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1. Automatic recognition of flow cytometric phytoplankton functional groups using convolutional neural networks

Author: Robin Fuchs, Melilotus Thyssen, Véronique Creach, Mathilde Dugenne, Lloyd Izard, Marie Latimier, Arnaud Louchart, Pierre Marrec, Machteld Rijkeboer, Gérald Grégori, Denys Pommeret, Institut de Mathématiques de Marseille (I2M), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-École Centrale de Marseille (ECM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut méditerranéen d'océanologie (MIO), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science [Lowestoft] (CEFAS), University of Hawaii, Processus et interactions de fine échelle océanique (PROTEO), Laboratoire d'Océanographie et du Climat : Expérimentations et Approches Numériques (LOCEAN), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut Pierre-Simon-Laplace (IPSL (FR_636)), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité)-Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut Pierre-Simon-Laplace (IPSL (FR_636)), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Dynamiques des Écosystèmes Côtiers (DYNECO), Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER), Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn (SZN), Graduate School of Oceanography [Narragansett], University of Rhode Island (URI), Laboratoire de Sciences Actuarielle et Financière (SAF), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon, and European Project: 1166-39417,FEDER
Subjects: [SDU.OCEAN]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Ocean, Atmosphere, Ocean Engineering, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS
Abstract: The variability of phytoplankton distribution has been unraveled by high-frequency measurements. Such a resolution can be approached by automated pulse-shape recording flow cytometry (AFCM) operating at hourly sampling resolution. AFCM records morphological and physiological traits as single-cell optical pulse shapes that can be used to classify cells into phytoplankton functional groups (PFGs). However, the associated manual post-processing of the data coupled with the increasing size and number of datasets is time-consuming and error-prone. Machine learning models are increasingly used to run automatic classification. Yet, most of the existing methods either present a long training process, need to manually design features from the raw optical pulse shapes, or are dedicated to images only. In this study, we present a convolutional neural network (CNN) to classify several PFGs using AFCM pulse shapes. The uncertainties of manual classification were first estimated by comparing experts' recognition of six PFGs. Consensual particles from the manual PFG classification were used to train and validate the CNN. The CNN obtained competitive performances compared to other models used in the literature and remained robust across several sampling areas, and instrumental hardware and settings. Finally, we assessed the ability of this classifier to predict phytoplankton counts at a Mediterranean coastal station and from a cruise in the South-West Indian Ocean, providing a comparison with the manual classification over 3-month periods and a 2h frequency. These promising results strengthen the near real-time observation of PFGs, especially required with the increasing use of AFCM in monitoring research programs.
Published: 2022
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2. Haiti-Drill: an amphibious drilling project workshop

Author: Richard Wessels, Frédérique Rolandone, Frauke Klingelhoefer, Chastity Aiken, Anne Battani, Marie-Helene Cormier, Walter R. Roest, R. Momplaisir, Nadine Ellouz-Zimmerman, Dominique Boisson, Kelly Guerrier, Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER), Utrecht University [Utrecht], Graduate School of Oceanography [Narragansett], University of Rhode Island (URI), Isotope Geosciences Unit (SUERC), Isotope Geosciences Unit, Institut des Sciences de la Terre de Paris (iSTeP), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS), Universite d'État d'Haïti (UEH), IFP Energies nouvelles (IFPEN), and ANR-17-EURE-0015,ISBlue,Interdisciplinary Graduate School for the Blue planet(2017)
Subjects: [SDU.OCEAN]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Ocean, Atmosphere, geography, geography.geographical_feature_category, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Drill, Lithology, Mechanical Engineering, lcsh:QE1-996.5, Energy Engineering and Power Technology, Drilling, Crust, Fracture zone, [SPI.MECA]Engineering Sciences [physics]/Mechanics [physics.med-ph], Fault (geology), 010502 geochemistry & geophysics, 01 natural sciences, lcsh:Geology, Plate tectonics, Submarine pipeline, 14. Life underwater, Geology, Seismology, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Abstract: The Haiti region – bounded by two strike-slip faults expressed both onshore and offshore – offers a unique opportunity for an amphibious drilling project. The east–west (EW)-striking, left lateral strike-slip Oriente–Septentrional fault zone and Enriquillo–Plantain Garden fault zone bounding Haiti have similar slip rates and also define the northern and southern boundaries of the Gonâve Microplate. However, it remains unclear how these fault systems terminate at the eastern boundary of that microplate. From a plate tectonic perspective, the Enriquillo–Plantain Garden fault zone can be expected to act as an inactive fracture zone bounding the Cayman spreading system, but, surprisingly, this fault has been quite active during the last 500 years. Overall, little is understood in terms of past and present seismic and tsunami hazards along the Oriente–Septentrional fault zone and Enriquillo–Plantain Garden fault zone, their relative ages, maturity, lithology, and evolution – not even the origin of fluids escaping through the crust is known. Given these unknowns, the Haiti-Drill workshop was held in May 2019 to further develop an amphibious drilling project in the Haiti region on the basis of preproposals submitted in 2015 and their reviews. The workshop aimed to complete the following four tasks: (1) identify significant research questions; (2) discuss potential drilling scenarios and sites; (3) identify data, analyses, additional experts, and surveys needed; and (4) produce timelines for developing a full proposal. Two key scientific goals have been set, namely to understand the nature of young fault zones and the evolution of transpressional boundaries. Given these goals, drilling targets were then rationalized, creating a focus point for research and/or survey needs prior to drilling. Our most recent efforts are to find collaborators, analyze existing data, and to obtain sources of funding for the survey work that is needed.
Published: 2020
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3. A silicon isotopic perspective on the contribution of diagenesis to the sedimentary silicon budget in the Southern Ocean

Author: Ivia Closset, Mark A. Brzezinski, Damien Cardinal, Arnaud Dapoigny, Janice L. Jones, Rebecca S. Robinson, Marine Science Institute [Santa Barbara] (MSI), University of California [Santa Barbara] (UC Santa Barbara), University of California (UC)-University of California (UC), Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology [Santa Barbara] (EEMB), Cycles biogéochimiques marins : processus et perturbations (CYBIOM), Laboratoire d'Océanographie et du Climat : Expérimentations et Approches Numériques (LOCEAN), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut Pierre-Simon-Laplace (IPSL (FR_636)), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité)-Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut Pierre-Simon-Laplace (IPSL (FR_636)), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement [Gif-sur-Yvette] (LSCE), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Graduate School of Oceanography [Narragansett], and University of Rhode Island (URI)
Subjects: Silicon cycle, Geochemistry and Petrology, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], Silicon stable isotopes, Southern Ocean, Early diagenesis, Benthic nutrient fluxes
Abstract: International audience; Diatoms are known to fractionate silicon isotopes during the formation of their frustules causing the silicon isotopic composition of biogenic silica to track the degree of silicic acid consumption in surface waters. Despite a growing body of work that uses this proxy to reconstruct past changes in silicic acid utilization, the understanding of the benthic silicon cycle, particularly the identification and quantification of the processes that potentially alter the silicon isotopic composition of biogenic silica during early diagenesis is still lacking. We investigated these processes by comparing the silicon isotopic composition of pore water silicic acid, biogenic silica and, for the first time, lithogenic silica from five sediment cores collected in the deep basin of the Southern Ocean representing a diversity of sedimentation regimes. Silicic acid concentrations and the isotopic composition of Southern Ocean pore waters were the result of a dynamic balance between the dissolution of biogenic silica, reactive lithogenic silica phases and Si re-precipitation with the relative importance of each processes differing significantly between regions. The results are consistent with the formation of authigenic alumino-silicates derived from dissolved biogenic silica in the Sub-Antarctic Zone and in the Antarctic Zone (on average 12 ± 5% and 17 ± 13%, respectively). Since this latter process can fractionate silicon isotopes, this implies that, even if the silicon isotopic composition of diatoms preserved in the sediments is a reliable proxy for silicic acid utilization in the past ocean, care must be taken to extract a clean biogenic silica phase free of authigenic clays and lithogenic phases from sediments to eliminate this potential bias when interpreting isotopic records.
Published: 2022
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4. Length, width, shape regularity, and chain structure: time series analysis of phytoplankton morphology from imagery

Author: Virginie Sonnet, Lionel Guidi, Colleen B. Mouw, Gavino Puggioni, Sakina‐Dorothée Ayata, Graduate School of Oceanography [Narragansett], University of Rhode Island (URI), Laboratoire d'océanographie de Villefranche (LOV), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de la Mer de Villefranche (IMEV), Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Processus et interactions de fine échelle océanique (PROTEO), Laboratoire d'Océanographie et du Climat : Expérimentations et Approches Numériques (LOCEAN), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut Pierre-Simon-Laplace (IPSL (FR_636)), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité)-Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut Pierre-Simon-Laplace (IPSL (FR_636)), and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité)
Subjects: [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-GEO-PH]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Geophysics [physics.geo-ph], Aquatic Science, Oceanography
Abstract: International audience; Functional traits are increasingly used to assess changes in phytoplankton community structure and to link individual characteristics to ecosystem functioning. However, they are usually inferred from taxonomic identification or manually measured for each organism, both time consuming approaches. Instead, we focus on high throughput imaging to describe the main temporal variations of morphological changes of phytoplankton in Narragansett Bay, a coastal time-series station. We analyzed a 2-yr dataset of morphological features automatically extracted from continuous imaging of individual phytoplankton images (~ 105 million images collected by an Imaging FlowCytobot). We identified synthetic morphological traits using multivariate analysis and revealed that morphological variations were mainly due to changes in length, width, shape regularity, and chain structure. Morphological changes were especially important in winter with successive peaks of larger cells with increasing complexity and chains more clearly connected. Small nanophytoplankton were present year-round and constituted the base of the community, especially apparent during the transitions between diatom blooms. High inter-annual variability was also observed. On a weekly timescale, increases in light were associated with more clearly connected chains while more complex shapes occurred at lower nitrogen concentrations. On an hourly timescale, temperature was the determinant variable constraining cell morphology, with a general negative influence on length and a positive one on width, shape regularity, and chain structure. These first insights into the phytoplankton morphology of Narragansett Bay highlight the possible morphological traits driving the phytoplankton succession in response to light, temperature, and nutrient changes.
Published: 2021
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5. Silicate melt inclusions in the new millennium: A review of recommended practices for preparation, analysis, and data presentation

Author: M. E. Newcombe, D. J. Rasmussen, Alexander R. L. Nichols, Matthew Jones, Oded Navon, Graham D. Layne, M. Myers, Horst R. Marschall, C. M. Allison, A. Lorenzo-Merino, K. Shimizu, Federica Schiavi, Mark D. Kurz, A. Daly, Ping-Ping Liu, A. Barth, Margaret E. Hartley, Nivea Magalhães, Yuxu Zhang, Roger L. Nielsen, Terry Plank, Janne M. Koornneef, Alexander A. Iveson, K.-Y. Lin, M. Laubier, T. Zhou, Charlotte L. DeVitre, Jordan Tucker, Glenn A. Gaetani, Yves Moussallam, M. Gaborieau, Masataka Kawaguchi, N. Luciani, Nobumichi Shimizu, Ayla S. Pamukcu, T. Kagoshima, Elizabeth Cottrell, A. Castillejo, J. Andrys, Robert J. Bodnar, Ery C. Hughes, B. Chilson-Parks, D. Butters, J. Roberge, M. Cole, Anne-Sophie Bouvier, M. Muth, Yaron Katzir, Emma Gatti, B.R. Choudhary, Felix S. Genske, Diego Narváez, A. H. Lerner, Mélissa J. Drignon, Jay B. Thomas, C. Waelkens, L. Moore, G. T. Thompson, Gokce Ustunisik, Tatsuhiko Kawamoto, B. D. Monteleone, E Johnson, A.J.J. Bracco Gartner, Katherine A. Kelley, Michael O. Garcia, D. M. Schwartz, Nicolas Cluzel, Paul J. Wallace, C.A. Angeles de la Torre, Leonid V. Danyushevsky, Estelle Rose-Koga, Peter J. Michael, Laboratoire Magmas et Volcans (LMV), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement et la société-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Clermont Auvergne (UCA)-Observatoire de Physique du Globe de Clermont-Ferrand (OPGC), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Clermont Auvergne (UCA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Clermont Auvergne (UCA), Institut des sciences de la terre [Lausanne] (ISTE), Université de Lausanne (UNIL), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), Department of Earth Sciences [Eugene OR], University of Oregon [Eugene], Cornell University [New York], Graduate School of Oceanography [Narragansett], University of Rhode Island (URI), Instituto Politecnico Nacional [Mexico] (IPN), Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO), Columbia University [New York], Department of Geosciences [Blacksburg], Virginia Tech [Blacksburg], Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam [Amsterdam] (VU), School of Earth Sciences [Bristol], University of Bristol [Bristol], Brown University, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Connecticut (UCONN), New Mexico State University, Smithsonian Institution, School of Earth Sciences [Hobart], University of Tasmania [Hobart, Australia] (UTAS), College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences [Corvallis] (CEOAS), Oregon State University (OSU), Centre de Recherches Pétrographiques et Géochimiques (CRPG), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Lorraine (UL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Department of Geology and Geophysics [Mānoa], University of Hawai‘i [Mānoa] (UHM), California Institute of Technology (CALTECH), Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (WWU), University of Manchester [Manchester], Department of Earth Sciences [Durham], Durham University, The University of Tokyo (UTokyo), Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), Kumamoto University, University of Shizuoka, Memorial University of Newfoundland [St. John's], University of Delaware [Newark], School of Earth and Space Sciences [Beijing], Peking University [Beijing], Instituto de Geofisica [Mexico], Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), University of Maryland [College Park], University of Maryland System, University of Toronto, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, University of Tulsa, Department of Earth Sciences [MSU Bozeman], Montana State University (MSU), Departamento de Geologia [Quito], Escuela Politécnica Nacional (EPN), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJ), University of Canterbury [Christchurch], South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (SDSM&T), American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), Boise State University, Carnegie Institution for Science [Washington], Kochi Institute for Core Sample Research, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Syracuse University, McGill University = Université McGill [Montréal, Canada], CAS Institute of Oceanology (IOCAS), Chinese Academy of Sciences [Beijing] (CAS), China University of Petroleum, ANR-10-LABX-0006,CLERVOLC,Clermont-Ferrand centre for research on volcanism(2010), ANR-16-IDEX-0001,CAP 20-25,CAP 20-25(2016), Université de Lausanne = University of Lausanne (UNIL), Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster = University of Münster (WWU), Memorial University of Newfoundland = Université Memorial de Terre-Neuve [St. John's, Canada] (MUN), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México = National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Carnegie Institution for Science, and Geology and Geochemistry
Subjects: 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, [SDU.STU.PE]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Petrography, Library science, Geology, SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities, 010502 geochemistry & geophysics, 01 natural sciences, Geochemistry and Petrology, [SDU.STU.GC]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Geochemistry, In situ analysis, Data presentation, Inclusion (mineral), 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Melt inclusions
Abstract: Mineral-hosted melt inclusions have become an important source of information on magmatic processes. As the number of melt inclusion studies increases, so does the need to establish recommended practice guidelines for collecting and reporting melt inclusion data. These guidelines are intended to ensure certain quality criteria are met and to achieve consistency among published melt inclusion data in order to maximize their utility in the future. Indeed, with the improvement of analytical techniques, new processes affecting melt inclusions are identified. It is thus critical to be able to reprocess any previously published data, such that reporting the raw data is one of the first “recommended practices” for authors and a publication-criteria that reviewers should be sensitive to. Our guidelines start with melt inclusion selection, which is a critical first step, and then continue on to melt inclusion preparation and analysis, covering the entire field of methods applicable to melt inclusions. Dedication In March of 2000, a melt inclusion workshop was held at the Chateau de Sassenage in Grenoble and a companion issue of Chemical Geology entitled “Melt Inclusions at the Millennium” was published. Erik Hauri was heavily involved with the meeting and contributed two landmark papers to the topical issue of Chemical Geology on the use of secondary ion mass spectrometry to analyze volatiles in melt inclusions. When the melt inclusion community re-convened at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) in August of 2018, we were saddened that Erik was unable to join us due to his failing health. Less than a month later came the devastating news of his passing at only 52 years of age. In recognition of his incredible contributions to science in general and to the in situ analysis of melt inclusions in particular, the participants and organizers of the WHOI melt inclusion workshop dedicate this collegial paper to Erik Hauri, our colleague, mentor and friend. Thank you Erik.
Published: 2021
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6. The crucial contribution of mixing to present and future ocean oxygen distribution: Chapter 13

