Publications
Papers in review:
Clements, D., S. Yang, T. Weber, A. McDonnell, R. Kiko, L. Stemmann, D. Bianchi, Constraining the ocean’s biological pump with optical observations and supervised learning. Part 1: Particle size distributions, in review at Global Biogeochemical Cycles.
Clements, D., S. Yang, T. Weber, A. McDonnell, R. Kiko, L. Stemmann, D. Bianchi, Constraining the ocean’s biological pump with optical observations and supervised learning. Part 2: Carbon Flux, in review at Global Biogeochemical Cycles.
Joung, D., C. Ruppel, J. Southon, T. Weber, J. Kessler, No evidence of atmospheric emission of methane from decomposing hydrates in mid latitudes, in review at Nature Geoscience.
Technical reports in press:
Kessler, J.D*. and T. Weber*, Seep methane inputs into North American coastal waters, in press in the Oil in the Sea IV Report by the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine.
*These authors contributed equally
Published papers:
Cram, J., C. Fuchsman, M. Duffy, J. Pretty, S. Leung, T. Weber, D. Bianchi, N. Evans, A. Devol, R. Kiel (2022), Slow Particle Remineralization, Rather Than Suppressed Disaggregation, Drives Efficient Flux Transfer Through the Eastern Tropical North Pacific Oxygen Deficient Zone, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 36(1), e2021GB007080, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GB007080.
Xu, H., and T. Weber (2021), Ocean dust deposition rates constrained in a data-assimilation model of the marine Aluminum cycle, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 35(9), e2021GB007049. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GB007049.
Kazemi, R. †, W. Schlageter†, B. Hmiel, T. Weber, L. T. Murray, and V. V. Petrenko (2021), Investigating methane emissions from geologic microseepage in Western New York State, United States, Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, 9(1). https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.2020.00066
Leung, S. W., T. Weber, J. A. Cram, and C. Deutsch (2021), Variable particle size distributions reduce the sensitivity of global export flux to climate change, Biogeosciences, 18(1), 229-250. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-229-2021
Weber, T. (2020), Southern Ocean Upwelling and the Marine Iron Cycle, Geophysical Research Letters, 47(20). https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL090737
Weber, T., and D. Bianchi (2020), Efficient Particle Transfer to Depth in Oxygen Minimum Zones of the Pacific and Indian Oceans, Frontiers in Earth Science, 8(376). https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2020.00376
Joung, D., M. Leonte, D. L. Valentine, K. J. Sparrow, T. Weber, and J. D. Kessler (2020), Radiocarbon in Marine Methane Reveals Patchy Impact of Seeps on Surface Waters, Geophysical Research Letters, 47(20). https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL089516
Wilson, S., and 35 additional authors including T. Weber (2020), Ideas and perspectives: A strategic assessment of methane and nitrous oxide in the marine environment. Biogeosciences, 17(22), 5809-5828. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-5809-2020
Saunois, M., and 85 additional authors including T.Weber (2020), The Global Methane Budget 2000–2017, Earth System Science Data, 12(3), 1561-1623. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-1561-2020
Yang, S., B. Chang, M*. Warner*, T. Weber*, A. Bourbonnais, A. Santoro, A. Kock, R. Sonnerup, J. Bullister, S. Wilson, D. Bianchi (2020), Global reconstruction reduces the uncertainty of oceanic nitrous oxide emissions and reveals a vigorous seasonal cycle, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 201921914, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1921914117.
*These authors contributed equally (T. Weber is joint second author)
Roshan, S., T. DeVries, J. Wu, S. John, and T. Weber (2020), Reversible scavenging traps hydrothermal iron in the deep ocean, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 542, 116297, doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116297.
