Examining links between dust deposition and phytoplankton response using ice cores

• Main Authors: Hooper, James, Mayewski, Paul A, Marx, Samuel K, Henson, Stephanie, Potocki, Mariusz, Sneed, Sharon, Handley, Mike, Gasso, Santiago, Fischer, Matthew, Saunders, Krystyna M
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Research Online 2019
• Subjects: Pacific; South Georgia Island; Yukon
• Online Access: https://ro.uow.edu.au/smhpapers1/383

Dust is a major source of nutrients to remote ocean environments, influencing primary productivity (PP). Enhanced oceanic PP causes drawdown of atmospheric CO2 and is considered likely to be a driver of climate variability on glacial-interglacial timeframes. However, the scale of this relationship a...