Current Post: Research Officer

Room Number: ENV 01.28A

Telephone: +44 (0)1603 591097

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Research Interests

Integrating physiological observations of marine (micro-)organisms into descriptions of Plankton Functional Types (PFTs); modelling the role of PFTs in global ocean biogeochemical cycles (PlankTOM models); modelling interactions between the (marine) biosphere and climate change (Quest Earth System Model).
 

Biography

My research ranges from microbial physiology to Earth system science on timescales from hours to decades. To allow this wide range of relevant processes to be integrated, I am building a global ocean biogeochemical model that is based on plankton functional types (a Dynamic Green Ocean Model). To keep this model realistic and allow extrapolation into climate change scenarios, I place strong emphasis on data-synthesis of observations to derive model equations, estimate parameters and to evaluate the results. Moreover, I incorporate known physical mechanisms and ecological relationships as additional constraints. To make use of developments in this range of research fields, I instigate and participate in many UK and international collaborations.
 

Significant publications

• Buitenhuis, E., Rivkin, R., Sailley, S., Le Quéré, C. (2010) Biogeochemical fluxes through microzooplankton. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 24, GB4015, doi:10.1029/2009GB003601
• Buitenhuis, E., Geider, R. (2010) A model of phytoplankton acclimation to iron-light colimitation. Limnology and Oceanography 55(2), 714-724 
• Ploug, H., Iversen,  M. H., Koski,  M., Buitenhuis,  E.T. (2008) Production, oxygen respiration rates, and sinking velocity of copepod fecal pellets: direct measurements of ballasting by opal and calcite. Limnology and Oceanography, 53(2), 469-476.
• Le Quéré, C., Rödenbeck, C., Buitenhuis, E.T., Conway, T.J., Langenfelds, R., Gomez, A., Labuschagne, C., Ramonet, M., Nakazawa, T., Metzl, N., Gillett, N., Heimann, M. (2007) Saturation of the Southern ocean CO2 sink due to recent climate change. Science 316, 1735-1738, doi:10.1126/science.1136188
• Buitenhuis, E.T., Le Quéré, C., Aumont, O., Beaugrand, G., Bunker, A., Hirst, A., Ikeda, T., O'Brien, T., Piontkovski, S., Straile, D. (2006) Biogeochemical fluxes through mesozooplankton. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 20, GB2003 doi:10.1029/2005GB002511
• Buitenhuis, E., van der Wal, P., de Baar, H. (2001) Blooms of Emiliania huxleyi are sinks of atmospheric carbon dioxide; a field and mesocosm study derived simulation. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 15, 577-588. doi:10.1029/2000GB001292
  

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