Author: Lévy, Marina, Resplandy, Laure, Palter, Jaime B., Couespel, Damien, Lachkar, Zouhair, Processus et interactions de fine échelle océanique (PROTEO), Laboratoire d'Océanographie et du Climat : Expérimentations et Approches Numériques (LOCEAN), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut Pierre-Simon-Laplace (IPSL (FR_636)), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité)-Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut Pierre-Simon-Laplace (IPSL (FR_636)), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Princeton Environmental Institute [Princeton University] (PEI), Princeton University, Department of Geosciences [Princeton], Graduate School of Oceanography [Narragansett], University of Rhode Island (URI), New York University [Abu Dhabi], NYU System (NYU), Alberto C. Naveira Garabato and Michael P. Meredith, Institut Pierre-Simon-Laplace (IPSL (FR_636)), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Institut Pierre-Simon-Laplace (IPSL (FR_636)), and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)
Subjects: diapycnal mixing, oxygen minimum zone, ventilation, [SDE]Environmental Sciences, deoxygenation, eddy mixing, isopycnal mixing, mixing parametrizations, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS
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Published: 2021
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7. Ocean circulation causes the largest freshening event for 120 years in eastern subpolar North Atlantic

Author: Simon A. Josey, Marilena Oltmanns, Hedinn Valdimarsson, N. Penny Holliday, Igor Yashayaev, Virginie Thierry, Tom Rossby, Léon Chafik, Karin Margretha H. Larsen, William E. Johns, Hjálmar Hátún, Barbara Berx, Manfred Bersch, Cristian Florindo-Lopez, Sandrine Mulet, Gilles Reverdin, Stuart A. Cunningham, National Oceanography Centre [Southampton] (NOC), University of Southampton, Institute of Oceanography [Hamburg], University of Hamburg, Marine Scotland Science (MSS), Department of Meteorology [Stockholm] (MISU), Stockholm University, Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS), Faroe Marine Research Institute, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (RSMAS), University of Miami [Coral Gables], Collecte Localisation Satellites (CLS), Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES), Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research [Kiel] (GEOMAR), Processus et interactions de fine échelle océanique (PROTEO), Laboratoire d'Océanographie et du Climat : Expérimentations et Approches Numériques (LOCEAN), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut Pierre-Simon-Laplace (IPSL (FR_636)), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité)-Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut Pierre-Simon-Laplace (IPSL (FR_636)), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Graduate School of Oceanography [Narragansett], University of Rhode Island (URI), Laboratoire d'Océanographie Physique et Spatiale (LOPS), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Marine and Freshwater Research Institute, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, European Project: 633211,H2020,H2020-BG-2014-2,AtlantOS(2015), Institut Pierre-Simon-Laplace (IPSL (FR_636)), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Institut Pierre-Simon-Laplace (IPSL (FR_636)), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU), and Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Science, General Physics and Astronomy, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-GEO-PH]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Geophysics [physics.geo-ph], Physical oceanography, 01 natural sciences, Deep sea, General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Article, 14. Life underwater, lcsh:Science, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Multidisciplinary, Global wind patterns, 010505 oceanography, Ocean current, General Chemistry, Salinity, Current (stream), Oceanography, Ocean sciences, Arctic, 13. Climate action, North west, lcsh:Q, Geology, Climate sciences
Abstract: The Atlantic Ocean overturning circulation is important to the climate system because it carries heat and carbon northward, and from the surface to the deep ocean. The high salinity of the subpolar North Atlantic is a prerequisite for overturning circulation, and strong freshening could herald a slowdown. We show that the eastern subpolar North Atlantic underwent extreme freshening during 2012 to 2016, with a magnitude never seen before in 120 years of measurements. The cause was unusual winter wind patterns driving major changes in ocean circulation, including slowing of the North Atlantic Current and diversion of Arctic freshwater from the western boundary into the eastern basins. We find that wind-driven routing of Arctic-origin freshwater intimately links conditions on the North West Atlantic shelf and slope region with the eastern subpolar basins. This reveals the importance of atmospheric forcing of intra-basin circulation in determining the salinity of the subpolar North Atlantic., The Atlantic Ocean overturning circulation is important to the global climate system. Here the authors show that eastern subpolar North Atlantic underwent extreme freshening during 2012 to 2016, with a magnitude never seen before in 120 years of surface measurements.
Published: 2020
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8. Forty questions of importance to the policy and practice of native oyster reef restoration in Europe

Author: William G. Sanderson, Pierre Boudry, William J. Sutherland, Cass Bromley, Tom C. Cameron, Tom van der Have, Joanne Preston, Joop W.P. Coolen, Philine S. E. zu Ermgassen, Kruno Bonacic, Åsa Strand, Zoë Holbrook, Nancy Nevejan, Bérenger Colsoul, Bernadette Pogoda, Pauline Kamermans, Boze Hancock, Ane T. Laugen, Hein Sas, Anamarija Frankic, Stephane Pouvreau, Christopher J. Ranger, School of Geosciences [Edinburgh], University of Edinburgh, University of Dubrovnik, Laboratoire des Sciences de l'Environnement Marin (LEMAR) (LEMAR), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer (IUEM), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER), Scottish Natural Heritage, Fraser Darling House, School of Life Sciences, University of Essex, AWI Biologische Anstalt Helgoland, Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung (AWI), Wageningen Marine Research [The Netherlands], Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands, University of Zadar, Graduate School of Oceanography [Narragansett], University of Rhode Island (URI), Bureau Waardenburg, National Oceanography Centre [Southampton] (NOC), University of Southampton, University of Agder (UIA), Laboratory of Aquaculture and Artemia Reference Center, University of Gent, University of Portsmouth, Labo inconnu (Labo inconnu), School of Energy, Geoscience, Infrastruture and Society (EGIS), Heriot-Watt University [Edinburgh] (HWU), Independent Consultant, IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute Ltd, Department of Zoology [Cambridge], University of Cambridge [UK] (CAM), zu Ermgassen, PSE [0000-0002-3409-0644], Boudry, P [0000-0002-5150-2276], Bromley, CA [0000-0002-4627-1602], Colsoul, B [0000-0002-7891-8036], Coolen, JWP [0000-0002-8127-6097], Frankić, A [0000-0003-0968-5600], Holbrook, Z [0000-0002-0967-1770], Nevejan, N [0000-0001-6566-4607], Pogoda, B [0000-0003-3997-426X], Preston, J [0000-0002-2268-4998], Sanderson, WG [0000-0003-1686-0585], Sas, H [0000-0002-9407-3950], Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Universiteit Gent = Ghent University (UGENT), and Swedish Environmental Research Institute (IVL)
Subjects: 0106 biological sciences, Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management, Oyster, Biosecurity, alien species, insights, 01 natural sciences, Voting, pollution, preferences, media_common, education.field_of_study, subtidal, Ecology, biology, conservation, estuary, fishing, invertebrates, restoration, Geography, Ifremer, Oyster reef restoration, media_common.quotation_subject, Population, panorama, substrate, Aquatic Science, 010603 evolutionary biology, flat oyster, settlement, larval development, biology.animal, 14. Life underwater, Ostrea edulis, education, Environmental planning, Nature and Landscape Conservation, ecosystem, Business Manager projecten Midden-Noord, ACL, 010604 marine biology & hydrobiology, ostrea-edulis l, Marine habitats, marine, Aquatische Ecologie en Waterkwaliteitsbeheer, VDP::Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400::Zoologiske og botaniske fag: 480::Marinbiologi: 497, biology.organism_classification, Threatened species, WIAS, [SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology, Business Manager projects Mid-North
Abstract: © 2020 The Authors. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd Oyster reefs are among the most threatened marine habitats globally. In Europe, oyster reefs have been extirpated from most locations within their historical range. Active restoration of the native oyster (Ostrea edulis) in Europe has grown substantially in recent years. In sharing experiences between oyster restoration projects in Europe at the Native Oyster Restoration Alliance conference, NORA2, in Edinburgh in May 2019, it became apparent that a number of similar barriers are experienced. This study identified the top 40 questions, which, if answered, would have the greatest influence on the policy and practice of oyster restoration in Europe. Initially 71 people were consulted across 28 institutions and 11 European countries to generate 194 questions. An established process of one round of pre-workshop voting followed by a one-day online workshop and two post-workshop rounds of voting resulted in the final 40 questions. Questions were broadly grouped into the following 10 themes: baselines, site selection, restoration methods, quantifying benefits, disease management, biosecurity, genetic diversity and population differentiation, policy and management, novel technologies, and current and future threats. We anticipate that this list will provide a starting point for developing collaborative projects across the NORA network, as well as assisting policy makers and funders with identifying key areas that need to be addressed in order to overcome existing barriers to scaling up oyster restoration in Europe.
Published: 2020
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9. Cardinal Buoys: An Opportunity for the Study of Air-Sea CO 2 Fluxes in Coastal Ecosystems

Author: Gac, Jean-Philippe, Marrec, Pierre, Cariou, Thierry, Guillerm, Christophe, Macé, Éric, Vernet, Marc, Bozec, Yann, Adaptation et diversité en milieu marin (AD2M), Station biologique de Roscoff (SBR), Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Graduate School of Oceanography [Narragansett], University of Rhode Island (URI), Division technique INSU/SDU (DTI), and Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: high-frequency, air-sea CO 2 exchanges, multi-annual, ocean acidification, tidal cycle, buoy of opportunity, [SDU.STU.OC]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Oceanography, coastal ecosystems
Abstract: International audience; From 2015 to 2019 we installed high-frequency (HF) sea surface temperature (SST), salinity, fluorescence, dissolved oxygen (DO) and partial pressure of CO 2 (pCO 2) sensors on a cardinal buoy of opportunity (ASTAN) at a coastal site in the southern Western English Channel (sWEC) highly influenced by tidal cycles. The sensors were calibrated against bimonthly discrete measurements performed at two long-term time series stations near the buoy, thus providing a robust multi-annual HF dataset. The tidal transport of a previously unidentified coastal water mass and an offshore water mass strongly impacted the daily and seasonal variability of pCO 2 and pH. The maximum tidal variability associated to spring tides (>7 m) during phytoplankton blooms represented up to 40% of the pCO 2 annual signal at ASTAN. At the same time, the daily variability of 0.12 pH units associated to this tidal transport was 6 times larger than the annual acidification trend observed in the area. A frequency/time analysis of the HF signal revealed the presence of a day/night cycle in the tidal signal. The diel biological cycle accounted for 9% of the annual pCO 2 amplitude during spring phytoplankton blooms. The duration and intensity of the biologically productive periods, characterized by large inter-annual variability, were the main drivers of pCO 2 dynamics. HF monitoring enabled us to accurately constrain, for the first-time, annual estimates of air-sea CO 2 exchanges in the nearshore tidally-influenced waters of the sWEC, which were a weak source to the atmosphere at 0.51 mol CO 2 m −2 yr −1. This estimate, combined with previous studies, provided a full latitudinal representation of the WEC (from 48 • 75 N to 50 • 25 N) over multiple years for air-sea CO 2 fluxes in contrasted coastal ecosystems. The latitudinal comparison showed a clear gradient from a weak source of CO 2 in the tidal mixing region toward sinks of CO 2 in the stratified region with a seasonal thermal front separating these hydrographical provinces. In view of the fact that several continental shelf regions have been reported to have switched from sources to sinks of CO 2 in the last century, weak CO 2 sources in such tidal mixing areas could potentially become sinks of atmospheric CO 2 in coming decades.
Published: 2020
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10. Dating post-Archean lithospheric mantle: Insights from Re-Os and Lu-Hf isotopic systematics of the Cameroon Volcanic Line peridotites

Author: D. Graham Pearson, Olivier Alard, Haraldur Sigurdsson, Qiao Shu, Jingao Liu, Emilie Thomassot, State Key Laboratory of Geological Processes and Mineral Resources [Wuhan] (GPMR), China University of Geosciences [Wuhan] (CUG), University of Alberta, Institute of Geochemistry [Guiyang], Chinese Academy of Sciences [Beijing] (CAS), Graduate School of Oceanography [Narragansett], University of Rhode Island (URI), Centre de Recherches Pétrographiques et Géochimiques (CRPG), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Lorraine (UL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Géosciences Montpellier, Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université des Antilles (UA), Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology [Zürich] (ETH Zürich), ARC Centre of Excellence for Core to Crust Fluid Systems (CCFS), and Macquarie University
Subjects: 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Peridotite dating, Archean, Geochemistry, [SDU.STU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences, Highly siderophile element, engineering.material, 010502 geochemistry & geophysics, Sr-Nd-Hf, 01 natural sciences, Mantle (geology), Geochemistry and Petrology, [SDU.STU.GC]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Geochemistry, Xenolith, Cameroon, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Peridotite, geography, geography.geographical_feature_category, Olivine, Spinel, Craton, s Re-Os isotopes, Volcano, Volcanic Line, engineering, Geology
Abstract: International audience; Highly depleted Archean peridotites have proven very amenable to Re-Os model age dating. In contrast, due to the increasing heterogeneity of mantle Os isotope compositions with time, the Re-Os system has not been as effective in dating post-Archean peridotites. The timing of depletion and accretion of post-Archean lithospheric mantle around cratons is important to understand within the context of the evolution of the continents. In an attempt to precisely date post-Archean peridotite xenoliths, we present a study of the petrology, mineralogy and geochemistry, including whole-rock Re-Os isotopes, highly siderophile elements and clinopyroxene-orthopyroxene Sr-Nd-Hf isotopes of peridotite xenoliths from Lake Nyos in the Cameroon Volcanic Line (CVL). Eight Nyos peridotite xenoliths, all fresh spinel lherzolites, are characterized by low to moderate olivine Fo contents (88.9–91.2) and low spinel Cr# (8.4–19.3), together with moderate to high whole-rock Al2O3 contents (2.0–3.7%). These chemical characteristics indicate that they are mantle residues of a few percent to
Published: 2020
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11. Combining remote sensing and in situ observations to study the physical-biological coupling at fine scale: recent Mediterranean campaigns and outlook

Author: Stéphanie Barrillon, Francesco d'Ovidio, Franck Dumas, Pierre Marrec, Jean-Luc Fuda, Gérald Grégori, Pierre Garreau, Francois Carlotti, Léo Berline, Marc Tedetti, Roxane Tzortzis, Nagib Bhairy, Melilotus Thyssen, Anne Petrenko, Frédéric Cyr, Louise Rousselet, Ananda Pascual, Andrea Doglioli, Lloyd Izard, Institut méditerranéen d'océanologie (MIO), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Processus et interactions de fine échelle océanique (PROTEO), Laboratoire d'Océanographie et du Climat : Expérimentations et Approches Numériques (LOCEAN), Institut Pierre-Simon-Laplace (IPSL (FR_636)), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Institut Pierre-Simon-Laplace (IPSL (FR_636)), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU), Service Hydrographique et Océanographique de la Marine (SHOM), Ministère de la Défense, Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer - Brest (IFREMER Centre de Bretagne), Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER), Institut Mediterrani d'Estudis Avancats (IMEDEA), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Madrid] (CSIC)-Universidad de las Islas Baleares (UIB), Graduate School of Oceanography [Narragansett], University of Rhode Island (URI), Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), University of California [San Diego] (UC San Diego), University of California-University of California, Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Centre (NWAFC), Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO), EGU, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut Pierre-Simon-Laplace (IPSL (FR_636)), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité)-Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut Pierre-Simon-Laplace (IPSL (FR_636)), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO - UC San Diego), and University of California (UC)-University of California (UC)
Subjects: [SDU.OCEAN]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Ocean, Atmosphere, Biogeochemical cycle, Ecology (disciplines), Sampling (statistics), Mediterranean sea, Eddy, 13. Climate action, Phytoplankton, Environmental science, Marine ecosystem, 14. Life underwater, [SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology, Scale (map), Remote sensing
Abstract: on line; International audience; The oceanic fine scales are highly energetic features (eddies, fronts, meanders, filaments) with relatively short lifetimes (days/weeks to months). Due to their associated strong gradients in physical and biogeochemical properties, they crucially affect ocean physics and ecology with potential impacts at the climate scale. The temporal scale associated with these horizontal and vertical fine scales is the same as many important ecological processes including phytoplankton growth and competition. This temporal resonance is one of the reasons behind the fine-scale variability appearing in the marine ecosystems structure and related domains, including biogeochemical cycles, trophic food-webs The oceanic fine scales are highly energetic features (eddies, fronts, meanders, filaments) with relatively short lifetimes (days/weeks to months). Due to their associated strong gradients in physical and biogeochemical properties, they crucially affect ocean physics and ecology with potential impacts at the climate scale. The temporal scale associated with these horizontal and vertical fine scales is the same as many important ecological processes including phytoplankton growth and competition. This temporal resonance is one of the reasons behind the fine-scale variability appearing in the marine ecosystems structure and related domains, including biogeochemical cycles, trophic food-webs up to resources and biodiversity.Over the past few decades, great progresses have been made in characterizing fine scales through modeling. Remote sensing is also improving rapidly in terms of resolution, with landmark missions like SWOT expected to be operational very soon (2022). However, in situ sampling remains challenging due to the difficulties of mapping a large domain covering the length of a filament or the diameter of an eddy (~100km) at high spatio-temporal frequency (~km and ~daily).Here we present some sampling strategies we are developing for addressing this issue by combining remote sensing and in situ multi-platform high-resolution sampling of physical, biogeochemical and biological variables. In a series of campaigns in the Mediterranean Sea (OSCAHR 2015, PROTEVSMED-SWOT 2018, FUMSECK 2019), satellite-based adaptive and Lagrangian strategies proved to be successful to target and follow fine scale structures in situ. When paired with in situ biological measurements, like automated cytometry, these strategies highlight the important role of the fine scales in structuring the phytoplankton community by acting as fluid dynamical barriers and biodiversity hot-spots.To extend these observations to other regions, we support an international coordinated experimental effort of the fine scale community at several sites all around the world to fully exploit the great opportunities offered by the launch of the satellite SWOT.
Published: 2020
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12. Species richness in North Atlantic fish: Process concealed by pattern

