Karen Wishner

Title: 
Dr.
First Name: 
Karen
Last Name: 
Wishner
Gender: 
Female
Position: 
Professor of Oceanography
Institution: 
University of Rhode Island
Country: 
USA
Email: 
kwishner@mail.uri.edu
Phone: 
-7676
Website: 
http://www.awi.de/en/research/deep_sea/
Subgroups Specialised: 
Zooplankton and micronekton, especially copepods

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Oceanographic Locations - Other: 
Eastern Tropical North Pacific, Arabian Sea, Caribbean

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3 priority science questions that need to be answered: 
How are pelagic ecosystem functions and animal distributions affected by climate change? I am specifically interested in the vertical re-distribution of pelagic biomass and species in expanding oxygen minimum zones and effects on fisheries, trophic webs, and export processes. What are the potential societal impacts of these ecosystem changes?