Zooplankton fecal pellets, marine snow, phytodetritus and the ocean's biological pump

JT Turner - Progress in Oceanography, 2015 - Elsevier
The “biological pump” is the process by which photosynthetically-produced organic matter in
the ocean descends from the surface layer to depth by a combination of sinking particles …

Contributions of long-term research and time-series observations to marine ecology and biogeochemistry

HW Ducklow, SC Doney… - Annual Review of Marine …, 2009 - annualreviews.org
Time-series observations form a critical element of oceanography. New interdisciplinary
efforts launched in the past two decades complement the few earlier, longer-running time …

Last Glacial Maximum to Holocene sea surface conditions at Umnak Plateau, Bering Sea, as inferred from diatom, alkenone, and stable isotope records

BE Caissie, J Brigham‐Grette, KT Lawrence… - …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
The Bering Sea gateway between the Pacific and Arctic oceans impacts global climate when
glacial‐interglacial shifts in shore line position and ice coverage change regional albedo …

Diatoms as paleoenvironmental proxies for seasonal productivity, sea-ice and surface circulation in the Bering Sea during the late Quaternary

K Katsuki, K Takahashi - Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in …, 2005 - Elsevier
Diatom assemblages in suspended particulate matter (SPM), surface sediments, and piston
core samples in the southern Bering Sea and the western subarctic Pacific were examined …

[PDF][PDF] The marine system of the Western Antarctic Peninsula

H Ducklow, A Clarke, R Dickhut, SC Doney… - … environment in a …, 2012 - academia.edu
The marine ecosystem of the West Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) extends for $1500 km from the
Bellingshausen Sea near 75 S, 80 W to the northern tip of the peninsula near 63 S, 60 W …

Closure of the Bering Strait caused mid-Pleistocene transition cooling

S Kender, AC Ravelo, S Worne, GEA Swann… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Abstract The Mid-Pleistocene Transition (MPT) is characterised by cooling and lengthening
glacial cycles from 600–1200 ka, thought to be driven by reductions in glacial CO2 in …

Millennial-scale variability of marine productivity and terrigenous matter supply in the western Bering Sea over the past 180 kyr

JR Riethdorf, D Nürnberg, L Max… - Climate of the …, 2013 - cp.copernicus.org
We used piston cores recovered in the western Bering Sea to reconstruct millennial-scale
changes in marine productivity and terrigenous matter supply over the past~ 180 kyr. Based …

Late Quaternary paleoceanographic changes in the Bering Sea and the western subarctic Pacific based on radiolarian assemblages

S Tanaka, K Takahashi - Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in …, 2005 - Elsevier
Seven piston cores were obtained from the Bering Sea and the western subarctic Pacific
during Cruise KH99-3 of RV Hakuho-maru in August 1999: Cores BOW-8A, BOW-9A, BOW …

Rare earth element (REE)–silicic acid complexes in seawater to explain the incorporation of REEs in opal and the “leftover” REEs in surface water: new interpretation …

T Akagi - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2013 - Elsevier
In light of a new finding that diatom opal carries rare earth elements (REEs) at an amount
exceeding that which would explain the REEs/Si ratio in open ocean columns, the complex …

Late Quaternary paleoceanographic changes in the southwestern Okhotsk Sea: evidence from geochemical, radiolarian, and diatom records

Y Okazaki, K Takahashi, K Katsuki, A Ono, J Hori… - Deep Sea Research …, 2005 - Elsevier
High-resolution analyses of geochemical parameters (biogenic opal, calcium carbonate,
organic carbon, and nitrogen) and microfossil assemblages (diatoms and radiolarians) on …