A few weeks ago, Dr. Andrew Watson visited our Faculty in order to teach in our master of Oceanography. The research interests of Professor Andrew Watson are biogeochemical cycles, controls on oxygen and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, marine biological controls on climate and ocean circulation studies. Current active research includes interactions of the oceans, CO2 and climate, quantifying the sink for atmospheric carbon dioxide using surface measurements, monitoring transient tracers in the North Atlantic, theoretical studies on the control of nutrients in the ocean, and the composition of the atmosphere through time.
Dr. Watson in the laboratory of Chemical Oceanography (spectacular manifold). Thanks to May Gómez for the photo.
The scientific news today is a series of papers appeared in the last number of Deep-Sea Research I about the study of the late winter bloom in Bermudas. Remember that the first mention to the late winter bloom was given by Menzel and Ryther in 1960, working near Bermuda. Thereafter, Dr. Braun from Tenerife took this concept to study our late winter bloom in the Canary Island waters. Many years after, we still work in this bloom as it inspired many ideas. I post the abstract of the first paper of four, but do not hesitate to read the others as there is good information about the phytoplankton, primary and export production.
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