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Dr Vassilis Kitidis

Biogeochemist

Contact Details

+44 (0)1752 633100 (switchboard)

vak20/01/2021 04:00:55@pml.ac.uk

Dr Vassilis Kitidis has interests which lie in the biogeochemical cycling of key elements (O, C, N) in the marine environment. Elemental cycles are intimately connected in the Earth system through its living component. I work on processes that operate at the sea-air interface, through the water column and in sediments. Key interests include the photochemical cycling of dissolved organic matter, carbonate chemistry and greenhouse gas cycling and benthic nitrogen cycling.

Projects

Detection and Attribution of Regional greenhouse gas Emissions in the UK

Contact: Dr Yuri Artioli

DARE-UK is developing systems to estimate greenhouse gas emissions to improve the accuracy of the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions inventory...

Pathways and emissions of climate-relevant trace gases in a changing Arctic Ocean (PETRA)

Contact: Dr Andy Rees

The Arctic Ocean is a rapidly changing environment, with rising temperatures leading to an ongoing decline in sea ice and shifting conditions for...

Other key projects

Land-Ocean Carbon Transfer and Exchange (LOCATE)

Selected key publications

Le Quere, C., Moriarty, R., Andrew, R.M. et al. (including Kitidis). 2015. Global carbon budget 2015. Earth System Science Data, December 2015. doi: 10.5194/essd-7-349-2015

Le Quere, C., Moriarty, R., Andrew, R.M. et al. (including Kitidis). 2015. Global carbon budget 2014. Earth System Science Data, May 2015. doi: 10.5194/essd-7-47-2015

Kitidis et al. 2016. Surface ocean carbon dioxide during the Atlantic Meridional Transect (1995-2013); evidence of ocean acidification. Progress in Oceanography, doi: 10.1016/j.pocean.2016.1008.1005.

Trimmer et al. (inc. Kitidis). 2015. Nitrous oxide as a function of oxygen and Archaeal gene abundance in the North Pacific. Nature Communications 7: doi: 10.1038/ncomms13451

Other activities

Surface Ocean CO₂ Atlas (SOCAT) quality control committee