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Austral summer vertical migration patterns in Antarctic zooplankton

Posted by mmaheigan 
· Thursday, October 15th, 2020 

Sunrise and sunset are the main cues driving zooplankton diel vertical migration (DVM) throughout the world’s oceans. These marine animals balance the trade-off between feeding in surface waters at night and avoiding predation during the day at depth. Near-constant daylight during polar summer was assumed to dampen these daily migrations. In a recent paper published in Deep-Sea Research I, authors assessed austral summer DVM patterns for 15 taxa over a 9-year period. Despite up to 22 hours of sunlight, a diverse array of zooplankton – including copepods, krill, pteropods, and salps – continued DVM.

Figure caption: Mean day (orange) and night (blue) abundance of (A) the salp Salpa thompsoni, (B) the krill species Thysanoessa macrura, (C) the pteropod Limacina helicina, and (D) chaetognaths sampled at discrete depth intervals from 0-500m. Horizontal dashed lines indicate weighted mean depth (WMD). N:D is the night to day abundance ratio for 0-150 m. Error bars indicate one standard error. Sample size n = 12 to 22. Photos by Larry Madin, Miram Gleiber, and Kharis Schrage.

The Palmer Antarctica Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Program conducted this study using a MOCNESS (Multiple Opening/Closing Net and Environmental Sensing System) to collect depth-stratified samples west of the Antarctic Peninsula. The depth range of migrations during austral summer varied across taxa and with daylength and phytoplankton biomass and distribution. While most taxa continued some form of DVM, others (e.g., carnivores and detritivores) remained most abundant in the mesopelagic zone, regardless of photoperiod, which likely impacted the attenuation of vertical carbon flux. Given the observed differences in vertical distribution and migration behavior across taxa, ongoing changes in Antarctic zooplankton assemblages will likely impact carbon export pathways. More regional, taxon-specific studies such as this are needed to inform efforts to model zooplankton contributions to the biological carbon pump.

 

Authors:
John Conroy (VIMS, William & Mary)
Deborah Steinberg (VIMS, William & Mary)
Patricia Thibodeau (VIMS, William & Mary; currently University of Rhode Island)
Oscar Schofield (Rutgers University)

Will global change “stress out” ocean DOC cycling?

Posted by mmaheigan 
· Tuesday, September 29th, 2020 

The dissolved organic carbon (DOC) pool is vital for the functioning of marine ecosystems. DOC fuels marine food webs and is a cornerstone of the earth’s carbon cycle. As one of the largest pools of organic matter on the planet, disruptions to marine DOC cycling driven by climate and environmental global changes can impact air-sea CO2 exchange, with the added potential for feedbacks on Earth’s climate system.

Figure 1. Simplified view of major dissolved organic carbon (DOC) sources (black text) and sinks (yellow text) in the ocean.

Since DOC cycling involves multiple processes acting concurrently over a range of time and space scales, it is especially challenging to characterize and quantify the influence of global change. In a recent review paper published in Frontiers in Marine Science, the authors synthesize impacts of global change-related stressors on DOC cycling such as ocean warming, stratification, acidification, deoxygenation, glacial and sea ice melting, inflow from rivers, ocean circulation and upwelling, and atmospheric deposition. While ocean warming and acidification are projected to stimulate DOC production and degradation, in most regions, the outcomes for other key climate stressors are less clear, with much more regional variation. This synthesis helps advance our understanding of how global change will affect the DOC pool in the future ocean, but also highlights important research gaps that need to be explored. These gaps include for example a need for studies that allow to understand the adaptation of degradation/production pathways to global change stressors, and their cumulative impacts (e.g. temperature with acidification).

 

 
Authors:
C. Lønborg (Aarhus University)
C. Carreira (CESAM, Universidade de Aveiro)
Tim Jickells (University of East Anglia)
X.A. Álvarez-Salgado (CSIC, Instituto de Investigacións Mariñas)

Sea ice loss and the changing Arctic carbon cycle

Posted by mmaheigan 
· Friday, September 18th, 2020 

Loss of Arctic Ocean ice cover is altering the carbon cycle in ways that are not well understood. Effectively “popping the top off” the Arctic Ocean, ice loss exposes the sea surface to warming and exchange of CO2 with the atmosphere. These processes are expected to increase CO2 levels in the Arctic Ocean, changing its contribution to the global carbon cycle, but limited data collection in the region has thus far precluded the establishment of a clear relationship between CO2 and ice cover. In a recent study published in Geophysical Research Letters, authors report on observed partial pressure of CO2 (pCO2) trends from several years of data collection in the surface waters of the Canada Basin of the Arctic Ocean. These data show that the pCO2 is higher during years when ice cover is low. Uptake of atmospheric CO2 and heating are the primary sources of the CO2 increase, with only a small counteracting offset from biological production. These processes vary significantly from year to year, masking the likely increase in pCO2 over time. Based on these results, we can expect that, while the Arctic Ocean has thus far been a significant sink for atmospheric CO2, if ice loss continues the uptake of CO2 will diminish in coming years.

