U.S. JGOFS Synthesis & Modeling Project

Research Areas - Process Studies & Time Series

EUPHOTIC ZONE PRODUCTION AND EXPORT

Primary Production

• Eileen Hofmann  "Evaluation of Marine Primary Productivity in the Tropical Pacific and Atlantic Oceans Using Satellite Ocean Color and Numerical Models"

• Dennis Hansell, Nick Bates; R. Murnane "Mass Balance Assessments of Carbon Partitioning: A Contribution to the U.S. JGOFS SMP"

• Frank Muller-Karger  "Synoptic Analysis of Factors Influencing Carbon Fluxes at the CARIACO Continental Margin Time Series" (also infrared, scatterometer, selected altimeter)

• George Jackson  "Development of Upper-Ocean Aggregation Models Useful for Interpreting and Predicting Carbon Fluxes"

• Michael Roman; Hans Dam  "Mechanistic Controls of Carbon Flux by Mezozooplankton: A JGOFS Synthesis"

• Hugh Ducklow; Michael Fasham; Thomas Anderson  "Constraining and Understanding Bacterial Biomass and Production Variability in Ocean Ecosystems"

• Raymond Sambrotto; Mary-Lynn Dickson  "Collaborative Research:  Quantifying the Relationship Between Nitrogen Uptake and Net Community Production Using a Synthesis of JGOFS Data and 1-D Modeling"

• James Murray; Bruce Frost; Harilaos Loukos; Suzanne Strom  "Food-Web Regulation of Particulate Export Flux in High Nitrate-Low Chlorophyll Regions"

• Richard Barber; Fei Chai; Richard Dugdale; Frances Wilkerson; Tsung-Hung Peng  "New and export productivity regulation by Si and Fe in the equatorial Pacific Ocean"

• Edward Laws  "An f-Ratio Model for Pelagic Marine Ecosystems"

• Michael Landry; Rob Armstrong; John Steele  "Data-Based Models of Plankton Community Structure and Export Flux"

• David M. Nelson; Mark Brzezinski; Paul Tréguer; Philippe Pondaven "Si cycling and Si control of new production and organic carbon export in the Southern Ocean and the Sargasso Sea: A JGOFS synthesis"

• Jim Christian; Ricardo M. Letelier  "Modeling microbial processes and dissolved organic matter: a case study at the US-JGOFS time series Station ALOHA"

• Douglas Capone; Edward J. Carpenter; Raleigh Hood  "Modeling of N2 and CO2 Fixation by the Oceanic Diazotroph Trichodesmium"

• Jim Christian; Ricardo M. Letelier  "Modeling microbial processes and dissolved organic matter: a case study at the US-JGOFS time series Station ALOHA"

• Paul G. Falkowski  "Representing Key Phytoplankton Groups in Ocean Carbon Cycle Models"

• Michael Lizotte; Giacomo DiTullio   "JGOFS Synthesis: The Role of Phytoplankton Community Structure in Determining Particulate Elemental Composition, Carbon Fixation, and Bio-Optical Properties"