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Sato, M. and K. J. Benoit-Bird. 2024. Diel vertical migrators respond to short-term upwelling events. Geophysical Research Letters 51: e2023GL105387. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL105387

Sato, M. A. W. Trites, S. Gauthier. 2021. Southern resident killer whales encounter higher prey densities than northern resident killer whales during summer. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 78: 1732-1743.

Moriarty, P. E., T. E. Essington, J. K. Horne, J. E. Keister, L. Li, S. L. Parker-Stetter, and M. Sato. 2020. Unexpected food web responses to low dissolved oxygen in an estuarine fjord. Ecological Applications e02204.

Benoit-Bird, K. J, T. P. Welch, C. M. Waluk, J. A. Barth, I. Wangen, P. McGill, C. Okuda, G. A. Hollinger, M. Sato, S. McCammon. 2018. Equipping an underwater glider with a new echosounder to explore ocean ecosystems. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods 16:734-749.

Sato, M., J. A. Barth, K. J. Benoit-Bird, S. D. Pierce, T. J. Cowles, R. D. Brodeur, and W. T. Peterson. 2018. Coastal upwelling fronts as a boundary for planktivorous fish distributions. Marine Ecology Progress Series 595: 171-186.

Sato, M. and K. J. Benoit-Bird. 2017. Spatial variability of deep scattering layers shapes the Bahamian mesopelagic ecosystem. Marine Ecology Progress Series 580: 69-82.

Sato, M., J. K. Horne, S. L. Parker-Stetter, T. E. Essington, J. E. Keister, P. E. Moriarty, L. Li, and J. Newton. 2016. Impacts of moderate hypoxia on fish and zooplankton prey distributions in a coastal fjord. Marine Ecology Progress Series 560: 57-72.

Sato, M., J. K. Horne, S. L. Parker-Stetter, and J. E. Keister. 2015. Acoustic classification of coexisting taxa in a coastal ecosystem. Fisheries Research 172: 130-136.

Sato, M., J. M. Klymak, E. Kunze, R. Dewey, and J. F. Dower. 2014. Turbulence and internal waves in Patricia Bay, Saanich Inlet, British Columbia. Continental Shelf Research 85: 153-167.

Sato, M., J. Dower, E. Kunze, and R. Dewey. 2013. Second-order seasonal variability in diel vertical migration timing of euphausiids in a coastal inlet. Marine Ecology Progress Series 480: 39-56.

Borstad, G., L. Brown, M. Sato, D. Lemon, R. Kerr, and P. Willis. 2010. Long zooplankton time series with high temporal and spatial resolution. Oceans 2010 MTS/IEEE Seattle, 9 pp. DOI: 10.1109/OCEANS.2010.5664585.

Sato, M. and P.A. Jumars. 2008. Seasonal and vertical variations in emergence behaviors of Neomysis americana. Limnology and Oceanography 53: 1665-1677.

Sato, M. and H. Yamazaki. 2008. Estimating micro-scale intermittency of fluorescence fields from conventional CTD measurements. Journal of Marine Systems 70: 240-247.

Sato, M. and G.C. Jensen. 2005. Shell selection by hermit crab, Pagurus hartae (Mclaughlin & Jensen, 1996) (Decapoda, Anomura). Crustaceana 78: 755-760.

Highlighted publication

  • Mei Sato was featured in a short autobiographical-scientific piece on Building Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Ocean Sciences. This special issue (Kappel et al. 2023) includes ocean scientists from diverse backgrounds to inspire the next generation.