Author: Jón Sólmundsson, Didier Gascuel, Jónas P. Jonasson, Luis Gil de Sola, Jakov Dulčić, Jákup Reinert, Melita Peharda, Jan G. Hiddink, Heino O. Fock, Henrik Gislason, Mark R. Payne, Sanja Matić-Skoko, Lilja Stefansdottir, Nedo Vrgoč, F. Velasco, Corina Chaves, Cristina Silva, Remment ter Hofstede, Igor Isajlović, Andrey V. Dolgov, Hicham Masski, Gudrun Marteinsdottir, Maria de Fátima Borges, Anders Nielsen, Jeremy S. Collie, Teresa Bottari, Ole A Jørgensen, Kristján Kristinsson, Daniel E. Duplisea, Brian R. MacKenzie, DTU Aqua, National Institute of Aquatic Resources, Technical University of Denmark [Lyngby] (DTU), Graduate School of Oceanography [Narragansett], University of Rhode Island (URI), Instituto Português de Investigação do Mar e da Atmosfera (IPMA), Institute for Biological Resources and Marine Biotechnology (IRBIM), RUSSIAN FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF FISHERIES AND OCEANOGRAPHY MOSCOW RUS, Partenaires IRSTEA, Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA), Institute of Oceanography, Fisheries, Maurice-Lamontagne Institute, Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO), Thünen-Institute of Sea Fisheries, Écologie et santé des écosystèmes (ESE), AGROCAMPUS OUEST, Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), Instituto Español de Oceanografía (IEO). Centro Costero de Málaga, Muelle Pesquero s/n. 29.640 Fuengirola (Málaga), Spain, School of Ocean Sciences [Menai Bridge], Bangor University, MARINE AND FRESHWATER RESEARCH INSTITUTE REYKJAVIK ISL, Institute of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Iceland, INRH, Faroe Marine Research Institute, INSTITUTO ESPANOL DE OCEANOGRAFIA SANTANDER ESP, Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-AGROCAMPUS OUEST, and Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)
Subjects: 0106 biological sciences, Centro Oceanográfico de Santander, abundance, biodiversity, density, marine fish, species size, temperature, Biodiversity, 010603 evolutionary biology, 01 natural sciences, Latitude, Abundance (ecology), SDG 14 - Life Below Water, 14. Life underwater, Pesquerías, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, [SDV.EE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Ecology, environment, Global and Planetary Change, Extinction, Ecology, 010604 marine biology & hydrobiology, Generalized additive model, [SDV.SA.STP]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Agricultural sciences/Sciences and technics of fishery, Environmental science, Species richness, Neutral theory of molecular evolution, Global biodiversity
Abstract: Aim: Previous analyses of marine fish species richness based on presence-absence data have shown changes with latitude and average species size, but little is known about the underlying processes. To elucidate these processes we use metabolic, neutral and descriptive statistical models to analyse how richness responds to maximum species length, fish abundance, temperature, primary production, depth, latitude and longitude, while accounting for differences in species catchability, sampling effort and mesh size. Data: Results from 53,382 bottom trawl hauls representing 50 fish assemblages. Location: The northern Atlantic from Nova Scotia to Guinea. Time period: 1977–2013. Methods: A descriptive generalized additive model was used to identify functional relationships between species richness and potential drivers, after which nonlinear estimation techniques were used to parameterize: (a) a ‘best’ fitting model of species richness built on the functional relationships, (b) an environmental model based on latitude, longitude and depth, and mechanistic models based on (c) metabolic and (d) neutral theory. Results: In the ‘best’ model the number of species observed is a lognormal function of maximum species length. It increases significantly with temperature, primary production, sampling effort, and abundance, and declines with depth and, for small species, with the mesh size in the trawl. The ‘best’ model explains close to 90% of the deviance and the neutral, metabolic and environmental models 89%. In all four models, maximum species length and either temperature or latitude account for more than half of the deviance explained. Main conclusions: The two mechanistic models explain the patterns in demersal fish species richness in the northern Atlantic almost equally well. A better understanding of the underlying drivers is likely to require development of dynamic mechanistic models of richness and size evolution, fit not only to extant distributions, but also to historical environmental conditions and to past speciation and extinction rates, Sí
Published: 2020
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13. Upper Mantle Pollution during Afar Plume–Continental Rift Interaction

Author: Janne Blichert-Toft, Barry B. Hanan, Jean-Guy Schilling, David W. Graham, Tyrone O. Rooney, Tanya Furman, Department of Geological Sciences, Michigan State University [East Lansing], Michigan State University System-Michigan State University System, Department of Geological Sciences [San Diego State Univ] (Geology SDSU), San Diego State University (SDSU), College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences [Corvallis] (CEOAS), Oregon State University (OSU), Penn State Department of Geosciences, Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), Penn State System-Penn State System, Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon - Terre, Planètes, Environnement (LGL-TPE), École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne (UJM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Graduate School of Oceanography [Narragansett], University of Rhode Island (URI), NOAA, National Science Foundation, George H. Deike Jr grant, Institut National des Sciences de l'Univers (INSU), Department of Geological Sciences [San Diego], Department of Geosciences, Laboratoire de Sciences de la Terre (LST), École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon), and Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon - Terre, Planètes, Environnement [Lyon] (LGL-TPE)
Subjects: He isotopes, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, [SDU.STU.GP]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Geophysics [physics.geo-ph], [SDE.MCG]Environmental Sciences/Global Changes, Geochemistry, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-GEO-PH]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Geophysics [physics.geo-ph], 010502 geochemistry & geophysics, Sr, 01 natural sciences, Mantle (geology), Mantle plume, continental lithosphere, [SDU.STU.GC]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Geochemistry, Geochemistry and Petrology, Asthenosphere, Lithosphere, Hotspot (geology), Ethiopian Rift, Afar mantle plume, Nd, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, Pb, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Basalt, Hf, Rift, Plume, Geophysics, 13. Climate action, Geology
Abstract: International audience; New Pb, Sr, Nd, Hf, and He isotope data for Quaternary basalts, erupted from Debre Zeyit, Butajira, and the Wonji Fault Belt of the Main Ethiopian Rift, show systematic mixing relationships involving three distinct mantle sources. The Pb, Sr, Nd, and Hf isotopic arrays converge in a specific region of isotopic multi-space where they define the composition of the Afar mantle plume (centered about (206)Pb/(204)Pb = 19 center dot 5, (87)Sr/(86)Sr = 0 center dot 7035, epsilon(Nd) = +4 center dot 6, epsilon(Hf) = +9 center dot 3, (3)He/(4)He > 15 R(A)). This plume end-member has an identical composition to that observed previously in oceanic basalts. The distinct isotopic arrays for the various volcanic areas in the Main Ethiopian Rift vary spatially in a systematic manner, and may be viewed as pseudo-binary mixing arrays. This further suggests that the Afar mantle plume interacts with the local continental lithosphere and upper mantle asthenosphere (mid-ocean ridge basalt-like source) through an ordered sequence of mixing events. Simple mixing models require that the mass proportions of continental lithosphere and upper mantle involved in magma generation must be nearly constant within each volcanic area, but that the proportion of plume material decreases regularly with distance southwestward along the Main Ethiopian Rift, away from the central axis of the plume. This systematic behavior means that continental lithosphere can become detached and mixed into the shallow mantle prior to the flow of upwelling plume material beneath the developing rift system. Detachment and mixing into the asthenosphere during continental rift evolution is an important process for producing the range of ambient upper mantle compositions sampled by mid-ocean ridge volcanism away from island hotspots.
Published: 2011
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14. Using modern time series analysis techniques to predict ENSO events from the SOI time series

Author: Mark Wimbush, J. I. Salisbury, EGU, Publication, Echo Technology, PO. Box 527, Graduate School of Oceanography [Narragansett], and University of Rhode Island (URI)
Subjects: Polynomial, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Meteorology, [SDU.STU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences, [SDU.ASTR] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], 010502 geochemistry & geophysics, 01 natural sciences, [PHYS.ASTR.CO]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], symbols.namesake, Time series, lcsh:Science, Representation (mathematics), 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Event (probability theory), Mathematics, [SDU.ASTR]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Series (mathematics), lcsh:QC801-809, Linearity, Function (mathematics), lcsh:QC1-999, lcsh:Geophysics. Cosmic physics, [PHYS.ASTR.CO] Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], Climatology, [SDU.STU] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences, symbols, lcsh:Q, Hilbert transform, lcsh:Physics
Abstract: We analyze the monthly 1866-2000 Southern Oscillation Index (SOI) data to determine: 1) whether the SOI data are sufficiently noise-free that useful predictions can be made from them, and 2) in particular, whether future ENSO events can be predicted from the SOI data. The "Hilbert-EMD" technique is used to aid the analysis. This new frequency-time algorithm, based on the Hilbert transform, may be applied to time series for which the conventional assumptions of linearity and stationarity may not apply.With the aid of the EMD procedure, a cleaner representation of ENSO dynamics is obtained from the SOI data. A polynomial function is then used to predict SOI values. Using only the data from January 1866 through December 1996, this prediction correctly indicated a warm event in 1997-1998 and a cold event in 1999. Using all the data (through December 2000), this prediction shows no strong ENSO events (positive or negative) during the time period January 2001 through December 2004.
Published: 2002
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15. Diurnal Variability of Persistent Organic Pollutants in the Atmosphere over the Remote Southern Atlantic Ocean

Author: Luca Nizzetto, Matthew MacLeod, Rosalinda Gioia, Rainer Lohmann, Kevin C. Jones, Javier Castro-Jiménez, Jordi Dachs, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Earth Science Division [LBNL Berkeley] (ESD), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory [Berkeley] (LBNL), Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology [Zürich] (ETH Zürich), Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research (IDAEA), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Madrid] (CSIC), Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA), Graduate School of Oceanography [Narragansett], University of Rhode Island (URI), and Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (España)
Subjects: Pollutant, Atmospheric Science, Biomass (ecology), Daytime, persistent organic pollutants (POPs), Planetary boundary layer, Environmental Science (miscellaneous), lcsh:QC851-999, Atmospheric sciences, Wind speed, Atmosphere, South Atlantic, diurnal cycle, 13. Climate action, Diurnal cycle, Climatology, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), [SDE]Environmental Sciences, Environmental science, [CHIM]Chemical Sciences, lcsh:Meteorology. Climatology, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), 14. Life underwater, Diel vertical migration, Persistent organic pollutants (POPs), Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs)
Abstract: A diel (24-h) cycle with daytime atmospheric concentrations higher than nighttime concentrations by a factor of 1.5–3 was observed for several low molecular weight polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in remote areas of the tropical South Atlantic during a cruise in October–November 2005. In contrast, high molecular weight PCBs and PAHs did not display diurnal variability. A model which has successfully explained diel variability of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) over land could not reproduce the observed diel cycle by considering variability in temperature, atmospheric OH radical concentrations, atmospheric boundary layer height and wind speed as causal factors. We used the model to conduct two bounding scenarios to explore the possibility that phytoplankton biomass turn-over in the surface ocean drives the observed variability in air concentrations. The model could only qualitatively reproduce the field observations of diel variability for low chlorinated PCB congeners when the ocean acts as a source of pollutants to the atmosphere, and when variability in biomass drives variability in the capacity of the surface ocean., We gratefully acknowledge financial support from the Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) on POPs at Lancaster University., We acknowledge support by the CSIC Open Access Publication Initiative through its Unit of Information Resources for Research (URICI)
Published: 2014
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16. The Marine Microbial Eukaryote Transcriptome Sequencing Project (MMETSP): illuminating the functional diversity of eukaryotic life in the oceans through transcriptome sequencing

