Timothy R. Parsons

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Timothy R. Parsons

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Timothy R. Parsons's Degrees

PhD Oceanography University of British Columbia
Masters Oceanography University of British Columbia
Bachelors Physics University of British Columbia

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According to Wikipedia, Timothy Richard Parsons, was a Canadian oceanographer and the first Canadian to receive a Japan Prize. Background and career Tim Parsons was born in Colombo, Ceylon, and received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1953, a Master of Science degree in 1955, and a Ph.D. in 1958 all, from McGill University. He began his research career at the federal government's Pacific Biological Station in Nanaimo, British Columbia, before becoming a Professor of Oceanography at the University of British Columbia from 1972 until his retirement in 1992, and subsequently an Honorary Research Scientist at the Institute of Ocean Sciences in Sidney, British Columbia, Canada.

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A practical handbook of seawater analysis (1968) (12097)
A manual of chemical and biological methods for seawater analysis (1984) (6898)
Biological Oceanographic Processes (1973) (1544)
A manual of sea water analysis (1960) (766)
Biological Oceanography: An Introduction (1995) (756)
Discussion of spectrophotometric determination of marine-plant pigments, with revised equations for ascertaining chlorophylls and carotenoids (1963) (572)
On the Pigment Composition of Eleven Species of Marine Phytoplankters (1961) (490)
FURTHER MEASUREMENTS OF PRIMARY PRODUCTION USING A LARGE-VOLUME PLASTIC SPHERE (1963) (396)
On the production of particulate organic carbon by heterotrophic processes in sea water (1961) (251)
Some Observations on the Dependence of Zooplankton Grazing on the Cell Size and Concentration of Phytoplankton Blooms (1967) (213)
A Continuous Size Spectrum for Particulate Matter in the Sea (1967) (213)
Comparative oceanic ecology of the plankton communities of the subarctic Atlantic and Pacific oceans (1988) (200)
Review of the Biological Oceanography of the Strait of Georgia: Pelagic Environment (1983) (192)
MEASUREMENTS OF PRIMARY PRODUCTION IN COASTAL SEA WATER USING A LARGE‐VOLUME PLASTIC SPHERE (1961) (134)
ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL OF PHYTOPLANKTON CELL SIZE (1973) (132)
Production studies in the strait of Georgia. Part II. Secondary production under the Fraser River plume, February to May, 1967 (1969) (119)
1.1 – Determination of Nitrate (1984) (118)
Relationship Between Cytoplasmic Distribution of Mercury and Toxic Effects to Zooplankton and Chum Salmon (Oncorhynchus keta) Exposed to Mercury in a Controlled Ecosystem (1978) (115)
Primary Productivity and Fertility at Station “P” in the North-East Pacific Ocean (1960) (95)
An experimental simulation of changes in diatom and flagellate blooms (1978) (95)
4.1 – Determination of Chlorophylls and Total Carotenoids: Spectrophotometric Method (1984) (94)
δ13C‐δ15N values as indicators of trophic position and competitive overlap for Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.) (1993) (89)
Biological oceanography: an introduction. Second edition (1997) (79)
The removal of marine predators by fisheries and the impact of trophic structure (1992) (76)
The Wildlife Community of Iona Island Jetty, Vancouver, B.C., and Heavy-metal Pollution Effects (1977) (72)
ON THE OCCURRENCE AND FORMATION OF SMALL PARTICLES IN SEAWATER (1967) (72)
Levels of Production in the Pelagic Environment of the Strait of Georgia, British Columbia: A Review (1970) (72)
OBSERVATIONS ON THE DECOMPOSITION OF A MARINE SEDIMENT (1968) (70)
Fisheries oceanography : an integrative approach to fisheries ecology and management (1999) (68)
Stability of enriched aquatic ecosystems. (1972) (67)
Frontal zone analysis at the mouth of Saanich Inlet, British Columbia, Canada (1983) (67)
Scaling Fisheries: the science of measuring the effects of fishing, 1855–1955 (1995) (65)
CHAPTER 5 – BIOLOGICAL CYCLES (1984) (63)
The effect of glucose on the productivity of seawater: An experimental approach using controlled aquatic ecosystems (1981) (63)
