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Dr Andy Rees

Biogeochemist



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Dr Andrew Rees is a senior scientist at PML. He has a wide experience within the field of marine nutrient cycling and phytoplankton productivity, initially on extensive field surveys of the estuarine and oceanic distribution of denitrification and nitrous oxide and, more recently, on the pelagic uptake and flux of nitrogen with respect to bacterial and phytoplankton productivity. His published papers relate to expertise in the use of relevant analytical procedures, including stable isotope mass spectrometry, gas chromatography and nutrient autoanalysis.

Andy leads the nutrient cycling group at PML and is manager of the Atlantic Meridional Transect (AMT) programme (2007–present). Current research projects include the impact of ocean acidification on the marine nitrogen cycle, the activity and distribution of nitrogen fixing organisms and the sea-air flux of nitrous oxide and methane in ocean and coastal waters.

Andy has written over 50 peer reviewed research papers.

Projects

Land ocean carbon transfer (LOCATE)

Land ocean carbon transfer (LOCATE)

Contact: Professor Philip Nightingale

Our climate, and hence our lifestyle and economy, is profoundly influenced by the concentration of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere, which...

Carbon/Nutrient Dynamics and Fluxes of the Shelf System (CANDYFLOSS)
Completed

Carbon/Nutrient Dynamics and Fluxes of the Shelf System (CANDYFLOSS)

Contact: Dr Andy Rees

The shelf seas are extensive shallow seas which surround large continental land masses with significant importance to people and the Earth system...

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Other key projects

Radiatively Active Gases from the N. Atlantic Region and Climate Change (RAGNARoCC) – (2013 – 2016)

Carbon/Nutrient dynamics and fluxes over shelf systems (CANDYFLOSS) – (2013 – 2016)

Mediterranean Sea Acidifcation under changing climate (2010–2014)

Ocean Acidification impacts on sea-surface, biology, biogeochemistry and climate (2010–2014)

The impact of coastal upwellings on air-sea exchange of climatically important gases (2006–2010)

UK Carbon Capture and Storage Consortium (2004–2007)

The impact of ocean acidifcation on the biodiversity, function and health of coastal marine sediment systems (2004–2007)


Recent publications

  • Watson, SCL; Paterson, DM; Queiros, AM ; Rees, AP ; Stephens, N; Widdicombe, S; Beaumont, NJ. 2016 A conceptual framework for assessing the ecosystem service of waste remediation: In the marine environment. Ecosystem Services, 20. 69-81. 10.1016/j.ecoser.2016.06.011
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  • Hosegood, PJ; Nightingale, PD; Rees, AP; Widdicombe, CE; Woodward, EMS; Clark, DR; Torres, R. 2017 Nutrient pumping by submesoscale circulations in the Mauritanian upwelling system. Progress in Oceanography, 159. 223-236. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2017.10.004
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  • Archer, SD; Stefels, J; Airs, RL; Lawson, T; Smyth, TJ; Rees, AP; Geider, RJ. 2017 Limitation of dimethylsulfoniopropionate synthesis at high irradiance in natural phytoplankton communities of the Tropical Atlantic. Limnology and Oceanography. 10.1002/lno.10625
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  • Rees, AP ; Nightingale, PD; Poulton, AJ; Smyth, TJ; Tarran, GA; Tilstone, GH. 2017 The Atlantic Meridional Transect Programme (1995 – 2016). Progress in Oceanography. 10.1016/j.pocean.2017.05.004
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  • Pabortsava, Katsiaryna; Lampitt, RS; Benson, Jeff; Casciotti, K; Crowe, Christian; McLachlan, Robert; le Moigne, F; Moore, CM; Pebody, Corinne; Provost, Paul; Rees, AP; Tilstone, GH; Woodward, EMS. 2017 Carbon sequestration in the deep Atlantic enhanced by Saharan dust. Nature Geosciences. 10.1038/ngeo2899
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  • Smyth, TJ; Quartly, GD; Jackson, T; Tarran, GA; Woodward, EMS; Harris, C; Gallienne, CP; Thomas, R; Airs, RL; Cummings, DG; Brewin, RJW; Kitidis, V ; Stephens, JA; Zubkov, MV; Rees, AP. 2016 Determining Atlantic Ocean province contrasts and variations. Progress in Oceanography. 10.1016/j.pocean.2016.12.004
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Selected key publications