Author: Mary Ann Moran, Ronald P. Kiene, Matthew D. Johnson, Jennifer L. Jacobi, Gwenael Piganeau, Kjetill S. Jakobsen, Simon K. Davy, Edward C. Theriot, Uwe John, Alexander Kudryavtsev, Sarah R. Smith, Bente Edvardsen, Cristina Miceli, Adrian Marchetti, Karin Rengefors, Tatiana A. Rynearson, John M. Archibald, Matthew C. Posewitz, Brian Palenik, Alexandra Z. Worden, Pooja E. Umale, Boris Wawrik, Laura A. Katz, Satoshi Nagai, Anja Kamp, Lisa Campbell, Kathryn J. Coyne, Thomas Mock, E. Virginia Armbrust, Fabien Burki, Adriana Zingone, Sonya T. Dyhrman, Mary E. Rumpho, Bank Beszteri, Giovanna Romano, Declan C. Schroeder, Callum J. Bell, Yan Xu, Bassem Allam, Kay D. Bidle, Bethany D. Jenkins, Kelly B. Schilling, Giulio Petroni, David Roy Smith, Aurora M. Nedelcu, Arvind K. Bharti, Connie Lovejoy, Stephanie Guida, Spencer J. Greenwood, Peter Stief, David A. Caron, Senjie Lin, Marina Montresor, Denis H. Lynn, Patrick J. Keeling, Glen L. Wheeler, Linda A. Amaral-Zettler, Daniel Vaulot, Jan Pawlowski, Ruth D. Gates, Brian S. Leander, Heather M. Wilcox, Andrew R. Juhl, Govind Nadathur, Erick R. James, Rose Ann Cattolico, Alastair G. B. Simpson, Susanne Menden-Deuer, G. Jason Smith, George B. McManus, Christopher J. Gobler, Heidi M. Sosik, Connor Cameron, Jackie L. Collier, Shauna A. Murray, Scott N. Twary, William H. Wilson, Claudio H. Slamovits, Peter B. Ngam, Phillipe Deschamps, Eric E. Allen, Roberts, Roland G, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR), Department of Botany, University of British Columbia [Vancouver], Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences [Stony Brook] (SoMAS), Stony Brook University [SUNY] (SBU), State University of New York (SUNY)-State University of New York (SUNY), Marine Biology Research Division, University of California [San Diego] (UC San Diego), University of California (UC)-University of California (UC), The Josephine Bay Paul Center for comparative molecular biology and evolution, Department of Geological Sciences [Providence], Brown University, School of Oceanography [Seattle], University of Washington [Seattle], Department of biochemistry & molecular biology, Dalhousie University [Halifax], National center for genome resources (NCGR), Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung (AWI), Institute of Marine and Coastal Science, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey [New Brunswick] (RU), Rutgers University System (Rutgers)-Rutgers University System (Rutgers), Department of Oceanography [College Station], Texas A&M University [College Station], Department of biology, University of Southern California (USC), University of Delaware [Newark], School of biological sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, Ecologie Systématique et Evolution (ESE), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-AgroParisTech-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Department of earth and environmental sciences and the Lamont-Doherty earth observatory, Columbia University [New York], Department of Molecular Biosciences [Oslo], Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences [Oslo], University of Oslo (UiO)-University of Oslo (UiO), Hawai'i Institute of Marine Biology, Hawai'i Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB), Department of biomedical sciences, University of Prince Edward Island, Graduate School of Oceanography [Narragansett], University of Rhode Island (URI), Department of cell and molecular biology, University of Rhode Island, University of Rhode Island (URI)-University of Rhode Island (URI), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), Jacobs University [Bremen], Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Department of biological sciences, Smith College [Northampton], University of South Alabama, Department of invertebrate zoology, Saint Petersburg State Technical University, Saint Petersburg State Polytechnical University (SPSPU)-Saint Petersburg State Polytechnical University (SPSPU), Department of genetics and evolution, Université de Genève = University of Geneva (UNIGE), Department of Marine sciences, University of Connecticut (UCONN), département de biologie, Université Laval [Québec] (ULaval), Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph, Department of zoology, University of British Columbia (UBC), Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences [NCSU] (MEAS), North Carolina State University [Raleigh] (NC State), University of North Carolina System (UNC)-University of North Carolina System (UNC), University of New Brunswick (UNB), School of biosciences and biotechnology, Università degli Studi di Camerino = University of Camerino (UNICAM), School of Environmental Sciences [Norwich], University of East Anglia [Norwich] (UEA), Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn (SZN), Plant Functional Biology and Climate Change Cluster (C3), University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Department of Marrine sciences, University of Puerto Rico (UPR), National Research Institute of Fisheries Science, University of Pisa - Università di Pisa, Biologie intégrative des organismes marins (BIOM), Observatoire océanologique de Banyuls (OOB), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Department of Chemistry and Geochemistry, Colorado School of Mines, department of biology, Lund University [Lund], Department of molecular and cell biology, Marine Biological Association of the UK, University of Western Ontario (UWO), Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, Section of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin [Austin], Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Diversité et Interactions au sein du Plancton Océanique (DIPO), Adaptation et diversité en milieu marin (AD2M), Station biologique de Roscoff [Roscoff] (SBR), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Station biologique de Roscoff [Roscoff] (SBR), department of microbiology and plant biology, University of Oklahoma (OU), Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML), Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, Princeton University, University of Britsh Columbia [Vancouver], University of California-University of California, University of Geneva [Switzerland], Università degli Studi di Camerino (UNICAM), Plymouth Marine Laboratory, and Roberts, Roland G.
Subjects: Genetics and Molecular Biology (all), Databases, Factual, animal genomics, Immunology and Microbiology (all), Biochemistry, Medical and Health Sciences, Transcriptome, transcriptome analysis, Community Page, sequence databases, Environmental Microbiology, Biology (General), Molecular Sequence Data, Sequence Analysis, Biodiversity, Eukaryota, Oceans and Seas, Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (all), Neuroscience (all), Medicine (all), Genetics, General Neuroscience, marine ecology, Biological Sciences, genome sequencing, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Biologie, QH301-705.5, Sequence analysis, Ecology (disciplines), Marine Biology, Genomics, Biology, Microbiology, General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, DNA sequencing, Databases, Microbial ecology, [SDV.BBM.GTP]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biochemistry, Molecular Biology/Genomics [q-bio.GN], 14. Life underwater, Life Below Water, Factual, Comparative genomics, Marine biology, Evolutionary Biology, General Immunology and Microbiology, Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences, Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Human Genome, Biology and Life Sciences, 15. Life on land, Evolutionary biology, plant genomics, Generic health relevance, genomic library construction, Genomic databases, Developmental Biology
Abstract: Microbial ecology is plagued by problems of an abstract nature. Cell sizes are so small and population sizes so large that both are virtually incomprehensible. Niches are so far from our everyday experience as to make their very definition elusive. Organisms that may be abundant and critical to our survival are little understood, seldom described and/or cultured, and sometimes yet to be even seen. One way to confront these problems is to use data of an even more abstract nature: molecular sequence data. Massive environmental nucleic acid sequencing, such as metagenomics or metatranscriptomics, promises functional analysis of microbial communities as a whole, without prior knowledge of which organisms are in the environment or exactly how they are interacting. But sequence-based ecological studies nearly always use a comparative approach, and that requires relevant reference sequences, which are an extremely limited resource when it comes to microbial eukaryotes [1]. In practice, this means sequence databases need to be populated with enormous quantities of data for which we have some certainties about the source. Most important is the taxonomic identity of the organism from which a sequence is derived and as much functional identification of the encoded proteins as possible. In an ideal world, such information would be available as a large set of complete, well-curated, and annotated genomes for all the major organisms from the environment in question. Reality substantially diverges from this ideal, but at least for bacterial molecular ecology, there is a database consisting of thousands of complete genomes from a wide range of taxa, supplemented by a phylogeny-driven approach to diversifying genomics [2]. For eukaryotes, the number of available genomes is far, far fewer, and we have relied much more heavily on random growth of sequence databases [3],[4], raising the question as to whether this is fit for purpose.
Published: 2014
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17. Computation of geostrophic streamfunction, its derivatives, and error estimates from an array of CPIES in Drake Passage

Author: Teresa K. Chereskin, Karen L. Tracey, Yvonne L. Firing, D. R. Watts, Christine Provost, Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO - UC San Diego), University of California [San Diego] (UC San Diego), University of California (UC)-University of California (UC), Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), NASA-California Institute of Technology (CALTECH), Graduate School of Oceanography [Narragansett], University of Rhode Island (URI), Austral, Boréal et Carbone (ABC), Laboratoire d'Océanographie et du Climat : Expérimentations et Approches Numériques (LOCEAN), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut Pierre-Simon-Laplace (IPSL (FR_636)), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut Pierre-Simon-Laplace (IPSL (FR_636)), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), University of California-University of California, Institut Pierre-Simon-Laplace (IPSL (FR_636)), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Institut Pierre-Simon-Laplace (IPSL (FR_636)), and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)
Subjects: Physics, Atmospheric Science, Advection, Baroclinity, Geopotential height, Ocean Engineering, Geometry, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-GEO-PH]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Geophysics [physics.geo-ph], Vorticity, Geodesy, Acoustic Doppler current profiler, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], Barotropic fluid, Stream function, 14. Life underwater, Geostrophic wind
Abstract: International audience; Current and pressure-recording inverted echo sounders (CPIES) were deployed in an eddy-resolving local dynamics array (LDA) in the eddy-rich polar frontal zone (PFZ) in Drake Passage as part of the cDrake experiment. Methods are described for calculating barotropic and baroclinic geostrophic streamfunction and its first, second, and third derivatives by objective mapping of current, pressure, or geopotential height anomaly data from a two-dimensional array of CPIES like the cDrake LDA. Modifications to previous methods result in improved dimensional error estimates on velocity and higher streamfunction derivatives. Simulations are used to test the reproduction of higher derivatives of streamfunction and to verify mapping error estimates. Three-day low-pass-filtered velocity in and around the cDrake LDA can be mapped with errors of 0.04 m s$^{-1}$ at 4000 dbar, increasing to 0.13 m s$^{-1}$ at the sea surface; these errors are small compared to typical speeds observed at these levels, 0.2 and 0.65 m s$^{-1}$ , respectively. Errors on vorticity are 9 x 10$^{-6}$s$^{-1}$ near the surface, decreasing with depth to 3 x 10$^{-6}$ s$^{-1}$ at 4000 dbar, whereas vorticities in the PFZ eddy field are 4 x 10$^{-5}$s$^{-1}$ (surface) to 1.3 x 10$^{-5}$s$^{-1}$ (4000 dbar). Vorticity gradient errors range from 4 x 10$^{-10}$ to 2 x 10$^{-10}$ m $^{-1}$s$^{-1}$ , just under half the size of typical PFZ vorticity gradients. Comparisons between cDrake mapped temperature and velocity fields and independent observations (moored current and temperature, lowered acoustic Doppler current profiler velocity, and satellite-derived surface currents) help validate the cDrake method and results.
Published: 2014
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18. Volatile cycling of H2O, CO2, F, and Cl in the HIMU mantle: A new window provided by melt inclusions from oceanic hot spot lavas at Mangaia, Cook Islands

Author: Erik H. Hauri, James M.D. Day, Martin J. Whitehouse, Allison A. Price, Nobumichi Shimizu, Rita A. Cabral, Katherine A. Kelley, Matthew G. Jackson, Estelle Rose-Koga, Kenneth T. Koga, Department of Earth and Environment [Boston], Boston University [Boston] (BU), Department of Earth and Environment, Boston University, Laboratoire Magmas et Volcans (LMV), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Jean Monnet [Saint-Étienne] (UJM)-Université Blaise Pascal - Clermont-Ferrand 2 (UBP)-Observatoire de Physique du Globe de Clermont-Ferrand (OPGC), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Blaise Pascal - Clermont-Ferrand 2 (UBP)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Department of Terrestrial Magnetism [Carnegie Institution], Carnegie Institution for Science [Washington], SwedishMuseumof Natural History, Department of Geological Sciences, Stockholm University, Department of Earth Science, University of California [Santa Barbara] (UCSB), University of California-University of California, Geosciences Research Division [La Jolla], Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), University of California [San Diego] (UC San Diego), University of California-University of California-University of California [San Diego] (UC San Diego), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), Graduate School of Oceanography [Narragansett], University of Rhode Island (URI), Observatoire de Physique du Globe de Clermont-Ferrand (OPGC), Université Blaise Pascal - Clermont-Ferrand 2 (UBP)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Blaise Pascal - Clermont-Ferrand 2 (UBP)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne (UJM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Carnegie Institution for Science, University of California [Santa Barbara] (UC Santa Barbara), University of California (UC)-University of California (UC), Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO - UC San Diego), and University of California (UC)-University of California (UC)-University of California [San Diego] (UC San Diego)
Subjects: HIMU, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Geochemistry, 010502 geochemistry & geophysics, melt inclusions, 01 natural sciences, Mantle (geology), chemistry.chemical_compound, Geochemistry and Petrology, Oceanic crust, [SDU.STU.GC]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Geochemistry, Mangaiahot spot, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Melt inclusions, Basalt, Radiogenic nuclide, Subduction, Trace element, Geophysics, volatiles, chemistry, 13. Climate action, Carbonate, Cook Islands, mantle geochemistry, Geology
Abstract: International audience; Mangaia hosts the most radiogenic Pb-isotopic compositions observed in ocean island basalts and represents the HIMU (high µ = 238U/204Pb) mantle end-member, thought to result from recycled oceanic crust. Complete geochemical characterization of the HIMU mantle end-member has been inhibited due to a lack of deep submarine glass samples from HIMU localities. We homogenized olivine-hosted melt inclusions separated from Mangaia lavas and the resulting glassy inclusions made possible the first volatile abundances to be obtained from the HIMU mantle end-member. We also report major and trace element abundances and Pb-isotopic ratios on the inclusions, which have HIMU isotopic fingerprints. We evaluate the samples for processes that could modify the volatile and trace element abundances postmantle melting, including diffusive Fe and H2O loss, degassing, and assimilation. H2O/Ce ratios vary from 119 to 245 in the most pristine Mangaia inclusions; excluding an inclusion that shows evidence for assimilation, the primary magmatic H2O/Ce ratios vary up to ∼200, and are consistent with significant dehydration of oceanic crust during subduction and long-term storage in the mantle. CO2 concentrations range up to 2346 ppm CO2 in the inclusions. Relatively high CO2 in the inclusions, combined with previous observations of carbonate blebs in other Mangaia melt inclusions, highlight the importance of CO2 for the generation of the HIMU mantle. F/Nd ratios in the inclusions (30 ± 9; 2σ standard deviation) are higher than the canonical ratio observed in oceanic lavas, and Cl/K ratios (0.079 ± 0.028) fall in the range of pristine mantle (0.02–0.08).
Published: 2014
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19. Haslea ostrearia-like Diatoms: Biodiversity out of the Blue

Author: Gastineau, Romain, Davidovich, Nikolai, Hansen, Gert, Rines, Jan, Wulff, Angela, Kaczmarska, Irena, Ehrman, James, Hermann, Dorothée, Maumus, Florian, Hardivillier, Yann, Leignel, Vincent, Jacquette, Boris, Meleder, Vona, Hallegraeff, Gustaaf, Yallop, Marian, Perkins, Rupert, Cadoret, Jean-Paul, Saint-Jean, Bruno, Carrier, Gregory, Mouget, J.-L., LUNAM Université [Nantes Angers Le Mans], National Academy of Sciences, Department of Biology [Copenhagen], Faculty of Science [Copenhagen], University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (KU)-University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (KU), Graduate School of Oceanography [Narragansett], University of Rhode Island (URI), Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences [Gothenburg], University of Gothenburg (GU), Department of biology, Mount Allison University, Unité de Recherche Génomique Info (URGI), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), University of Tasmania [Hobart, Australia] (UTAS), School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol [Bristol], Cardiff University, and Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER)
Subjects: Diatoms, Pigment, [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio], [SDV.BV]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Vegetal Biology, Haslea ostrearia, Marennine
Abstract: International audience; Diatoms are usually referred to as golden-brown microalgae, due to the colour of their plastids and to their pigment composition, mainly carotenoids (fucoxanthin, diadinoxanthin, diatoxanthin), which mask chlorophylls a and c. The species Haslea ostrearia Gaillon/Bory (Simonsen) appears unique because of its extraplastidial bluish colour, a consequence of the presence of a water-soluble blue pigment at cell apices, marennine. When released in seawater, marenbine can be fixed on gills of oysters and other bivalves, which turn green. This greening phenomenon is economically exploited in Southwestern France, as it gives an added value to oysters. For decades, this singularity ascribed a worldwide distribution to H. ostrearia, first as Vibrio ostrearius, then Navicula ostrearia, last as H. ostrearia, when the genus Haslea was proposed by R. Simonsen (1974). Indeed, this 'birthmark' (presence of blue apices) made H. ostrearia easily recognisable without further scrutiny and identification of the microalga as well as its presence easily deduced from the greening of bivalves. Consequently, the widely admitted cosmopolitan character of H. ostrearia has only been questioned recently, following the discovery in 2008, of a new species of blue diatom in the Black Sea, Haslea karadagensis. The biodiversity of blue diatoms suddenly increased with the finding of other blue species in the Mediterranean Sea, the Canary Islands, etc., the taxonomic characterization of which is in progress. This review thus focuses on the unsuspected biodiversity of blue diatoms within the genus Haslea. Methods for species determination (morphometrics, chemotaxonomy, genomics), as well as a new species, are presented and discussed.
Published: 2014
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20. Equatorial Pacific peak in biological production regulated by nutrient and upwelling during the late Pliocene/early Pleistocene cooling

Author: Ralph R Schneider, Johan Etourneau, Philippe Martinez, Rebecca S. Robinson, Laboratoire d'Océanographie et du Climat : Expérimentations et Approches Numériques (LOCEAN), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut Pierre-Simon-Laplace (IPSL (FR_636)), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Graduate School of Oceanography [Narragansett], University of Rhode Island (URI), Environnements et Paléoenvironnements OCéaniques (EPOC), Observatoire aquitain des sciences de l'univers (OASU), Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1 (UB)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1 (UB)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (CAU), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Institut Pierre-Simon-Laplace (IPSL (FR_636)), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), UMR 5805 Environnements et Paléoenvironnements Océaniques et Continentaux (EPOC), and Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École pratique des hautes études (EPHE)
Subjects: Early Pleistocene, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, [SDU.STU.GP]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Geophysics [physics.geo-ph], lcsh:QE1-996.5, lcsh:Life, myr, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-GEO-PH]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Geophysics [physics.geo-ph], 010502 geochemistry & geophysics, 01 natural sciences, Latitude, lcsh:Geology, Sea surface temperature, lcsh:QH501-531, Oceanography, Nutrient, 13. Climate action, lcsh:QH540-549.5, Upwelling, Sedimentary rock, lcsh:Ecology, 14. Life underwater, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Geology, Earth-Surface Processes, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Abstract: International audience; The largest increase in export production in the eastern Pacific of the last 5.3 Myr (million years) occurred between 2.2 and 1.6 Myr, a time of major climatic and oceanographic reorganization in the region. Here, we investigate the causes of this event using reconstructions of export production, nutrient supply and oceanic conditions across the Pliocene-Pleistocene in the eastern equatorial Pacific (EEP) for the last 3.2 Myr. Our results indicate that the export production peak corresponds to a cold interval marked by high nutrient supply relative to consumption, as revealed by the low bulk sedimentary 15N/14N (δ15N) and alkenone-derived sea surface temperature (SST) values. This ∼0.6 million year long episode of enhanced delivery of nutrients to the surface of the EEP was predominantly initiated through the upwelling of nutrient-enriched water sourced in high latitudes. In addition, this phenomenon was likely promoted by the regional intensification of upwelling in response to the development of intense Walker and Hadley atmospheric circulations. Increased nutrient consumption in the polar oceans and enhanced denitrification in the equatorial regions restrained nutrient supply and availability and terminated the high export production event.
Published: 2013
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21. The stable vanadium isotope composition of the mantle and mafic lavas