John, S., H. Liang, T. Weber, T. DeVries, F. Primeau, K. Moore, M. Holzer, N. Mahowald, W. Gardner, A. Mishonov, M. J. Richardson, Y. Faugere, G. Taburet (2019), AWESOME OCIM: A simple, flexible, and powerful tool for modeling elemental cycling in the oceans, Chemical Geology, 533, 119403. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2019.119403
Weber, T., N. A. Wiseman†, and A. Kock (2019), Global ocean methane emissions dominated by shallow coastal waters, Nature Communications, 10(1), 4584. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12541-7
Boyd, P. W., H. Claustre*, M. Levy*, D. A. Siegel*, and T. Weber* (2019), Multi-faceted particle pumps drive carbon sequestration in the ocean, Nature, 568(7752), 327-335. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1098-2
*These authors contributed equally (T. Weber is joint second author)
Penn, J., T. Weber, B. Chang, C. Deutsch (2019), Microbial ecosystem dynamics drive oscillating nitrogen loss in marine anoxic zones. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1818014116
Weber, T., S. John, A. Tagliabue, and T. DeVries (2018), Biological uptake and reversible scavenging of zinc in the global ocean. Science, 361(6397), 72-76. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aap8532
Cram, J. A., T. Weber, S. W. Leung, A. M. P. McDonnell, J.-H. Liang, and C. Deutsch (2018), The Role of Particle Size, Ballast, Temperature, and Oxygen in the Sinking Flux to the Deep Sea. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 32(5), 858-876. https://doi.org/10.1029/2017GB005710
Bianchi, D.*, T. Weber*, R. Kiko, and C. Deutsch (2018), Global niche of marine anaerobic metabolisms expanded by particle microenvironments. Nature Geoscience, 11(4), 263-268. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-018-0081-0
*These authors contributed equally (joint first author paper)
John, S., J. Helgoe, E. Townsend, T. Weber, T. DeVries, A. Tagliabue, K. Moore, P. Lam, C. Marsay, C. Till (2017), The biogeochemical cycling of Fe and Fe stable isotopes in the Eastern Tropical South Pacific. Marine Chemistry (20), 66-76. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marchem.2017.06.003
DeVries, T., and T. Weber (2017), The export and fate of organic matter in the ocean: New constraints from combining satellite and oceanographic tracer observations. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 31(3), 535-555. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016GB005551
Weber, T. (2016), Nutrient distributions reveal the fate of sinking organic particles in the ocean, Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry News, Fall 2016. https://web.whoi.edu/ocb/wp-content/uploads/sites/43/2016/12/OCB_NEWS_FALL16.pdf
Penn, J., T. Weber, and C. Deutsch (2016), Microbial functional diversity alters the structure and sensitivity of oxygen deficient zones. Geophysical Research Letters, 43(18). https://doi.org/10.1002/2016GL070438
Weber, T., J. A. Cram, S. W. Leung, T. Devries, and C. Deutsch (2016), Deep ocean nutrients imply large latitudinal variation in particle transfer efficiency. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 113(31), 8606-8611. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1604414113
Homoky, W. B., T. Weber, W. M. Berelson, T. M. Conway, G. M. Henderson, M. Van Hulten, C. Jeandel, S. Severmann, and A. Tagliabue (2016), Quantifying trace element and isotope fluxes at the ocean-sediment boundary. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 374(2081). https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2016.0246
Deutsch, C., W. Berelson, R. Thunnel, T. Weber, C. Tems, J. McManus, J. Crusius, T. Ito, T. Baumgartner, V. Ferreira, A. van Geen (2014), Centennial changes in North Pacific anoxia linked to tropical trade winds. Science, 345(6197), 665–668. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1252332
Weber, T., and C. Deutsch (2014), Local versus basin-scale limitation of marine nitrogen fixation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 111(24), 8741-8746. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1317193111
Durham, B. P. , J. Grote, K. Whittaker, S. Bender, H. Luo, S. Grim, J. Brown, J. Casey, A. Dron, L. Leiva, A. Krupke, C. Luria, A. Mine, O. Nigro, S. Pather, A. Talarmin, E. Wear, T. Weber, J. Wilson, M. Church, E. DeLong, D. Karl, G. Steward , J. Eppley, N. Kyrpides and M. Rappé (2014), Draft genome sequence of marine alphaproteobacterial strain HIMB11, the first cultivated representative of a unique lineage within the Roseobacter clade possessing an unusually small genome. Standards in Genomic Sciences, 9(3), 632–45. https://doi.org/10.4056/sigs.4998989
Weber, T., and C. Deutsch (2012), Oceanic nitrogen reservoir regulated by plankton diversity and ocean circulation. Nature, 489(7416), 419–422. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature11357
Deutsch, C., and T. Weber (2012), Nutrient Ratios as a Tracer and Driver of Ocean Biogeochemistry. Annual Reviews of Marine Science, 4(1), 113–141. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-marine-120709-142821
Weber, T., and C. Deutsch (2010), Ocean nutrient ratios governed by plankton biogeography. Nature, 467(7315), 550–554. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature09403