Publications

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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