Dynamic Green Ocean Project













We are currently looking for PhD candidates for these competition funded projects for a starting date of October 2012:
  • Understanding the role of ecological niches in ocean biogeochemistry.
  • Iron-light colimitation of phytoplankton.
  • Influence of microzooplankton on the phytoplankton community structure.

    Possible PhD or post-doctoral projects which we would like to start. Please contact us for further details.
  • Impact of higher trophic-level complexity on the stability of marine plankton assemblages.
  • Assessing the stability of observed marine ecosystems in different biogeochemical provinces.
  • Explicit representation of bacteria in a global ocean biogeochemical model.
  • Production and remineralisation of Dissolved Organic Matter.
  • Feedback between climate and marine ecosystems mediated by transparent exopolymer particles (TEP).

    Current projects:
    - Corinne Le Quéré, Co-ordinator
    - Erik T. Buitenhuis, Representation of Plankton Functional Types (PFTs)
    - Meike Vogt (ETH), MARine Ecological Models Intercomparison Project (MAREMIP)
    - Clare Enright, scientific programmer
    - Taketo Hashioka (JAMSTEC, UEA), implementation of PlankTOM5 in NEMURO
    - Sophie Chollet, The role of diatoms in the Antarctic carbon cycle
    - Steve Jones, Quantifying and Understanding Carbon Sinks in the South Atlantic
    - Moritz Heinle, Environmental conditions regulating the growth of coccolithophores in the ocean
    - Raffaella Nobili, The influence of temperature and food source on zooplankton respiration
    - Sian Foch-Gatrell, Nanophytoplankton: physiology and role in the global carbon cycle
    - Beate Stawiarski, Picophytoplankton physiology and the microbial loop.
    - Oliver Andrews, Impact of climate change on oceanic oxygen.

    Past projects:
    - Sévrine Sailley, now at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, Parameterisation of microprotozooplankton grazing and growth, PhD thesis (pdf)
    - Marie-Fanny Racault, now at Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Climate Influence on Phytoplankton Phenology in the Global Ocean, PhD thesis (pdf)
    - Róisín Moriarty, now at the University of Manchester, Role of macro-zooplankton for the global carbon cycle, PhD thesis (pdf)
    - Sergio Vallina, now at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Feedbacks between marine ecosystems and climate
    - Sandra Martínez-Garcia, now at University of Vigo, Effects of matter inputs on marine microbial communities structure and metabolism
    - Marie-Pierre Gosselin, data manager
    - Meike Vogt, now at ETH Zürich, Marine production of DMS and the interaction with climate, PhD thesis (pdf)
    - Séverine Alvain, now at University of Wimereux, Detecting PFTs from space
    - Nick Stephens, now at Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Nitrogen cycle and diazotroph phytoplankton
    - Tom Rowley, Ecological space of Plankton Functional Types, BSc report (pdf)
    - Tanja Pangerc, Coccolithophorid growth rates as a function of temperature
    - Manfredi Manizza, now at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Impact of marine plankton on ocean physics PhD thesis (pdf)
    - Leticia Cotrim da Cunha, River fluxes and the organic carbon cycle
    - Karen Kohfeld, now at Universtiy of Victoria, Observation of paleo productivity and PFTs
    - Xavier Giraud, now at University of Aix-Marseille, Coastal biogeochemical fluxes
    - Christine Klaas, now at the Alfred Wegener Institute, The role of different PFTs on sinking speed of particulate organic matter

    Click on the image or see the descriptions above. See under Model for a description of the different versions that are being developed.
    iron !! diatoms coccolithophores N2 fixers phaeocystis picophytoplankton bacteria filter feeders mesozooplankton microzooplankton foraminifera ballast

    See the report of the fourth workshop for the currently planned and needed work (sections 8 & 9), and the report of the second workshop for a longer-term planning of the project

    Scientist interested in working on the Dynamic Green Ocean Project should contact Corinne Le Quéré