• Unintended Genomic Outcomes in Current and Next Generation GM Techniques: A Systematic Review 

      Chu, Philomena; Agapito-Tenfen, Sarah Zanon (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Classical genetic engineering and new genome editing techniques, especially the CRISPR/Cas technology, increase the possibilities for modifying the genetic material in organisms. These technologies have the potential to ...
    • Unraveling the mechanisms and implications of a stronger mid-Pliocene Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) in PlioMIP2 

      Weiffenbach, Julia E.; Baatsen, Michiel L. J.; Dijkstra, Henk A.; Von Der Heydt, Anna S.; Abe-Ouchi, Ayako; Brady, Esther C.; Chan, Wing-Le; Chandan, Deepak; Chandler, Mark A.; Contoux, Camille; Feng, Ran; Guo, Chuncheng; Han, Zixuan; Haywood, Alan M.; Li, Qiang; Li, Xiangyu; Lohmann, Gerrit; Lunt, Daniel J.; Nisancioglu, Kerim Hestnes; Otto-Bliesner, Bette L.; Peltier, W. Richard; Ramstein, Gilles; Sohl, Linda E.; Stepanek, Christian; Tan, Ning; Tindall, Julia C.; Williams, Charles J. R.; Zhang, Qiong; Zhang, Zhongshi (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      The mid-Pliocene warm period (3.264–3.025 Ma) is the most recent geological period in which the atmospheric CO2 concentration was approximately equal to the concentration we measure today (ca. 400 ppm). Sea surface temperature ...
    • An updated version of the global interior ocean biogeochemical data product, GLODAPv2.2020 

      Olsen, Are; Lange, Nico; Key, Robert M.; Tanhua, Toste; Bittig, Henry C.; Kozyr, Alexander; Alvarez, Marta; Azetsu-Scott, Kumiko; Becker, Susan; Brown, Peter; Carter, Brendan R; Da Cunha, Leticia Cotrim; Feely, Richard A.; van Heuven, Steven; Hoppema, Mario; Ishii, Masao; Jeansson, Emil; Jutterström, Sara; Landa, Camilla Stegen; Lauvset, Siv Kari; Michaelis, Patrick; Murata, Akihiko; Perez, F. Fiz; Pfeil, Gerrit Benjamin; Schirnick, Carsten; Steinfeldt, Reiner; Suzuki, Toru; Tilbrook, Bronte; Velo, Antón; Wanninkhof, Rik (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      The Global Ocean Data Analysis Project (GLODAP) is a synthesis effort providing regular compilations of surface-to-bottom ocean biogeochemical data, with an emphasis on seawater inorganic carbon chemistry and related ...
    • An updated version of the global interior ocean biogeochemical data product, GLODAPv2.2021 

      Lauvset, Siv Kari; Lange, Nico; Tanhua, Toste; Bittig, Henry C.; Olsen, Are; Kozyr, Alex; Alvarez, Marta; Becker, Susan; Brown, Pete; Carter, Brendan R.; Da Cunha, Leticia Cotrim; Feely, Richard A; van Heuven, Steven; Hoppema, Mario; Ishii, Masao; Jeansson, Emil; Jutterström, Sara; Jones, Stephen Daniel; Karlsen, Maren Kjos; Monaco, Claire Lo; Michaelis, Patrick; Murata, Akihiko; Perez, Fiz F; Pfeil, Gerrit Benjamin; Schirnick, Carsten; Steinfeldt, Reiner; Suzuki, Toru; Tilbrook, Bronte; Velo, Antón; Wanninkhof, Rik; Woosley, Ryan J.; Key, Robert M. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Mathematical models were developed to predict biomass and hydrocarbon productivities and colony size (ouputs) of Botryococcus braunii showa cultures based on light intensity, temperature and dilution rate (inputs). These ...
    • Upper thermal threshold of Lepidurus arcticus (Branchiopoda, Notostraca) in lakes on the southern outreach of its distribution range 

