Alex Herman
email: HermanA@mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca
Address: Bedford Institute of Oceanography - Ocean Physics - DFO
1 Challenger Drive
Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada   B2Y 4A2
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Herman, A.W. 1975. Chlorophyll and Dye Detection with the Variosens Fluorometer. BIO Report Series, BI-R-75-2, 33 pp.

Herman, A.W., P. Jollymore, and E.F. Phillips. 1975. Bottom Avoidance System for 'Batfish'. BIO Report Series, BI-R-75-3, 9 pp.

Herman, A.W. and K.L. Denman. 1976. Rapid Underway Profiling of Chlorophyll with an In Situ Fluorometer Mounted on a Batfish Vehicle. Deep-Sea Research, 24, 385-397.

Denman, K.L., P.E. Vandall, A.W. Herman, and F. Jordan. 1977. Shipboard Observations for the Chlorophyll Remote Sensing Experiment off Yarmouth, N.S., August 1975. Fisheries and Marine Service Technical Report No. 706, 35 pp.

Herman, A.W. 1977. In Situ Chlorophyll and Plankton Measurements with the Batfish Vehicle. MTS-IEEE Oceans '77 Conference Record. Session 39D, 1-5.

Denman, K.L. and A.W. Herman. 1978. Space-Time Structure of a Continental Shelf Ecosystem Measured by a Towed Porpoising Vehicle. Journal of Marine Research, 36, 693-714.

Herman, A.W. and T.M. Dauphinee. 1979. Continuous and Rapid Profiling of Zooplankton with an Electronic Mounted on a 'Batfish' Vehicle. Deep-Sea Research, 27, 79-96.

Herman, A.W. and K.L. Denman. 1979. Intrusions and Vertical Mixing at the Shelf/Slope Water Front South of Nova Scotia. Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada, 36, 1445-1453.

Herman, A.W. and T. Platt. 1980. Mesoscale Spatial Distribution of Plankton: Co-Evolution of Concepts and Instrumentation. In: Oceanography the Past. Eds. M. Sears and D. Merriman, Springer-Verlag, N.Y., 204-225.

Herman, A.W. and M. Mitchell. 1981. Counting and Identifying Copepod Species with an In Situ Electronic Zooplankton Countger. Deep-Sea Research, 28, 739-755.

Herman, A.W., D.D. Sameoto, and A.R. Longhurst. 1981. Vertical and Horizontal Distribution Patterns of Copepoods near the Shelf Break South of Nova Scotia. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 38(9), 1065-1076.

Longhurst, A.R. and A.W. Herman. 1981. Do Oceanic Zooplankton Agrregate at, or near, the Deep Chlorophyll Maximum? Journal of Marine Research, 39, 353-356.

Herman, A.W. 1982. Spatial and Temporal Variability of Chlorophyll Distributions and Geostrophic Current Estimates on the Peru Shelf at 9oS. Journal of Marine Research, 40, 185-207.

Herman, A.W. 1983. "Batfish Vehicle" and "Salinometers". Articles for the Canadian Encyclopedia, Edmonton, Alberta.

Smith, P.C., V. Evans Chamagne, A.S. Bennett, and A.W. Herman. 1983. Batfish Sections near the Edge of the Scotia Shelf, 1976-77. Canadian Technical Report of Hydrography and Ocean Sciences, No. 1, 159 pp.

Herman, A.W. and T. Platt. 1983. Numerical Modelling of Diel Carbon Production and Zooplankton Grazing on the Scotian Shelf Based on Observational Data. Ecological Modelling, 18, 55-72.

Platt, T. and A.W. Herman. 1983. Remote Sensing of Phytoplankton in the Sea: Surface-Layer Chlorophyll as an Estimate of Water Column Chlorophyll and Primary Production. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 4(2), 343-351.

Herman, A.W. 1983. Vertical Patterns of Copepods, Chlorophyll, and Production in Northeastern Baffin Bay. Limnology and Oceanography, 28, 709-719.

Longhurst, A.R., D.D. Sameoto, A.W. Herman. 1984. Vertical Distribution of Arctic Zooplankton in Summer. Journal of Plankton Research, 6(1), 137-168.

Herman, A.W., M.R. Mitchell, and S.W. Young. 1984. A Continuous Pump Sampler System for Profiling Copepods and Chlorophyll in the Upper Oceanic Layers. Deep-Sea Research, 31(4), 439-450.

Herman, A.W. 1984. Vertical Copepod Aggregations and Interactions with Chlorophyll and Production on the Peru Shelf. Continental Shelf Research, 3(2), 131-146.

