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Stony Brook University - School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences
Joseph D. Warren
Joe Warren's photo
Joseph D. Warren
Assistant Professor
School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences

Contact Information:
Work@SBU: 631.632.3737, Discovery 153
Work@Southampton: 631.632.5045, Nat Sci E112
joe.warren@stonybrook.edu

Mailing Address:
Marine Sciences Research Center
Stony Brook - Southampton
239 Montauk Hwy
Southampton, NY 11968

Research: Bioacoustical Oceanography, Zooplankton Ecology
Scattering of sound by biological and physical oceanographic processes, Predator-prey relationships in zooplankton ecosystems,  Acoustic surveys of marine life, Biological and physical factors affecting zooplankton ecosystems, Antarctic krill ecosystem, Ocean observation systems.Zooplankton and nekton behavior and ecology. Survey design and technology.  Application of underwater acoustics to oceanographic problems. Use of sound by marine animals.  

Education
 Harvey Mudd College - B.S. Engineering with Honors, 1994
 MIT/WHOI Joint Program - Ph.D. Applied Ocean Sciences, 2001

Recent Lab Publications

K.A. Forman and J.D. Warren. 2009. Variability in the density and sound-speed of coastal zooplankton and nekton. ICES Journal of Marine Science.

M.J. Cox, D.A. Demer, J.D. Warren, G.R. Cutter, and A.S. Brierley. 2009. Multibeam echosounder observations reveal interactions between Antarctic krill and air-breathing predators Marine Ecology Progress Series 378: 199-209. 

J. D. Warren, J.A. Santora, and D.A. Demer. 2009. Submesoscale distribution of Antarctic krill and its avian and pinniped predators before and after a near galeMarine Biology 156: 479-491.

J. D. Warren and P. H. Wiebe. 2008. Accounting for biological and physical sources of acoustic backscatter improves estimates of zooplankton biomass. Canadian journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 65: 1321-1333.

J. D. Warren and J. N. Smith. 2007. Density and sound speed of two gelatinous zooplankton: Ctenophore (Mnemiopsis leidyi) and lion's mane jellyfish (Cyanea capillata). Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 122(1): 574-580.

J. D. Warren and B. J. Peterson. 2007. Use of a 600-kHz Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler to measure estuarine bottom type, relative abundance of submerged aquatic vegetation, and eelgrass canopy height. Estuarine, Coastal, and Shelf Science 72: 53-62.

Announcements

I am currently looking for graduate students (M.S. or Ph.D.)

If you are interested in bioacoustics, zooplankton ecology,
or any of the other projects described on these pages, please contact Joe.

Recent presentations about the lab's research were made at the 18th Biennial meeting of the Society for Marine Mammalogy in Quebec, Canada and at the 158th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in San Antonio, Texas. Thankfully I'm done with travel for a few months (I think).

Prof. Peterson and I are gearing up for this year's winter term course MAR 388: Tropical Marine Ecology (read last year's  course blog).

Congratulations to former lab member, Krissy Forman who's work for her masters thesis on the variability of material properties of zooplankton and nekton was accepted for publication in the ICES Journal of Marine Science.

The Warren Lab had a successful field season in Spring 2009 in Cape Cod. We are studying the relationships between zooplankton and their baleen whale predators.

Graduate student Joy Smith and I both presented posters at the Alaska Marine Science Symposium held in Anchorage, Alaska in January 2009. It was surprisingly mild (temperature-wise) but the meeting was very productive.

                                  Attention Stony Brook undergraduate marine science majors:                                  

I am looking for students to assist in the analysis of dolphin vocalization recordings. You may be able to receive academic credit for conducting research in my lab. If interested, please contact me.

The Warren Lab spent part of the 2008 summer in the Bering Sea participating in a NMFS' Alaska Fisheries Science Center  research cruise conducting trawl and acoustic surveys on the walleye pollock. Our focus was on collecting measurements to improve models of Bering Sea euphausiid target strengths. This research is supported by NOAA.

2008 summer student Lauren Bohrer studied gas production from submerged aquatic vegetation. She was a participant in SoMAS's Research Experience for Undergraduate program.

Congratulations to incoming graduate student, Joy Smith, whose presentation at the ASA meeting in New Orleans on her summer research from 2006 was awarded "Best Student Presentation" in Animal Bioacoustics session. Great job Joy!

Check out some summaries of what folks are currently working on as well as past projects

Our research (in conjunction with Dave Demer and others) on the Livingston Island Nearshore Krill Ecosystem Study (LINKES) now has its own web-page ! Stay tuned for results as we process and analyze the data.




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