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MCGOWAN, JOHN

Research Professor of Oceanography, Emeritus

Degrees:

  • B.S., Oregon State University
  • M.S., Oregon State University
  • Ph.D., University of California, San Diego-Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Research Interests:

  • Large scale patterns in space and time and the California El Niño
  • Diversity maintenance
  • Biogeography
  • Time-series in coastal California


Home Department:
IOD

Mailing Address:
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla CA, 92093
Mail Code: 0227

Email: jmcgowan@ucsd.edu


Scripps Scholars Profile: http://scrippsscholars.ucsd.edu/jmcgowan

Publications:

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1989. Pelagic ecology and Pacific climate. American Geophysical Union Monograph 55:141-150.

1990. Species dominance-diversity patterns in oceanic communities. The Earth in Transition, George M. Woodwell, Ed., New York, Cambridge University Press, 395-421.

1993. Pelagic diversity patterns. Species Diversity in Ecological Communities: Historical and Geographical Perspectives, R. E. Ricklefs and D. Schluter, Eds., Chicago, University of Chicago Press 203-214.

1995. Climatic warming and the decline of zooplankton in the California Current. Science 267:1324-1326.

1998. Climate-ocean variability and ecosystem response in the Northeast Pacific. Science 281:210-217.