N. J. Wyatt, A. Milne, E.M.S. Woodward, A.P. Rees, T.J. Browning, H.A. Bouman, P.J. Worsfold, M.C. Lohan (2014)  Biogeochemical cycling of dissolved zinc along the GEOTRACES South Atlantic transect GA10 at 40o S. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 01/2014; DOI:10.1002/2013GB004637

Clark, D. R., Brown, I. J., Rees, A. P., Somerfield, P. J., and Miller, P. I.: The influence of ocean acidification on nitrogen regeneration and nitrous oxide production in the North-West European shelf sea, Biogeosciences Discuss., 11, 3113-3165, doi:10.5194/bgd-11-3113-2014, 2014.

Brown, I.J., Torres, R., and Rees A.P. (2014) The origin of sub-surface source waters define the sea-air flux of methane in the Mauritanian Upwelling, NW Africa. Dynamics of Oceans and Atmospheres, Volume 67, 39–46. DOI: 10.1016/j.dynatmoce.2014.06.001

Rees, A.P. (2012). Pressures on the marine environment and the changing climate of ocean biogeochemistry. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 2012 370, 5613-5635. doi: 10.1098/rsta.2012.0399

Rees, A. P., I. J.Brown, D. R. Clark, and R. Torres. 2011. The Lagrangian progression of nitrous oxide within filaments formed in the Mauritanian upwelling, Geophys. Res. Lett., 38, L21606, doi:10.1029/2011GL049322.)

Clark, D.R., P.I.  Miller, E.M.S. Woodward, A.P. Rees. 2011. Inorganic nitrogen assimilation and regeneration in the coastal upwelling region of the Iberian Peninsula. Limnol. Oceanogr., 56(5), 2011, 1689–1702)

K.A. Turk, A.P. Rees, J.P. Zehr, N. Pereira, P. Swift, R. Shelley, M. Lohan, E.M.S. Woodward and J. Gilbert. 2011. Nitrogen fixation and nitrogenase (nifH) expression in tropical waters of the eastern North Atlantic. The ISME Journal , (13 January 2011) | doi:10.1038/ismej.2010.205)

M.J. Whitehouse A. Atkinson, A.P. Rees. 2011. Close coupling between ammonium uptake by phytoplankton and excretion by Antarctic krill, Euphausia superba. Deep-Sea Research I 58 (2011) 725–732.)

B.B. Ward, A.P. Rees, P.J. Somerfield, I. Joint. 2011. Linking phytoplankton community composition to seasonal changes in f ratio. The ISME Journal, 5, 1759-1770. doi:10.1038/ismej.2011.50)

Wyatt NJ, Kitidis V, Woodward EMS, Rees AP, Widdicombe S, Lohan M. 2010. Effects of high CO2 on the fixed nitrogen inventory of the Western English Channel. Journal of Plankton Research, 32(5), 631–641.)

Rees AP, Dixon JL, Widdicombe S, Wyatt N. 2009. Observations of nitrogen chemistry and fluxes under high CO2 conditions: implications for the Mediterranean Sea. In: Briand F (editor). CIESM, 2008. Impacts of acidification on biological, chemical and physicalsystems in the Mediterranean and Black Seas. CIESM Workshop Monographs 36, 43–50.)

Rees AP, Gilbert JA, Kelly-Gerreyn BA. 2009. Nitrogen fixation in the western English Channel (NE Atlantic Ocean). Marine Ecology Progress Series, 374, 7–12.)

Rees AP, Hope SB, Widdicombe CE, Dixon JL, Woodward EMS, Fitzsimons MF. 2009. Alkaline phosphatase activity in the western English Channel: Elevations induced by high summertime rainfall. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 81(4), 569–574.)

Robinson C, Tilstone GH, Rees AP, Smyth TJ, Fishwick JR, Tarran GA, Luz B, Barkan E, David E. 2009. Comparison of in vitro and in situ plankton production determinations. Aquatic Microbial Ecology, 54(1), 13–34.

Other activities

Challenger Society for Marine Science Council (2005–2008)

NERC Peer Review College (2008–2011) 

Member of the NERC Marine Facilities Advisory Panel