Author: Jason Harvey, Alex N. Halliday, Kenji Shimizu, Katherine A. Kelley, Dmitri A. Ionov, Yaoling Niu, Sune G. Nielsen, Julie Prytulak, Kenneth W.W. Sims, David W. Peate, Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics [Oxford] ( AOPP ), University of Oxford [Oxford], School of Earth Sciences [Bristol], University of Bristol [Bristol], Department of Earth Sciences, Department of Geology & Geophysics, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution ( WHOI ), Laboratoire Magmas et Volcans ( LMV ), Université Blaise Pascal - Clermont-Ferrand 2 ( UBP ) -Institut national des sciences de l'Univers ( INSU - CNRS ) -Université Jean Monnet [Saint-Étienne] ( UJM ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), Institute of Geophysics and Tectonics, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island ( URI ), Department of Earth Science, University of Durham, Department of Geosciences, University of Iowa [Iowa], Institute for Research on Earth Evolution, Japan Agency of Marine-Earth, Department of Geology and Geophysics [Laramie], University of Wyoming ( UW ), Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics [Oxford] (AOPP), Department of Earth Sciences [Oxford], Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), Laboratoire Magmas et Volcans (LMV), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Jean Monnet [Saint-Étienne] (UJM)-Université Blaise Pascal - Clermont-Ferrand 2 (UBP)-Observatoire de Physique du Globe de Clermont-Ferrand (OPGC), Université Blaise Pascal - Clermont-Ferrand 2 (UBP)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Géosciences Montpellier, Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Université des Antilles (UA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Graduate School of Oceanography [Narragansett], University of Rhode Island (URI), Durham University, University of Iowa [Iowa City], Institute for Research on Earth Evolution [Yokosuka] (IFREE), Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), University of Wyoming (UW), University of Oxford, Department of Geology and Geophysics [Woods Hole], Observatoire de Physique du Globe de Clermont-Ferrand (OPGC), Université Blaise Pascal - Clermont-Ferrand 2 (UBP)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Blaise Pascal - Clermont-Ferrand 2 (UBP)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne (UJM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université des Antilles et de la Guyane (UAG)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université des Antilles (UA)
Subjects: 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, vanadium isotopes, Large igneous province, [SDE.MCG]Environmental Sciences/Global Changes, Geochemistry, Mineralogy, 010502 geochemistry & geophysics, 01 natural sciences, Mantle (geology), high temperature stable isotope fractionation, chemistry.chemical_compound, Geochemistry and Petrology, Ultramafic rock, Mineral redox buffer, [SDU.STU.GC]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Geochemistry, Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous), 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Basalt, Partial melting, bulk silicate Earth, [ SDU.STU.GC ] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Geochemistry, Silicate, [ SDE.MCG ] Environmental Sciences/Global Changes, Geophysics, chemistry, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, Mafic, Geology
Abstract: International audience; Vanadium exists in multiple valence states under terrestrial conditions (2+, 3+, 4+, 5+) and its isotopic composition in magmas potentially reflects the oxidation state of their mantle source. We present the first stable vanadium isotope measurements of 64 samples of well-characterized mantle-derived mafic and ultramafic rocks from diverse localities. The δ51V ranges from −0.27‰ to −1.29‰, reported relative to an Alfa Aesar (AA) vanadium solution standard defined as 0‰. This dataset is used to assess the effects of alteration, examine co-variation with other geochemical characteristics and define a value for the bulk silicate Earth (BSE). Variably serpentinised peridotites show no resolvable alteration-induced δ51V fractionation. Likewise, altered mafic oceanic crustal rocks have identical δ51V to fresh hand-picked MORB glass. Intense seafloor weathering can result in slightly (∼0.2-0.3‰) heavier isotope compositions, possibly related to late-stage addition of vanadium. The robustness of δ51V to common alteration processes bodes well for its potential application to ancient mafic material. The average δ51V of mafic lavas, including MORB, Icelandic tholeiites and lavas from the Shatsky Rise large igneous province is −0.88±0.27‰ 2sd. Peridotites show a large range in primary δ51V (−0.62‰ to −1.17‰), which co-varies positively with vanadium concentrations and indices of fertility such as Al2O3. Although these data suggest preferential extraction of heavier isotopes during partial melting, the isotope composition of basalts (δ51V=−0.88±0.27‰ 2sd) and MORB glass in particular (δ51V=−0.95±0.13‰ 2sd) is lighter than fertile peridotites and thus difficult to reconcile with a melt extraction scenario. Determination of fractionation factors between melt and mineral phases such as pyroxenes and garnet are necessary to fully understand the correlation. We arrive at an estimate of δ51VBSE=−0.7±0.2‰ (2sd) for the bulk silicate Earth by averaging fertile, unmetasomatised peridotites. This provides a benchmark for both high and low temperature applications addressing planet formation, cosmochemical comparisons of the Earth and extraterrestrial material, and an inorganic baseline for future biogeochemical investigations. Whilst δ51V could relate to oxidation state and thus oxygen fugacity, further work is required to resolve the isotopic effects of oxidation state, partial melting, and mineral fractionation factors.
Published: 2013
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22. Sustained monitoring of the Southern Ocean at Drake passage: past achievements and future priorities

Author: David P. Marshall, M. A. Morales Maqueda, Grant R. Bigg, Loïc Jullion, Lesley C. Allison, Harry Leach, Brian A. King, Angela Hibbert, Teresa K. Chereskin, Philip L. Woodworth, Yueng-Djern Lenn, Karen J. Heywood, Kathleen A. Donohue, Jean-Baptiste Sallée, Helen L. Johnson, David R. Munday, Andrew McC. Hogg, Chris W. Hughes, Michael P. Meredith, Alberto C. Naveira Garabato, Christine Provost, Janet Sprintall, British Antarctic Survey (BAS), Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), National Oceanography Centre (NOC), Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO - UC San Diego), University of California [San Diego] (UC San Diego), University of California (UC)-University of California (UC), Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics [Oxford] (AOPP), University of Oxford, Department of Meteorology [Reading], University of Reading (UOR), Department of Geography [Sheffield], University of Sheffield [Sheffield], Graduate School of Oceanography [Narragansett], University of Rhode Island (URI), School of Environmental Sciences [Norwich], University of East Anglia [Norwich] (UEA), Department of Earth Ocean and Ecological Sciences [Liverpool], University of Liverpool, Research School of Earth Sciences [Canberra] (RSES), Australian National University (ANU), National Oceanography Centre [Southampton] (NOC), University of Southampton, Bangor University, Austral, Boréal et Carbone (ABC), Laboratoire d'Océanographie et du Climat : Expérimentations et Approches Numériques (LOCEAN), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut Pierre-Simon-Laplace (IPSL (FR_636)), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut Pierre-Simon-Laplace (IPSL (FR_636)), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), University of California-University of California, University of Oxford [Oxford], Institut Pierre-Simon-Laplace (IPSL (FR_636)), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Institut Pierre-Simon-Laplace (IPSL (FR_636)), and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)
Subjects: 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, 010505 oceanography, [SDU.STU.GP]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Geophysics [physics.geo-ph], [SDE.MCG]Environmental Sciences/Global Changes, Ocean current, Context (language use), [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-GEO-PH]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Geophysics [physics.geo-ph], Circumpolar star, 01 natural sciences, Lower limb, Marine Sciences, Geophysics, Oceanography, 13. Climate action, Environmental science, 14. Life underwater, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Abstract: Paper number: 2010RG000348; International audience; Drake Passage is the narrowest constriction of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) in the Southern Ocean, with implications for global ocean circulation and climate. We review the long-term sustained monitoring programs that have been conducted at Drake Passage, dating back to the early part of the twentieth century. Attention is drawn to numerous breakthroughs that have been made from these programs, including (1) the first determinations of the complex ACC structure and early quantifications of its transport; (2) realization that the ACC transport is remarkably steady over interannual and longer periods, and a growing understanding of the processes responsible for this; (3) recognition of the role of coupled climate modes in dictating the horizontal transport and the role of anthropogenic processes in this; and (4) understanding of mechanisms driving changes in both the upper and lower limbs of the Southern Ocean overturning circulation and their impacts. It is argued that monitoring of this passage remains a high priority for oceanographic and climate research but that strategic improvements could be made concerning how this is conducted. In particular, long-term programs should concentrate on delivering quantifications of key variables of direct relevance to large-scale environmental issues: In this context, the time-varying overturning circulation is, if anything, even more compelling a target than the ACC flow. Further, there is a need for better international resource sharing and improved spatiotemporal coordination of the measurements. If achieved, the improvements in understanding of important climatic issues deriving from Drake Passage monitoring can be sustained into the future.
Published: 2011
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23. Deformation and splitting of baroclinic eddies encountering a tall seamount

Author: Georgi Sutyrin, Xavier Carton, Steven Herbette, Graduate School of Oceanography [Narragansett], University of Rhode Island (URI), Laboratoire de physique des océans (LPO), and Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Baroclinity, Seamount, Computational Mechanics, 01 natural sciences, Physics::Fluid Dynamics, Geochemistry and Petrology, Potential vorticity, 14. Life underwater, Physics::Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics, [SDU.STU.OC]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Oceanography, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, geography, Isopycnal, geography.geographical_feature_category, Deformation (mechanics), 010505 oceanography, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Geophysics, Radius, Vortex, Oceanography, Eddy, Mechanics of Materials, Geology
Abstract: International audience; The transformation of baroclinic eddies encountering a tall seamount is explored using a three-layer primitive equation model on the β-plane. The topography is finite in that the seamount penetrates the isopycnal layer in which the eddy resides, but does not span the entire fluid depth. In our numerical simulations, the eddies are represented by potential vorticity anomalies in the upper and middle layers, and propagating towards the seamount due to the beta-effect. Circulations created near the topography, both by fluid removed from the seamount and by external fluid stranded over the seamount, play a key role in the drift, deformation, and erosion of the approaching eddies. When the radius of the seamount is small, the deviation of the eddy trajectory is well described by a simple kinematic model that does not take into account deformations of the vortex cores. For wider seamounts, such interactions may result in horizontal and/or vertical splitting of the vortex core, i.e., in increased occurrences of eddy destruction. In particular, an interesting mechanism is found, related to enhancement of topographic circulation by potential vorticity entrained from the vortex core in the middle layer, and resulting in strong deformations and splitting of the upper layer core. Numerical estimates of the transformed eddy structure indicate that topographic interactions provide powerful mechanisms for significantly influencing baroclinic eddy evolution. Our results are summarized in a specific nondimensional parameter space according to the eddy evolution.
Published: 2011
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24. Responsible use of resources for sustainable aquaculture

Author: Costa-Pierce, B.A., Bartley, D.M., Hasan, M., Yusoff, F., Kaushik, Sadasivam, Rana, K., Lemos, D., Bueno, P., Yakupitiyage, A., Graduate School of Oceanography [Narragansett], University of Rhode Island (URI), FAO Fisheries Division (FAO), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations [Rome, Italie] (FAO), Universiti Putra Malaysia, Nutrition, Métabolisme, Aquaculture (NUMEA), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Stellenbosch University, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Asian Institute of Technology, Partenaires INRAE, and Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Labo/service de l'auteur, Ville service, ITA.
Subjects: aquaculture, production efficiency, responsible resource use, sustainability, [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio], [INFO]Computer Science [cs], ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS
Abstract: International audience
Published: 2010

25. Fore-arc basalts and subduction initiation in the Izu-Bonin-Mariana system

Author: Regan, Mark K., Ishizuka, Osamu, Stern, Robert J., Kelley, Katherine A., Ohara, Yasuhiko, Blichert-Toft, Janne, Bloomer, Sherman H., Cash, Jennifer, Fryer, Patricia, Hanan, Barry, Hickey-Vargas, Rosemary, Ishii, Teruaki, Kimura, Jun-Ichi, Peate, David W., Rowe, Michael C., Woods, Melinda, Department of Geoscience, University of Iowa [Iowa City], Institute of Geoscience and Geoinformation, Geological Survey of Japan, Geoscience Department, University of Texas at Dallas [Richardson] (UT Dallas), Graduate School of Oceanography [Narragansett], University of Rhode Island (URI), Hydrographic and Ocean Department of Japan, Japan Coast Guard Academy, Laboratoire de Sciences de la Terre (LST), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon), Oregon State University (OSU), Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology (HIGP), University of Hawai‘i [Mānoa] (UHM), Department of Geological Sciences [San Diego], San Diego State University (SDSU), Department of Earth Sciences [Miami], Florida International University [Miami] (FIU), Institute for Research on Earth Evolution [Yokosuka] (IFREE), Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), NSF : 0827817, 0405651, OCE0001824, NSF MARGINS : OCE0001902, EAR0840862, French Institut National des Sciences de l'Univers : INSU, École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Department of Geological Sciences [San Diego State Univ] (Geology SDSU)
Subjects: fore arc, ophiolite, basal t, [SDU.STU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences, Mariana, geochemistry
Abstract: International audience; Recent diving with the JAMSTEC Shinkai 6500 manned submersible in the Mariana fore arc southeast of Guam has discovered that MORB-like tholeiitic basalts crop out over large areas. These ''fore-arc basalts'' (FAB) underlie boninites and overlie diabasic and gabbroic rocks. Potential origins include eruption at a spreading center before subduction began or eruption during near-trench spreading after subduction began. FAB trace element patterns are similar to those of MORB and most Izu-Bonin-Mariana (IBM) back-arc lavas. However, Ti/V and Yb/V ratios are lower in FAB reflecting a stronger prior depletion of their mantle source compared to the source of basalts from mid-ocean ridges and back-arc basins. Some FAB also have higher concentrations of fluid-soluble elements than do spreading center lavas. Thus, the most likely origin of FAB is that they were the first lavas to erupt when the Pacific Plate began sinking beneath the Philippine Plate at about 51 Ma. The magmas were generated by mantle decompression during near-trench spreading with little or no mass transfer from the subducting plate. Boninites were generated later when the residual, highly depleted mantle melted at shallow levels after fluxing by a water-rich fluid derived from the sinking Pacific Plate. This magmatic stratigraphy of FAB overlain by transitional lavas and boninites is similar to that found in many ophiolites, suggesting that ophiolitic assemblages might commonly originate from near-trench volcanism caused by subduction initiation. Indeed, the widely dispersed Jurassic and Cretaceous Tethyan ophiolites could represent two such significant subduction initiation events.
Published: 2010
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26. Toward linking ocean models to fish population dynamics

Author: Lawrence J. Buckley, Lauren B. Buckley, Graduate School of Oceanography [Narragansett], University of Rhode Island (URI), National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS), The authors would like to thank the IGBP programs IMBER and GLOBEC as well as the Network of Excellence EUR-OCEANS of the European Union's 6th Framework Program for funding the symposium on 'Parameterization of Trophic Interactions in Ecosystem Modelling', Cadiz, March 2007, and European Project: 511106,EUR-OCEANS NoE
Subjects: 0106 biological sciences, education.field_of_study, Ecology, 010604 marine biology & hydrobiology, Population, Geology, Aquatic Science, 010603 evolutionary biology, 01 natural sciences, Individual based, Geography, 14. Life underwater, education, Population dynamics of fisheries, [SDU.STU.OC]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Oceanography
Abstract: International audience; We discuss Lehodey et al.'s (2009) approach to linking ocean models to population dynamics of large marine predators, consider its benefits and limitations, and outline alternative approaches. We advocate a middle ground between Lehodey et al.'s pragmatic, phenomenological approach and the detailed mechanistic approach common to most individual based models. These models should capture the essence of critical processes controlling recruitment and dynamic density-dependent and environmental effects.
Published: 2009
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27. Spherulite crystallization induces Fe-redox redistribution in silicic melt