      Qvenild, Tore; Fjeld, Eirik; Fjellheim, Arne; Hammar, Johan; Hesthagen, Trygve H.; Lakka, Hanna-Kaisa (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      The Arctic tadpole shrimp Lepidurus arcticus has a circumpolar distribution and the Scandes (Fennoscandian Mountains) marks its southernmost limit in Europe. Within this area, 391 natural and 88 regulated lakes with L. ...
    • Upper-level midlatitude troughs in boreal winter have an amplified low-latitude linkage over Africa 

      Ward, Neil; Fink, Andreas H.; Keane, Richard J.; Parker, Douglas John (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      In boreal winter, strong upper-level midlatitude troughs across the Atlantic–Africa–southwestern Asia sector generate substantial tropical–extratropical interaction and have become recognized as important factors in some ...
    • Uptake, distribution and elimination of palladium-doped polystyrene nanoplastics in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) following dietary exposure 

      Clark, Nathaniel J.; Khan, Farhan R.; Crowther, Charlotte; Mitrano, Denise; Thompson, Richard C. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      The ingestion of nanoplastics (NPs) by fish has led to concerns regarding fish health and food chain transfer, but analytical constraints have hindered quantitative data collection on their uptake and depuration. We used ...
    • Using Mask R-CNN for Underwater Fish Instance Segmentation as Novel Objects: A Proof of Concept 

      Chen, I-Hao; Belbachir, Nabil (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Instance Segmentation in general deals with detecting, segmenting and classifying individual instances of objects in an image. Underwater instance segmentation methods often involve aquatic animals like fish as the things ...
    • Using unoccupied aerial vehicles (UAVs) to map seagrass cover from Sentinel-2 imagery 

      Carpenter, Stephen; Byfield, Val; Felgate, Stacey L.; Price, David M.; Andrade, Valdemar; Cobb, Eliceo; Strong, James; Lichtschlag, Anna; Brittain, Hannah; Barry, Christopher D.; Fitch, Alice; Young, Arlene; Sanders, Richard; Evans, Claire (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Seagrass habitats are ecologically valuable and play an important role in sequestering and storing carbon. There is, thus, a need to estimate seagrass percentage cover in diverse environments in support of climate change ...
    • The Utrecht Finite Volume Ice-Sheet Model: UFEMISM (version 1.0) 

      Berends, Constantijn J.; Goelzer, Heiko; van de Wal, Roderik S.W. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Improving our confidence in future projections of sea-level rise requires models that can simulate ice-sheet evolution both in the future and in the geological past. A physically accurate treatment of large changes in ...
    • Validating timing of salmon smolt runs obtained by telemetry studies 

      Hulbak, Magnus Andre; Hanssen, Erlend Mjelde; Lennox, Robert; Salvanes, Anne Gro Vea; Barlaup, Bjørn Torgeir; Gharbi, Naouel; Nilsen, Tom Ole; Vollset, Knut (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Telemetry tags are increasingly used in management to monitor the migration timing of Atlantic salmon smolts (Salmo salar L.). It has been postulated that (1) effects from tagging and handling may alter migration behaviour, ...
    • Valve gaping behaviour in the European oyster (Ostrea edulis) in response to changes in light intensity when combined with variations in salinity and seawater temperature 

      Bamber, Shaw Duncan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Valve gaping behaviour in bivalve molluscs controls the flow of water across gills that provides both food, and oxygen for respiration. Closure of the valves also provides protection from predators and poor-quality water ...
    • Ventilation History of the Nordic Seas Deduced from Pelagic‐Benthic Radiocarbon Age Offsets 

      Telesiński, Maciej M.; Ezat, Mohamed; Muschitiello, Francesco; Bauch, Henning A.; Spielhagen, Robert F. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Changes in ocean circulation are considered a major driver of centennial‐to‐millennial scale climate variability during the last deglaciation. Using four sediment records from the Nordic Seas we studied radiocarbon ventilation ...
    • Viral infection switches the balance between bacterial and eukaryotic recyclers of organic matter during coccolithophore blooms 

