Faculty Info: Valerie Loeb
VALERIE J. LOEB
Adjunct Professor, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories
B.A., San Jose State University
M.A., Moss Landing Marine Laboratories
Ph.D., Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Email: loeb@mlml.calstate.edu
Lab Website: http://ichthy.mlml.calstate.edu
Specific Research Interests: I am a contract scientist to the NOAA/NMFS Antarctic Marine Living Resources (AMLR) Program, part of the Antarctic Treaty System, that monitors the health of the Antarctic Peninsula marine ecosystem in relation to harvestable resources such as Antarctic kill (Euphausia superba) and fish. I head the "Krill and Zooplankton" component of this multidisciplinary program and am actively involved in the annual January-March field season net sampling activities. Collaboration with colleagues involved with the physical oceanography and primary productivity components is directed towards understanding ecosystem variability on seasonal, annual and longer time scales. I also advise graduate students with ichthyoplankton research projects. Current Projects: (1) Antarctic krill demography and population dynamics; (2) Antarctic salp demography and population dynamics; (3) Antarctic zooplankton community structure and dynamics; (4) seasonal, interannual and decadal scale variability of the Antarctic Peninsula ecosystem; (5) photographic guides to the identification of Antarctic zooplankton, fish and benthic invertebrates. Selected Publications: Kawaguchi, S., V. Siegel, I. Litvinov, V. Loeb & J. Watkins. Salp distribution and size composition in the Atlantic Sector of the Southern Ocean. Deep-Sea Research II. In Press. Siegel, V., S. Kawaguchi, P. Ward, V. Sushin, V. Loeb and J. Watkins. Krill demography in the Atlantic sector of the Antarctic during the CCAMLR Survey 2000. Deep-Sea Research II. In Press. Siegel, V., V. Loeb and J. Gröger. 1998. Krill (Euphausia superba) density, proportional and absolute recruitment and biomass in the Elephant Island region (Antarctic Peninsula) during the period 1977 to 1997. Polar Biology 19:393-398. Siegel, V. W.K. de la Mare, V. Loeb. 1997. Long-term monitoring of krill recruitment and abundance indices in the Elephant Island area (Antarctic Peninsula). CCAMLR Science 4:19-35. Loeb, V., V. Siegel, O. Holm-Hansen, R. Hewitt, W. Fraser, W. Trivelpiece, and S. Trivelpiece. 1997. Effects of sea-ice extent and krill or salp dominance on the Antarctic food web. Nature 387:897-900. |
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