Publications by research area

NOC staff publications in selected science research area

2010

A mesoscale eddy driving spatial and temporal heterogeneity in the productivity of the euphotic zone of the northeast Atlantic

Does a ballast effect occur in the surface ocean?

The association between biogenic and inorganic minerals and the amino acid composition of settling particles

Phytopigments as biomarkers of selectivity in abyssal holothurians; interspecific differences in response to a changing food supply

Monitoring suspended sediment dynamics using MBES

Temporal changes (1989–1999) in deep-sea metazoan meiofaunal assemblages on the Porcupine Abyssal Plain, NE Atlantic

Preparation of a bathymetric map and GIS of the South Atlantic Ocean and a review of available biologically relevant South Atlantic Seamount data for the SEAFO Scientific Committee

Variability in ultraplankton at the Porcupine Abyssal Plain study site

Differential responses of Prochlorococcus and SAR11-dominated bacterioplankton groups to atmospheric dust inputs in the tropical Northeast Atlantic Ocean

The supply of nutrients due to vertical turbulent mixing: A study at the Porcupine Abyssal Plain study site in the northeast Atlantic

Sedimentation of acantharian cysts in the Iceland Basin: Strontium as a ballast for deep ocean particle flux, and implications for acantharian reproductive strategies

Ocean fertilisation: a potential means of geo-engineering?

Spatio-temporal changes in the distribution of phytopigments and phytoplanktonic groups at the Porcupine Abyssal Plain (PAP) site

Habitat heterogeneity and its influence on benthic biodiversity in oxygen minimum zones

Benthic biology time-series in the deep sea: indicators of change

Phytoplankton Community and Trace Gas Studies from the Pride of Bilbao

Deep-water macrofaunal diversity in the Faroe-Shetland region (NE Atlantic): a margin subject to an unusual thermal regime

The roles of habitat heterogeneity in generating and maintaining biodiversity on continental margins: an introduction

Pride of Bilbao FerryBox 2005 - an overview of the data obtained and improvements in procedures

Sustained observations in the Atlantic and Southern Oceans

Application of the BISQ model to clay squirt flow in reservoir sandstones

Biological structures as a source of habitat heterogeneity and biodiversity on the deep ocean margins

Investigating the timing, processes and deposits of one the World¹s largest submarine gravity flows: the 'Bed 5 event' off northwest Africa

Mountains in the Sea - Spotlight 8: Graveyard Seamounts, 42°45.00'S,180°00.00'W

Traces of dissolved particles, including coccoliths, in the tests of agglutinated foraminifera from the Challenger Deep (10,897 m water depth, western equatorial Pacific)

Sources of constructional cross-chain volcanism in the southern Havre Trough: New Insights from HFSE and REE concentration and isotope systematics

Global contribution of echinoderms to the marine carbon cycle: a re-assessment of the oceanic CaCO3 budget and the benthic compartments

Large landslides on passive continental margins: processes, hypotheses and outstanding questions

Geochemistry of the Davis and Aurora Banks: Possible implications on evolution of the North Scotia Ridge

Sedimentology and depositional history of Holocene sandy contourites on the lower slope of the Faroe-Shetland Channel, northwest of the UK

Backarc rifting, constructional volcanism and nascent disorganised spreading in the southern Havre Trough backarc rifts (SW Pacific)

Metaproteomic and metagenomic analyses of defined oceanic microbial populations using microwave cell fixation and flow cytometric sorting

Summer microplankton community structure across the Scotia Sea: implications for biological carbon export

Eruption of Soufriere Hills (1995-2009) from an offshore perspective : insights from repeated swath bathymetry surveys

2009

Tracer-derived freshwater composition of the Siberian continental shelf and slope following the extreme Arctic summer of 2007

Vertical mixing at intermediate depths in the Arctic boundary current

The extent of grazing release from epiphytism for Sargassum muticum (Phaeophyceae) within the invaded range

Morphology of fish eggs: a comparative method for different salinities and preservatives

Viral-mediated lysis of microbes and carbon release in the sub-Antarctic and Polar Frontal zones of the Australian Southern OceaN

Effects of copper and the sea lice treatment Slice® on nutrient release from marine sediments

Hf isotopic evidence for small-scale heterogeneity in the mode of mantle wedge enrichment: Southern Havre Trough back-arc (abstract of paper presented at: 19th Annual V.M. Goldschmidt Conference, Davos, Switzerland, 21-26 June 2009)

Geochemistry, geochronology and tectonic implications of cross-arc ridge volcanism in the Southern Kermadec Arc, SW Pacific (abstract of paper presented at: 19th Annual V.M. Goldschmidt Conference, Davos, Switzerland, 21-26 June 2009)

Limitation of egg production in Calanus finmarchicus in the field: a stoichiometric analysis

Southern Ocean deep-water carbon export enhanced by natural iron fertilization

Changes in Emiliania huxleyi fatty acid profiles during infection with E. huxleyi virus 86: physiological and ecological implications

2008

An operational monitoring system to provide indicators of CO2-related variables in the ocean

Anaerobic methane oxidation inducing carbonate precipitation at abiogenic methane seeps in the Tuscan archipelago (Italy)

Nitrate uptake along repeat meridional transects of the Atlantic Ocean

Historical chronologies of sedimentation and heavy-metal contamination in Strangford Lough, Northern Ireland

Are macroinvertebrate communities influenced by seagrass structural complexity?