SOEST Contribution List (as of August 6, 2026)

The following is a short list of publications recently assigned a SOEST number. For a longer list, please contact SOEST Publications (mizumi@hawaii.edu). The list is updated weekly.

12156     Quinlan, Z. A., L. C. McManus, and M. J. Donahue, 2026, Coral larval settlement preference for crustose coralline algae can enhance coral persistence and restoration success, Ecol. Appl., HIMB-2045 (accepted).

12157     Casselman, J. W., and C. Karamperidou, 2026, Efficiency-weighted cooling degree days reveal opposing temperature and humidity effects on energy demand, Nature Commun.,https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-8683958/v1 (in press).

12158     Peckenpaugh, J. G., M. Berrada, P. Jiang, and B. Chen, 2026, Elevated silicon content facilitates carbon precipitation within Mercury’s core, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta (in press).

12159     Chang, C-T., et al. [N. J. Wallsgrove, B. N. Popp], 2026, Marine heatwaves suppress nutrient utilization and reproductive flexibility in humpback whales, Science (accepted).

12160     Hagedorn, M., et al., 2026, Expanding astrobiology: A case for a lunar biorepository, New Space, HIMB-2048 (in press).

12161     Meyer, C., 2026, Recurrent and predictable species assemblages in a pelagic longline fishery, ICES J. Mar. Sci., HIMB-2049, doi: 10.1093/icesjms/fsag138 (accepted).

12162     Gayte, M., et al. [P.-S. Chu], 2026: Spatial and temporal patterns of extreme hourly rainfall in the Hawaiian Islands, Int. J. Climatol. (in press).

12163     Ellis, G. N., et al. [C. R. Smith, J. C. Drazen, E. Goetze], 2026, Along the benthic to holoplanktonic continuum: seafloor affinity increases distance-decay rates among abyssal communities, Global Ecol. Biogeogr. (accepted).

12164     Merges, H., D. M. Barnas, and N. J. Silbiger, 2026, Land-based inputs drive demographic feedbacks in a tropical brooding coral, Coral Reefs, HIMB-2051 (in press).

12165     Martineau, G., R. J. Toonen, M. A. Timmers, C. P. Jury, and J. Vicente, 2024, Novel 28S rRNA metabarcoding primer for improved assessment of coral reef biodiversity and their experimental validation using sponges, PeerJ (accepted).

12166     Barber-Meyer, S., et al. [L. Bejder, J. Currie, L. Evans, M. van Aswegen], 2026, Humpback highs and lows amid shifting seas and the Northeast Pacific marine heatwave: whale demographics in the Main Hawaiian Islands, 2002–2023, Mar. Mamm. Sci., HIMB-2052 (in press).

12167     Small, R. J., et al. [N. Schneider], 2023, Near-surface wind convergence over the Gulf Stream—The role of SST revisited, J. Climate, 36(16), 5527-5548, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-22-0441.1.

12168     Song, S.-Y., S. Stevenson, E. Di Lorenzo, M. Newman, A. Capotondi, and N. Schneider, 2026, North Pacific Model Biases Influence Kuroshio Extension Atmospheric Circulation Patterns, Geophys. Res. Lett., 53, e2025GL118765, https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GL118765.

12169     Wang, T., et al. [N. Schneider, B. Qiu, K. J. Richards], 2026, Differences between lighter and denser portions of Subtropical Mode Water in volume variations and thickness anomaly propagation, J. Geophys. Res., 131(3), e2025JC022375.

12170     Lacey, C., L. Bejder, W. F. Perrin, and B. Würsig, 2026, Spinner dolphin Stenella longirostris (Gray, 1828), Ridgway and Harrison’s Handbook of Marine Mammals, Volume 2: Oceanic Dolphins, Academic Press/Elsevier, HIMB-2053, p. 123-162.

12171     Reyes, C., and Z. Huang, 2026, An analytical study of a dual‐function oscillating water column with nonlinear power take‐off and a slotted supporting wall, Ocean Engineer. (accepted).

12172     Steadmon, M., J. Buchanan, M. Petelo, M. C. I. Medeiros, and K. L. Frank, 2026, The spatial and temporal distribution of Staphylococcus aureus along a tropical Hawaiian watershed, J. Environ. Qual.(accepted).

12173     Johnston, E. C., et al. [C. Drury], 2026, Origin and impacts of ploidy variation in the coral Pocillopora acuta in Hawai‘i, Molec. Biol. Evol., HIMB-2054 (accepted).

12174     Hasan, N. A., et al. [M. F. Stuecker], 2026, The role of tropical inter-basin interactions in initiating the 2020-2023 La Niña: A hindcast-based predictability study, Clim. Dyn. (accepted).

12175     Choi, H., et al. [B. N. Popp], 2026, Dietary records in cosmopolitan copepod Calanus spp. revealed large contribution of dinoflagellates in subarctic Pacific, Sci. Adv. (in press).