Herman, A.W. 1985. Biological Profiling in the Upper Oceanic Layers with a Batfish Vehicle: A Review of Applications. In: Mapping Strategies in Chemical Oceanography: Advances in Chemistry Series, Vol. 209, Chapter 15, 1985. Ed.: A. Zorino, 293-309.

Sameoto, D., N.A. Cochrane, and A.W. Herman. 1985. Response of Biological Acoustic Backscattering to Ships' Lights. Canadian Journal of Fisheries & Aquatic Sciences, 42(9), 1535-1543.

Herman, A.W. 1985. A Comparison of Continuous Measurements and Point Sampling Strategies for Measuring Changes in Large Marine Ecosystems. American Association for Advancement of Science Series. In: Variability and Management of Large Marine Ecosystems, 175-202. Eds.: K. Sherman and L.M. Alexander.

Snow, J.W., B.E. Paton, and A.W. Herman. 1986. A Fibre Optic Remote Sensing Head for In Situ Chlorophyll-a Fluorescence Measurement in Phytoplankton. Proceedings of Society of Photoptical Instrumentation Engineers Conference, Quebec, January 1986. (Abstract only).

Snow, J.W., J.B. Mackay, B.E. Paton, and A.W. Herman. 1986. Fibre Optic Remote Sensing for In Situ Measurement of Marine Optical Properties. Oceans '86, Washington.

Snow, J.W., B.E. Paton, and A.W. Herman. 1986. A Fibre-Optic Remote Sensing Head for In Situ Chlorophyll a Fluorescent Measurement in Phytoplankton. Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Conference Proceedings, January 1986, Quebec City.

Herman, A.W. and T. Platt. 1986. Primary Production Profiles in the Ocean: Estimation from a Chlorophyll/Light Model. Oceanologica Acta, 9(1), 31-40.

Conover, R.J., A.W. Herman, S. Prinsenberg, and L. Harris. 1986. Distribution of, and Apparent Gorging by, the Copepod Pseudocalanus Under Fast Ice During the Arctic Spring. Science, 232, 1245-1247.

Herman, A.W. 1986. A New Optical Zooplankton Counter Measuring Simultaneous Profiles of Zooplankton and Light Attenuance. Proceedings of ASLO Winter Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 7-13, 1986. EOS, 67(44), 970. (Abstract only).

Sameoto, D., A. Herman, and A. Longhurst. 1986. Relations between Meso-and Microzooplankton Chlorophyll a and Primary Distributions in Lancaster Sound. Polar Biology, 6, 53-61.

Cochrane, N.A., D. Sameoto, and A.W. Herman. 1987. Multichannel False Color Echograms as a Biological Interpretative Tool. In: Progress in Underwater Acoustics. Ed.: Harole M. Merklinger. Plenum Publishing Corporation. Proceedings of 12th ICA Associated Symposium on Underwater Acoustics, July 1986, Halifax, N.S., 129-135.

Herman, A. and A. Longhurst. 1987. Biological Sensors - The Search for Spatial Pattern. BIO Review '86, 4-8.

Herman, A.W. 1988. Simultaneous Measurement of Zooplankton and Light Attenuance with a New Optical Plankton Counter. Continental Shelf Research, 8(2), 205-221.

Fowler, G.A., D.F. Knox, A. Herman, S. Prinsenberg. 1989. Systems Employed by Bedford Institute of Oceanography for Sea Ice Data Collection. IEEE Polar Regions Workshop Procedures.

Herman, A.W. 1989. Biological Instrumentation for Under-Ice Studies in the Arctic. Science Review 1987.

Herman, A. 1989. Vertical Relationships Between Chlorophyll, Production, and Copepods in the Eastern Tropical Pacific. Journal of Plankton Research, 1(2), 243-261.

Smith, R.E., W.G. Harrison, L.R. Harris, and A.W. Herman. 1990. Vertical Fine Structure of Particulate Matter and Nutrients in Sea Ice of the High Arctic. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 47(7), 1348-1355.

Sameoto, D.D. and A.W. Herman. 1990. Life Cycle and Production of C. finmarchicus in Deep Basins on the Nova Scotia Shelf and Seasonal Changes in Calamus spp. Marine Ecology Progress, Series, 66, 225-237.

Cochrane, N.A., D. Sameoto, A.W. Herman, and J. Neilson. 1991. Multiple-Frequency Acoustic Backscattering and Zooplankton Aggregations in the Inner Scotian Shelf Basins. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, Vol. 48, No. 3, 340-355.