      Vincent, Flora; Gralka, Matti; Schleyer, Guy; Schatz, Daniella; Cabrera-Brufau, Miguel; Kuhlisch, Constanze; Sichert, Andreas; Vidal-Melgosa, Silvia; Mayers, Kyle; Barak-Gavish, Noa; Flores, J. Michel; Masdeu-Navarro, Marta; Egge, Jorun Karin; Larsen, Aud; Hehemann, Jan-Hendrik; Marrasé, Celia; Simó, Rafel; Cordero, Otto X.; Vardi, Assaf (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Algal blooms are hotspots of marine primary production and play central roles in microbial ecology and global elemental cycling. Upon demise of the bloom, organic carbon is partly respired and partly transferred to either ...
    • Water masses constrain the distribution of deep-sea sponges in the North Atlantic Ocean and Nordic Seas 

      Roberts, E. M.; Bowers, D. G.; Meyer, H. K.; Samuelsen, Annette; Rapp, H. T.; Cardenas, P. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Water masses are bodies of water with distinctive physical and biogeochemical properties. They impart vertical structure to the deep ocean, participate in circulation, and can be traced over great distances, potentially ...
    • What goes in must come out: the oceanic outgassing of anthropogenic carbon 

      Couespel, Damien; Tjiputra, Jerry (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)
      About 25% of the emitted anthropogenic CO2 is absorbed by the ocean and transported to the interior through key gateways, such as the Southern Ocean or the North Atlantic. Over the next few centuries, anthropogenic CO2 is ...
    • Where and How the East Madagascar Current Retroflection Originates? 

      Ramanantsoa, Heriniaina Juliano Dani; Penven, Pierrick; Pappukutty, Raj Roshin; Renault, Lionel; Ponsoni, L; Ostrowski, Marek; Dilmahamod, A.F; Rouault, M (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      The East Madagascar Current (EMC) is one of the western boundary currents of the South Indian Ocean. As such, it plays an important role in the climate system by transporting water and heat toward the pole and recirculating ...
    • Winter weather controls net influx of atmospheric CO2 on the north-west European shelf 

      Kitidis, Vassilis; Shutler, Jamie D.; Ashton, Ian; Warren, Mark; Brown, Ian; Findlay, Helen S.; Hartman, Sue E.; Sanders, Richard; Humphreys, Matthew P.; Kivimäe, Caroline; Greenwood, Naomi; Hull, Tom; Pearce, David A.; McGrath, Triona; Stewart, Brian A.; Walsham, Pamela; McGovern, Evin; Bozec, Yann; Gac, Jean-Philippe; Van Heuven, Steven M.A.C.; Hoppema, Mario; Schuster, Ute; Johannessen, Truls; Omar, Abdirahman; Lauvset, Siv Kari; Skjelvan, Ingunn; Olsen, Are; Steinhoff, Tobias; Körtzinger, Arne; Becker, Meike; Lefevre, Nathalie; Diverrès, Denis; Gkritzalis, Thanos; Cattrijsse, André; Petersen, Wilhelm; Voynova, Yoana G; Chapron, Bertrand; Grouazel, Antoine; Land, Peter E.; Sharples, Jonathan; Nightingale, Philip D. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      Shelf seas play an important role in the global carbon cycle, absorbing atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) and exporting carbon (C) to the open ocean and sediments. The magnitude of these processes is poorly constrained, ...
    • Wintertime fCO2 variability in the subpolar North Atlantic since 2004 

      Fröb, Friederike; Olsen, Are; Becker, Meike; Chafik, Leon Martin; Johannessen, Truls; Reverdin, Gilles; Omar, Abdirahman (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      Winter data of surface ocean temperature (SST), salinity (SSS) and CO2 fugacity (fCO2) collected on the VOS M/V Nuka Arctica in the subpolar North Atlantic between 2004 and 2017 are used to establish trends, drivers, and ...