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Sonke JohnsenSonke Johnsen
Associate Professor

  • PhD University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1996
  • BA with Distinction (highest honor) Swarthmore College, 1988
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    301 Bio Sci
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    Research Interests: Comparative physiology; focusing on vision, crypsis, optics, and bioluminescence in the open ocean

    Recent Publications   (More Publications)   (search)

    1. S. Johnsen and Kenneth Lohmann, A Needle in a Haystack: The Physics of Magnetoreception in Animals, Physics Today (Submitted, 2007) .
    2. S. Johnsen, Does new technology inspire new directions? Examples drawn from pelagic visual ecology., Integrative and Comparative Biology, vol. 47 (2007), pp. 799-807 .
    3. Cummings, M. M. and S. Johnsen, Light in the rocky shores, in Encyclopedia of Tidepools and Rocky Shores, edited by M. Denny and S. Gaines Eds. (2007), pp. 327-331, University of California Press. .
    4. Martin, C. H. and S. Johnsen, A Field Test of the Hamilton-Zuk Hypothesis in the Trinidadian guppy (Poecilia reticulata), Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, vol. 61 (2007), pp. 1897-1909 .
    5. Sweeney, A. M., Des Marais, D. L., Ban, Y. A. and S. Johnsen, Evolution of Graded Refractive Index in Squid Lenses, Journal of the Royal Society Interface, vol. 4 (2007), pp. 685-698 .