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Eric P. Achterberg is affiliated with the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science, with significant contributions to the subfields of Oceanography, Ecology, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Atmospheric Science, and Pollution.

Their work addresses a variety of topics related to marine and environmental systems, including:

  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses
  • Mercury impact and mitigation studies
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis

Eric P. Achterberg has published extensively in several scientific journals. The most frequent venues for their publications include:

  • Biogeosciences
  • Global Biogeochemical Cycles
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Marine Chemistry
  • The Science of The Total Environment

Their recent research articles include:

  • Review article: How does glacier discharge affect marine biogeochemistry and primary production in the Arctic? (2020, The Cryosphere)
  • Manganese co-limitation of phytoplankton growth and major nutrient drawdown in the Southern Ocean (2021, Nature Communications)
  • Regulation of nitrous oxide production in low-oxygen waters off the coast of Peru (2020, Biogeosciences)
  • Upper Ocean Biogeochemistry of the Oligotrophic North Pacific Subtropical Gyre: From Nutrient Sources to Carbon Export (2023, Reviews of Geophysics)
  • Towards improved monitoring of offshore carbon storage: A real-world field experiment detecting a controlled sub-seafloor CO2 release (2021, International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control)

Eric P. Achterberg collaborates frequently with a group of researchers including:

  • Mark J. Hopwood
  • Martha Gledhill
  • Thomas J. Browning
  • Aaron J. Beck
  • Stephan Krisch

Best Publications

  • Nutrient enrichment can increase the susceptibility of reef corals to bleaching

    Jörg Wiedenmann;Cecilia D’Angelo;Edward G. Smith;Alan N. Hunt

  • 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

  • Attenuation of sinking particulate organic carbon flux through the mesopelagic ocean

    Chris M. Marsay;Chris M. Marsay;Richard J. Sanders;Stephanie A. Henson;Katsiaryna Pabortsava;Katsiaryna Pabortsava

  • The GEOTRACES Intermediate Data Product 2017

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

  • Stripping voltammetry for the determination of trace metal speciation and in-situ measurements of trace metal distributions in marine waters

    Eric P. Achterberg;Charlotte Braungardt

  • The distribution and stabilisation of dissolved Fe in deep-sea hydrothermal plumes

    Sarah A. Bennett;Eric P. Achterberg;Douglas P. Connelly;Peter J. Statham

  • Determination of iron in seawater

    Eric P. Achterberg;T. W. Holland;T. W. Holland;A. R. Bowie;R. F. C. Mantoura

  • Hydroxamate siderophores: Occurrence and importance in the Atlantic Ocean

    Edward Mawji;Martha Gledhill;James A. Milton;Glen A. Tarran

  • Determination of nitrate and phosphate in seawater at nanomolar concentrations

    Matthew D. Patey;Micha J.A. Rijkenberg;Peter J. Statham;Mark C. Stinchcombe

  • Relative influence of nitrogen and phosphorous availability on phytoplankton physiology and productivity in the Oligotrophic Sub-Tropical North Atlantic Ocean

    C. Mark Moore;Matthew M. Mills;Rebecca Langlois;Angela Milne

  • 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

  • Review article: How does glacier discharge affect marine biogeochemistry and primary production in the Arctic?

    Mark J. Hopwood;Dustin Carroll;Thorben Dunse;Thorben Dunse;Andy Hodson;Andy Hodson

  • Atmospheric iron deposition and sea-surface dissolved iron concentrations in the eastern Atlantic Ocean

    Géraldine Sarthou;Alex R. Baker;Stéphane Blain;Eric P. Achterberg

  • Onset of recent rapid sea-level rise in the western Atlantic Ocean

    W. Roland Gehrels;Jason R. Kirby;Andreas Prokoph;Rewi M. Newnham

  • The relative contribution of fast and slow sinking particles to ocean carbon export

    J. S. Riley;R. Sanders;C. Marsay;F. A. C. Le Moigne

  • Seabed foraging by Antarctic krill: Implications for stock assessment, bentho‐pelagic coupling, and the vertical transfer of iron

    Katrin Schmidt;Angus Atkinson;Sebastian Steigenberger;Sophie Fielding

  • Nutrient co-limitation at the boundary of an oceanic gyre

    Thomas J. Browning;Eric P. Achterberg;Insa Rapp;Anja Engel

  • Ocean fertilization: a potential means of geoengineering?

    R. S. Lampitt;Eric P. Achterberg;T. R. Anderson;J. A. Hughes

  • Dissolved silver measurements in seawater

    Jose L. Barriada;Alan D. Tappin;E. Hywel Evans;Eric P. Achterberg

  • The fate of added iron during a mesoscale fertilisation experiment in the Southern Ocean

    Andrew R Bowie;Andrew R Bowie;Maria T Maldonado;Russell D Frew;Peter L Croot

  • Determination of sub-nanomolar levels of iron in seawater using flow injection with chemiluminescence detection

    A. R. Bowie;A. R. Bowie;Eric P. Achterberg;R. F. C. Mantoura;P. J. Worsfold

  • Laboratory techniques in electroanalytical chemistry

    Eric P. Achterberg

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul J. Worsfold
Paul J. Worsfold Plymouth University
Andrew R. Bowie
Andrew R. Bowie University of Tasmania
Douglas P. Connelly
Douglas P. Connelly National Oceanography Centre
Toby Tyrrell
Toby Tyrrell University of Southampton
Ulf Riebesell
Ulf Riebesell GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Géraldine Sarthou
Géraldine Sarthou French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
Alex R. Baker
Alex R. Baker University of East Anglia
Maeve C. Lohan
Maeve C. Lohan University of Southampton
Kai G. Schulz
Kai G. Schulz Southern Cross University
C. Mark Moore
C. Mark Moore University of Southampton

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