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2026

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109
Citations
46702
World Ranking
213
National Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Australia Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Australia Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Australia Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Australia Leader Award
  • 2009 - Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand

Overview

Philip W. Boyd is affiliated with the University of Tasmania in Australia and has contributed extensively to research within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their work spans several subfields including Oceanography, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging.

The scientist's research covers topics such as Marine and coastal ecosystems, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses, Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, and Marine and coastal plant biology.

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Philip W. Boyd are:

  • Biogeochemical extremes and compound events in the ocean, 2021, Nature
  • Metrics that matter for assessing the ocean biological carbon pump, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Changing Biogeochemistry of the Southern Ocean and Its Ecosystem Implications, 2020, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Testing the climate intervention potential of ocean afforestation using the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Forensic carbon accounting: Assessing the role of seaweeds for carbon sequestration, 2022, Journal of Phycology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Philip W. Boyd include Lennart T. Bach, Catriona L. Hurd, Robert F. Strzepek, Michael J. Ellwood, and Andrew R. Bowie.

Common venues for publishing their research include:

  • Proceedings on CD-ROM - International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. Scientific Meeting and Exhibition/Proceedings of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Scientific Meeting and Exhibition
  • Global Biogeochemical Cycles
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Nature Communications
  • Nature

Philip W. Boyd was awarded the Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 2009.

Best Publications

  • Global Iron Connections Between Desert Dust, Ocean Biogeochemistry, and Climate

    T. Jickells;Z An;K.K. Andersen;A.R. Baker

  • Processes and patterns of oceanic nutrient limitation

    C. M. Moore;M. M. Mills;K. R. Arrigo;I. Berman-Frank

  • A mesoscale phytoplankton bloom in the polar Southern Ocean stimulated by iron fertilization

    Philip W. Boyd;Andrew J. Watson;Cliff S. Law;Edward R. Abraham

  • Scientists' Warning to Humanity: Microorganisms and Climate Change

    Ricardo Cavicchioli;William J. Ripple;Kenneth N. Timmis;Farooq Azam

  • Mesoscale iron enrichment experiments 1993-2005 : Synthesis and future directions

    P. W. Boyd;T. Jickells;C. S. Law;S. Blain

  • The biogeochemical cycle of iron in the ocean

    P W Boyd;Michael Ellwood

  • Synthesis of iron fertilization experiments: From the iron age in the age of enlightenment

    Hein J.W. de Baar;Philip W. Boyd;Kenneth H. Coale;Michael R. Landry

  • Multi-faceted particle pumps drive carbon sequestration in the ocean

    Philip W. Boyd;Hervé Claustre;Marina Levy;David A. Siegel

  • The integral role of iron in ocean biogeochemistry

    Alessandro Tagliabue;Andrew R. Bowie;Philip W. Boyd;Kristen N. Buck

  • Revisiting Carbon Flux Through the Ocean's Twilight Zone

    Ken O. Buesseler;Carl H. Lamborg;Philip W. Boyd;Phoebe J. Lam

  • Climate change and Southern Ocean ecosystems I: how changes in physical habitats directly affect marine biota

    Andrew J. Constable;Andrew J. Constable;Jessica Melbourne-Thomas;Jessica Melbourne-Thomas;Stuart P. Corney;Kevin R. Arrigo

  • A biogeochemical study of the coccolithophore, Emiliania huxleyi, in the North Atlantic

    Patrick M. Holligan;Emilio Fernández;James Aiken;William M. Balch

  • Effect of iron supply on Southern Ocean CO2 uptake and implications for glacial atmospheric CO2

    AJ Watson;Dce Bakker;Andy J Ridgwell;PW Boyd

  • The decline and fate of an iron-induced subarctic phytoplankton bloom

    Philip W. Boyd;Cliff S. Law;C.S. Wong;Yukihiro Nojiri

  • Global assessment of ocean carbon export by combining satellite observations and food‐web models

    David A. Siegel;Ken O. Buesseler;Scott C. Doney;Sevrine F. Sailley

  • Understanding the export of biogenic particles in oceanic waters: Is there consensus?

    P.W. Boyd;T.W. Trull

  • Shedding light on processes that control particle export and flux attenuation in the twilight zone of the open ocean

    Ken O. Buesseler;Philip W. Boyd

  • Bacterial vs. zooplankton control of sinking particle flux in the ocean's twilight zone

    Deborah K. Steinberg;Benjamin A. S. Van Mooy;Ken O. Buesseler;Philip W. Boyd

  • Experimental strategies to assess the biological ramifications of multiple drivers of global ocean change – a review

    Philip W Boyd;Philip W Boyd;Sinead Collins;Sam Dupont;Katharina Fabricius

  • ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS CONTROLLING PHYTOPLANKTON PROCESSES IN THE SOUTHERN OCEAN1

    Philip W. Boyd

  • Marine Phytoplankton Temperature versus Growth Responses from Polar to Tropical Waters – Outcome of a Scientific Community-Wide Study

    Philip W. Boyd;Philip W. Boyd;Tatiana A. Rynearson;Evelyn A. Armstrong;Feixue Fu

Frequent Co-Authors

Cliff S. Law
Cliff S. Law National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
Michael J. Ellwood
Michael J. Ellwood Australian National University
Andrew R. Bowie
Andrew R. Bowie University of Tasmania
David A. Hutchins
David A. Hutchins University of Southern California
Keith A. Hunter
Keith A. Hunter University of Otago
Catriona L. Hurd
Catriona L. Hurd University of Tasmania
Ken O. Buesseler
Ken O. Buesseler Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Thomas W. Trull
Thomas W. Trull Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Maria T. Maldonado
Maria T. Maldonado University of British Columbia
Scott D. Nodder
Scott D. Nodder National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research

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