Author: M. Amelia V. Logan, Katherine A. Kelley, Hugh Tuffen, Jonathan M. Castro, Elizabeth Cottrell, Institut des Sciences de la Terre d'Orléans (ISTO), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Université de Tours (UT)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Department of Mineral Sciences [Washington], Smithsonian Institution, Department of Environmental Science [Lancaster], Lancaster University, Graduate School of Oceanography [Narragansett], University of Rhode Island (URI), and Université de Tours-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: Obsidian, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Hydrogen, Spherulite, Reducing agent, [SDE.MCG]Environmental Sciences/Global Changes, Mineralogy, Silicic, chemistry.chemical_element, Crystal growth, 010502 geochemistry & geophysics, 01 natural sciences, Redox, law.invention, chemistry.chemical_compound, Geochemistry and Petrology, law, [SDU.STU.VO]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Volcanology, Crystallization, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Magnetite, Oxidation–reduction, Geology, Silicate, XANES, chemistry, Chemical engineering, FTIR
Abstract: International audience; Rhyolitic obsidians from Krafla volcano, Iceland, record the interaction between mobile hydrous species liberated during crystal growth and the reduction of ferric iron in the silicate melt. We performed synchrotron µ-FTIR and µ-XANES measurements along a transect extending from a spherulite into optically distinct colorless and brown glass zones. Measurements show that the colorless glass is enriched in OH groups and depleted in ferric iron, while the brown glass shows the opposite relationship. The color shift between brown and clear glass is sharp, suggesting that the colorless glass zone was produced by a redox front that originated from the spherulite margin and moved through surrounding melt during crystallization. We conclude that the most likely reducing agent is hydrogen, produced by magnetite crystallization within the spherulite. The Krafla obsidians dramatically capture redox disequilibrium on the micoscale and highlight the importance of hydrous fluid liberation and late-stage crystallization to the redox signature of glassy lavas.
Published: 2009
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28. Integrable motion of a vortex dipole in an axisymmetric flow

Author: Xavier Carton, Xavier Perrot, Georgi Sutyrin, Graduate School of Oceanography [Narragansett], University of Rhode Island (URI), Laboratoire de physique des océans (LPO), and Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: Physics, Angular momentum, Quasi geostrophic, General Physics and Astronomy, Vorticity, Quasi-geostrophic, 01 natural sciences, 010305 fluids & plasmas, Vortex, External flow, Vortex ring, Physics::Fluid Dynamics, Dipole, Classical mechanics, Vortex stretching, 0103 physical sciences, Rotating fluids, Burgers vortex, Vortex dynamics, Topography interaction, 010306 general physics, [SDU.STU.OC]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Oceanography
Abstract: International audience; The evolution of a self-propelling vortex dipole, embedded in an external nondivergent flow with constant potential vorticity, is studied in an equivalent-barotropic model commonly used in geophysical, astrophysical and plasma studies. In addition to the conservation of the Hamiltonian for an arbitrary point vortex dipole, it is found that the angular momentum is also conserved when the external flow is axisymmetric. This reduces the original four degrees of freedom to only two, so that the solution is expressed in quadratures. In particular, the scattering of antisymmetric dipoles approaching from the infinity is analyzed in the presence of an axisymmetric oceanic flow typical for the vicinity of isolated seamounts.
Published: 2008
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29. Evolution of an intense baroclinic vortex in a periodic sheared flow

Author: Sutyrin, G., Carton, X., Graduate School of Oceanography [Narragansett], University of Rhode Island (URI), Laboratoire de physique des océans (LPO), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Borisov A.V., Kozlov V.V., Mamaev I.S. and Sokolovskiy M.A., Cudennec, Francoise, and Borisov A.V., Kozlov V.V., Mamaev I.S. and Sokolovskiy M.A.
Subjects: [SDU.STU.OC] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Oceanography, [SDU.STU.OC]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Oceanography
Abstract: ISBN 978-1-4020-6743-3
Published: 2008

30. A trajectory-based estimate of the tropospheric ozone column using the residual method

Author: Hennie Kelder, S. Chandra, Pieternel F. Levelt, Holger Vömel, E. Joseph, Esko Kyrö, S. J. Oltmans, Valery Dorokhov, Anne M. Thompson, Lucien Froidevaux, David J. Moore, Signe B. Andersen, John T. Merrill, Gérard Ancellet, René Stübi, Susan E. Strahan, P. Viatte, Jonathan Davies, Georg Hansen, Masatomo Fujiwara, B. Bojkov, Nathaniel J. Livesey, P. von der Gathen, Gert J. R. Coetzee, H. De Backer, G. Koenig-Langlo, Bryan N. Duncan, P. Skrivankova, Hans Claude, David W. Tarasick, Pawan K. Bhartia, Greg Bodeker, Gary A. Morris, Sophie Godin-Beekmann, Margarita Yela, Jacquelyn C. Witte, H. Dier, Beverly J. Johnson, Marc Allaart, M. C. Parrondos, Bertrand Calpini, Emilio Cuevas, G. Zablocki, Susan S. Kulawik, Françoise Posny, Mark R. Schoeberl, Michael J. Newchurch, F. J. Schmidlin, Alberto Redondas, C. P. Leong, Jerald R. Ziemke, Valérie Thouret, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Goddard Earth Sciences and Technology Center (GEST), University of Maryland [Baltimore County] (UMBC), University of Maryland System-University of Maryland System, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), NASA-California Institute of Technology (CALTECH), Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI), Science Systems and Applications, Inc. [Lanham] (SSAI), PennState Meteorology Department, Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), Penn State System-Penn State System, Izaña Atmospheric Research Center (IARC), Agencia Estatal de Meteorología (AEMet), Environment Canada (Downsview), National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research [Lauder] (NIWA), Norwegian Institute for Air Research (NILU), NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado [Boulder]-National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Department of Atmospheric Science [Huntsville], University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), Service d'aéronomie (SA), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Meteorologisches Observatorium Hohenpeißenberg (MOHp), Deutscher Wetterdienst [Offenbach] (DWD), Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI), Arctic Research Centre of Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI), Laboratorio de Atmosfera [Madrid], Spanish Space Agency, Centre of Aerology [Poland], Institute of Meteorology and Water Management - National Research Institute (IMGW - PIB), United Kingdom Met Office [Exeter], Lindenberg Meteorological Observatory - Richard Assmann Observatory (MOL-RAO), Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung (AWI), Payerne Aerological Station, Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss, Czech Hydrometeorological Institute (CHMI), Central Aerological Observatory (CAO), Russian Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring (Roshydromet), Institut Royal Météorologique de Belgique [Bruxelles] - Royal Meteorological Institute (IRM), Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism, Marine and Coastal Management, South African Government, Graduate School of Environmental Science [Sapporo], Hokkaido University [Sapporo, Japan], Laboratoire d'aérologie (LAERO), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de physique de l'atmosphère (LPA), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de La Réunion (UR)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Department of Physics and Astronomy [Valparaiso], Valparaiso University, Graduate School of Oceanography [Narragansett], University of Rhode Island (URI), Malaysian Meteorological Department (MetMalaysia), Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation [Malaysia] (MOSTI), Howard University, Institut Royal Météorologique de Belgique [Bruxelles] (IRM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, and Fluids and Flows
Subjects: Atmospheric Science, Residual method, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Microwave Limb Sounder, Soil Science, 010501 environmental sciences, Aquatic Science, Oceanography, Atmospheric sciences, 01 natural sciences, Troposphere, chemistry.chemical_compound, Geochemistry and Petrology, Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous), pollution, Tropospheric ozone, Stratosphere, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Earth-Surface Processes, Water Science and Technology, Ozone Monitoring Instrument, tropospheric ozone, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-AO-PH]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics [physics.ao-ph], Ecology, Paleontology, Forestry, air quality, Geophysics, Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer, chemistry, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, Climatology, Middle latitudes, Environmental science, Tropospheric column ozone, Tropopause
Abstract: We estimate the tropospheric column ozone using a forward trajectory model to increase the horizontal resolution of the Aura Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS) derived stratospheric column ozone. Subtracting the MLS stratospheric column from Ozone Monitoring Instrument total column measurements gives the trajectory enhanced tropospheric ozone residual (TTOR). Because of different tropopause definitions, we validate the basic residual technique by computing the 200-hPa-to-surface column and comparing it to the same product from ozonesondes and Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer measurements. Comparisons show good agreement in the tropics and reasonable agreement at middle latitudes, but there is a persistent low bias in the TTOR that may be due to a slight high bias in MLS stratospheric column. With the improved stratospheric column resolution, we note a strong correlation of extratropical tropospheric ozone column anomalies with probable troposphere-stratosphere exchange events or folds. The folds can be identified by their colocation with strong horizontal tropopause gradients. TTOR anomalies due to folds may be mistaken for pollution events since folds often occur in the Atlantic and Pacific pollution corridors. We also compare the 200-hPa-to-surface column with Global Modeling Initiative chemical model estimates of the same quantity. While the tropical comparisons are good, we note that chemical model variations in 200-hPa-to-surface column at middle latitudes are much smaller than seen in the TTOR.
Published: 2007
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31. Vortex interaction with a zonal Rossby wave in a quasi-geostrophic model

Author: Xavier Carton, Georgi Sutyrin, Graduate School of Oceanography [Narragansett], University of Rhode Island (URI), Laboratoire de physique des océans (LPO), and Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: Atmospheric Science, Spectral model, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Starting vortex, Oceanography, 01 natural sciences, 010305 fluids & plasmas, Physics::Fluid Dynamics, Rossby wave, Vortex stretching, Condensed Matter::Superconductivity, Zonal and meridional drift, 0103 physical sciences, Horseshoe vortex, Computers in Earth Sciences, [SDU.STU.OC]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Oceanography, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Physics, Beta-gyres, Analytical theory, Breaking wave, Geology, Mechanics, Coherent vortex, Vortex ring, Vortex, Quasi-geostrophic dynamics, Classical mechanics, Burgers vortex
Abstract: International audience; An analytical theory is presented for the motion of a localized vortex in the presence of a zonal Rossby wave on the β-plane. In the framework of the equivalent-barotropic quasi-geostrophic model, the analytical method developed by Sutyrin and Flierl [Sutyrin G.G., Flierl G.R., 1994. Intense vortex motion on the β-plane: development of the beta gyres. J. Atmos. Sci. 51, 773–790] for intense vortices with piecewise-constant potential vorticity is generalized to take into account a slowly propagating Rossby wave which modifies the background potential vorticity. The predictions of these asymptotic expansions are compared with the results of numerical simulations. The theory describes the vortex advection by the wave and the vortex drift due to the background potential vorticity gradient. The net vortex drift speed due to the wave is found to be smaller than the maximum wave velocity; this is due to the baroclinic View the MathML source-effect and to the periodic structure of the background potential vorticity gradient. Besides known elliptical core deformations, triangular deformations are generated by the wave on the core boundary. Additionally, the planetary View the MathML source-effect provides a predominantly westward vortex drift with nearly the same speed as the wave propagation speed. The asymptotic theory is shown to agree well the results of a numerical pseudo-spectral, high-resolution biperiodic model when the vortex velocity is much larger than the wave velocity. Both meridional and zonal vortex drifts are slightly overestimated when the wave velocity is comparable with the vortex velocity. Vortex size is shown to be more influential on vortex trajectory than the Rossby wave length. In particular, smaller vortices drift westward farther and faster than large ones. Vortex core deformations typically contain modes 2 and 3 with a stronger mode 3 component for more intense Rossby waves as predicted by theory.
Published: 2006
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32. Rhenium–osmium isotope systematics in MORB from the Southern Mid-Atlantic Ridge (40–50 S)

Author: Stéphane Escrig, Pierre Schiano, Jean-Guy Schilling, Claude J. Allègre, Laboratoire de Géochimie et Cosmochimie, IPG PARIS, Laboratoire Magmas et Volcans (LMV), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Jean Monnet [Saint-Étienne] (UJM)-Université Blaise Pascal - Clermont-Ferrand 2 (UBP)-Observatoire de Physique du Globe de Clermont-Ferrand (OPGC), Université Blaise Pascal - Clermont-Ferrand 2 (UBP)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Graduate School of Oceanography [Narragansett], University of Rhode Island (URI), Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPG Paris), Observatoire de Physique du Globe de Clermont-Ferrand (OPGC), and Université Blaise Pascal - Clermont-Ferrand 2 (UBP)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Blaise Pascal - Clermont-Ferrand 2 (UBP)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne (UJM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Geochemistry, [SDU.STU.PE]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Petrography, chemistry.chemical_element, Mid-Atlantic Ridge, 010502 geochemistry & geophysics, 01 natural sciences, Mantle (geology), upper mantle, Geochemistry and Petrology, Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous), Osmium, DUPAL anomaly, 14. Life underwater, Metasomatism, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Isotope, Continental crust, mantle heterogeneity, Trace element, osmium, MORB, Plume, Geophysics, chemistry, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, mid-ocean ridge basalts, Geology
Abstract: International audience; We present 27 osmium isotopic analyses and Re–Os contents in MORB glasses from the South Atlantic ridge (40°–50° S), an area showing an important mantle source heterogeneity expressed by large variations in trace element and Sr, Nd and Pb isotope compositions. Os concentrations are very low and range from 1.37 to 12.47 ppt and Re concentrations range from to 0.44 to 2.13 ppb. The 187Os / 188Os ratios vary from 0.1314 to 0.2316 and define a global positive correlation with 1 / Os. A multidimensional analysis of our dataset reveals that 187Os / 188Os ratio is independent from the other isotopic systems or that it provides complementary information on the nature of the processes affecting the upper mantle. Using trace element and Sr isotopic ratios to distinguish the different processes affecting the South Atlantic MORB source, our results enable an assessment of their effects on the Os isotopic composition. The variable 187Os / 188Os ratios of N-MORB samples could be attributed to metasomatism of the asthenospheric mantle by melt percolation related to an ancient subducting zone. The 187Os / 188Os ratio appears also to be very sensitive to plume-ridge interaction and its latitudinal variation along the 47.35°–48.5° S segment confirms the migration of material from the Discovery plume southward the Agulhas FZ. Finally, associated to Pb-Sr-Nd isotopic ratios, the 187Os / 188Os ratios measured in E-MORB from the 48.5°–49.2° S segment confirm that delaminated lower continental crust is responsible for the DUPAL signature observed in the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans.
Published: 2005
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33. Geochimical segmentation of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge north of Iceland and ridge-hot spot interaction in the North Atlantic

Author: Blichert-Toft, Janne, Agranier, Arnaud, Andres, Magdalena, Kingsley, Richard, Schilling, Jean-Guy, Albarède, Francis, Laboratoire de Sciences de la Terre (LST), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon), Graduate School of Oceanography [Narragansett], University of Rhode Island (URI), DyEti, École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), and Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: Mid-Atlantic Ridge, garnet fractionation, Pb isotopes, mantle boundary, hot spot, [SDU.STU.GC]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Geochemistry, Hf isotopes, MORB
Abstract: International audience; Hafnium, Nd, and Pb isotope data are reported for mid-ocean ridge basalts (MORB) from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between 50°N and 78°N. Treating Pb isotopes separately from Sr, Nd, and Hf isotopes drastically reduces the number of end-members required to account for mixing properties in the investigated basalt population. Three geochemical end-members account for >99.95% of the observed Pb isotope variability. The isotopic compositions of Pb are somewhat decoupled from those of other isotopic systems due to nonlinear mixing relationships between isotopic compositions of different elements and elemental fractionation by magmatic processes. The first principal component reflects a mixture of two geochemical end-members, DM and the common component C. The third end-member (EM) is enriched and its Th/U ratio substantially higher than that of the first two end-members. The HIMU end-member apparently is missing. Iceland and Jan Mayen divide the northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge into three isotopically distinct segments. The strong first Pb principal component present in Icelandic basalts expands southward into the Reykjanes Ridge, but not northward into the Kolbeinsey Ridge. Similar features are observed for Hf and Nd isotope compositions. By contrast, the second Pb principal component shows a smooth transition between Kolbeinsey MORB and subaerial Iceland data. The distribution of the two Pb principal components present in the basalts around Jan Mayen likewise is contrasted: the first Pb principal component and its Nd and Hf counterparts flow northward into the Mohns Ridge but are arrested southward by the Jan Mayen fracture zone. Basalts north of Jan Mayen display the most radiogenic Hf reported so far for any MORB worldwide. For ∼1000 km along the Mohns and Knipovich Ridges, Hf isotope compositions fail to correlate linearly with ɛ Nd, but instead define a hyperbolic array between the C component and an end-member unusually depleted in Hf. The latter carries a strong garnet signature and may appear by disequilibrium melting of streaks of subcontinental lithosphere left by continental rifting. The presence of continental crust beneath Jan Mayen is not supported by either Ce/Pb, Nb/U, or Hf/Sm. If Jan Mayen is a hot spot, its material is injected along a major mantle discontinuity separating distinct convective domains
Published: 2005
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34. Directly measured mid-depth circulation in the northeastern North Atlantic Ocean

