Monique Messié

Her research combines satellite products, models and in situ data to study ecosystem processes and physical/biological interactions in the coastal and open oceans.

She work with several MBARI research groups (Chavez, Haddock, Robison, Smith). Current areas of research include physical and biological variability at regional and global scales, ecosystem response to climate and ocean change, bioluminescence in the upper ocean, marine hotspots in the California Current, connections between surface, midwater and benthic communities, and the effect of tropical islands on phytoplankton biomass and biodiversity.