Valerie Loeb
Research Faculty
Department: Biological Oceanography
Contact:
email: valerie.loeb@sjsu.edu
phone: (831) 771-4476
office: 58 Norte
Biography:
As a contract scientist to the NOAA/NMFS Antarctic Marine Living Resources (AMLR) Program from 1986 to 2010, I headed the "Krill and Zooplankton" component of this multidisciplinary program and was actively involved in the annual January-March field season net sampling activities. Collaboration with colleagues involved with the physical oceanography and primary productivity components was directed towards understanding ecosystem variability on seasonal, annual and longer time scales. During this time I advised graduate students with ichthyoplankton research projects and, with colleagues, published numerous papers concerning ecosystem dynamics driven by coupled atmospheric-oceanic processes. As an emeritus scientist I am currently collaborating with Karen Wishner (University of Rhode Island) studying Eastern Tropical Pacific ichthyoplankton assemblages and with Jarrod Santora (NOAA/NMFS, Santa Cruz) examining California Current zooplankton population dynamics in relation to decadal-scale atmospheric-oceanic processes.
Research Interests:
- Ichthyoplankton, zooplankton
- Marine fisheries
Curriculum Vitae:
Selected Publications
- Loeb, V.J. 1980. Vertical distribution and development of larval fishes in the North Pacific central gyre during summer. Fish. Bull. (U.S.) 77: 777-793
- Loeb, V.J., P.E. Smith and H.G. Moser. 1983. Ichthyoplankton and zooplankton abundance patterns in the California Current area, 1975. Calif. Coop. Oceanic Fish. Invest. Rept. 24: 109-131.
- Loeb, V.J. and J. A. Nichols. 1984. Vertical distribution and composition of ichthyoplankton and invertebrate zooplankton assemblages in the eastern tropical Pacific. Biologia Pesquera 13: 39-66.
- Loeb, V.J. and O. Rojas. 1988. Interannual variation of ichthyoplankton composition and abundance relations off northern Chile, 1964-83. Fish. Bull. (U.S.) 86: 1-24.
- 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.
- Loeb, V.J., 2007. Environmental Variability and the Antarctic Marine Ecosystem. IN: Vasseur, D.A., McCann, K.S., (Eds.), The Impact of Environmental Variability on Ecological Systems. The Peter Yodzis Fundamental Ecology Series, Volume 2, pp. 197-225. Springer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands
- Loeb, V.J., E.E. Hofmann, J.M. Klinck and O. Holm-Hansen. 2010. Hydrographic control of the marine ecosystem in the South Shetland-Elephant Island and Bransfield Strait region. Deep-Sea Research II 57: 519-542. DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2009.10.004.
- Loeb, V.J., J.A. Santora. 2012. Population dynamics of Salpa thompsoni near the Antarctic Peninsula: growth rates and interannual variations in reproductive activity (1993-2009). Progress in Oceanography, 96: 93-107. DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2011.11.001.
- Force, M.P., Santora, J.A., Reiss, C.S., Loeb, V.J. 2015. Seabird species assemblages reflect hydrographic and biogeographic zones within Drake Passage. Polar Biology 38: 381-392.
- Loeb, V.J., Santora, J.A. 2015. Climate variability and spatiotemporal dynamics of five Southern Ocean krill species. Progress in Oceanography. DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2015.01.002.
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