Simulation study of phytoplankton photosynthesis and growth in the Fraser River estuary (1973) (60)
Seasonal Variations in the Availability of Food for Benthos in a Coastal Environment. (1967) (59)
1.2 – Determination of Nitrite (1984) (59)
The Effects of Crude Oil and Corexit 9527 on Marine Phytoplankton in an Experimental Enclosure (1986) (57)
Suspended organic matter in sea water (1963) (54)
The Use of Particle Size Spectra in Determining the Structure of a Plankton Community (1969) (53)
DISTRIBUTION OF CHLOROPHYLL a AND DEGRADATION PRODUCTS IN VARIOUS MARINE MATERIALS (1963) (51)
4.3 – Fluorometric Determination of Chlorophylls (1984) (51)
Microbial response to crude oil and Corexit 9527: SEAFLUXES enclosure study (1985) (47)
The Impact of Industrial Fisheries on the Trophic Structure of Marine Ecosystems (1996) (47)
Autotrophic and heterotrophic production in the Mackenzie river/Beaufort Sea estuary (1989) (45)
Nitrate distribution in the subarctic Northeast Pacific Ocean (1969) (45)
Tidal Mixing and Summer Plankton Distributions in Hecate Strait, British Columbia (1983) (42)
The Advent of the Spring Bloom in the Eastern Subarctic Pacific Ocean (1966) (40)
Production studies in the Mackenzie River — Beaufort Sea estuary (2004) (40)
The distribution of organic carbon in a marine planktonic food web following nutrient enrichment (1977) (38)
Mixing an enclosed, 1300m3 water column: effects on the planktonic food web (1979) (37)
Energy utilization and evolution (1981) (35)
1.6 – Determination of Phosphate (1984) (34)
Photosynthesis and fish production: Hypothetical effects of climatic change and pollution (1977) (33)
A discussion of some critical indices of primary and secondary production for large-scale ocean surveys (1968) (33)
An experimental marine ecosystem response to crude oil and Corexit 9527: Part 2—Biological effects (1984) (33)
Trophodynamic phasing in theoretical, experimental aud natural pelagic ecosystems (1988) (33)
Production studies in the strait of Georgia. Part III. Observations on the food of larval and juvenile fish in the Fraser River plume, February to May, 1967 (1969) (31)
Did volcanic ash from Mt. Kasatoshi in 2008 contribute to a phenomenal increase in Fraser River sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) in 2010 (2012) (30)
Large scale studies of primary production in the North Pacific Ocean (1970) (27)
An ecosystem model for the assessment of plankton production in relation to the survival of young fish (1987) (27)
Carbon dioxide partial pressures in North Pacific surface waters — Time variations (1971) (23)
Tidal wake-mixing localized effects on primary production and zooplankton distributions in the Strait of Georgia, British Columbia (1992) (22)
Simulated annual plankton production in the northeastern Pacific Coastal Upwelling Domain (1993) (22)
The Future of Controlled Ecosystem Enclosure Experiments (1982) (21)
A manual of sea water analysis : with special reference to the more common micronutrients and to particulate crganic material (1965) (20)
Nutrient Cycling in Marine Ecosystems (1983) (19)
A rebuttal to the comment by Hecky and Kilham (1974) (19)
The effect of nutrient enrichment on the plankton community in enclosed water columns (1977) (19)
Computer Model Analysis of Pelagic Ecosystems in Estuarine Waters (1986) (18)
Preliminary Survey of Mercury and Other Metals Contained in Animals from the Fraser River Mudflats (1973) (18)
Metabolic Studies on the Amphipod Anisogammarus pugettensis in Relation to its Trophic Position in the Food Web of Young Salmonids (1975) (18)
Oceanic Detritus (1962) (17)
2.6 – Determination of Petroleum Hydrocarbons (1984) (17)
Some preliminary observations on the enhancement of phytoplankton growth by low levels of mineral hydrocarbons (1976) (17)
Pigments of the ciliate, mesodinium rubrum (Lohmann) (1968) (16)
Addition of Nutrients to a Lake Leads to Greatly Increased Catch of Salmon (1979) (16)
1.4 – Determination of Ammonia (Alternative Method) (1984) (15)
Controlled Ecosystem Pollution Experiment (CEPEX) (1974) (15)
The Comparative Ecology of a Subarctic and Tropical Estuarine Ecosystem as Measured with Carbon and Nitrogen Isotopes (1995) (15)
