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Dr Andy Rees

Biogeochemist



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+44 (0)1752 633100 (switchboard)

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Dr Andy Rees is a senior research scientist, leader of the UK Atlantic Meridional Transect (AMT) project and the coordinator for PML impact activities related to the promotion of “Cleaner Seas for Nature and Society”. He is a biogeochemist who has participated in and led research projects and oceanographic expeditions on a global scale including to Arctic and Antarctic regions.

Andy's research interests focus on biogeochemical cycling in the marine environment and on the impact of environmental change on the biological and chemical processes which control the ocean and atmospheric exchange of greenhouse gases. Recent research projects include the impact of environmental change on the marine nitrogen cycle, the activity and distribution of nitrogen fixing organisms and the sea-air flux of nitrous oxide and methane between river catchments and the open ocean.

Andy and colleagues are currently investigating the impact of ocean acidification, warming and sea-ice retreat in Polar waters and the transport of carbon and nutrients between the UK land-mass and our coastal seas. He leads and manages scientific programmes which range in scale from 2 to 3 people to multi-institutional involvement over periods of two to ten years and has published over 80 peer reviewed research papers.

Projects

AtlantECO
Atlantic Ecosystem Assessment, Forecasting and Sustainability (AtlantECO)

Contact: Dr Andy Rees

AtlantECO is working to understand the human impacts on the marine ecosystems and processes in the Atlantic. The main focus of the project is to...

SANH
South Asian Nitrogen Hub

Contact: Dr Yuri Artioli

The South Asian Nitrogen Hub is a pioneering UK-South Asia research partnership to enable South Asia to adopt and champion a strategic approach to...

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Other key projects

  • SONIC – Shortcut in the Oceanic Nitrogen Cycle. Fluxes and Microbial Pathways of Nitrogen Remineralisation in the Ocean's Twilight Zone (NERC: NE/N00390X/1)
  

Selected key publications

Rees, A.P., Brown, I.J., Jayakumar, A. and Ward, B.B. (2016) The inhibition of N2O production by ocean acidification in cold temperate and polar waters. Deep-Sea ResearchII, 127, 93–101. doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2015.12.006i

Rees, A.P., Tait, K., Widdicombe, C.E., Quartly G.D., McEvoy, A.J. and Al-Moosawi, L. (2016) Metabolically active, non-nitrogen fixing, Trichodesmium in UK coastal waters during winter. J. Plankton Res. 38(3): 673–678. doi:10.1093plankt/fbv123

Rees, A.P., Turk-Kubo, K.A., Al-Moosawi, L., Alliouane, S., Gazeau, F., Hogan, M.E., Zehr, J.P. (2016). Ocean acidification impacts on nitrogen fixation in the coastal western Mediterranean Sea, Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science. doi: 10.1016/j.ecss.2016.01.020

Rees, A.P., Nightingale P.D., Poulton A.L., Smyth T.J., Tarran G.A., Tilstone G.H. The Atlantic Meridional Transect Programme (1995 – 2016). (2017). Progress in Oceanography, 158, 3-18. doi:10.1016/j.pocean.2017.05.004

Luo, Y.-W., Doney, S.C., Anderson, L.A., Benavides, M., Bode, A., Bonnet, S., Boström, K.H., Böttjer, D., Capone, D.G., Carpenter, E.J., Chen, Y.L., Church, M.J., Dore, J.E., Falcón, L.I., Fernández, A., Foster, R.A., Furuya, K., Gómez, F., Gundersen, K., Hynes, A.M., Karl, D.M., Kitajima, S., Langlois, R.J., LaRoche, J., Letelier, R.M., Marañón, E., McGillicuddy Jr., D.J., Moisander, P.H., Moore, C.M., Mouriño-Carballido, B., Mulholland, M.R., Needoba, J.A., Orcutt, K.M., Poulton, A.J., Raimbault, P., Rees, A.P., Riemann, L., Shiozaki, T., Subramaniam, A., Tyrrell, T., Turk-Kubo, K.A., Varela, M., Villareal, T.A., Webb, E.A., White, A.E., Wu, J., and Zehr, J.P.: Database of diazotrophs in global ocean: abundances, biomass and nitrogen fixation rates, Earth Syst. Sci. Data Discuss., 5, 47-106, doi:10.5194/essdd-5-47-2012, 2012.

Pabortsava, P., Lampitt, R.S., Benson, J., Casciotti, K., Crowe, C., McLachlan, R., Le Moigne, F.A.C., Moore, C.M., Pebody, C., Provost, P. Rees, A.P., Tilstone. G. and Woodward, E.M.S. (2017) Carbon sequestration in the deep Atlantic enhanced by Saharan dust. Nature Geoscience, 10, 189–194. doi:10.1038/ngeo2899