Other key projects
Atlantic Meridional Transect (AMT)
Western Channel Observatory (WCO)
Oceans 2025
SOLAS
Selected key publications
Dixon JL, Beale R, Nightingale PD (in press). Production of methanol, acetaldehyde and acetone in the Atlantic Ocean. Geophysical Research Letters.
Beale R, Dixon JL, Arnold SR, Liss PS, Nightingale PD (in press) Methanol, acetaldehyde and acetone in the surface waters of the Atlantic Ocean. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. DOI 10.1002/jgrc.20322
Dixon JL, Sargeant S, Nightingale PD, Murrell JC (2012). Gradients in microbial methanol uptake: from productive coastal upwelling waters to oligotrophic oceanic gyres in the Atlantic Ocean. The International Society for Microbial Ecology journal doi:10.1038/ismej.2012.130.
Dixon JL, Nightingale PD (2012). Fine-scale variability in methanol uptake and oxidation: from the microlayer to 1000 m. Biogeosciences, 9, 2961–2972, 2012, doi:10.5194/bg-9-2961-2012.
Beale R, Liss PS, Dixon JL, Nightingale PD (2011) Quantification of oxygenated volatile organic compounds in seawater by membrane inlet-proton transfer reaction mass spectrometry. Analytica Chimica Acta, 706, 128-134 doi:10.1016/j.aca.2011.08.023
Dixon JL, Beale R, Nightingale PD (2011). Rapid biological oxidation of methanol in the tropical Atlantic: significance as a microbial carbon source. Biogeosciences, 8, 2707-2716 doi:10.5194/bg-8-2707-2011.
Dixon JL, Beale R, Nightingale PD (2011). Microbial methanol uptake in northeast Atlantic waters. The International Society for Microbial Ecology journal, 5, 704-716 doi:10.1038/ismej.2010.169.
Rees AP, Hope SB, Widdicombe CE, Dixon JL, Woodward EMSW, Fitzsimons MF (2009). Alkaline phosphatase activity in the western English Channel: Elevations induced by high summertime rainfall. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 81, 569-574.
Dixon JL (2008). Macro and micro co-limitation of microbial productivity in nutrient deplete subtropical Atlantic waters. Environmental Chemistry, 5, 135-142. spring diatom bloom in the Northeast Atlantic. Journal of Plankton Research, 30, 261-273.
Dixon JL, Statham PJ, Widdicombe CE, Jones RM, Barquero-Molina S, Dickie B, Nimmo M, Turley CM (2006). Cadmium uptake by marine micro-organisms in the English Channel and Celtic Sea. Aquatic Microbial Ecology, 44, 31-43.
Turley CM, Dixon JL (2002). Bacterial numbers and growth in surficial deep-sea sediments and phytodetritus in the NE Atlantic: Relationships between particulate organic carbon and total. Deep Sea Research I, 49, 815-826.
Dixon JL, Turley CM (2001). Measuring bacterial production in deep-sea sediments using 3H-thymidine incorporation: Ecological significance. Microbial Ecology, 42, 549-561
Dixon JL, Turley CM (2000). The effect of water depth on bacterial numbers, thymidine incorporation rates, and C:N ratios in northeast Atlantic surficial sediments. Hydrobiologia, 440, 217-225.