Ongoing research projects include:
Wind-forced patchiness of phytoplankton at fronts
Plankton production in tidal fronts on Georges Bank
Thin layers of phytoplankton
Microscale distributions of phytoplankton
Toxic dinoflagellate blooms
Patterns in phytoplankton blooms
Transport and accumulation in internal waves
Phytoplankton production in wind-driven mixed layers
Peter J.S. Franks
pfranks@ucsd.edu
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA 92093-0218