Select Pubs

  • Mantua, N.J.: Methods for detecting regime shifts in large marine ecosystems: a review with approaches applied to North Pacific data. 2004. Progress in Oceanography, vol. 60, nos. 2-4:165-182.
  • Mantua, N.J., and R.C. Francis. 2004: Natural climate insurance for Pacific northwest salmon and salmon fisheries: finding our way through the entangled bank. E.E. Knudsen and D. MacDonald (editors). Sustainable Management of North American Fisheries. American Fisheries Society Symposium 43:127-140.
  • Logerwell, E.A., N.J. Mantua, P. Lawson, R.C. Francis, and V. Agostini. 2003: Tracking environmental processes in the coastal zone for understanding and predicting Oregon coho (Oncorhynchus kisutch) marine survival. Fisheries Oceanography, 12(3): 1-15.
  • Hare, S.R. and N.J. Mantua. 2000: Empirical evidence for North Pacific regime shifts in 1977 and 1989. Progress in Oceanography. Vol 47: 103-145.
  • Mantua, N.J. and S.R. Hare, Y. Zhang, J.M. Wallace, and R.C. Francis. 1997: A Pacific interdecadal climate oscillation with impacts on salmon production. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 78, pp. 1069-1079.

Current undergraduate and prospective graduate students may contact this person about availability as a faculty advisor.

My current research and teaching focus on climate impacts on ecosystems and society, and the applications of science to resource management.

A significant part of my research has been focused on documenting the human and ecosystem dimensions of climate variability for the Pacific Northwest region. Floods, droughts, snowpack, temperature and streamflow, each of these aspects of climate impact the natural resources of the Pacific Northwest. Since 1995 I've been part of the UW's Climate Impacts Group (http://www.cses.washington.edu/cig) an on-campus interdisciplinary research team that has worked very hard to establish an ongoing dialogue with people in resource industries that might benefit from the "state-of-the art" in climate monitoring and prediction. This project is one of the first of its kind, involving researchers in forestry, fisheries, atmospheric sciences, marine affairs, and hydrology. We are funded by NOAA's Office of Global Programs as part of the Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments (RISA) program.