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Overview

Katja Fennel is a researcher affiliated with Dalhousie University in Canada, specializing in Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their research primarily focuses on Oceanography, with significant contributions to subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry, and Ecology.

Their scholarly work extensively covers a range of topics related to marine and coastal ecosystems, oceanographic and atmospheric processes, and atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics. Other notable topics include ocean acidification effects and responses, marine biology and ecology research, methane hydrates and related phenomena, and Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics.

Katja Fennel has published in various scientific venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Biogeosciences
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • State of the Planet
  • Limnology and Oceanography

Their recent publications feature the following:

  • "Monitoring ocean biogeochemistry with autonomous platforms" (2020) in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • "Ocean biogeochemical modelling" (2022) in Nature Reviews Methods Primers
  • "Reanalysis in Earth System Science: Toward Terrestrial Ecosystem Reanalysis" (2021) in Reviews of Geophysics
  • "A Synthesis of Global Coastal Ocean Greenhouse Gas Fluxes" (2024) in Global Biogeochemical Cycles
  • "An observation-based evaluation and ranking of historical Earth system model simulations in the northwest North Atlantic Ocean" (2021) in Biogeosciences

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Katja Fennel include:

  • Bin Wang
  • Arnaud Laurent
  • Krysten Rutherford
  • Adam C. Stoer
  • Lina Garcia Suarez

Best Publications

  • Ocean forecasting in terrain-following coordinates: Formulation and skill assessment of the Regional Ocean Modeling System

    D. B. Haidvogel;H. Arango;W. P. Budgell;B. D. Cornuelle

  • Nitrogen cycling in the Middle Atlantic Bight: Results from a three‐dimensional model and implications for the North Atlantic nitrogen budget

    Katja Fennel;John Wilkin;Julia Levin;John Moisan

  • On the Future of Argo: A Global, Full-Depth, Multi-Disciplinary Array

    Dean Roemmich;Matthew H. Alford;Hervé Claustre;Kenneth Johnson

  • The rise of oxygen over the past 205 million years and the evolution of large placental mammals.

    Paul G. Falkowski;Miriam E. Katz;Allen J. Milligan;Katja Fennel

  • Biogeochemical Controls on Coastal Hypoxia

    Katja Fennel;Jeremy M Testa

  • Globally consistent quantitative observations of planktonic ecosystems

    F. Lombard;F. Lombard;E. Boss;A.M. Waite;J. Uitz

  • Subsurface maxima of phytoplankton and chlorophyll: Steady-state solutions from a simple model

    Katja Fennel;Emmanuel Boss

  • A reevaluation of the magnitude and impacts of anthropogenic atmospheric nitrogen inputs on the ocean

    T. D. Jickells;E. Buitenhuis;K. Altieri;A. R. Baker

  • Testing a marine ecosystem model: Sensitivity analysis and parameter optimization

    Katja Fennel;Martin Losch;Jens Schröter;Manfred Wenzel

  • Denitrification effects on air-sea CO2 flux in the coastal ocean: Simulations for the northwest North Atlantic

    Katja Fennel;John Wilkin;Michael Previdi;Raymond Najjar

  • The co-evolution of the nitrogen, carbon and oxygen cycles in the Proterozoic ocean

    Katja Fennel;Mick Follows;Paul G. Falkowski

  • Monitoring ocean biogeochemistry with autonomous platforms

    Fei Chai;Fei Chai;Kenneth S. Johnson;Hervé Claustre;Xiaogang Xing

  • Biological overprint of the geological carbon cycle

    Miriam E. Katz;James D. Wright;Kenneth G. Miller;Benjamin S. Cramer

  • A coupled physical-biological model of the Northern Gulf of Mexico shelf: model description, validation and analysis of phytoplankton variability

    K. Fennel;R. Hetland;Y. Feng;S. DiMarco

  • Sensitivity of hypoxia predictions for the northern Gulf of Mexico to sediment oxygen consumption and model nesting

    Katja Fennel;Jiatang Hu;Jiatang Hu;Arnaud Laurent;Martinho Marta-Almeida

  • What proportion of riverine nutrients reaches the open ocean

    Jonathan Sharples;Jack J. Middelburg;Katja Fennel;Timothy D. Jickells

  • Copernicus Marine Service Ocean State Report

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

  • Modeling denitrification in aquatic sediments

    Katja Fennel;Damian Brady;Dominic DiToro;Robinson W. Fulweiler

  • Developing priority variables (“ecosystem Essential Ocean Variables” — eEOVs) for observing dynamics and change in Southern Ocean ecosystems

    Andrew J. Constable;Andrew J. Constable;Daniel P. Costa;Oscar Schofield;Louise Newman

  • Eutrophication‐induced acidification of coastal waters in the northern Gulf of Mexico: insights into origin and processes from a coupled physical‐biogeochemical model

    Arnaud Laurent;Katja Fennel;Wei-Jun Cai;Wei-Jen Huang;Wei-Jen Huang

  • Advancing marine biogeochemical and ecosystem reanalyses and forecasts as tools for monitoring and managing ecosystem health

    Katja Fennel;Marion Gehlen;Pierre Brasseur;Christopher Brown

  • Climate Change Projected to Exacerbate Impacts of Coastal Eutrophication in the Northern Gulf of Mexico

    Arnaud Laurent;Katja Fennel;Dong S. Ko;John Lehrter

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert D. Hetland
Robert D. Hetland Texas A&M University
Marjorie A. M. Friedrichs
Marjorie A. M. Friedrichs Virginia Institute of Marine Science
John Wilkin
John Wilkin Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Wei-Jun Cai
Wei-Jun Cai University of Delaware
Emmanuel Boss
Emmanuel Boss University of Maine
Ruoying He
Ruoying He North Carolina State University
Steven E. Lohrenz
Steven E. Lohrenz University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Hervé Claustre
Hervé Claustre Université Paris Cité
Paul G. Falkowski
Paul G. Falkowski Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Ilana Berman-Frank
Ilana Berman-Frank University of Haifa

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