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Abbreviated Vita -- Raphael M. Kudela
Associate Professor, Ocean Sciences Department
University of California Santa Cruz
1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95064
Phone: 831-459-3290 FAX: 831-459-4882 Email: kudela@ucsc.edu
Research Interests: Light-Nutrient interactions in phytoplankton, bio-optics, HABs
Education
B. S. (Honors, Magna Cum Laude), 1989
Biology/Marine Science, Drake University
Ph.D., 1995 Biology, University of Southern California
Professional Experience
Associate Professor, Ocean Sciences Department, UCSC
2005-present
Assistant Professor, Ocean Sciences Department, UCSC 1999-2005
Associate Research Scientist, Romberg Tiburon Center, SFSU 1998-2004
MBARI Visiting Scientist 1999-2004
Los Alamos National Laboratory Visiting Scientist, Chemistry Division 1999-2004
Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Los Alamos National Laboratory 1998-1999
MBARI Post-Doctoral Fellow 1996-1999
NASA Global Change Fellow, USC 1992-1995
Research Consultant, MBARI 1992-1994
Special Training/Workshops
•GEOHAB Open Science Meeting on HABs in Upwelling Systems (2003, Lisbon)

• HABWatch workshop on real time coastal observing systems for ecosystem dynamics and harmful algal blooms (2003, Trieste, France)

• US-EU Harmful Algal Bloom Workshop, September 5-8, 2002, Trieste, Italy

• Tagging of Pacific Pelagics: TOPP Requirements for Physical Oceanographic Data Workshop, April 22-23 2002, Monterey, CA

• TRACER workshop organizer (ASLO/Copenhagen 2000)
Sea Experience
• Monterey Bay Food Web Scavenging Project (9 cruises) 1990-1991
• Shift-Up Program (Monterey Bay; 6 cruises) 1992-1993
• Coastal Ocean Processes (CoOP; Monterey Bay) 1995
• IronEx II (Equatorial. Pacific) 1995
• MBARI long-line cruises (8 cruises) 1997-2002
• CoOP WEST Program (5 cruises) 2000-2003
• Bering Sea Program 2004
• CoOP RISE Program (4 cruises) 2004-2006
• NOAA COAST Program (Monterey Bay) 2006
• Gulf of Alaska (NSF) 2007
Synergistic activities
Vice-Chair, GEOHAB Science Steering Committee, 2007-present
Director, IGPP Center for Remote Sensing, UCSC, 2007-present
GEOHAB Science Steering Committee member, 2004-2006
NSF Coastal Ocean Processes (CoOP) Science Steering Committee member, 2004-present
Alternate Member, Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary's Research Activities Panel (RAP)
Representative Publications
Kudela, R.M., J.P. Ryan, M. Blakely, J.Q. Lane, and T.D. Peterson. In press. Linking the physiology and ecology of Cochlodinium to better understand harmful algal bloom events: a comparative approach. Harmful Algae.

Anderson, CR, MA Brzezinski, L Washburn, and R Kudela. 2007. Mesoscale circulation effects on a toxic diatom bloom in the Santa Barbara Channel, California. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 327, 119-133.

Howard, M.A.H., N. Ladizinsky, W.P. Cochlan, and R.M. Kudela. 2007. Nitrogenous preference of toxigenic Pseudo-nitzschia australis (Bacillariophyceae) from field and laboratory experiments. Harmful Algae, 6, 206-217.

Bernard, S., R.M. Kudela, P. Franks, W. Fennel, A. Kemp, A. Fawcett, and G.C. Pitcher. 2006. The requirement for forecasting harmful algal blooms in the Benguela. In V. Shannon, G. Hempel, P. Malanotte-Rizzoli, C. Moloney and J. Woods (eds.). Large Marine Ecosystems, Vol. 14. Elsevier.

Kudela, R. M., W. P. Cochlan, T. D. Peterson, and C. G. Trick. 2006. Impacts on phytoplankton biomass and productivity in the Pacific Northwest during the warm ocean conditions of 2005, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L22S06, doi:10.1029/2006GL026772.

Kudela, R., G. Pitcher, T. Probyn, F. Figueiras, T. Moita, and V. Trainer. 2005. Harmful Algal Blooms in coastal upwelling systems. Oceanography 18(2): 184-197.

Ryan, JP, Dierssen, HM, Kudela, RM, Scholin, CA, Johnson, KS, Sullivan, JM, Fischer, AM, Rienecker, EV, McEnaney, PR, and Chavez, FP. 2005. Coastal ocean physics and red tides: An example from Monterey Bay, California. Oceanography 18(2): 214-223.

Kudela, R.M. and F.P. Chavez. 2004. The impact of San Francisco Bay outflow on the coastal waters of central California. Deep-Sea Research II doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2004.04.002.

Coale KH, Johnson KS, Chavez FP, Buesseler KO, Barber RT, Brzezinski MA, Cochlan WP, Millero FJ, Falkowski PG, Bauer JE, Wanninkof RH, Kudela RM, Altabet MA, Hales BE, Takahashi T, Landry MR, Bidigare RR, Wang X, Chase Z, Strutton PG, Friederich GE, Gorbunov MY, Lance VP, Hilting AK, Hiscock MR, Demarest M, Hiscock WT, Sullivan KF, Tanner SJ, Gordon RM, Hunter CN, Elrod VA, Fitzwater SE, Jones JL, Tozzi S, Koblizek M, Roberts AE, Herndon J, Brewster J, Ladizinsky N, Smith G, Cooper D, Sheridan CC, Twining BS, Johnson ZI. 2004. Southern Ocean Iron Enrichment Experiment: Carbon cycling in high- and low-Si waters. Science 304:408-414.

Kudela, R.M. and F.P. Chavez. 2002. Multi-platform remote sensing of new production in central California during the 1997-1998 El Niño. Progr. Oceanogr. 54: 233-249.

Kudela, R.M. and W.P. Cochlan. 2000. The kinetics of nitrogen and carbon uptake and the influence of irradiance for a natural population of Lingulodinium polyedrum (Pyrrophyta) off southern California. Aquatic. Microbial Ecol 21: 31-47.

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