Earth System Science Theme Leader
Lead Research Organisation:
University of East Anglia
Department Name: Environmental Sciences
Abstract
This research has tow components. 1. The work will use ships of opportunity (ships engaged in other activities, commercial or research) as platforms to collect aerosol samples in remote regions of the ocean. The results will allow us to estimate how important atmospheric supply of key nutrients such as nitrogen, phosphorus and iron is to the productivity of the oceans, and how this may change in the future. 2. The work will look at what controls the cycling of the key nutrient nitrogen in the Northern North Sea and how this affects the productivity of phytoplankton which ultimately influences the production of fish.
Organisations
Publications
Shi Z
(2011)
Minor effect of physical size sorting on iron solubility of transported mineral dust
in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
Jickells T
(2014)
Nutrient transport through estuaries: The importance of the estuarine geography
in Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science
Cape J
(2011)
Organic nitrogen in the atmosphere - Where does it come from? A review of sources and methods
in Atmospheric Research
Pollard RT
(2009)
Southern Ocean deep-water carbon export enhanced by natural iron fertilization.
in Nature
Ducklow H
(2018)
Spring-summer net community production, new production, particle export and related water column biogeochemical processes in the marginal sea ice zone of the Western Antarctic Peninsula 2012-2014
in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
Jickells T
(2013)
The cycling of organic nitrogen through the atmosphere.
in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
Baker A
(2020)
Trace Metal Fractional Solubility in Size-Segregated Aerosols From the Tropical Eastern Atlantic Ocean
in Global Biogeochemical Cycles
Martino M
(2014)
Western Pacific atmospheric nutrient deposition fluxes, their impact on surface ocean productivity
in Global Biogeochemical Cycles
| Description | atmospheric inputs significantly affect ocean productivity primarily via deposition of dust and associated iron and nitrogen |
| Exploitation Route | further research |
| Sectors | Energy Environment |