Peter J. S. Franks

Scripps Institution of Oceanography — United States

Earth and Planetary Sciences · Physical Sciences

44h-index8.6kcitations163works2.62yr avg
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Research Topics

Marine and coastal ecosystems(91), Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes(64), Marine Biology and Ecology Research(39), Marine and fisheries research(29), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research(15)

Publications163 total

Larval Transport Pathways Reveal Critical Habitat and Benefits of a Marine Protected Area to Fisheries
Fisheries Oceanography·2025Open Access
Salinity is diagnostic of maximum potential chlorophyll and phytoplankton community structure in an Eastern Boundary Upwelling System
Limnology and Oceanography Letters·2025Open Access
A juvenile journey: Using a highly resolved 3D mooring array to investigate the roles of wind and internal tide forcing in across‐shore larval transport
Limnology and Oceanography·2024· 3 citedOpen Access
<i>Ziphius cavirostris</i> presence relative to the vertical and temporal variability of oceanographic conditions in the Southern California Bight
Ecology and Evolution·2024· 3 citedOpen Access
Phytoplankton Responses to Mesoscale and Submesoscale Processes in a Tropical Meander
Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans·2024· 9 citedOpen Access
Cuvier's Beaked Whale Presence Relative to Vertical and Temporal Variability of Oceanographic Conditions in the Southern California Bight
2024Open Access
Shortcomings of the dissipation rate for understanding the turbulent environment of plankton—And a potential solution
Limnology and Oceanography·2024· 3 citedOpen Access
Influence of ocean dynamics on Cuvier’s beaked whale <i>(Ziphius cavirostris)</i>: Presence and their prey
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America·2023
Dinoflagellate vertical migration fuels an intense red tide
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2023· 46 citedOpen Access
Convening Expert Taxonomists to Build Image Libraries for Training Automated Classifiers
Limnology and Oceanography Bulletin·2023· 5 citedOpen Access
Rapid phytoplankton response to wind forcing influences productivity in upwelling bays
Limnology and Oceanography Letters·2023· 13 citedOpen Access
Phytoplankton Patches at Oceanic Fronts Are Linked to Coastal Upwelling Pulses: Observations and Implications in the California Current System
Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans·2023· 22 citedOpen Access
Environmental and ecological drivers of harmful algal blooms revealed by automated underwater microscopy
Limnology and Oceanography·2023· 15 citedOpen Access
Benchmarking and Automating the Image Recognition Capability of an In Situ Plankton Imaging System
Frontiers in Marine Science·2022· 19 citedOpen Access
Monthly to Decadal Variability of Mesoscale Stirring in the California Current System: Links to Upwelling, Climate Forcing, and Chlorophyll Transport
Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans·2022· 7 citedOpen Access
Oceanic turbulence from a planktonic perspective
Limnology and Oceanography·2021· 37 citedOpen Access
A Pseudo‐Lagrangian Transformation to Study a Chlorophyll‐a Patch in the Ría de Vigo (NW Iberian Peninsula)
Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans·2021Open Access
Rapid Fluctuations of the Subsurface Chlorophyll Maximum in Response to Wind Forcing in a Long, Narrow Bay
2021· 2 citedOpen Access
The California Undercurrent as a Source of Upwelled Waters in a Coastal Filament
Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans·2021· 17 cited
Larval cross‐shore transport estimated from internal waves with a background flow: The effects of larval vertical position and depth regulation
Limnology and Oceanography·2020· 9 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Jules S. Jaffe(5), Michael R. Landry(5), Arthur J. Miller(4), Mark D. Ohman(4), Changsheng Chen(4), Andrew J. Lucas(4), Emanuele Di Lorenzo(3), Steven J. Bograd(3), Paul L. D. Roberts(3), Hae Jin Jeong(3), An Suk Lim(3), Se Hyeon Jang(3), Ralf Goericke(3), Niklas Schneider(2), Pascal Rivière(2), Marina Lévy(2), Joseph S. Wroblewski(2), Glenn R. Flierl(2), Vincent Combes(2), Andrew C. Thomas(2)