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
Baker A
(2017)
Atmospheric deposition of soluble trace elements along the Atlantic Meridional Transect (AMT)
in Progress in Oceanography
Baker A
(2020)
Trace Metal Fractional Solubility in Size-Segregated Aerosols From the Tropical Eastern Atlantic Ocean
in Global Biogeochemical Cycles
Baker A
(2010)
Estimation of atmospheric nutrient inputs to the Atlantic Ocean from 50°N to 50°S based on large-scale field sampling: Fixed nitrogen and dry deposition of phosphorus
in Global Biogeochemical Cycles
Cape J
(2011)
Organic nitrogen in the atmosphere - Where does it come from? A review of sources and methods
in Atmospheric Research
Duce RA
(2008)
Impacts of atmospheric anthropogenic nitrogen on the open ocean.
in Science (New York, N.Y.)
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
| Description | atmospheric inputs significantly affect ocean productivity primarily via deposition of dust and associated iron and nitrogen |
| Exploitation Route | further research |
| Sectors | Energy Environment |