Herman, A.W., D.D. Sameoto, C. Shunnian, M.R. Mitchell, B. Petrie, and N. Cochrane. 1991. Sources of Zooplankton on the Nova Scotia Shelf and their Aggregations within Deep-Shelf Basins. Continental Shelf Research, Vol. 11, No. 3, 211-238.

Smith, R.E.H. and A.W. Herman. 1991. Productivity of Sea Ice Algae: in situ vs. Incubator Methods. J. Mar. Sys. 2, No. 1-2, 97-110.

Herman, A.W. 1992. Design and Calibration of a New Optical Plankton Counter Capable of Sizing Small Zooplankton. Deep-Sea Research, 39, 395-415.

Herman, Alex W., N.A. Cochrane and D.D. Sameoto. 1993. Detection and Abundance Estimation of Euphausiids Using an Optical Plankton Counter. Marine Ecology Progress Series, Vol. 94, 165-173.

Herman, A.W., D.F. Knox, J. Conrad, and M.R. Mitchell. 1993. Instruments for Measuring Subice Algal Profiles and Productivity in situ. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci., 50, No. 2, 359-369.

Sameoto, D., N. Cochrane and A. Herman. 1993. Convergence of Acoustic, Optical, and Net-catch Estimates of Euphausiid Abundance: Use of Artificial Light to Reduce Net Avoidance. Can. J. Fish. Aqua. Sci., 50(2), 334-346. 1

Herman, A.W. 1994. Emerging Technologies in Biological Sampling. UNESCO Technical Papers in Marine Science - SCOR Working Group 90, 1-48. Marine Sciences Publications, UNESCO, Paris.

Ortner, P.B., S.R. Cummings, A.W. Herman and D.M. Checkley. (1997) "Smart-Sampling" of marine plankton: integrating optical particle counting and video technology. Under review Journal Plankton Research

Drinkwater, K.F., D.B. Mountain, A.W. Herman. 1998. Recent changes in the hydrography of the Scotian Shelf and the Gulf of Main. A return to the conditions of the 1960's? NAFO SCR Doc. 98/37, 16p.

Sameoto, D., N. Cochrane, A. Herman, E. Head, and M.K. Kennedy. 1998. State of Zooplankton in the Scotian Shelf, 1997. Canadian Stock Assessment Secretariat Research Document. 98/130.

Therriault, J.C., B. Petrie, P. Pepin, J. Gagnon, D. Gregory, J. Helbig, A. Herman, d. Lefaivre, M. Mitchell, B. Pelchat, J. Runge, and D. Sameoto. 1998. Proposal for a Northwest Atlantic Zonal Monitoring Program. Canadian Technology Report. Ocean Sciences, 194: vii + p. 57.

Drinkwater, Ken, D.B. Mountain, A.W. Herman. 1998. Recent Changes in the Hydrography of the Scotian Shelf and the Gulf of Maine - A Return to the Conditions of the 1960's? NAFO SCR Doc. 98/37, p. 16.

Sprules, W.G., E.H. Jin, A.W. Herman, and J.D. Stockwell. 1998. Calibration of an optical plankton counter for use in freshwater, 28 pp., refereed. Limnology and Oceanography 43: 726-733.

Herman, Alex. 2000. Sampling Characteristics of Vertical Towed Plankton Nets and Intercomparison With An Optical Plankton Counter. Journal of Plankton Research-under review.

Herman, A.W., B. Beanlands, M.Chin-Yee, A.Furlong,J.Snow, S.Young, T.Phillips. (1998) The Moving Vessel Profiler (MVP): in-situ sampling of plankton and physical parameters at 12 kts and integration of a new laser/optical plankton counter. Oceanology 98 Vol. 102: 123-135.

Cochrane, N.A., D.D. Sameoto, and A.W. Herman. 2000. Scotian Shelf Euphausiid and Silver Hake Population Changes During 1984-1996 Measured by Multi-frequency Acoustics. ICES J. Mar. Sci., 57: 122-132.

Herman, A.W., and M.R. Mitchell. 2000. Zooplankton Sampling and Variability. BIO AZMP Research Document Part I.

Herman, A.W. (2001) A Review of the Optical Plankton Counter and an Introduction to the next Generation of Laser- Optical Plankton Counters. An International Global Oceans Ecosystem Dynamics (GLOBEC) Program Report of Optical Plankton Counter Workshop. Tromso, Norway, June 17-20, 2001, pp. 4-7.

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