Concerns regarding the climatic implications of the increase in atmospheric CO2 concentrations throughout the anthropocene have provided the impetus to obtain a mechanistic understanding of oceanic processes and their role in regulating atmospheric pCO2. One important mechanism …
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Kuwait Bay presents a unique ecosystem and a significant nursery ground for many fish and shrimp species. In the last three decades, the bay has been under pressure from urbanization as well as from development from the entire region of the Arabian Gulf. Seawater temperature has…
Iron represents an important control on primary production in high nutrient low chlorophyll (HNLC) regimes and has received considerably attention during the last two decades. This work has focussed on the biogeochemistry of iron in two oceanic environments; the high latitude No…
Numerical modelling of the marine ecosystem requires the aggregation of diverse chemical and biological species into broad categories. To avoid large bias errors it is preferable to resolve as many explicit state variables and processes as possible. The cost of this increased co…
The ocean current system off Southern Greenland is a key component of the Earth’s climate system due to its role in the regulation of the global thermohaline circulation. A combination of historic and new observational data, supported by modelling simulations, has revealed great…
A new methodology to estimate the turbulent air – sea heat and moisture fluxes and their uncertainty is developed and assessed using Voluntary Observing Ship (VOS) observations. Whilst important drivers of the global oceanic and atmospheric circulation these fluxes remain poorly…
Blooms of toxic, or otherwise harmful phytoplankton species are known to occur in eastern boundary upwelling systems, coincident with the relaxation of upwelling in late summer/autumn. Field studies were carried out in 3 consecutive summers (March/April 06-08) in the Benguela an…
Knowledge of the distribution and concentration of phytoplankton (microscopic algae that live in the oceans) is important, as this reflects and may modify environmentally important events such as pollution, climate change and carbon dioxide sequestration. Optical based flow cyto…
Various sensors and instruments were developed to measure the chemical and physical properties of sea water, but many are expensive and too large to be used on mass deployed vehicles such as the Argo float and submersed gliders. Marine mammal and fish tags require further sensor…
Throughout 2003 and 2004 continuous autonomous observations of surface temperature, conductivity and chlorophyll fluorescence were recorded on the P&O "Pride of Bilbao" ferry between Portsmouth, UK and Bilbao Spain. Different conditions over the shelf, slope and deep waters alon…
Rifted continental margins and extensional basins, provide lasting records of the processes that occur during continental break-up and initial spreading. The eastern Black Sea (EBS) basin provides a good setting to study the development of continental margins, because of ongoing…
Rifting is the process that leads to the formation of oceans. Rifting is the break up of continents, leading to the formation of new oceanic floor between the two continental plates. Although the concept of continental rifting is accepted within the scientific community, it is s…
The provenance and transport of sand has been investigated around Lido Inlet, the largest of three tidal inlets in Venice Lagoon, Italy. Morphological analysis has established the presence of an ebb-tidal delta extending from the mouth of Lido Inlet as well as other features typ…
Taxonomy and temporal variability of deep-sea polychaete assemblages was assessed over a 9-year period. Macrofauna 300 μm fraction samples, taken with USNEL box core (0.25 m2), were studied from Porcupine Abyssal Plain, NE Atlantic Ocean from 8 cruises between August 1989 and Se…