Stephen Monismith

About

Stephen Monismith is the Obayashi Professor in the School of Engineering and a Professor of Oceans at Stanford University. His role involves research and teaching in the field of civil and environmental engineering, with a specific focus on ocean-related studies. As a senior faculty member, he contributes to advancing knowledge in his area of expertise, although the specific details of his research focus and key contributions are not provided in the page text.

Research topics

• Biology
• Ecology
• Physics
• Oceanography
• Geology
• Environmental science
• Environmental health
• Mechanics

Selected publications

• Turbulence and Coral Reefs

  Annual Review of Marine Science · 2020 · 75 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  The interaction of coral reefs, both chemically and physically, with the surrounding seawater is governed, at the smallest scales, by turbulence. Here, we review recent progress in understanding turbulence in the unique setting of coral reefs-how it influences flow and the exchange of mass and momentum both above and within the complex geometry of coral reef canopies. Flow above reefs diverges from canonical rough boundary layers due to their large and highly heterogeneous roughness and the infl…

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• Synergistic interactions among growing stressors increase risk to an Arctic ecosystem

  Nature Communications · 2020 · 55 citations

  Oceans provide critical ecosystem services, but are subject to a growing number of external pressures, including overfishing, pollution, habitat destruction, and climate change. Current models typically treat stressors on species and ecosystems independently, though in reality, stressors often interact in ways that are not well understood. Here, we use a network interaction model (OSIRIS) to explicitly study stressor interactions in the Chukchi Sea (Arctic Ocean) due to its extensive climate-dri…

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• Ocean acidification causes variable trait‐shifts in a coral species

  Global Change Biology · 2020 · 50 citations

  environments, making this system a powerful candidate for investigating acclimatization and local adaptation of organisms to global environmental change.

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• Social-ecological vulnerability to environmental extremes and adaptation pathways in small-scale fisheries of the southern California Current

  Frontiers in Marine Science · 2024-02-08 · 25 citations

  articleOpen access

  Coastal ecosystems and human communities are threatened worldwide by climate change, and shocks from social, market and political change. There is an urgent global need to promote resilient food production and livelihoods in the face of these shocks. Small-scale fisheries (SSF) in rural settings can be particularly vulnerable as they frequently lack the resources, rights and infrastructure to respond to shocks originating outside the focal systems. We examined ecological and social outcomes of e…

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• Linking multiple stressor science to policy opportunities through network modeling

  Marine Policy · 2022-10-01 · 19 citations

  articleOpen access

  Global climate change and a suite of other human-generated stressors are causing significant changes in the world’s oceans. Ocean stressors combine and interact, and when there are multiple stressors, the interactions are often synergistic – the combined impact is greater than the sum of their individual effects. Synergistic interactions yield non-linear impacts, which means that failure to account for synergies may vastly underestimate risk. However, most management decisions do not take accoun…

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Recent grants

• Turbulent mixing by nearshore internal bores

  NSF · $231k · 2012–2015

• Collaborative Research: Coupled Carbon and Phosphorus Cycling

  NSF · $368k · 2005–2009

• Collaborative Research: Turbulent fluxes and boundary layer structure due to near-shore internal tides

  NSF · $759k · 2009–2013

Frequent coauthors

• Jeffrey R. Koseff

  Mechanics' Institute

  133 shared

• Derek A. Fong

  California Public Utilities Commission

  64 shared

• Mark T. Stacey

  University of California, Berkeley

  60 shared

• Oliver B. Fringer

  Stanford University

  58 shared

• C. Brock Woodson

  University of Georgia

  49 shared

• Kristen A. Davis

  Stanford University

  42 shared

• Robert B. Dunbar

  Stanford University

  40 shared

• Geno Pawlak

  Scripps Institution of Oceanography

  40 shared

Education

• Ph.D., Civil Engineering

  Stanford University

  1992

• M.S., Civil Engineering

  University of California, Berkeley

  1987

• B.S., Civil Engineering

  University of California, Berkeley

  1985

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• Peter K. Kitanidish-73
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