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Prof Eric Achterberg

Role/area of expertise

Marine Biogeochemistry

Location & Contact Details

Location:

Southampton

Telephone Extension:

23199

Office / Desk Location:

164/01

Affiliation:

SOES

Prof Eric Achterberg

Profile

The field of my research activities is related to Global Change and Ecosystem Functioning. The research is approached from two directions: field measurements and laboratory studies. The research is interdisciplinary and undertaken in collaboration with national (e.g. MBA, PML, BAS, Universities of Birmingham, Essex, Liverpool, Plymouth, East Anglia, Reading) and international partners (e.g. in Australia, Belgium, China, Egypt, France, Germany, Italy, Kuwait, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands, US). . Open Ocean Biogeochemistry My main open ocean research interest lies in the study of trace metal, nutrient and carbon distribution, behaviour and speciation and the interactions with geochemical and biological processes. Current programmes that we are involved in: . UK SOLAS (influence of Saharan dust inputs on microbial communities in N Atlantic) . Atlantic Meridional Transect Study (Fe, carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus biogeochemistry and nutrient limitation) . Extended Ellett Line programme (Fe biogeochemistry and limitation) . Southern Ocean BAS programme (Fe biogeochemistry and nutrient limitation) . 36ºN consortium (DOC and DON biogeochemistry; with Liverpool) . Fe uptake by marine phytoplankton (with MBA) . UK SOLAS (air-sea exchange of climatically important gases; with PML) . Marie Curie Post-DOC programme (role of sulphur compounds (thiols) in metal regulation by phytoplankton) . Ocean acidification (with UEA and PML)

Membership of Committees and Boards

Member of SCOR/IUPAC Workgroup 109 on dissolved Fe measurements in seawater (2001-). Council Member of Challenger Society for Marine Science (2002-2005). External examinare for Undergraduate Ocean Science degree, University of Liverpool NERC Peer Review College Member

Links to further information on specialist area or projects

AMT project

SOLAS project

36 N project

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Personal Web Page

Latest Publications for Prof Eric Achterberg

Hinz, D.J., Nielsdóttir, M.C., Korb, R.E., Whitehouse, M.J., Poulton, A.J., Moore, C.M., Achterberg, E.P. and Bibby, T.S. (2012) Responses of microplankton community structure to iron addition in the Scotia Sea. Deep Sea Research Part II Topical Studies in Oceanography, 59-60, 36-46. (doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2011.08.006)

Hinz, D.J., Poulton, A.J., Nielsdóttir, M.C., Steigenberger, S., Korb, R.E., Achterberg, E.P. and Bibby, T.S. (2012) Comparative seasonal biogeography of mineralising nannoplankton in the Scotia Sea: Emiliania huxleyi, Fragilariopsis spp. and Tetraparma pelagica. Deep Sea Research Part II Topical Studies in Oceanography, 59-60, 57-66. (doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2011.09.002)

Nielsdóttir, Maria C., Bibby, Thomas S., Moore, C. Mark, Hinz, Daria J., Sanders, Richard, Whithouse, Michael, Korb, Rebecca and Achterberg, Eric P. (2012) Seasonal and spatial dynamics of iron availability in the Scotia Sea. Marine Chemistry, 130–131, 62-72. (doi:10.1016/j.marchem.2011.12.004)

Kawakami, Silvia K. and Achterberg, Eric P. (2012) Particulate thiol peptides along a salinity gradient of a metal-contaminated estuary. Estuaries and Coasts, 35, (2), 658-664. (doi:10.1007/s12237-011-9451-1)

Riley, J.S., Sanders, R., Marsay, C., Le Moigne, F.A.C., Achterberg, E.P. and Poulton, A.J. (2012) The relative contribution of fast and slow sinking particles to ocean carbon export. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 26, (1), GB1026. (doi:10.1029/2011GB004085)

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