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Dr Cara Manning

Earth Observation Scientist



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cama21/06/2021 11:09:07@pml.ac.uk

Dr Cara Manning's research focuses on using biogeochemical tracers to study the ocean carbon and nitrogen cycles. As an Earth Observation Scientist at PML since 2020, she is using biogeochemical Argo data to characterize controls on the biological carbon pump.
 
Prior to her position at PML, Dr Manning was an NSERC Postdoctoral Research and Teaching Fellow at the University of British Columbia where she conducted research on the biogeochemical cycling of greenhouse gases in the North American Arctic Ocean and groundwater in British Columbia, and taught Field Techniques in Groundwater Hydrology. She earned her PhD in Chemical Oceanography from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology-Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program in Oceanography. Her doctoral research included developing a new, portable method for measuring noble gases in seawater, and using new measurements of oxygen and noble gases to characterize rates of biological productivity and gas exchange in coastal waters. Dr Manning obtained her BSc (Hons) in Chemistry and Earth and Ocean Sciences from the University of Victoria, where she conducted research on nitrogen cycling in suboxic coastal systems.  

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Selected key publications

River inflow dominates methane emissions in an Arctic coastal system
CC Manning, VL Preston, SF Jones, APM Michel, DP Nicholson, PJ Duke, M Ahmed, K Manganini, BGT Else, and PD Tortell (2020) 
Geophysical Research Letters, 47, e2020GL087669, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL087669

Revising estimates of aquatic gross oxygen production by the triple oxygen isotope method to incorporate the local isotopic composition of water
CC Manning, EM Howard, DP Nicholson, B Ji, ZO Sandwith, and RHR Stanley (2018)
Geophysical Research Letters, 44, http://doi.org/10.1002/2017GL074375. Software: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.376786
 
Impact of recently upwelled water on productivity investigated using in situ and incubation-based methods.
CC Manning, RHR Stanley, DP Nicholson, JM Smith, JT Pennington, MR Fewings, ME Squibb, and FP Chavez (2017)
Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 122, http://doi.org/10.1002/2016JC012306
 
Continuous measurements of dissolved Ne, Ar, Kr, and Xe with a field-deployable gas equilibration mass spectrometer.
CC Manning, RHR Stanley, and DE Lott (2016).
Analytical Chemistry 88, 3040–3048, http://doi.org/10.1021/acs.analchem.5b03102
 
Impact of deep-water renewal events on fixed nitrogen loss from seasonally-anoxic Saanich Inlet
CC Manning, RC Hamme, and A Bourbonnais (2010) 
Marine Chemistry 122, 1-10, http://doi.org/10.1016/j.marchem.2010.08.002