Ocean science in the South Atlantic
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- Closed
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The South Atlantic Ocean plays a key role in global climate variability, oceanic biological productivity, biogeochemical cycles as well as the global ocean and atmospheric circulations. The South Atlantic connects the northern branch of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation to the Indian, Pacific and Southern oceans. It also hosts highly productive ecosystems, such as the Benguela Upwellling System, fuelled by cold, nutrient-rich waters. Nevertheless, the South Atlantic Ocean has received only a fraction of the scientific attention of its Northern Hemisphere counterpart, the North Atlantic Ocean – which is right on the doorstep of some of the wealthiest funders of scientific research, in North America and Europe. In this Collection, we firmly turn the attention to the Southern Hemisphere.
In addition to the articles we have invited and to address these diverse, unique, and interconnected research challenges, we welcome high-quality submissions spanning any aspect of ocean science in the South Atlantic Ocean. All submissions will be subject to the same review process and editorial standards as regular Communications Earth & Environment Articles.
This is an open Collection and submissions will be considered on a rolling basis.
Editors
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Regina Rodrigues
Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Brazil
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Annie Bourbonnais
University of South Carolina (UofSC), USA
Regina Rodrigues - Lead Guest Editor
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Research areas: Climate variability, large-scale ocean and atmospheric dynamics and teleconnection patterns in the Southern Hemisphere, extreme events
Regina R. Rodrigues is a professor of Physical Oceanography at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Brazil. Before joining UFSC in 2010, she received her PhD from the Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, USA. She is interested in understanding how tropical ocean basins interact and affect the extra-tropics leading to extreme events, using observations and modelling. Her research has also focused on the impacts of ENSO variability on the climate of South America and the Tropical Atlantic. More recently she has her attention on the physical mechanisms generating compound extreme events of droughts, land and marine heatwaves.
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Annie Bourbonnais - Guest Editor
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Research areas: Marine biogeochemistry, Marine nitrogen cycle, Nitrogen and carbon stable isotopes, Dissolved gases (N2, O2, Ar) as tracers of oceanic physical and biological processes, Trace gas production (N2O) in marine environments, Chemosynthetic deep-sea ecosystems, Oxygen minimum zones
Annie Bourbonnais is an assistant professor at the University of South Carolina (UofSC), USA, where she leads the Marine Stable Isotope Biogeochemistry Laboratory at the School of the Earth, Ocean and Environment. Before joining UofSC in August 2018, she was a research professor at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and a postdoctoral fellow at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. She obtained her Ph.D. at the University of Victoria (Canada) in 2012. Her research is focused on the biogeochemical oceanographic processes that affect climate, particularly the cycling of nitrogen (N), an essential nutrient for all organisms that limits primary productivity in most of the ocean. She uses the stable isotope ratios of reactive N pools as a primary tool and tracer to study N transformations in marine and lacustrine environments. Her current research investigates the sources and sinks of nitrous oxide, a potent greenhouse gas, from concentration and stable isotopic data from different oceanic environments, such as oxygen minimum zones, the Arctic, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Benguela Upwelling system. She is also a key participant in a NSF EPSCoR project using computational methods and autonomous robotics systems for modeling and predicting harmful cyanobacterial blooms in South Carolina lakes.
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