Figure caption: Sea surface pCO2 increases with decreasing ice concentration (left), determined using the mean of spatially gridded data. The sea surface pCO2 data were collected on five research cruises on the Canadian icebreaker, CCGS Louis S. St-Laurent, from 2012 to 2017 (shown at right for 2017). The pCO2 levels are indicated by the color along the ship cruise track (right color bar). The dark shading (left color bar) represents sea ice concentration averaged from the daily satellite data collected during the cruise.

Authors:
Michael DeGrandpre (University of Montana-Missoula)
Wiley Evans (Hakai Institute)
Mary-Louise Timmermans (Yale University)
Richard Krishfield (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Bill Williams (Institute of Ocean Sciences)
Michael Steele (University of Washington)

Estuarine sediment resuspension drives non-local impacts on biogeochemistry

Posted by mmaheigan 
· Friday, September 18th, 2020 

Sediment processes, including resuspension and transport, affect water quality in estuaries by altering light attenuation, primary productivity, and organic matter remineralization, which then influence oxygen and nitrogen dynamics. In a recent paper published in Estuaries and Coasts, the authors quantified the degree to which sediment resuspension and transport affected estuarine biogeochemistry by implementing a coupled hydrodynamic-sediment transport-biogeochemical model of the Chesapeake Bay. By comparing summertime model runs that either included or neglected seabed resuspension, the study revealed that resuspension increased light attenuation, especially in the northernmost portion of the Bay, which subsequently shifted primary production downstream (Figure 1). Resuspension also increased remineralization in the central Bay, which experienced higher organic matter concentrations due to the downstream shift in primary productivity. When combined with estuarine circulation, these resuspension-induced shifts caused oxygen to increase and ammonium to increase throughout the Bay in the bottom portion of the water column. Averaged over the channel, resuspension decreased oxygen by ~25% and increased ammonium by ~50% for the bottom water column. Changes due to resuspension were of the same order of magnitude as, and generally exceeded, short-term variations within individual summers, as well as interannual variability between wet and dry years. This work highlights the importance of a localized process like sediment resuspension and its capacity to drive biogeochemical variations on larger spatial scales. Documenting the spatiotemporal footprint of these processes is critical for understanding and predicting the response of estuarine and coastal systems to environmental changes, and for informing management efforts.

Figure 1: Schematic of how resuspension affects biogeochemical processes based on HydroBioSed model estimates for Chesapeake Bay.

Authors:
Julia M. Moriarty (University of Colorado Boulder)
Marjorie A. M. Friedrichs (Virginia Institute of Marine Science)
Courtney K. Harris (Virginia Institute of Marine Science)

 

Also see the Geobites piece “Muddy waters lead to decreased oxygen in Chesapeake Bay” on this publication, by Hadley McIntosh Marcek

Profiling floats reveal fate of Southern Ocean phytoplankton stocks

Posted by mmaheigan 
· Tuesday, September 1st, 2020 

More observations are needed to constrain the relative roles of physical (advection), biogeochemical (downward export), and ecological (grazing and biological losses) processes in driving the fate of phytoplankton blooms in Southern Ocean waters. In a recent paper published in Nature Communications, authors used seven Biogeochemical Argo (BGC-Argo) floats that vertically profiled the upper ocean every ten days as they drifted for three years across the remote Sea Ice Zone of the Southern Ocean. Using the floats’ biogeochemical sensors (chlorophyll, nitrate, and backscattering) and regional ratios of nitrate consumption:chlorophyll synthesis, the authors developed a new approach to remotely estimate the fate of the phytoplankton stocks, enabling calculations of herbivory and of downward carbon export. The study revealed that the major fate of phytoplankton biomass in this region is grazing, which consumes ~90% of stocks. The remaining 10% is exported to depth. This pattern was consistent throughout the entire sea ice zone where the floats drifted, from 60°-69° South.

