Some
SMP Achievements
Related
to new production and export
New discoveries and surprises
Net
production and export of DOC
Importance
of ballasting for sedimentation flux
Changes in conceptual understanding
Importance
of other new nutrients (iron, silica, N2)
Iron-Grazer
interactions
Roles of
large organisms as exporters (not that new, really)
Patchy,
pulsed character of export
Advances/refinements in technique
DOC
analysis
Thorium-234
New and improved estimates of rates and
fluxes
Global
total and new production (decreased uncertainty?)
Regional
carbon budgets
Vast
increase in obs of grazing and bacterial rates