5.1 – Photosynthesis as Measured by the Uptake of Radioactive Carbon (1984) (14)
Proximate Analysis of Marine Standing Crops (1959) (14)
Estuarine microplankton: An experimental approach in combination with field studies (1985) (14)
Empirical analysis of the effect of temperature on marine harpacticoid copepod development time (1988) (14)
3.1 – Determination of Particulate Organic Carbon (1984) (14)
Controlled aquatic ecosystem experiments in ocean ecology research (1978) (13)
THE FERTILIZATION OF GREAT CENTRAL LAKE. I. EFFECT OF PRIMARY PRODUCTION (1972) (13)
Taking stock of fisheries management (1996) (12)
Impact of predation-disturbance by large epifauna on sediment-dwelling harpacticoid copepods: Field experiments in a subtidal seagrass bed (1991) (12)
6.1 – Direct Counting of Bacteria by Fluorescence Microscopy (1984) (12)
Frontal zone analysis at the mouth of a fjord — Jervis Inlet, British Columbia (1984) (11)
A comparison of four methods for integrating14C-primary productivity measurements per unit area (1980) (11)
Principles of Oceanography. (1978) (10)
The Spring Phytoplankton Bloom in the Coastal Temperate Ocean: Growth Criteria and Seeding from Shallow Embayments (2001) (10)
The use of controlled experimental ecosystems: A review (1981) (10)
AN AUTOMATED TECHNIQUE FOR DETERMINING THE GROWTH RATE OF CHAIN‐FORMING PHYTOPLANKTON (1965) (9)
Maximization of the standing stock and primary productivity of marine phytoplankton under natural conditions (1972) (9)
The cultivation of marine amphipods and their use as food for young Salmonids (1985) (9)
The new physical definition of salinity: Biologists beware (1982) (9)
Biological Oceanography in Canada: A Perspective and Review (1975) (8)
A simplified expression for calculating cohort production (1977) (8)
2.3 – Determination of Dissolved Combined Amino Acids by Fluorometric Analysis (1984) (7)
Impact of fish harvesting on ocean ecology (1991) (7)
A controlled ecosystem for the study of the food requirements of amphipod populations (1979) (7)
An experimental approach to estuarine microplankton ecology (1983) (7)
Studies on lipin-protein complexes: Lecithin-caseinogen complexes. (7)
INFECTION OF A MARINE DIATOM BY LAGENIDIUM SP. (1962) (6)
A historical perspective of biological studies in the ocean (1995) (6)
3.5 – Determination of Particulate Lipid (1984) (6)
8.2 – Artificial Seawater Media (1984) (6)
9.5 – Sigma-T Values (1984) (5)
7.3 – Determination of Sulfide (1984) (5)
CHAPTER 5 – ENERGY FLOW AND MINERAL CYCLING (1997) (5)
Laboratory Exercises in Oceanography (1978) (5)
Macroecological Studies of the Oceans (2003) (5)
3.4 – Determination of Total Particulate Amino Acids by Fluorometric Analysis (1984) (5)
The Use of Mathematical Models in Conjunction With Mesocosm Ecosystem Research (1990) (4)
COSTLOW, J. D. [ED.]. 1971. Fertility of the sea. Gordon and Breach, New York, Vol. 1, xi + p. 1-308. 19.50. Vol. 2, xi + p. 309-622. 14.50. (1972) (4)
Preliminary observations of the summer production of three British Columbian coastal inlets (1986) (4)
7.1 – Determination of Dissolved Oxygen (1984) (4)
9.1 – Oxygen Equivalents (Chemical and Biological) (1984) (4)
The Development of Biological Studies in the Ocean Environment (1980) (4)
Future needs for biological oceanographic studies in the Pacific Ocean (2004) (4)
CHAPTER 6 – BENTHIC COMMUNITIES (1984) (3)
A response to the comment by Malone (1975) (3)
The Control of Ecosystem Processes in the Sea (1974) (3)
4.4 – Fluorometric Determination of Phaeo-pigments (1984) (3)
CHAPTER 2 – CHEMICAL COMPOSITION (1984) (3)
CHAPTER 3 – PHYTOPLANKTON AND PRIMARY PRODUCTION (1997) (3)
CHAPTER 3 – THE PRIMARY FORMATION OF PARTICULATE MATERIALS (1984) (3)
The Sea's Enthrall: Memoirs of an Oceanographer (2004) (3)
4.2 – Spectrophotometric Determination of Phaeo-pigments (1984) (3)
Reply to comment by W. E. Ricker (1978) (3)
1.7 – Determination of Silicate (1984) (3)
4.5 – Automated Estimation of Chlorophyll Pigments (1984) (3)
CHAPTER 4 – PLANKTON FEEDING AND PRODUCTION (1984) (2)
CHAPTER 1 – DISTRIBUTIONS OF PLANKTON AND NUTRIENTS (1984) (2)
CHAPTER 7 – SOME PRACTICAL PROBLEMS IN BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY (1984) (2)
8.3 – Plankton Preservatives (1984) (2)
