Blogs, papers and more
Welcome to the blogs and papers section of OceanICU. Blogs, scientific papers, interviews and videos will be added periodically so please check back for more stories in the future.
Calibrating ecosystem models to support ecosystem-based management of marine systems
Authors: Jacob W Bentley, David Chagaris, Marta Coll, Johanna J Heymans, Natalia Serpetti, Carl J Walters, Villy ChristensenJournal: ICES Journal of Marine Science, fsad213DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsad213Citation: Jacob W Bentley, David Chagaris, Marta Coll, Johanna J Heymans, Natalia Serpetti, Carl J Walters, Villy Christensen, Calibrating ecosystem models to support ecosystem-based management of marine systems, ICES Journal of Marine Science, …
Effect of sampling bias on global estimates of ocean carbon export Stephanie Henson
Authors: Stephanie Henson, Kelsey Bisson, Matthew L Hammond, Adrian Martin, Colleen Mouw, and Andrew YoolJournal: Environmental Research Letters, Volume 19, Number 2DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ad1e7fCitation: Stephanie Henson et al 2024 Environ. Res. Lett. 19 024009 Abstract: Shipboard sampling of ocean biogeochemical properties is necessarily limited by logistical and practical constraints. As a …
Total population reports are ill-suited for global biomass estimation of wild animals Fabio Berzaghi
Authors: Luca Santini, Fabio Berzaghi and Ana Benítez-LópezJournal: PNAS 2024 Vol. 121 No. 4DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2308958121
TALKING FISH, FISHERIES, AND THE CARBON CYCLE WITH OceanICU’S NEWLY ARRIVED POST-DOCTORAL SCIENTISTS
Paula Silvar and Fiona Culhane have recently joined the OceanICU project as postdoctoral researchers, via consortium partner The Marine Institute in Ireland, a co-lead institute for Work Package 5 – Impacts of Fishing and Industrial Extraction Processes on the Ocean C Cycle. Why are we talking about fish? Because the …
OceanICU AND WIDER SOCIETY
As a Project Officer working on Ocean Literacy, I am amazed at how much there is to learn everyday about the ocean. Scientists working on a very wide range of ocean research projects are helping us better understand the multiple features of the ocean and marine ecosystems. Given the importance …
HOW IMPORTANT ARE WHALES IN THE OCEANIC CARBON CYCLE?
OceanICU colleagues Dr. Carla Freitas and Morten Skogen, of the Institute of Marine Research (IMR) in Norway recently joined Richard Sanders, Andrew Watson and Pernille Schnoor for the first OceanICU webinar. Read on to learn about their important research! 600 tonnes of poo each day! That’s the estimate of excretion …