Figure Caption: Southern Ocean Chlorophyll a climatology and floats’ trajectories (top panel). Total losses of Chlorophyll a (including grazing and phytodetritus export, left panel). Phytodetritus export (right panel).

 

This study region comprises two of the three major krill growth and development areas—the eastern Weddell and King Haakon VII Seas and Prydz Bay and the Kerguelen Plateau—so the observed grazing was probably due to Antarctic krill, underscoring their pivotal importance in this ecosystem. Building upon the greater understanding of ocean ecosystems via satellite ocean colour development in the 1990s, BGC-Argo floats and this new approach will allow remote monitoring of the different fates of phytoplankton stocks and insights into the status of the ecosystem.

 

Authors:
Sebastien Moreau (Norwegian Polar Institute, Tromsø, Norway)
Philip Boyd (Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, Hobart, Australia)
Peter Strutton (Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, Hobart, Australia)

Space-based estimates of estuarine dissolved organic carbon flux to the Mid-Atlantic Bight

Posted by mmaheigan 
· Wednesday, August 5th, 2020 

Dissolved organic carbon (DOC) is a food supplement that supports microorganism growth and plays a major role in the global carbon cycle via the microbial loop, which integrates DOC into the marine food web. DOC from two major estuaries on the US East Coast, Chesapeake (CB) and Delaware Bay (DB), represent major contributors to the adjacent shelf region’s carbon cycle. In a recent study published in Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, the authors combined an integrated tracer flux approach, field and satellite data, machine learning, and a physical circulation model to quantify DOC stocks and export fluxes at the mouths of CB and DB.

Figure 1: Model bathymetry for the CB and DB models (a). Twelve‐year (2003–2014) mean MODIS DOC for DB (b) and CB (c) with ROMS grid lines superposed in white and land mask in black. The white dots across the bay mouths are the grid points used in the flux computation. The squares in (a) correspond to the size (50 km × 50 km) and location of the DB and CB MODIS images shown in (b) and (c). The boxes near DB mouth in (b) delimit the cluster of available in situ data stations. The red star, red square, and red diamond near CB mouth in (c) are the locations of in situ data for validation.

 

Figure 2: Five‐year averaged cross-sections of DOC concentration (top), velocity, and DOC flux at the mouths of Chesapeake Bay (a–c, respectively) and Delaware Bay (d–f, respectively).

This novel methodology not only improved estimates of combined DB-CB DOC fluxes to the US East Coast, but it also improved quantification of contrasting estuarine properties that affect DOC export such as riverine inputs, timescales of variability, and geomorphology. The combined CB-DB DOC contribution represents 25% of the total organic carbon exported and 27% of the total atmospheric carbon dioxide taken up by the Mid-Atlantic Bight (MAB)—the coastal region extending from Massachusetts to North Carolina. Spatial and, to a lesser extent, temporal covariations of velocity and DOC concentration contributed to the fluxes. The primary drivers of DOC flux differences for these two estuaries are their geomorphologies and volumes of freshwater discharge into the bays (74 billion m3/year for CB and 21 billion m3/year for DB). Terrestrial DOC inputs are similar to the export of DOC at the bay mouths at annual and longer timescales, but diverge significantly at shorter timescales of days to months.

The five-year mean DOC flux for CB and DB are 0.21 (confidence intervals 0.15, 0.27) Tg C/year and 0.05 (0.04, 0.07) Tg C/year, respectively. A flux decomposition analysis showed that temporal and spatial covariations in the DOC flux at the mouth of both bays play a significant role in determining the net export of DOC from the estuaries, which suggests that accurate estimates of estuarine DOC export require information on scales that properly resolve the temporal and spatial variability of water flux and DOC concentration. Neglecting these temporal and spatial covariations in the DOC flux leads to a 40% underestimation of the DOC flux in CB and 28% in DB, which would have a significant impact on the accuracy of carbon budget assessments and the role that these estuaries have on the coastal environment. This combination of satellite and field observations with statistical and numerical models shows great promise for capturing these covariations to better quantify the role of estuaries in the coastal carbon cycle.