The Hydrogen Ion Concentration of the Blood in certain Pathological Conditions, as Determined by the Hydrogen Electrode and the Indirect Methods of Barcroft and Hasselbalch. (2)
On the effect of the Kasatoshi volcano on the large return of sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) to the Fraser River in 2010 (2014) (2)
ON THE USE OF 14C MEASUREMENTS OF PRIMARY PRODUCTION (2002) (2)
3.7 – Electronic Counting and Sizing of Particles (1984) (2)
On the Relationship Between Interannual Baroclinic Waves and Fish Populations in the Northeast Pacific (2013) (2)
Fundamentals of biochemistry : in relation to human physiology (1933) (2)
1.5 – Determination of Urea (1984) (2)
MARTIN, D. F. 1968. Marine chemistry. Volume 1: Analytical methods. Marcel Dekker, Inc. New York. 280 p. $5.75. (1968) (1)
Primary Production in a Tidally Energetic Fjord: Evidence of Seasonal and Inter-annual Tidal Forcing (1989) (1)
VOLLENWEIDER, R. A. [ED.]. 1969. A manual on methods for measuring primary production in aquatic environments. IBP Handbook No. 12. F. A. Davis Co., Philadelphia, Penn. 213 p. $8.90. (Also available from Blackwell Sci. Publ., Oxford. 45s.) (1970) (1)
1.3 – Determination of Ammonia (Oxidation Method) (1984) (1)
The traces of combustible gases in human expired air. (1)
CHAPTER 2 – THE ABIOTIC ENVIRONMENT (1997) (1)
Studies on protein hydrolysis. III.—The preparation and analysis of sulphurous acid hydrolysates of casein (1956) (1)
7.2 – Determination of Carbonate Alkalinity and Total Carbon Dioxide (all Forms) (1984) (1)
3.2 – Determination of Total Particulate Carbohydrate by Anthrone Reagent (1984) (1)
Symposium on the Fisheries and Oceanography of the Strait of Georgia (1983) (1)
MARTIN, D. F. 1972. Marine chemistry, v. l. Analytical methods. Marcel Dekker, New York. xi + 389 p. $9.50. (1973) (1)
2.4 – Determination of Total Dissolved Monosaccharides (1984) (1)
8.1 – Collection and Enumeration of Organisms (1984) (1)
CHAPTER 4 – ZOOPLANKTON (1997) (1)
On the Theory of the Barcroft Differential Blood-gas Apparatus. (1)
CHAPTER 7 – BENTHOS (1997) (1)
3.6 – Determination of Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP) in Particulate Material (1984) (1)
Practical Physical and Colloid Chemistry: for Students of Medicine and Biology (0)
CHAPTER 6 – NEKTON AND FISHERIES OCEANOGRAPHY (1997) (0)
6.2 – Heterotrophic Activity (as Measured by Glucose Uptake) (1984) (0)
9.2 – Energy Equivalents (1984) (0)
1.8 – Bioassay of Seawater for Vitamins: Vitamin B12 (Cyanocobalamin) (1984) (0)
Oceanography in the service of fisheries (2001) (0)
Coral reef ecology (1979) (0)
6.3 – Heterotrophic Growth (as Measured by Thymidine Uptake) (1984) (0)
Lectures, reading and examinations : being hints on taking notes at lectures with some suggestions on preparing for examinations (based on H.S. Morton's "Lectures and examinations") (0)
Primary Production in a Tidally Energetic Fjord: Environmental Forcing of Vertical Phytoplankton Distribution (1989) (0)
John Martin Award “Autotrophic Picoplankton in the Tropical Ocean” (2014) (0)
2.1 – Determination of Total Dissolved Organic Nitrogen (1984) (0)
2.5 – Determination of Total Dissolved Carbohydrates by MBTH Assay (1984) (0)
7.1.1 – Oxygen Standardization by Titration (1984) (0)
CHAPTER 8 – BENTHIC COMMUNITIES (1997) (0)
3.3 – Determination of Total Particulate Carbohydrate by MBTH Assay (1984) (0)
The materials life : a simple presentation of the science of biochemistry (0)
Biochemical response of the peritoneal mucosa to the irritant action of finely divided silica and other dusts. (1961) (0)
Effect of vertical mixing on ecosystem dynamics in large mesocosms (1992) (0)
9.3 – Carbon Equivalents (1984) (0)
8.2.1 – Culture Collections (1984) (0)
Chapter 15 Productivity of sea waters (1975) (0)
CHAPTER 9 – HUMAN IMPACTS ON MARINE BIOTA (1997) (0)
Impact of residential development of Laucala Bay and Suva Harbour, Fiji (1978) (0)
3.8 – Sinking Rate of Phytoplankton and Other Particulates (1984) (0)
9.4 – Metric Units and Equivalents (1984) (0)
Hanson, J. A. [Ed.]. 1974. Open sea mariculture. Perspectives, problems, and prospects. Dowden, Hutchinson & Ross, Inc. Strouds‐berg, Penn, xi + 410 p. $24.00. (1975) (0)

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