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Overview

E. Malcolm S. Woodward is affiliated with the Plymouth Marine Laboratory in the United Kingdom. Their research focuses primarily on the intersection of earth and planetary sciences and environmental science, with significant contributions to subfields such as ecology, oceanography, atmospheric science, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, and nature and landscape conservation.

The scientist's main research topics encompass marine and coastal ecosystems, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, polar research and ecology, geology and paleoclimatology research, marine biology and ecology research, microbial community ecology and physiology, as well as physiological and biochemical adaptations.

Notable frequent publication venues include Limnology and Oceanography, where the scientist has published multiple papers, along with contributions to Goldschmidt2022 abstracts, Marine Chemistry, Progress In Oceanography, and Chemical Geology.

The following recent papers exemplify key aspects of their work:

  • Increasing nutrient stress reduces the efficiency of energy transfer through planktonic size spectra (2020, Limnology and Oceanography)
  • Phosphorus dynamics in the Barents Sea (2020, Limnology and Oceanography)
  • Continued glacial retreat linked to changing macronutrient supply along the West Antarctic Peninsula (2023, Marine Chemistry)
  • Collapse of a giant iceberg in a dynamic Southern Ocean marine ecosystem: In situ observations of A-68A at South Georgia (2024, Progress In Oceanography)
  • Enhanced mercury reduction in the South Atlantic Ocean during carbon remineralization (2022, Marine Pollution Bulletin)

Woodward frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Katharine Hendry (5 co-authored publications)
  • Hong Chin Ng (4 co-authored publications)
  • Jade Hatton (4 co-authored publications)
  • Glen A. Tarran (2 co-authored publications)
  • Claire E. Widdicombe (2 co-authored publications)

Best Publications

  • Niche partitioning among Prochlorococcus ecotypes along ocean-scale environmental gradients.

    Zackary I. Johnson;Erik R. Zinser;Allison Coe;Nathan P. McNulty

  • Large-scale distribution of Atlantic nitrogen fixation controlled by iron availability

    C. Mark Moore;C. Mark Moore;Matthew M. Mills;Eric P. Achterberg;Richard J. Geider

  • The GEOTRACES Intermediate Data Product 2017

    Reiner Schlitzer;Robert F. Anderson;Elena Masferrer Dodas;Maeve Lohan

  • Phosphorus cycling in the North and South Atlantic Ocean subtropical gyres

    Rhiannon L. Mather;Sarah E. Reynolds;Sarah E. Reynolds;George A. Wolff;Richard G. Williams

  • A broad spatio-temporal view of the western English Channel observatory

    Timothy J. Smyth;James R. Fishwick;Lisa AL-Moosawi;Denise G. Cummings

  • Nutrient cycling in the south east Levantine basin of the eastern Mediterranean: Results from a phosphorus starved system

    M.D. Krom;E.M.S. Woodward;B. Herut;N. Kress

  • Nutrient distributions in an anticyclonic eddy in the northeast Atlantic Ocean, with reference to nanomolar ammonium concentrations

    E.M.S Woodward;A.P Rees

  • Large-scale latitudinal distribution of Trichodesmium spp. in the Atlantic Ocean

    Toby Tyrrell;Emilio Marañón;Alex J. Poulton;Andrew R. Bowie;Andrew R. Bowie

  • Basin-scale distribution patterns of picocyanobacterial lineages in the Atlantic Ocean

    Katrin Zwirglmaier;Jane L. Heywood;Katie Chamberlain;E. Malcolm S. Woodward

  • Net accumulation and flux of dissolved organic carbon and dissolved organic nitrogen in marine plankton communities

    Morten Søndergaard;Peter J. le B. Williams;Gustave Cauwet;Bo Riemann

  • Seasonal ITCZ migration dynamically controls the location of the (sub)tropical Atlantic biogeochemical divide

    Christian Schlosser;J. K. Klar;B. D. Wake;J. T. Snow

  • P-limited bacteria but N and P co-limited phytoplankton in the Eastern Mediterranean—a microcosm experiment

    Tamar Zohary;Barak Herut;Michael D. Krom;R. Fauzi C. Mantoura

  • Determination of dissolved nutrients (N, P, Si) in seawater with high precision and inter-comparability using gas-segmented continuous flow analysers

    DJ Hydes;M Aoyama;A Aminot;Dce Bakker

  • Nitrogen fixation and nitrogenase (nifH) expression in tropical waters of the eastern North Atlantic

    Kendra A Turk;Andrew P Rees;Jonathan P Zehr;Nicole Pereira;Nicole Pereira

  • The GEOTRACES Intermediate Data Product 2014

    Edward Mawji;Reiner Schlitzer;Elena Masferrer Dodas;Cyril Abadie

  • Plankton respiration in the Eastern Atlantic Ocean

    Carol Robinson;Carol Robinson;Pablo Serret;Pablo Serret;Gavin Tilstone;Gavin Tilstone;Eva Teira

  • Microbial control of phosphate in the nutrient-depleted North Atlantic subtropical gyre.

    Mikhail V. Zubkov;Isabelle Mary;E. Malcolm S. Woodward;Phillip E. Warwick

  • Nitrogen biogeochemical cycling in the northwestern Indian Ocean

    R. Fauzi;C. Mantoura;Clifford S. Law;Nicholas J.P. Owens

  • The Atlantic Meridional Transect (AMT) Programme: A contextual view 1995–2005

    C Robinson;AJ Poulton;PM Holligan;AR Baker

  • Phytoplankton carbon fixation chlorophyll-biomass and diagnostic pigments in the Atlantic Ocean

    Alex J. Poulton;Patrick M. Holligan;Anna Hickman;Young-Nam Kim

  • Biogeochemical Controls of Surface Ocean Phosphate

    Adam C. Martiny;Michael W. Lomas;Weiwei Fu;Philip W. Boyd

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric P. Achterberg
Eric P. Achterberg GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Andrew P. Rees
Andrew P. Rees Plymouth Marine Laboratory
Maeve C. Lohan
Maeve C. Lohan University of Southampton
Cliff S. Law
Cliff S. Law National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
Alex J. Poulton
Alex J. Poulton Heriot-Watt University
Andrew R. Bowie
Andrew R. Bowie University of Tasmania
Philip W. Boyd
Philip W. Boyd University of Tasmania
Laura F. Robinson
Laura F. Robinson University of Bristol
Glen A. Tarran
Glen A. Tarran Plymouth Marine Laboratory
Ian Joint
Ian Joint Plymouth Marine Laboratory

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