Carbon export in the ocean: A biologist's perspective

MH Iversen - Annual Review of Marine Science, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Understanding the nature of organic matter flux in the ocean remains a major goal of
oceanography because it impacts some of the most important processes in the ocean …

GEOTRACES: Accelerating research on the marine biogeochemical cycles of trace elements and their isotopes

RF Anderson - Annual Review of Marine Science, 2020 - annualreviews.org
The biogeochemical cycles of trace elements and their isotopes (TEIs) constitute an active
area of oceanographic research due to their role as essential nutrients for marine organisms …

Metrics that matter for assessing the ocean biological carbon pump

KO Buesseler, PW Boyd, EE Black… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - pnas.org
The biological carbon pump (BCP) comprises wide-ranging processes that set carbon
supply, consumption, and storage in the oceans' interior. It is becoming increasingly evident …

Microbes contribute to setting the ocean carbon flux by altering the fate of sinking particulates

TTH Nguyen, EJ Zakem, A Ebrahimi… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Sinking particulate organic carbon out of the surface ocean sequesters carbon on decadal to
millennial timescales. Predicting the particulate carbon flux is therefore critical for …

Global ocean sediment composition and burial flux in the deep sea

CT Hayes, KM Costa, RF Anderson… - Global …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Quantitative knowledge about the burial of sedimentary components at the seafloor has
wide‐ranging implications in ocean science, from global climate to continental weathering …

230Th Normalization: New Insights on an Essential Tool for Quantifying Sedimentary Fluxes in the Modern and Quaternary Ocean

KM Costa, CT Hayes, RF Anderson… - Paleoceanography …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract 230Th normalization is a valuable paleoceanographic tool for reconstructing high‐
resolution sediment fluxes during the late Pleistocene (last~ 500,000 years). As its …

Decoding drivers of carbon flux attenuation in the oceanic biological pump

M Bressac, EC Laurenceau-Cornec, F Kennedy… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
The biological pump supplies carbon to the oceans' interior, driving long-term carbon
sequestration and providing energy for deep-sea ecosystems,. Its efficiency is set by …

New estimate of organic carbon export from optical measurements reveals the role of particle size distribution and export horizon

DJ Clements, S Yang, T Weber… - Global …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Export of sinking particles from the surface ocean is critical for carbon sequestration and to
provide energy to the deep biosphere. The magnitude and spatial patterns of this export …

Organic matter supply and utilization in oxygen minimum zones

A Engel, R Kiko, M Dengler - Annual Review of Marine Science, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Organic matter (OM) plays a significant role in the formation of oxygen minimum zones
(OMZs) and associated biogeochemical cycling. OM supply processes to the OMZ include …