Authors:
Sergio R. Signorini (NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center)
Antonio Mannino (NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center)
Marjorie A.M. Friedrichs (VIMS, William and Mary)
Pierre St-Laurent (VIMS, William and Mary)
John Wilkin (Rutgers University)
Aboozar Tabatabai (Rutgers University)
Raymond G. Najjar (The Pennsylvania State University)
Eileen E. Hofmann (Old Dominium University)
Fei Da (VIMS, College of William and Mary)
Hanqin Tian (Auburn University)
Yuanzhi Yao (Auburn University)

Global change impacts soil carbon storage in blue carbon ecosystems

Posted by mmaheigan 
· Wednesday, May 20th, 2020 

Vegetated coastal “blue carbon” ecosystems, including sea grasses, mangroves, and salt marshes, provide valuable ecosystem services such as carbon sequestration, storm protection, critical habitat, etc.. Many of these services are supported by the ability of blue carbon ecosystems to accumulate soil organic carbon over thousands of years.  Rapidly changing climate and environmental conditions will impact decomposition and thus the global reservoir of organic carbon in coastal soils. A recent Perspective article published in Nature Geoscience focused on the biogeochemical factors affecting decomposition in coastal soils, such as mineral protection, redox zonation, water content and movement, and plant-microbe interactions. The authors explored the spatial and temporal scales of these decomposition mechanisms and developed a conceptual framework to characterize how they may respond to environmental disturbances such as land-use change, nutrient loading, warming, and sea-level rise.

Figure caption: Temperate salt marshes (MA, USA). Healthy salt marshes have lush stands of grasses (top). Storms can expose peat deposits that have been buried for thousands of years (bottom). The fate of this soil carbon is unknown, but some fraction will be respired by microbes and returned to the atmosphere as CO2.

Improved estimates of soil organic carbon in blue carbon systems will require better characterization of these processes from sustained data sets. Furthermore, incorporation of these decomposition mechanisms into ecosystem evolution models will improve our capacity to quantify and predict changes in these soil carbon reservoirs, which could facilitate their inclusion in global budgets and management tools.

Temperate salt marshes (MA, USA). Healthy salt marshes have lush stands of grasses (left/top). Storms can expose peat deposits that have been buried for thousands of years (right/bottom). The fate of this soil carbon is unknown, but some fraction will be respired by microbes and returned to the atmosphere as CO2.

 

Authors:
Amanda C Spivak (University of Georgia)
Jon Sanderman (Woods Hole Research Center)
Jennifer Bowen (Northeastern University)
Elizabeth A. Canuel (Virginia Institute of Marine Science)
Charles S Hopkinson (University of Georgia)

Light matters for biological pump assessments

Posted by mmaheigan 
· Thursday, May 7th, 2020 

Organic carbon produced during photosynthesis in the sunlit euphotic zone is transported to the deep ocean via the ocean’s biological carbon pump (BCP). Even small changes in the BCP efficiency changes the carbon dioxide gradient across the ocean‐atmosphere interface, thus influencing global climate. A recent study in PNAS demonstrate that prior studies that estimate BCP efficiencies at a fixed depth fail because they do not consider the varying depth of light penetration, which ultimately controls production of sinking organic carbon and varies by location and season. Subsequently, the fixed depth approach introduces regional biases and underestimates global estimates of BCP efficiency by two-fold (Figure 1). These new findings make the case for using euphotic zone‐based metrics rather than applying a fixed depth to compare BCP efficiencies between sites. Improved estimates of BCP efficiency will lead to a better understanding of the mechanisms that control ocean carbon fluxes and its feedbacks on climate.

Figure 1: Carbon loss from the surface ocean shows more variability and is twice as high if measured at the depth where sunlight penetrates (left) vs. 150 meters (about 500 feet; right) where it is commonly measured. One Pg is 1015 grams with close to 6 Pg of carbon being transported to depth per year in left panel. In comparison, about 10 Pg C/yr is released to the atmosphere as a result of human activity.

 

Authors:
Ken Buesseler (WHOI)
Philip Boyd (IMAS Univ. Tasmania)
Erin Black (Dalhousie University)
David Siegel (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Also see: Tiny plankton drive processes in the ocean that capture twice as much carbon as scientists thought on The Conversation.

Featured on the cover of the PNAS May 5, 2020 issue:

An Important Biogeochemical Link between Organic and Inorganic Carbon Cycling: Contributions of Organic Alkalinity

Posted by mmaheigan 
· Wednesday, April 8th, 2020 

As a part of dissolved organic carbon (DOC), organic acid charge groups can contribute significantly to total alkalinity (TA) in natural waters. Such a contribution is termed as organic alkalinity (OrgAlk). Beyond being part of TA, OrgAlk represents an important biogeochemical linkage between organic and inorganic carbon cycling. In other words, the biogeochemical cycling of organic acid charge groups – i.e. their sources, sinks, and biogeochemical behaviors – directly impacts pH and carbonate speciation, which may ultimately influence air-water CO2 exchange and inorganic carbon fluxes. However, the effects of OrgAlk is often ignored or treated as a calculation uncertainty in many aquatic CO2 studies. How we treat and study OrgAlk may need a new paradigm under biogeochemical cycles.

