Current Post: Senior Research Associate

Room Number: 01.27

Telephone: 01603 593837 (+44 1603 593837)

Fax: 01603 591327 (+44 1603 591327)

Email: thomas.bell@uea.ac.uk

Research Interests

Oceanic and atmospheric chemistry; biogeochemical cycles of nitrogen and sulphur; air-sea flux of soluble biogenic gases.
 

Biography

Having graduated from UEA with a BSc in Environmental Sciences, I then progressed to a Ph.D., which focussed on measurements of dimethylsulphide (DMS) and ammonia (NH₃) in remote regions as part of the Atlantic Meridional Transect (AMT) programme. This was supervised by Gill Malin, Tim Jickells, Alex Baker and Peter Liss here at UEA and was completed in 2006. I am currently funded by the Natural Environmental Research Council (NERC) on a three year knowledge transfer project tied to the Surface-Ocean Lower-Atmosphere Study (SOLAS), which aims to produce global-scale air-sea gas flux products. For more information on this project, please see the SOLAS Project Integration webpage.
 

Publications

Bell, T.G., Poulton, A. and Malin, G. Strong links between phytoplankton community physiology and dimethylsulphoniopropionate (DMSP) concentrations in the sub-tropical/tropical Atlantic. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, In Press. doi:10.1029/2009GB003617

Halloran, P.R., Bell, T.G. and Totterdell, I.J. Can we trust simple marine DMS parameterisations within complex climate models? Biogeosciences Discuss., 7, 1295-1320. www.biogeosciences-discuss.net/7/1295/2010/bgd-7-1295-2010.html

Miles, C.J., Bell, T.G. and Lenton, T.M. (2009) Testing the relationship between the solar radiation dose and surface DMS concentrations using high resolution in situ data. Biogeosciences, 6(9), 1927-1934. www.biogeosciences.net/6/1927/2009/

Johnson, M.T. and Bell, T.G. (2008) Coupling between dimethylsulfide emissions and the ocean-atmosphere exchange of ammonia. Environmental Chemistry, 5(4), 259-267. doi: 10.1071/EN08030

Johnson, M.T., Liss, P.S., Bell, T.G., Lesworth, T.J., Baker, A.R., Hind, A.J., Jickells, T.D., Biswas, K.F., Woodward, E.M.S. and Gibb, S.W., (2008) Field observations of the ocean-atmosphere exchange of ammonia: Fundamental importance of temperature as revealed by a comparison of high and low latitudes. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 22(1), art. no.-GB1019. doi: 10.1029/2007GB003039


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