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- Biography
Dr. Palacios is a physical ecologist studying the environmental factors that affect the distribution, abundance, and community structure of marine top predators in pelagic ecosystems. His focus is on understanding physical-biological oceanographic interactions operating at mesoscales and large scales (e.g., eddies, fronts, and biogeographic provinces), because these interactions comprise the mechanisms driving prey aggregation, and they are often helpful in explaining the observed patterns of predator-habitat association.
Contact Information:
Environmental Research Division
NOAA/NMFS/Southwest Fisheries Science Center
1352 Lighthouse Avenue
Pacific Grove, California USA 93950-2097- Website URL
- http://www.pfeg.noaa.gov/~dpalacio/index.html
- Title
- Research Oceanographer
- Selected Publications
Branch, T.A., K.M. Stafford, D.M. Palacios, C. Allison, J.L. Bannister, C.L.K. Burton, E. Cabrera, C.A. Carlson, B. Galletti-Vernazzani, P.C. Gill, R. Hucke-Gaete, K.C.S. Jenner, M-N.M. Jenner, K. Matsuoka, Y.A. Mikhalev, T. Miyashita, M.G. Morrice, S. Nishiwaki, V.J. Sturrock, D. Tomorosov, R.C. Anderson, A.N. Baker, P.B. Best, P. Borsa, R.L. Brownell, Jr., S. Childerhouse, K.P. Findlay, T. Gerrodette, A.D. Ilangakoon, M. Joergensen, B. Kahn, D.K. Ljungblad, B. Maughan, R.D. McCauley, S. Mckay, T.F. Norris, Oman Whale And Dolphin Research Group, S. Rankin, F. Samaran, D. Thiele, K. Van Waerebeek and R.M. Warneke. 2007. Past and present distribution, densities and movements of blue whales Balaenoptera musculus in the Southern Hemisphere and northern Indian Ocean. Mammal Review 37:116-175, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2907.2007.00106.x.
Rasmussen, K., D.M. Palacios, J. Calambokidis, M. Saborio, L. Dalla-Rosa, E. Secchi, G. Steiger, J. Allen, and G. Stone. 2007. Southern Hemisphere humpback whales wintering off Central America: insights from water temperature into the longest mammalian migration. Biology Letters 3(3):302-305, doi:10.1098/rsbl.2007.0067.
Pardo, M.A., and D.M. Palacios. 2006. Cetacean occurrence in the Santa Marta region, Colombian Caribbean, 2004-2005. Latin American Journal of Aquatic Mammals 5(2):129-134.
Palacios, D.M., S.J. Bograd, D.G. Foley, and F.B. Schwing. 2006. Oceanographic characteristics of biological hot spots in the North Pacific: A remote sensing perspective. Deep-Sea Research II 53(3-4):250-269, doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2006.03.004.
Stegmann, P.M., D.G. Foley, C. King, F.B. Schwing, H. Price, S.J. Bograd, and D.M. Palacios. 2006. Integrating enhanced satellite data maps into coastal management. Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union 87(14):137, 142.
Palacios, D.M., and S.J. Bograd. 2005. A census of Tehuantepec and Papagayo eddies in the northeastern tropical Pacific. Geophysical Research Letters 32, L23606, doi:10.1029/2005GL024324.
Schwing, F.B., D.M. Palacios, and S.J. Bograd. 2005. El Niño impacts on the California Current ecosystem. U.S. CLIVAR Newsletter, Vol. 3, No. 2, 5-8.
Mendelssohn, R., S.J. Bograd, F.B. Schwing, and D.M. Palacios. 2005. Teaching old indices new tricks: A state-space analysis of El Niño related climate indices. Geophysical Research Letters 32, L07709, doi:10.1029/2005GL022350.
Palacios, D.M., S.K. Salazar, and D. Day. 2004. Cetacean remains and strandings in the Galápagos Islands, 1923-2003. Latin American Journal of Aquatic Mammals 3(2):127-150.
Palacios, D.M., S.J. Bograd, R. Mendelssohn, and F.B. Schwing. 2004. Long-term and seasonal trends in stratification in the California Current, 1950-1993. Journal of Geophysical Research 109, C10016, doi:10.1029/2004JC002380.
Palacios, D.M. 2004. Seasonal patterns of sea-surface temperature and ocean color around the Galápagos: regional and local influences. Deep-Sea Research II 51(1-3):43-57, doi: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2003.08.001.
Palacios, D.M. and S. Salazar. 2002. Cetáceos. Pages 291-304 in Danulat, E., and G.J. Edgar, eds. Reserva Marina de Galápagos, Línea Base de la Biodiversidad. Fundación Charles Darwin/Servicio Parque Nacional Galápagos, Santa Cruz, Galápagos, Ecuador.
Palacios, D.M. 2002. Factors influencing the island-mass effect of the Galápagos Islands. Geophysical Research Letters 29(23), 2134, doi: 10.1029/2002GL016232.
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- Environmental Research Division, NOAA/NMFS/Southwest Fisheries Science Center
