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Workshop 6: Ocean Ecologies and Their Physical Habitats in a Changing Climate: Resources

Tutorial Materials

David Thomas (School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor University)
Factors Controlling Plankton Ecology
  • Thomas Presentation

  • Smetacek, V. 2002. The ocean's veil. Nature 419: 565.
  • Smetacek, V. 2001. A watery arms race. Nature 411: 745.
  • Smetacek, V. 1999. Revolution in the ocean. Nature 401: 647.
  • Fogg, G. E. 1991. Tansley Review No. 30. The phytoplankton ways of life. New Phytologist 118: 191-232.
  • Chapters 2 & 3 in: MJ Kaiser, M Attrill, S Jennings, DN Thomas, D Barnes, AS Brierley, JG Hiddink, H Kaartokallio, N Polunin & D Raffaelli. 2011. Marine Ecology - Processes, Systems and Impacts. 2nd Edition. 576 pages. Oxford University Press.
  • DN Thomas & GS Dieckmann (Eds.) 2010. Sea ice. 2nd Edition. 621 pages. Wiley-Blackwell Publishing. ISBN 9781405185806.
  • DN Thomas. 2004. Frozen Oceans - The Floating World of Pack Ice. 240 pages. Natural History Museum, London ISBN 0565 091883. Also published by Firefly Books (USA and Canada) ISBN 1554070007

Alan Hastings (Environmental Science and Policy, University of California)
Ecological Modeling
  • Hastings Presentation
  • Exercise
  • Franks, P.J.S. 2002. NPZ Models of Plankton Dynamics: Their Construction, Coupling to Physics, and Application. Journal of Oceanography, Vol. 58: 379-387.

Steve Ackley (Earth & Environmental Science, University of Texas at San Antonio)
Biology/Physics Interface in Sea Ice

Ken Golden (Mathematics, University of Utah)
Sea Ice Structure and Processes

Lonnie Thompson (Byrd Polar Research Center, Ohio State University)
A Glacier Paleoclimate Perspective for the last 10,000 years from the World's Highest Mountains

Emily Shuckburgh (Natural Environmental Research Council, British Antarctic Survey)
Ocean
  • Shuckburgh Presentation

Joyce Lin and Ken Golden's Worksheet for 6/21/11: PDF

Nicole Lovenduski (Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado)
Air-Sea Carbon Dioxide Exchange
  • Lovenduski Presentation
  • Lovenduski Exercise
  • Lovenduski CO3eq.m
  • Loose, B. et al. 2010. Gas diffusion through columnar laboratory sea ice: Implications for mixed-layer ventilation of CO2 in the seasonal ice zone. Tellus Series B-Chemical and Physical Meteorology, Vol. 63 Iss. 1: 23-39.
  • Cussler, E.L. 2009. Diffusion Mass Transfer in Fluid Systems, 3rd Ed. Cambridge.

Jean Louis Tison (Earth and Environmental Sciences, Universite Libre de Bruxelles)
Gas Transport thru' Sea Ice

Walker Smith (Virginia Institute of Marine Science, The College of William and Mary)
Phytoplankton Role, Growth, and Fate
  • Walker Presentation
  • Dinninman, M.S. et al. 2010. A model study of Circumpolar Deep Water on the West Antarctic Peninsula and Ross Sea continental shelves.
  • Dinninman, M.S. et al. 2003. Cross-shelf exchange in a model of the Ross Sea circulation and biogeochemistry.

Arjen Doelman (Mathematisch Instituut, Leiden University)
Phytoplankton-Nutrient Modeling