Based on direct titration data of OrgAlk, the authors of a recent study conducted a comprehensive assessment of OrgAlk variability, sources, and characteristics in a sub-estuary of Waquoit Bay (Massachusetts). The sub-estuary is influenced by a salt marsh, groundwater input, and offshore water. Both the salt marsh and groundwater OrgAlk contributed up to 4.3% of the TA across all sampled seasons. Estuarine OrgAlk:DOC ratios varied across space and time, which suggests that their abundances are controlled by different biogeochemical processes. In addition, the study demonstrates the insufficiency of using a fixed proportion of DOC to account for OrgAlk, as well as the challenge of using measured pH, TA, and dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) to estimate OrgAlk. The effects of OrgAlk in these waters are equivalent to a pH change of ~ 0.03 – 0.26, or a pCO2 change of ~30–1600 matm. If extrapolating OrgAlk results to other coastal systems ranging from estuaries to continental shelves, OrgAlk would exert a strong control on both carbonate speciation and, ultimately, air-sea CO2 fluxes. This study provides a new conceptual framework for cycling of OrgAlk species and associated links between DOC and DIC pools in coastal systems (Figure 1).

Figure caption: A conceptual model of organic alkalinity cycling in coastal systems. BioP and ChemP represent in-situ biological production and chemical production of organic acid charge groups, respectively. Alk denotes total alkalinity. Arrows with dashed lines indicate processes that were not studied in the present study. The values in the boxes of pH, pCO2, and buffer capacity represent the magnitude of OrgAlk effects on pH, pCO2, and buffer capacity in the range of OrgAlk% in TA observed in this study (0.9 – 4.3%).

 

Authors
Shuzhen Song (East China Normal University)
Zhaohui Aleck Wang (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Meagan Eagle Gonneea (U. S. Geological Survey)
Kevin D. Kroeger (U. S. Geological Survey)

The past, present, and future of the ocean carbon cycle: A global data product with regional insights

Posted by mmaheigan 
· Tuesday, January 21st, 2020 

A new study published in Scientific Reports debuts a global data product of ocean acidification (OA) and buffer capacity from the beginning of the Industrial Revolution to the end of the century (1750-2100 C.E.). To develop this product, the authors linked one of the richest observational carbon dioxide (CO2) data products (6th version of the Surface Ocean CO2 Atlas, 1991-2018, ~23 million observations) with temporal trends modeled at individual locations in the global ocean. By linking the modeled pH trends to the observed modern pH distribution, the climatology benefits from recent improvements in both model design and observational data coverage, and is likely to provide more accurate regional OA trajectories than the model output alone. The authors also show that air-sea CO2 disequilibrium is the dominant mode of spatial variability for surface pH, and discuss why pH and calcium carbonate mineral saturation states (Omega), two important metrics for OA, show contrasting spatial variability. They discover that sea surface temperature (SST) imposes two large but cancelling effects on surface ocean pH and Omega, i.e., the effects of SST on (a) chemical speciation of the carbonic system; and (b) air-sea exchange of CO2 and the subsequent DIC/TA ratio of the seawater. These two processes act in concert for Omega but oppose each other for pH. As a result, while Omega is markedly lower in the colder polar regions than in the warmer subtropical and tropical regions, surface ocean pH shows little latitudinal variation.

Figure 1. Spatial distribution of global surface ocean pHT (total hydrogen scale, annually averaged) in past (1770), present (2000) and future (2100) under the IPCC RCP8.5 scenario.

This data product, which extends from the pre-Industrial era (1750 C.E.) to the end of this century under historical atmospheric CO2 concentrations (pre-2005) and the Representative Concentrations Pathways (post-2005) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s 5th Assessment Report, may be helpful to policy-makers and managers who are developing regional adaptation strategies for ocean acidification.

The published paper is available here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-55039-4

The data product is available here: https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/oads/data/0206289.xml

 

Authors:
Li-Qing Jiang (University of Maryland and NOAA NCEI)
Brendan Carter (NOAA PMEL and University of Washington JISAO)
Richard Feely (NOAA PMEL)
Siv Lauvset, Are Olsen (University of Bergen and Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Norway)

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