Science Group
Marine Biogeochemistry and Observations
Developing our understanding of key marine biogeochemical processes and their multiple exchanges with terrestrial, atmospheric and benthic environments.
The “Marine Biogeochemistry and Observations (MBO)’ group explores the natural variability and the impact of man’s activities on the marine environment from local to global scales.
Boasting a wealth of expertise, datasets and hardware that span local, regional and basin scales, the team has a truly pole-to-pole capability.
The group’s areas of focus include:
- Understanding the key processes in the biogeochemical cycling of organic and inorganic carbon and nutrients in contrasting environments, the factors controlling them and the fluxes between different systems
- Identifying how the composition and cleanliness of marine air varies over time and space
- Seeking ways to better inform clean air legislation on sulphur and nitrogen gases, and particulates
PML Projects
FOCUS: Future States of the global Coastal ocean: Understanding for Solutions
Environmental Monitoring at Calstock flood defence improvement scheme
SCIPPER: Shipping Contributions to Inland Pollution Push for the Enforcement of Regulations
Atlantic Ecosystem Assessment, Forecasting and Sustainability (AtlantECO)
Atlantic Meridional Transect Ocean Flux from Satellite Campaign (AMT4OceanSatFlux)
Pathways and emissions of climate-relevant trace gases in a changing Arctic Ocean (PETRA)
Is bacterial DMS consumption dependent on methylamines in marine waters?
N-OSmolytes Across the Surface Southern Ocean: Environmental Drivers and Bioinformatics
An Alternative Framework to Assess Marine Ecosystem Functioning in Shelf Seas (AlterEco)
S-3 EUROHAB – Sentinel products for detecting EUtROphication and Harmful Algal Bloom events
Ocean Regulation of Climate through Heat and Carbon Sequestration and Transports (ORCHESTRA)
People who work in this area of research
Bethany Wilkinson
Junior Biogeochemist
Dr Juliane Wihsgott
Digital Oceanographer
Jani Pewter
Instrument and Data Technician
Jasmin Dorinda
PhD student
Ian Brown
Marine Chemist
E. Malcolm S. Woodward
Chemical oceanographer
Dr Vassilis Kitidis
Marine biogeochemist
Professor Tim Smyth
Head of Science - Marine Biogeochemistry and Observations
Professor Tom Bell
Ocean-atmosphere biogeochemist
Dr Sarah Breimann
Analytical chemist
Dr Ruth Airs
Marine Biogeochemist and Head of Postgraduate Studies
Dr Ming-Xi Yang
Chemical Oceanographer
Dr Glen Tarran
Marine microbial ecologist
Dr Frances E. Hopkins
Marine biogeochemist
Professor Andy Rees
Marine biogeochemist
Carolyn Harris
Analytical Chemist