox Silver, and then moved to the University of Rhode Island in 1980 where she was the first female tenure-track faculty hired by the Graduate School of Oceanography.[4] She was promoted to professor in 1993.[7] Wishner's teaching portfolio included a class that investigates right whales and what they eat, with an opportunity for field research conducted from the University of Rhode Island's research ship, the R/V Endeavor.[8] As of 2021, Wishner is emerita professor of oceanography at the University of Rhode Island.[9]

Research

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Wishner is known for her research on zooplankton ecology and behavior, with a focus on copepods. Her early research was on the organisms found in the deep ocean[10][11] and the rate they were able to consume other organisms.[12] She investigates regions of the ocean with low levels of oxygen[13] and the implications for marine zooplankton and marine food webs.[14][15] One item of particular interest to Wishner is the copepods found in the oxygen minimum zone in the Arabian Sea.[16][17] Wishner has also examined the shrimp found in the vicinity of hydrothermal fluids near the Kick 'em Jenny volcano[18] and plankton in the Eastern Tropical North Pacific.[19][20]

Selected publications

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  • Wishner, K.F. (1980). "The biomass of the deep-sea benthopelagic plankton". Deep Sea Research Part A. Oceanographic Research Papers. 27 (3–4): 203–216. Bibcode:1980DSRA...27..203W. doi:10.1016/0198-0149(80)90012-6.
  • Wishner, Karen F.; Ashjian, Carin J.; Gelfman, Celia; Gowing, Marcia M.; Kann, Lisa; Levin, Lisa A.; Mullineaux, Lauren S.; Saltzman, Jennifer (1 January 1995). "Pelagic and benthic ecology of the lower interface of the Eastern Tropical Pacific oxygen minimum zone". Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers. 42 (1): 93–115. Bibcode:1995DSRI...42...93W. doi:10.1016/0967-0637(94)00021-J. ISSN 0967-0637.
  • Wishner, Karen F.; Gowing, Marcia M.; Gelfman, Celia (1 August 1998). "Mesozooplankton biomass in the upper 1000m in the Arabian Sea: overall seasonal and geographic patterns, and relationship to oxygen gradients". Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography. 45 (10): 2405–2432. Bibcode:1998DSRII..45.2405W. doi:10.1016/S0967-0645(98)00078-2. ISSN 0967-0645.

Awards and honors

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Wishner was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1995.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Karen Wishner". aaas.org. Retrieved April 26, 2017.
  2. ^ "Karen Wishner". Retrieved June 3, 2017.
  3. ^ "Karen F. Wishner". Graduate School of Oceanography. Retrieved 2021-12-04.
  4. ^ a b c "Autobiographical Sketches of Women in Oceanography". Oceanography. 18 (1): 239. March 2005.
  5. ^ "Karen Wishner | Nautilus Live". nautiluslive.org. 2017-11-08. Retrieved 2021-12-04.
  6. ^ Wishner, Karen Frances (1980). The biomass and ecology of the deep-sea benthopelagic (near-bottom) plankton (Thesis). Ann Arbor, Mich: Univ. Microfilms International. OCLC 935018063.
  7. ^ "CV for Karen Wishner" (PDF). University of Rhode Island. Retrieved December 4, 2021.
  8. ^ Howarth, Colin (April 5, 2018). "Worthy 'Endeavor': Community invited to participate in vessel's whale research mission". The Independent. Retrieved 2021-12-04.
  9. ^ "Karen Wishner". University of Rhode Island. uri.edu. Retrieved December 4, 2021.
  10. ^ Wishner, K.F. (1980). "The biomass of the deep-sea benthopelagic plankton". Deep Sea Research Part A. Oceanographic Research Papers. 27 (3–4): 203–216. Bibcode:1980DSRA...27..203W. doi:10.1016/0198-0149(80)90012-6.
  11. ^ Wishner, K. F. (1980). "Aspects of the community ecology of deep-sea, benthopelagic plankton, with special attention to gymnopleid copepods". Marine Biology. 60 (2–3): 179–187. Bibcode:1980MarBi..60..179W. doi:10.1007/BF00389161. ISSN 0025-3162. S2CID 86769603.
  12. ^ Wishner, K. F.; Meise-Munns, C. J. (1984). "In situ grazing rates of deep-sea benthic boundary-layer zooplankton". Marine Biology. 84 (1): 65–74. Bibcode:1984MarBi..84...65W. doi:10.1007/BF00394528. ISSN 0025-3162. S2CID 85233397.
  13. ^ Wishner, Karen; Levin, Lisa; Gowing, Marcia; Mullineaux, Lauren (1990). "Involvement of the oxygen minimum in benthic zonation on a deep seamount". Nature. 346 (6279): 57–59. Bibcode:1990Natur.346...57W. doi:10.1038/346057a0. ISSN 0028-0836. S2CID 4310917.
  14. ^ Poppick, Laura. "The Ocean Is Running Out of Breath, Scientists Warn". Scientific American. Retrieved 2021-12-04.
  15. ^ Wishner, K. F.; Seibel, B. A.; Roman, C.; Deutsch, C.; Outram, D.; Shaw, C. T.; Birk, M. A.; Mislan, K. A. S.; Adams, T. J.; Moore, D.; Riley, S. (2018). "Ocean deoxygenation and zooplankton: Very small oxygen differences matter". Science Advances. 4 (12): eaau5180. Bibcode:2018SciA....4.5180W. doi:10.1126/sciadv.aau5180. PMC 6300398. PMID 30585291.
  16. ^ Wishner, Karen F.; Gowing, Marcia M.; Gelfman, Celia (1998). "Mesozooplankton biomass in the upper 1000m in the Arabian Sea: overall seasonal and geographic patterns, and relationship to oxygen gradients". Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography. 45 (10–11): 2405–2432. Bibcode:1998DSRII..45.2405W. doi:10.1016/S0967-0645(98)00078-2.
  17. ^ Wishner, Karen F.; Gowing, Marcia M.; Celia, Gelfman (2000). "Living in suboxia: Ecology of an Arabian Sea oxygen minimum zone copepod". Limnology and Oceanography. 45 (7): 1576–1593. Bibcode:2000LimOc..45.1576W. doi:10.4319/lo.2000.45.7.1576. S2CID 86359538.
  18. ^ Wishner, Karen F.; Graff, Jason R.; Martin, Joel W.; Carey, S.; Sigurdsson, H.; Seibel, B.A. (2005). "Are midwater shrimp trapped in the craters of submarine volcanoes by hydrothermal venting?". Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers. 52 (8): 1528–1535. Bibcode:2005DSRI...52.1528W. doi:10.1016/j.dsr.2005.03.012.
  19. ^ Maas, Amy E.; Frazar, Sarah L.; Outram, Dawn M.; Seibel, Brad A.; Wishner, Karen F. (2014-11-01). "Fine-scale vertical distribution of macroplankton and micronekton in the Eastern Tropical North Pacific in association with an oxygen minimum zone". Journal of Plankton Research. 36 (6): 1557–1575. doi:10.1093/plankt/fbu077. ISSN 1464-3774.
  20. ^ Wishner, Karen F.; Outram, Dawn M.; Seibel, Brad A.; Daly, Kendra L.; Williams, Rebecca L. (2013). "Zooplankton in the eastern tropical north Pacific: Boundary effects of oxygen minimum zone expansion". Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers. 79: 122–140. Bibcode:2013DSRI...79..122W. doi:10.1016/j.dsr.2013.05.012.
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