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Francisco Chavez serves as a member of the Center for Ocean Solutions’ Fellowship & Curriculum Committee. He is a biological oceanographer with interests in how climate change and variability regulate ocean ecosystems on local and basic scales.
He was born and raised in Peru where he attended Markham College in Lima. Chavez has a BS from Humboldt State and a PhD from Duke University. He was one of the first scientists of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), where he has been for twenty years and serves as Senior Scientist. At MBARI he pioneered time series research and the development of new instruments and systems to make this type of research sustainable. Chavez has authored or co-authored over 100 peer-reviewed papers, with 10 in Nature and Science. He is a past member of the National Science Foundation Geosciences Advisory Committee. He has been heavily involved in the development of the US Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) and member of the Governing Boards of the Central and Northern California Coastal Ocean Observing System (CeNCOOS), the Pacific Coastal Ocean Observing System (PaCOOS) and the Center for Integrated Marine Technologies (CIMT). He is member of the Science Advisory Team for the California Ocean Protection Council.
Chavez is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of the Sciences, honored for distinguished research on the impact of climate variability on oceanic ecosystems and global carbon cycling. He was named Doctor Honoris Causa by the Universidad Pedro Ruiz Gallo in Peru in recognition of his distinguished scientific career and for contributing to elevate academic and cultural levels of university communities in particular and society in general.
Publications
Conway, C., F. J. Black, M. Gault-Ringold, J. T. Pennington, F. P. Chavez and R. Flegal (2009) Dimethylmercury in Coastal Upwelling Waters, Monterey Bay, California. Environmental Science and Technology.
Chao, Y. Z. Li, J. Farrara, J. C. McWilliams, J. Bellingham, X. Capet, F. Chavez, J-K. Choi, R. Davis, J. Doyle, D. Frantaoni, P. Li, P. Marchesiello, M. A. Moline, J. Paduan, S. Ramp (2009 Development, implementation and evaluation of a data-assimilative ocean forecasting system off the central California coast. Deep-Sea Research II.
Freon, P. C. Werner and F.P. Chavez (2009) Conjectures on the influence of climate change on ocean ecosystems dominated by small pelagic fish. In D. Checkley, C. Roy and J. Alheit (Eds). Climate Change and small pelagic fish. Cambridge University Press pp. 312-343.
Takahashi, T. S. C. Sutherland, R. Wanninkhof, C. Sweeney, R. A. Feely, D. W. Chipman, B. Hales, G. Friederich, F. P. Chavez, C. Sabine, A. Watson, D. C. E. Bakker, U. Schuster, N. Metzl, H. Yoshikawa-Inoue, Masao Ishii, T. Midorikawa, Y. Nojiri, A. Körtzinger, T. Steinhoff, M. Hoppema, J. Olafsson, T. S. Arnarson, B. Tilbrook, T. Johannessen, A. Olsen, R. Bellerby, C. S. Wong, Bruno Delille, N. R. Bates and H. J. W. de Baar (2009) Climatological Mean and Decadal Change in Surface Ocean pCO2, and Net Sea-air CO2 Flux over the Global Oceans. Deep-Sea Research II.
Chavez, F.P., A. Bertrand, R. Guevara, P. Soler, and J. Csirke (2008) The northern Humboldt Current System: brief history, present status and a view towards the future. Progress in Oceanography, 79, 95-105.
Bograd, S. C. G. Castro, E. Di Lorenzo, D. M. Palacios, H. Bailey, W. Gilly, and F P. Chavez (2008) Oxygen declines and the shoaling of the hypoxic boundary in the California Current. Geophysical Research Letters, 35, L12607, doi:10.1029/2008GL034185