Author: Bower, A. S., Le Cann, Bernard, Rossby, T., Zenk, W., Gould, J., Speer, K., Richardson, P. L., Prater, M. D., Zhang, H.-M., Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), Laboratoire de physique des océans (LPO), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Graduate School of Oceanography [Narragansett], University of Rhode Island (URI), Institut für Meereskunde [Kiel] (IFMK), Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (CAU), Ocean and Earth Science [Southampton], University of Southampton-National Oceanography Centre (NOC), Department of Oceanography, Florida State University [Tallahassee] (FSU), NOAA National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Subjects: [SDU.STU.OC]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Oceanography
Abstract: International audience; The circulation of water masses in the northeastern North Atlantic Ocean has a strong influence on global climate owing to the northward transport of warm subtropical water to high latitudes1. But the ocean circulation at depths below the reach of satellite observations is difficult to measure, and only recently have comprehensive, direct observations of whole ocean basins been possible2, 3, 4. Here we present quantitative maps of the absolute velocities at two levels in the northeastern North Atlantic as obtained from acoustically tracked floats. We find that most of the mean flow transported northward by the Gulf Stream system at the thermocline level (about 600 m depth) remains within the subpolar region, and only relatively little enters the Rockall trough or the Nordic seas. Contrary to previous work5, 6, our data indicate that warm, saline water from the Mediterranean Sea reaches the high latitudes through a combination of narrow slope currents and mixing processes. At both depths under investigation, currents cross the Mid-Atlantic Ridge preferentially over deep gaps in the ridge, demonstrating that sea-floor topography can constrain even upper-ocean circulation patterns.
Published: 2002
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35. Sulfur and nitrogen levels in the North Atlantic Ocean's atmosphere: A synthesis of field and modeling results

Author: P. A. Spiro, James N. Galloway, Charles J. Fischer, R. A. Brost, Hiram Levy, Håkan Rodhe, W. G. Ellis, Robert J. Charlson, Greg Carmichael, Jennie L. Moody, S. Cober, J. S. Chang, K. John, John M. Miller, C. S. Atherton, S. Burgermeister, James E. Johnson, John T. Merrill, Joyce E. Penner, Prasad S. Kasibhatla, L. Tarrason, Alexander A. P. Pszenny, Richard S. Artz, Yves Balkanski, Douglas M. Whelpdale, Joseph P. Pinto, Jos Lelieveld, J. M. Hales, Fredric Lipschultz, J. Langner, Anthony F. Michaels, Trond Iversen, S. M. Turner, Donald R. Hastie, Daniel J. Jacob, Joseph M. Prospero, H. G. Bingemer, University of Virginia [Charlottesville], Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Space Sciences [Ann Arbor] (AOSS), University of Michigan [Ann Arbor], University of Michigan System-University of Michigan System, Department of Meteorology [Stockholm] (MISU), Stockholm University, Laboratoire de Modélisation du Climat et de l'Environnement (LMCE), Harvard University [Cambridge], Institute for Meteorology and Geophysics, University of Iowa [Iowa City], INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY WUHAN CHN, Partenaires IRSTEA, Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA), Norwegian Climate Centre, Norwegian Meteorological Institute [Oslo] (MET), Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M), Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke University [Durham], Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI), Max Planck Institute for Chemistry (MPIC), Graduate School of Oceanography [Narragansett], University of Rhode Island (URI), and University of Antwerp (UA)
Subjects: Atmospheric Science, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Field (physics), [SDE.MCG]Environmental Sciences/Global Changes, chemistry.chemical_element, 010501 environmental sciences, Atmospheric sciences, 01 natural sciences, Atmosphere, chemistry.chemical_compound, Nitrate, Environmental Chemistry, 14. Life underwater, Sulfate, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, General Environmental Science, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-AO-PH]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics [physics.ao-ph], [SDU.OCEAN]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Ocean, Atmosphere, Global and Planetary Change, Horizontal distribution, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Oceanography, chemistry, 13. Climate action, Environmental science, Cycling
Abstract: In April 1990, forty-two scientists from eight countries attended a workshop at the Bermuda Biological Station for Research to compare field measurements with model estimates of the distribution and cycling of sulfur and nitrogen species in the North Atlantic Ocean's atmosphere. Data sets on horizontal and vertical distributions of sulfur and nitrogen species and their rates of deposition were available from ships' tracks and island stations. These data were compared with estimates produced by several climatological and event models for two case studies: (1) sulfate surface distributions and deposition and (2) nitrate surface distributions and deposition. Highlights of the conclusions of the case studies were that the measured concentrations and model results of nitrate and non-sea-salt sulfate depositions appeared to be in good agreement at some locations but in poor agreement for some months at other locations. The case studies illustrated the need for the measurement and modeling communities to interact not only to compare results but also to cooperate in improving the designs of the models and the field experiments.
Published: 1992
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36. Validation of Aura Microwave Limb Sounder Ozone by ozonesonde and lidar measurements

Author: David W. Tarasick, Gert J. R. Coetzee, Hans Claude, P. Skrivankova, F. J. Schmidlin, Sophie Godin-Beekmann, Robert Jarnot, G. Zablocki, R. E. Cofield, Françoise Posny, B. Bojkov, I. S. McDermid, P. Viatte, Michael J. Schwartz, Yan Jiang, Greg Bodeker, R. A. Fuller, Lucien Froidevaux, H. Dier, Hennie Kelder, Nathaniel J. Livesey, Beverly J. Johnson, Thierry Leblanc, Giovanni Laneve, S. J. Oltmans, H. De Backer, Brian Knosp, Marc Allaart, M. C. Parrondos, William H. Daffer, René Stübi, Robert S. Harwood, Michael J. Newchurch, Signe B. Andersen, Gary A. Morris, P. C. Stek, William G. Read, Margarita Yela, Bertrand Calpini, Brian J. Drouin, N. P. Leme, Joe W. Waters, W. V. Snyder, Esko Kyrö, D. T. Cuddy, Gert König-Langlo, Anne M. Thompson, R. P. Thurstans, V. S. Perun, P. von der Gathen, Masatomo Fujiwara, P. A. Wagner, L. S. Fook, Alyn Lambert, John T. Merrill, Holger Vömel, Jonathan Davies, M. J. Filipiak, Valérie Thouret, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), NASA-California Institute of Technology (CALTECH), NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Service d'aéronomie (SA), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institute of Atmospheric and Environmental Science [Edinburgh], University of Edinburgh, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI), Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI), Lauder Atmospheric Research Station, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research [Auckland] (NIWA), Payerne Aerological Station, Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss, Meteorologisches Observatorium Hohenpeißenberg (MOHp), Deutscher Wetterdienst [Offenbach] (DWD), South African Weather Service (SAWS), Environment and Climate Change Canada, Institut Royal Météorologique de Belgique [Bruxelles] (IRM), Lindenberg Meteorological Observatory - Richard Assmann Observatory (MOL-RAO), Graduate School of Environmental Science [Sapporo], Hokkaido University [Sapporo, Japan], NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE), Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação, Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI), Centro di Ricerca Progetto San Marco (CRPSM), Università degli Studi di Roma 'La Sapienza' = Sapienza University [Rome], Malaysian Meteorological Department (MetMalaysia), Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation [Malaysia] (MOSTI), Graduate School of Oceanography [Narragansett], University of Rhode Island (URI), Department of Physics and Astronomy [Valparaiso], Valparaiso University, Department of Atmospheric Science [Huntsville], University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (INTA), Laboratoire de l'Atmosphère et des Cyclones (LACy), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de La Réunion (UR)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Météo France, Czech Hydrometeorological Institute (CHMI), PennState Meteorology Department, Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), Penn State System-Penn State System, Laboratoire d'aérologie (LAERO), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado [Boulder]-National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Institute of Meteorology and Water Management - National Research Institute (IMGW - PIB), Institut Royal Météorologique de Belgique [Bruxelles] - Royal Meteorological Institute (IRM), Università degli Studi di Roma 'La Sapienza' = Sapienza University [Rome] (UNIROMA), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de La Réunion (UR)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France, Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), and Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: Atmospheric Science, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, ozonesonde, 0211 other engineering and technologies, Soil Science, 02 engineering and technology, Aquatic Science, Oceanography, 01 natural sciences, MLS, Troposphere, chemistry.chemical_compound, Altitude, Geochemistry and Petrology, Ozone layer, Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous), Tropospheric ozone, Stratosphere, 021101 geological & geomatics engineering, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Earth-Surface Processes, Water Science and Technology, validation, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-AO-PH]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics [physics.ao-ph], Ecology, Paleontology, Forestry, Microwave Limb Sounder, ozone, Geophysics, Lidar, chemistry, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, Climatology, Middle latitudes, Environmental science, Aura
Abstract: We present validation studies of MLS version 2.2 upper tropospheric and stratospheric ozone profiles using ozonesonde and lidar data as well as climatological data. Ozone measurements from over 60 ozonesonde stations worldwide and three lidar stations are compared with coincident MLS data. The MLS ozone stratospheric data between 150 and 3 hPa agree well with ozonesonde measurements, within 8% for the global average. MLS values at 215 hPa are biased high compared to ozonesondes by A`20% at middle to high latitude, although there is a lot of variability in this altitude region. Comparisons between MLS and ground-based lidar measurements from Mauna Loa, Hawaii, from the Table Mountain Facility, California, and from the Observatoire de Haute-Provence, France, give very good agreement, within A`5%, for the stratospheric values. The comparisons between MLS and the Table Mountain Facility tropospheric ozone lidar show that MLS data are biased high by A`30% at 215 hPa, consistent with that indicated by the ozonesonde data. We obtain better global average agreement between MLS and ozonesonde partial column values down to 215 hPa, although the average MLS values at low to middle latitudes are higher than the ozonesonde values by up to a few percent. MLS v2.2 ozone data agree better than the MLS v1.5 data with ozonesonde and lidar measurements. MLS tropical data show the wave one longitudinal pattern in the upper troposphere, with similarities to the average distribution from ozonesondes. High upper tropospheric ozone values are also observed by MLS in the tropical Pacific from June to November.
Published: 2007
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37. The intrusion of a density current along the coast of a rotating fluid

Author: Melvin E. Stern, John Whitehead, Bach-Lien Hua, Graduate School of Oceanography [Narragansett], University of Rhode Island (URI), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), and Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)
Subjects: Jet (fluid), Leading edge, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Mechanical Engineering, Flow (psychology), Mixing (process engineering), Boundary (topology), Mechanics, Condensed Matter Physics, 01 natural sciences, 010305 fluids & plasmas, Boundary current, Physics::Fluid Dynamics, Mechanics of Materials, Physics::Space Physics, 0103 physical sciences, Current (fluid), Current density, Physics::Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics, [SDU.STU.OC]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Oceanography, Geology, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Abstract: International audience; When light rotating fluid spreads over heavier fluid in the vicinity of a vertical wall (coast) a boundary jet of width Λ forms, the leading edge or nose of which propagates with speed c along the coast. A certain fraction 8 of the boundary transport is not carried by the nose but is deflected backwards (detrained) and left behind the propagating nose. Theoretical and experimental results for Λ,c, and δ are given for a quasi-equilibrium (constant-c) regime. Over longer time intervals the laboratory observations suggest that the nose slows down and stagnates, whereupon the trailing flow separates from the coast and an intermittent boundary current forms. These processes may be relevant to the mixing of oceanic coastal currents and the maintenance of the mean current.
Published: 1982
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38. 25. ROCK-MAGNETIC STRATIGRAPHY OF LEG 108 SITES 658, 659, 661, AND 665, EASTERN TROPICAL ATLANTIC 1

Author: Bloemendal, J., King, J.W., Tauxe, L., Valet, J.-P., Graduate School of Oceanography [Narragansett], University of Rhode Island (URI), Climate, Atmospheric Science and Physical Oceanography Department [La Jolla] (CASPO), Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO - UC San Diego), University of California [San Diego] (UC San Diego), University of California (UC)-University of California (UC)-University of California [San Diego] (UC San Diego), University of California (UC)-University of California (UC), Centre des Faibles Radioactivités, and Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: [SDU.OCEAN]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Ocean, Atmosphere, [SDU.ENVI]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Continental interfaces, environment
Abstract: International audience; The results of detailed rock-magnetic measurements of selected stratigraphic intervals at Ocean Drilling Program Leg 108 Sites 658, 659, 661, and 665 are as follows: 1. At Site 658, it is likely that the entire interval was extensively affected by reductive diagenesis, resulting in the loss of fine-grained magnetite. At Sites 659 and 665, we suspect that a similar diagenetic alteration of fine-grained magnetite occurred, but that it was confined to discrete intervals. At Site 661, the uppermost 60-70 mbsf of the section appears to be relatively unaffected by reductive diagenesis; however, we suspect that the low carbonate content of sediments below were affected by oxidative diagenesis/authigenesis, resulting in the production of ultrafine-grained ferrimagnetic material. 2. Preliminary spectral analyses of the uppermost 70 mbsf (i.e., unaltered) rock-magnetic record at Site 661 suggest a decrease in the frequency of magnetite grain-size fluctuations after 2.9 Ma.
Published: 1989
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39. Enrichment of sulfate in maritime aerosols

Author: Robert A. Duce, F. MaCintyre, B. Bonsang, Graduate School of Oceanography [Narragansett], University of Rhode Island (URI), Centre des Faibles Radioactivités, and Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: [SDU.OCEAN]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Ocean, Atmosphere, chemistry.chemical_compound, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, chemistry, Environmental chemistry, Environmental science, 010501 environmental sciences, Sulfate, [SDU.ENVI]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Continental interfaces, environment, 01 natural sciences, Pollution, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Abstract: International audience
Published: 1982
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40. Ocean state rising: Storm simulation and vulnerability mapping to predict hurricane impacts for Rhode Island's critical infrastructure.

Author: Adams S, Becker A, McElroy K, Hallisey N, Stempel P, Ginis I, and Crowley D
Subjects: Humans, Rhode Island, Climate Change, Computer Simulation, Oceans and Seas, Cyclonic Storms
Abstract: Predicting the consequences of a major coastal storm is increasingly difficult as the result of global climate change and growing societal dependence on critical infrastructure (CI). Past storms are no longer a reliable predictor of future weather events, and the traditional approach to vulnerability assessment presents accumulated loss in largely quantitative terms that lack the specificity local emergency managers need to develop effective plans and mitigation strategies. The Rhode Island Coastal Hazards Modeling and Prediction (RI-CHAMP) system is a geographic information system (GIS)-based modeling tool that combines high-resolution storm simulations with geolocated vulnerability data to predict specific consequences based on local concerns about impacts to CI. This case study discusses implementing RI-CHAMP for the State of Rhode Island to predict impacts of wind and inundation on its CI during a hurricane, tropical storm, or nor'easter. This paper addresses the collection and field verification of vulnerability data, along with RI-CHAMP's process for integrating those data with storm models. The project deeply engaged end-users (emergency managers, facility managers, and other stakeholders) in developing RI-CHAMP's ArcGIS Online dashboard to ensure it provides specific, actionable data. The results of real and synthetic storm models are presented along with discussion of how the data in these simulations are being used by state and local emergency managers, facility owners, and others.
Published: 2024
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41. Habitat structure shapes temperate reef assemblages across regional environmental gradients.

