EC52A:
Physical and Biogeochemical Processes and the Support of Shelf Sea Primary Productivity and Carbon Cycling II
EC52A:
Physical and Biogeochemical Processes and the Support of Shelf Sea Primary Productivity and Carbon Cycling II
Physical and Biogeochemical Processes and the Support of Shelf Sea Primary Productivity and Carbon Cycling II
Session ID#: 11333
Session Description:
An important challenge in oceanography is to understand how high rates of primary production in shelf seas are sustained by supplies of nutrients, and to what extent the subsequent cycling and transport of fixed elements may result in a net export of carbon to the deep ocean. The problem requires knowledge of the physical processes that exchange water between the deep ocean and the shelf, and the role of riverine and atmospheric inputs of nutrients. On the shelf we need to understand how biogeochemical cycling of elements (e.g. C, N, P, Si, oxygen, and Fe) in the water column and sediments is driven by and affects shelf ecosystems (e.g. primary production, grazing, plankton community structure, carbonate chemistry, remineralisation, development of episodic or seasonal hypoxia) and to what extent carbon is exported from the shelf to the open ocean. Contributions are invited on the physics and biogeochemistry of shelf-ocean exchange, riverine inputs to shelf seas, shelf biogeochemical processes, and air-sea carbon and nitrogen fluxes in shelf systems, as well as conceptual or model-based research that draws the physics and biogeochemistry strands together.
Primary Chair: Jonathan Sharples, University of Liverpool, Earth, Ocean and Ecological Sciences, Liverpool, L69, United Kingdom
Chairs: Richard Sanders, National Oceanography Center, Soton, Southampton, United Kingdom, Jack A Barth, Oregon State University, Marine Studies Initiative, Corvallis, OR, United States and Katja Fennel, Dalhousie University, Department of Oceanography, Halifax, NS, Canada
Moderators: Katja Fennel, Dalhousie University, Department of Oceanography, Halifax, NS, Canada, Jack A Barth, Oregon State University, Marine Studies Initiative, Corvallis, OR, United States and Richard Sanders, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom
Student Paper Review Liaisons: Katja Fennel, Dalhousie University, Department of Oceanography, Halifax, NS, Canada and Jack A Barth, Oregon State University, Marine Studies Initiative, Corvallis, OR, United States
Index Terms:
4219 Continental shelf and slope processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4273 Physical and biogeochemical interactions [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4562 Topographic/bathymetric interactions [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4815 Ecosystems, structure, dynamics, and modeling [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]
Co-Sponsor(s):
- ME - Marine Ecosystems
- PO - Physical Oceanography/Ocean Circulation
- PP - Phytoplankton and Primary Production
Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
Iron sources to the Fe-poor northern Gulf of Alaska: insights from water column and atmospheric dust time series (92778)
On the Role of Mesoscale Eddies in the Long-Range Export of Carbon and Nutrients from the Canary Upwelling System into the Open North Atlantic (91193)
Mesoscale eddies drive cross-shelf transport, particle and nutrient biogeochemistry, and the nutritional value of zooplankton (89441)
Age and residence time of terrestrial source water in the northwest Atlantic shelf seas (90657)
Greenland Glacial Fjord Dynamics and Impacts on Nutrient Supply and Phytoplankton Community Structure (93758)
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