C. Brock Woodson

C. Brock Woodson is an Early Career Science Fellow at the Center for Ocean Solutions (COS).  He is working with COS on the development of a Kelp Forest Observatory, and on techniques for model-data comparisons for marine larval dispersal.  His interests include coastal oceanography, biological-physical coupling, and behavior effects on dispersal, community structure, biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in marine systems. Woodson uses targeted process studies, observation, and modeling techniques to understand how coastal ocean dynamics, turbulence and mixing affect marine biotic interactions. He also works on the integration of marine science and policy, specifically between ocean observation and marine protected area monitoring.

Publications

Woodson, C.B. , J.A. Tyburczy,M.A. McManus, J.A. Barth, , J.E. Caselle, M.H. Carr, D.P. Malone, P.T. Raimondi, L. Washburn, B. Menge, and S.R. Palumbi. 2012. Coastal fronts drive connectivity and resilience along the north Eastern Pacific. Limnology and Oceanography 57(2): 582-596.

McManus, M.A., C.B. Woodson . Accepted . Plankton distributions and Ocean Dispersal. J Exp Biol.

Suanda, S.H., J.A. Barth and C.B. Woodson . Accepted . Diurnal heat balance for the northern Monterey Bay inner shelf. J Geophys - Oceans.

Woodson, C.B. , J.A. Barth, O.M. Cheriton, M.A. McManus, J.P. Ryan, L. Washburn, and the 2008 Summer Oceanography Group. .2011. Observations of internal wave packets propagating along-shelf in northern Monterey Bay . Geophys Res Let 38: L01605 doi: 10.1029/2010GL045453. (Results from the PISCO Oceanography Summer Graduate Course in 2008).

Ryan, J.P., A.M. Fisher, R. Kudela, M.A. McManus ,J.S. Myers, J.D. Paduan, C. Rusham, C.B. Woodson , Y. Zhang. 2010. Recurrent patterns of surface slicks and internal waves in a coastal upwelling shadow . J Geophys Res - Oceans 115: C12070 doi: 10.1029/2010JC006398.

Carr, M., C.B. Woodson , O. Cheriton, M.A. McManus, D. Malone, and P. Raimondi. 2010. Knowledge through partnerships: Integrating marine protected area monitoring and ocean observing systems . Front Ecol Environ doi: 10.1890/090096.

Woodson, C.B. , J.A. Barth, D.J. Hoover, A.R. Kirincich, M.A. McManus, J. P. Ryan, J. Tyburczy, and L. Washburn. 2009. The northern Monterey Bay upwelling shadow front: Observations of a coastally- and surface-trapped buoyant plume . J Geophys Res - Oceans, C12013, doi:10.1029JC005623.

McManus, M.A., K. Benoit-Bird, and C.B. Woodson . 2008. Behavior exceeds physical forcing in the diel horizontal migration of a midwater sound-scattering layer in Hawaiian waters . Mar Ecol Prog Ser 365: 91-101.

Woodson, C.B. , and M.A. McManus. 2007 . Foraging behavior can influence dispersal of marine organisms . Limnol Oceanogr 52: 2701-2709.

Woodson, C.B. , D.R. Webster, M.J. Weissburg, and J. Yen. 2007. The prevalence and implications of copepod behavioral responses to oceanographic structure . Integr Comp Biol 47: 831-846. doi: 10.1093/icb/icm091.

Woodson, C.B. , D.R. Webster, M.J. Weissburg, and J. Yen. 2007. Cue hierarchy in the foraging behavior of calanoid copepods: Ecological implications of oceanographic structure . Mar Ecol Prog Ser 330: 163-177.

Woodson, C.B. , D. Eerkes-Medrano, A. Flores-Morales, M. Foley, S. Henkel, M. Hessing-Lewis, D. Jacinto, L. Needles, M. Nishizaki, J. O'Leary, C. Ostrander, M. Pespeni, K. Schwager, J. Tyburczy, K. Weersing, A.R. Kirincich, J. Barth, M.A. McManus, and L. Washburn. 2007. Diurnal upwelling driven by sea breezes in northern Monterey Bay . Cont Shelf Res 27: 2289-2302. doi: 10.1016/j.csr.2007.05.014. (Results from the PISCO Oceanography Summer Graduate Course in 2006, italics are student authors).

Burkepile, D.E., J.D. Parker, C. B. Woodson , H.J. Mills, J. Kubanek, P.A. Sobecky, and M.E. Hay. 2006. Chemically-mediated competition between microbes and animals: microbes as consumers in food webs . Ecology 87: 2821-2831. (Featured article in Nature 's Research Highlights 446:92-93, 27 April 2007; Featured on National Public Radio's, All Things Considered "Science Out of the Box" September 15, 2007).

Woodson, C. B. , D.R. Webster, M.J. Weissburg, and J. Yen. 2005. Response of copepods to physical gradients associated with structure in the ocean . Limnol Oceanogr 50: 1552-1564.