Author: Jackson-Bué T, Evans AJ, Lawrence PJ, Brooks PR, Ward SL, Jenkins SR, Moore PJ, Crowe TP, Neill SP, and Davies AJ
Subjects: Animals, Biodiversity, Invertebrates, Multivariate Analysis, Fishes, Ecosystem, Seaweed
Abstract: Intertidal artificial habitats are proliferating, but are generally simpler in structure and host lower biodiversity than natural rocky reefs. Eco-engineering aims to enhance the biodiversity of coastal infrastructure, often through physical structural modifications that mimic topographic properties of natural shores. Relationships between biotic assemblages and structural properties of natural and artificial reefs have been extensively studied at sampling scales of up to 1 m 2 . But evidence that quantified local structural variation has an appreciable influence on biotic assemblages, at a shore-wide scale across regional environmental gradients, is lacking. Here we addressed this knowledge gap with an observational study at 32 natural and artificial intertidal reef sites in Wales, UK. We used multivariate community analysis and permutation tests to examine associations between local physical structure, regional environmental variables and sessile biotic assemblages. A potential influence of local habitat structure on assemblage composition was evident across regional-scale environmental gradients. Compared to natural sites, artificial reefs had lower taxonomic richness, distinct and more variable assemblage composition, and different physical structure. After removing the effect of habitat (natural or artificial), canonical correspondence analysis showed that environmental variables (wave exposure, sea surface temperature and salinity variation), along with two metrics of physical structure (standard deviation in log-transformed detrended roughness and skewness of surface verticality, both at 0.5 m scale), explained 40 % of the variation in assemblage composition among sites. The two structural metrics independently explained 14.5 % of the variation. Associations identified between individual taxa and environmental variables indicated that sites with a higher proportion of horizontal surfaces hosted more canopy macroalgae, which in turn support other algae and invertebrates. Our findings provide evidence to inform scaling-up of structural eco-engineering interventions from experimental contexts to enhance the biodiversity of coastal infrastructure across regional extents., Competing Interests: Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper., (Copyright © 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.)
Published: 2024
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42. Building an inclusive wave in marine science: Sense of belonging and Society for Women in Marine Science symposia.

Author: Canfield KN, Sterling AR, Hernández CM, Chu SN, Edwards BR, Fontaine DN, Freese JM, Giroux MS, Jones AE, McCarty AJ, Morrissette HK, Palevsky HI, Raker CE, Robuck AR, Serrato Marks G, Thibodeau PS, and Windle AE
Abstract: Achieving gender equity is a long-standing and ubiquitous challenge in marine science. Creating equitable experiences for all genders in marine science requires recognizing scientists' intersectional identities, and how this leads to unique lived experiences of privilege and marginalization. One approach to increase equitable experiences for women in marine science is to create affinity groups where women can learn from each other, share their experiences, and provide support and mentorship. The Society for Women in Marine Science (SWMS) is one such organization, founded to amplify the work of early career women in marine science and create community, through events such as full-day symposium events. This study investigates the experiences of symposium attendees for four events held from 2018 through 2020, as reported in pre- and post-symposium surveys. We used quantitative analysis of the open-ended survey questions to examine the demographics of attendees and their fields of study. Qualitative thematic analysis identified the most effective aspects of the symposia, areas of logistical and content improvement for future symposia, and emphasized the unique challenges women in marine science experience. The majority of symposium attendees were white graduate students. Nearly all attendees identified as women, with a small number of men and non-binary individuals. Symposia attendees enjoyed opportunities for professional development and interactions with colleagues across career stages. We present recommendations for continuing to foster a sense of belonging in marine science and STEM more broadly, both specific to SWMS and transferable actions that can be applied for other affinity groups. These suggestions include empathetic event logistics, continual democratic evaluation, identity reflexivity among group leaders, and professional development activities targeted towards the unique needs of the affinity group. The positive responses received from SWMS's adaptive integration of survey results into symposia demonstrate that incorporating these recommendations and findings will help create an inclusive wave in marine science., Competing Interests: Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
Published: 2023
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43. Reproductive behavior of Atlantic halibut (Hippoglossus hippoglossus) interpreted from electronic tags.

Author: Marshall RC, Fisher JAD, Einfeldt AL, Gatti P, Robert D, and Le Bris A
Subjects: Humans, Female, Animals, Reproduction, Water, Flounder, Reproductive Behavior
Abstract: Reproductive timing, location, and behavior are important characteristics that determine marine population dynamics, structure, and resilience to threats, including fishing and climate change. It is challenging to evaluate factors driving variability in these reproductive traits in wild fishes because of the difficulty observing individuals in their natural environments. In the present study, we used high-resolution depth, temperature, and acceleration time series recorded by pop-up satellite archival tags to (1) identify and characterize patterns in depth and acceleration that may be indicative of spawning events in large Atlantic halibut (Hippoglossus hippoglossus), and (2) estimate the effects of individual traits (body size and sex) and environmental factors (location and temperature) on spawning time and frequency. Unique rapid rises observed in the winter depth profiles were interpreted as spawning events. The initiation of the first presumed spawning rise was negatively correlated to water temperature experienced during the prespawning season, suggesting that currently increasing water temperature in the Gulf of St. Lawrence may induce phenological change in halibut spawning time. The number of rises of batch-spawning females was unrelated to female body size. The present study demonstrates how electronic tagging can be used for in-depth characterization of timing, location, and behaviors associated with spawning in a large flatfish species. Such information can inform spatiotemporal management and conservation measures aiming to protect species from directed fishing and by-catch during spawning., (© 2023 The Authors. Journal of Fish Biology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Fisheries Society of the British Isles.)
Published: 2023
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44. Avoiding artifacts in the determination of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance sorbent-water distribution.

Author: Snook J, Becanova J, Vojta S, and Lohmann R
Abstract: Characterizing sorbent affinity for a target compound (described by sorbent-water distribution coefficient, K sw ) is a necessary step in the sorbent selection and performance-testing process in the process of capturing aquatic contaminants. However, no standardized procedure exists to measure K sw , and studies display significant variations in set-up and performance. For per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), most K sw determinations employ batch experiments with small-scale water-sorbent mixtures, methanol-based spike of target compound(s), and analysis after assumed equilibrium, but methodological details of the above procedure differ and might cause artifacts in the determination of K sw . We conducted several batch experiments systematically varying a general procedure to characterize effects of sub-optimal experimental design. Using a selection of PFAS (6-carbon fluorinated chain length with differing functional groups) and two sorbents, we tested variations of solution:sorbent ratio, methanol content, and PFAS initial concentration, and compared derived K sw values. Each methodological component affected log(K sw ), usually by suppressing the value (by 0-48%) when compared with a "best design" procedure. Thus, we suggest (1) a reference procedure for PFAS and sorbents used here, and (2) general guidelines for batch experiment design with different compounds and sorbents. Additionally, we report well-constrained K sw values for 23 PFAS and two sorbents.
Published: 2023
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45. Multiomics in the central Arctic Ocean for benchmarking biodiversity change.

Author: Mock T, Boulton W, Balmonte JP, Barry K, Bertilsson S, Bowman J, Buck M, Bratbak G, Chamberlain EJ, Cunliffe M, Creamean J, Ebenhöh O, Eggers SL, Fong AA, Gardner J, Gradinger R, Granskog MA, Havermans C, Hill T, Hoppe CJM, Korte K, Larsen A, Müller O, Nicolaus A, Oldenburg E, Popa O, Rogge S, Schäfer H, Shoemaker K, Snoeijs-Leijonmalm P, Torstensson A, Valentin K, Vader A, Barry K, Chen IA, Clum A, Copeland A, Daum C, Eloe-Fadrosh E, Foster B, Foster B, Grigoriev IV, Huntemann M, Ivanova N, Kuo A, Kyrpides NC, Mukherjee S, Palaniappan K, Reddy TBK, Salamov A, Roux S, Varghese N, Woyke T, Wu D, Leggett RM, Moulton V, and Metfies K
Subjects: Arctic Regions, Biodiversity, Oceans and Seas, Ecosystem
Abstract: Multiomics approaches need to be applied in the central Arctic Ocean to benchmark biodiversity change and to identify novel species and their genes. As part of MOSAiC, EcoOmics will therefore be essential for conservation and sustainable bioprospecting in one of the least explored ecosystems on Earth., Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Published: 2022
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46. Diminished carbon and nitrate assimilation drive changes in diatom elemental stoichiometry independent of silicification in an iron-limited assemblage.

Author: Maniscalco MA, Brzezinski MA, Lampe RH, Cohen NR, McNair HM, Ellis KA, Brown M, Till CP, Twining BS, Bruland KW, Marchetti A, and Thamatrakoln K
Abstract: In the California Current Ecosystem, upwelled water low in dissolved iron (Fe) can limit phytoplankton growth, altering the elemental stoichiometry of the particulate matter and dissolved macronutrients. Iron-limited diatoms can increase biogenic silica (bSi) content >2-fold relative to that of particulate organic carbon (C) and nitrogen (N), which has implications for carbon export efficiency given the ballasted nature of the silica-based diatom cell wall. Understanding the molecular and physiological drivers of this altered cellular stoichiometry would foster a predictive understanding of how low Fe affects diatom carbon export. In an artificial upwelling experiment, water from 96 m depth was incubated shipboard and left untreated or amended with dissolved Fe or the Fe-binding siderophore desferrioxamine-B (+DFB) to induce Fe-limitation. After 120 h, diatoms dominated the communities in all treatments and displayed hallmark signatures of Fe-limitation in the +DFB treatment, including elevated particulate Si:C and Si:N ratios. Single-cell, taxon-resolved measurements revealed no increase in bSi content during Fe-limitation despite higher transcript abundance of silicon transporters and silicanin-1. Based on these findings we posit that the observed increase in bSi relative to C and N was primarily due to reductions in C fixation and N assimilation, driven by lower transcript expression of key Fe-dependent genes., (© 2022. The Author(s).)
Published: 2022
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47. Transport and fate of aqueous film forming foam in an urban estuary.

Author: Katz DR, Sullivan JC, Rosa K, Gardiner CL, Robuck AR, Lohmann R, Kincaid C, and Cantwell MG
Subjects: Estuaries, Rivers, Water, Fluorocarbons analysis, Water Pollutants, Chemical analysis
Abstract: The deployment of aqueous film forming foams (AFFF) used for firefighting during emergencies and training often releases per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) into the environment. In October 2018, first responders in Providence, RI, USA applied an AFFF during a fuel spill. Due to the proximity of the incident to the upper reaches of Narragansett Bay (NB), an unknown quantity of gasoline and AFFF entered the estuary via surface runoff and stormwater drains. Water samples near the spill were collected approximately 15 h after the incident and analyzed for 24 PFAS. Minor increases in measured PFAS concentrations were observed relative to pre- and post-spill samples at monitoring sites near the incident, except 6:2-fluorotelomer sulfonate (6:2-FTS) that peaked post-spill (max 311 ng/L). After performing the total oxidizable precursor (TOP) assay on water samples and the AFFF concentrate, significant increases in perfluorocarboxylic acids (PFCAs) were observed. One compound, 6:2 fluorotelomer mercaptoalkylamido sulfonate (6:2-FTSAS), was identified as a major component of the AFFF used. Peak areas of 6:2-FTSAS and the degradation product 6:2-FTSAS-sulfoxide corresponded to observed increases in the TOP assay results and were useful as tracers of AFFF in surrounding waters. Elevated levels of PFAS at the time of sampling were limited to a confined area of the Providence River due to river flow and tidal action. Observed concentrations were also compared to hydrodynamic model results, and results confirmed rapid dissipation of AFFF components with distance from the spill. However, modeled results did not capture possible secondary releases of AFFF from local municipal stormwater and sewer infrastructure, as observational data suggest. The multiple lines of evidence of PFAS present in surface waters permitted a better assessment of the potential environmental impacts from products such as AFFF for which the chemical composition is largely unknown., (Published by Elsevier Ltd.)
Published: 2022
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48. Birds of a feather eat plastic together: high levels of plastic ingestion in Great Shearwater adults and juveniles across their annual migratory cycle.

Author: Robuck AR, Hudak CA, Agvent L, Emery G, Ryan PG, Perold VA, Powers KD, Pedersen J, Thompson MA, Suca JJ, Moore MJ, Harms C, Bugoni L, Shield G, Glass T, Wiley DN, and Lohmann R
Abstract: Limited work to date has examined plastic ingestion in highly migratory seabirds like Great Shearwaters ( Ardenna gravis ) across the their entire migratory range, although this species is prone to ingest plastic as a wide-ranging procellariiform. We examined 217 Great Shearwaters obtained from 2008-2019 at multiple locations spanning their yearly migration cycle across the Northwest and South Atlantic to assess accumulation of ingested plastic as well as trends over time and between locations. A total of 2,328 plastic fragments were documented in the ventriculus portion of the gastrointestinal tract, with an average of 9 plastic fragments per bird. The mass, count, and frequency of plastic occurrence (FO) varied by location, with higher plastic burdens but lower FO in South Atlantic individuals from the breeding colonies. No fragments of the same size or morphology were found in the primary forage fish prey, the sand lance, ( Ammodytes spp. , n = 202) that supports Great Shearwaters in Massachusetts Bay, USA, suggesting the birds directly ingest the bulk of their plastic loads rather than accumulating via trophic transfer. Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy indicated that low- and high-density polyethylene were the most common polymers ingested, within all years and locations. Individuals from the South Atlantic contained a higher proportion of larger plastic items and fragments compared to juveniles and non-breeding adults from the NW Atlantic, possibly due to increased use of remote, pelagic areas subject to reduced inputs of smaller, more diverse, and potentially less buoyant plastics found adjacent to coastal margins. Different signatures of polymer type, size, and category between similar life stages at different locations suggests rapid turnover of ingested plastics commensurate with migratory stage and location, though more empirical evidence is needed to ground-truth this hypothesis. This work is the first to comprehensively measure the accumulation of ingested plastics by Great Shearwaters over the last decade and across multiple locations spanning their yearly trans-equatorial migration cycle, and underscores their utility as sentinels of plastic pollution in Atlantic ecosystems., Competing Interests: 6 Conflict of Interest The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.
Published: 2022
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49. Deep-sea mussels from a hybrid zone on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge host genetically indistinguishable symbionts.

Author: Ücker M, Ansorge R, Sato Y, Sayavedra L, Breusing C, and Dubilier N
Subjects: Animals, Gills, Symbiosis, Hydrothermal Vents, Microbiota genetics, Mytilidae genetics
Abstract: The composition and diversity of animal microbiomes is shaped by a variety of factors, many of them interacting, such as host traits, the environment, and biogeography. Hybrid zones, in which the ranges of two host species meet and hybrids are found, provide natural experiments for determining the drivers of microbiome communities, but have not been well studied in marine environments. Here, we analysed the composition of the symbiont community in two deep-sea, Bathymodiolus mussel species along their known distribution range at hydrothermal vents on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, with a focus on the hybrid zone where they interbreed. In-depth metagenomic analyses of the sulphur-oxidising symbionts of 30 mussels from the hybrid zone, at a resolution of single nucleotide polymorphism analyses of ~2500 orthologous genes, revealed that parental and hybrid mussels (F2-F4 generation) have genetically indistinguishable symbionts. While host genetics does not appear to affect symbiont composition in these mussels, redundancy analyses showed that geographic location of the mussels on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge explained most of the symbiont genetic variability compared to the other factors. We hypothesise that geographic structuring of the free-living symbiont population plays a major role in driving the composition of the microbiome in these deep-sea mussels., (© 2021. The Author(s).)
Published: 2021
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50. Tissue-specific distribution of legacy and novel per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in juvenile seabirds.

Author: Robuck AR, McCord JP, Strynar MJ, Cantwell MG, Wiley DN, and Lohmann R
Abstract: Of the thousands of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in the environment, few have been investigated in detail. In this study, we analyzed 36 legacy and emerging PFAS in multiple seabird tissues collected from individuals from Massachusetts Bay, Narragansett Bay and the Cape Fear River Estuary. PFOS was the dominant compound across multiple tissues, while long-chain perfluorinated carboxylic acids (PFCAs) dominated in brain (mean = 44% of total concentrations). Emerging perfluoroalkyl ether acids (PFEAs)-Nafion byproduct-2 and PFO5DoDA - were detected in greater than 90% of tissues in birds obtained from a nesting region downstream from a major fluorochemical production site. Compound ratios, relative body burden calculations, and electrostatic surface potential calculations were used to describe partitioning behavior of PFEAs in different tissues. Novel PFEAs preferentially partition into blood compared to liver, and were documented in brain for the first time. PFO5DoDA showed a reduced preference for brain compared to PFCAs and Nafion BP2. These results suggest future monitoring efforts and toxicological studies should focus on novel PFAS and long-chain PFCAs in multiple tissues beyond liver and blood, while exploring the unique binding mechanisms driving uptake of multi-ether PFEAs.
Published: 2021
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