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Overview

Jerry Blackford is affiliated with the Plymouth Marine Laboratory in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a particular focus on Oceanography as a main subfield. Other areas of study include Environmental Engineering, Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Chemistry, and Mechanical Engineering.

Their work covers several main topics such as Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses, CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Carbon Dioxide Capture Technologies, and Marine and Coastal Ecosystems.

Jerry Blackford has contributed to numerous publications, frequently appearing in venues such as the International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, SSRN Electronic Journal, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Progress In Oceanography, and Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews.

Recent papers authored by Jerry Blackford include:

  • Insights and guidance for offshore CO2 storage monitoring based on the QICS, ETI MMV, and STEMM-CCS projects (2020), International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control
  • 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
  • Differences in physiology explain succession of mixoplankton functional types and affect carbon fluxes in temperate seas (2020), Progress In Oceanography
  • Impact and detectability of hypothetical CCS offshore seep scenarios as an aid to storage assurance and risk assessment (2020), International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control
  • Suitability analysis and revised strategies for marine environmental carbon capture and storage (CCS) monitoring (2021), International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Marius Dewar
  • Guttorm Alendal
  • Anna Oleynik
  • Abdirahman M Omar
  • Douglas P. Connelly

Best Publications

  • Ecosystem dynamics at six contrasting sites: a generic modelling study

    J.C. Blackford;J.I. Allen;F.J. Gilbert

  • pH variability and CO2 induced acidification in the North Sea

    J.C. Blackford;F.J. Gilbert

  • End-To-End Models for the Analysis of Marine Ecosystems: Challenges, Issues, and Next Steps

    Kenneth A. Rose;J.Icarus Allen;Yuri Artioli;Manuel Barange

  • Changes in pH at the exterior surface of plankton with ocean acidification

    Kevin Flynn;Jerry C Blackford;Mark Edward Baird;John A Raven

  • Detection and impacts of leakage from sub-seafloor deep geological carbon dioxide storage

    Jerry Blackford;Henrik Stahl;Jonathan M. Bull;Benoît J.P. Bergès

  • Error quantification of a high-resolution coupled hydrodynamic-ecosystem coastal-ocean model: Part 2. Chlorophyll-a, nutrients and SPM

    J. Icarus Allen;Jason T. Holt;Jerry Blackford;Roger Proctor

  • A highly spatially resolved ecosystem model for the North West European Continental Shelf

    JI Allen;J Blackford;J Holt;R Proctor

  • Phytoplankton community assemblage in the English Channel: a comparison using chlorophyll a derived from HPLC-CHEMTAX and carbon derived from microscopy cell counts

    Carole A. Llewellyn;James R. Fishwick;Jerry C. Blackford

  • Developments since 2005 in understanding potential environmental impacts of CO2 leakage from geological storage

    D.G. Jones;S.E. Beaubien;J.C. Blackford;E.M. Foekema

  • Reviewing the Impact of Increased Atmospheric CO2 on Oceanic pH and the Marine Ecosystem

    CM Turley;JC Blackford;S Widdicombe;DM Lowe

  • Self-assembling food webs : a global viewpoint of coexistence of species in Lotka-Volterra communities

    Richard Law;Jerry C. Blackford

  • An analysis of benthic biological dynamics in a North Sea ecosystem model

    J.C. Blackford

  • Marine baseline and monitoring strategies for carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS)

    Jerry Blackford;Jonathan M. Bull;Melis Cevatoglu;Douglas P. Connelly

  • Copernicus Marine Service Ocean State Report, Issue 4

    Karina von Schuckmann;Pierre-Yves Le Traon;Neville Smith;Ananda Pascual

  • Modeling the carbon fluxes of the northwest European continental shelf: Validation and budgets

    S. L. Wakelin;J. T. Holt;J. C. Blackford;J. I. Allen

  • An initial assessment of the potential environmental impact of CO2 escape from marine carbon capture and storage systems

    J. Blackford;N. Jones;Roger Proctor;Jason Holt

  • Ocean acidification with (de)eutrophication will alter future phytoplankton growth and succession

    Kevin J. Flynn;Darren R. Clark;Aditee Mitra;Heiner Fabian

  • Erratum: Changes in pH at the exterior surface of plankton with ocean acidification (Nature Climate Change (2012) 2 (510-513))

    Kevin J. Flynn;Jerry C Blackford;Mark Edward Baird;John Raven

  • A novel sub-seabed CO2 release experiment informing monitoring and impact assessment for geological carbon storage

    Peter Taylor;Henrik Stahl;Henrik Stahl;Mark E. Vardy;Jonathan M. Bull

  • Modelling the hydrodynamics and ecosystem of the North-West European continental shelf for operational oceanography

    John R. Siddorn;J. Icarus Allen;Jerry C. Blackford;Francis J. Gilbert

  • Modelling marine sediment biogeochemistry: Current knowledge gaps, challenges, and some methodological advice for advancement

    Gennadi Lessin;Yuri Artioli;Elin Almroth-Rosell;Jerry C. Blackford

  • Impacts of ocean acidification

    Phillip Williamson;Carol Turely;Colin Brownlee;Helen Findlay

Frequent Co-Authors

Jason Holt
Jason Holt National Oceanography Centre
Roger Proctor
Roger Proctor University of Tasmania
Douglas P. Connelly
Douglas P. Connelly National Oceanography Centre
Carol Turley
Carol Turley Plymouth Marine Laboratory
Jonathan M. Bull
Jonathan M. Bull University of Southampton
Matthias Haeckel
Matthias Haeckel GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Rachael H. James
Rachael H. James University of Southampton
Nick J. Hardman-Mountford
Nick J. Hardman-Mountford Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Andrew P. Rees
Andrew P. Rees Plymouth Marine Laboratory
Ian C. Wright
Ian C. Wright National Oceanography Centre

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