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Projects
To find out more about our current or previous projects, please click below for further details.
TiMBER
Read more2025-2030
The ‘Forecasting Tipping points In Marine Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem Responses’ (TiMBER) project aims to understand and predict tipping points in marine ecosystems, and their consequences and opportunities for the UK, particularly for the fishing industry.
Led by the University of East Anglia (UEA), the work has been awarded a grant by the UK Government’s Advanced Research + Invention Agency (ARIA), an R&D funding agency created to pursue research at the edge of what is scientifically and technologically possible and to unlock breakthroughs that benefit everyone.
TiMBER is a partnership between UEA, the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas), the Interdisciplinary Centre for Conservation Science (ICCS), the National Oceanography Centre (NOC), and the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS).
CALIPSO
Read more2023-2028
The Carbon Loss In Plants Soil and Ocean (CALIPSO) project aims to understand the fate of future CO2 and climate change through a new representation of carbon loss pathways from plants, soils, and oceans, by leveraging novel observations, theoretical understanding, machine learning tools, and integration processes, with Earth System Models.
CALPSO is funded by Schmidt Sciences' under the Virtual Earth System Research Institute (VERSI).
Marine Frontiers
Read more2021-2026
Marine Frontiers is an innovative project exploring the limits of stability in marine ecosystem functioning. It is enhancing the representation of plankton mortality processes in a global biogeochemical cycle to better represent all sources of instability. Using the improved model, Marine Frontiers aims to assess the impact of multiple stressors under plausible extreme conditions for the coming century.
The Frontiers of instability in marine ecosystems and carbon export (Marine Frontiers), is funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NE/V011103/1).
People
Below you can find out more about Green Ocean team members
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Corinne Le Quéré
Read moreGroup leader
Royal Society Research Professor of Climate Change Science at UEA. Her research focuses on the interactions between the carbon cycle and climate change, particularly those mediated by marine ecosystems.
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Erik Buitenhuis
Read moreSenior Researcher
Main developer of the PlankTOM model series and leader of the MAREDAT special issue on PFT carbon biomass.
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Marie-Fanny Racault
Read moreLecturer in Marine Ecology
Her research focuses marine microbial ecology and the ocean carbon cycle, with particular emphasis on the role of marine viruses in regulating ecosystem dynamics, biogeochemical cycling, and climate feedbacks through observations, data synthesis, and Earth system modelling.
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Rebecca Wright
Read moreSenior Research Associate
Her research focuses on marine ecosystem and biogeochemical modelling, combining models and observations to understand community structure and its links to ocean carbon dynamics. Her research develops and calibrates ecosystem parameters and plankton functional types, incorporating gelatinous macrozooplankton and fisheries elements in to PlankTOM and advancing zooplankton life cycles.
Tereza Jarníková
Read moreSenior Research Associate
Her research focuses on physical and biogeochemical controls on ocean carbon cycling, ranging from submesoscale to the global ocean.
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Joe Guest
Read moreSenior Research Associate
Their research focuses on the relationships between ocean ecosystem structure, instability, seasonality and their role in the global carbon cycle.