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Overview

Phoebe J. Lam is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Cruz in the United States. The research primarily spans Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with significant contributions to subfields including Oceanography, Geochemistry and Petrology, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry, and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis.

Their research topics emphasize marine and coastal ecosystems, geochemistry and elemental analysis, methane hydrates and related phenomena, mercury impact and mitigation studies, geology and paleoclimatology research, paleontology and stratigraphy of fossils, and marine biology and ecology research.

Among their recent publications are:

  • "The Transpolar Drift as a Source of Riverine and Shelf-Derived Trace Elements to the Central Arctic Ocean," 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • "Trace Metal Substitution in Marine Phytoplankton," 2020, Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • "Size-Fractionated Compositions of Marine Suspended Particles in the Western Arctic Ocean: Lateral and Vertical Sources," 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • "An operational overview of the EXport Processes in the Ocean from RemoTe Sensing (EXPORTS) Northeast Pacific field deployment," 2021, Elementa Science of the Anthropocene
  • "An intermediate-depth source of hydrothermal 3He and dissolved iron in the North Pacific," 2020, Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Yang Xiang
  • Jessica N. Fitzsimmons
  • Jong-Mi Lee
  • Robert F. Anderson
  • Matthew A. Charette

Common publication venues are:

  • Global Biogeochemical Cycles
  • Goldschmidt2021 abstracts
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • Elementa Science of the Anthropocene
  • ACS Earth and Space Chemistry

Best Publications

  • Revisiting Carbon Flux Through the Ocean's Twilight Zone

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

  • A global ocean inventory of anthropogenic mercury based on water column measurements

    Carl H. Lamborg;Chad R. Hammerschmidt;Katlin L. Bowman;Gretchen J. Swarr

  • The GEOTRACES Intermediate Data Product 2017

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

  • The continental margin is a key source of iron to the HNLC North Pacific Ocean

    Phoebe J. Lam;Phoebe J. Lam;James K. B. Bishop;James K. B. Bishop

  • Authigenic cadmium enrichments in suboxic sediments: Precipitation and postdepositional mobility

    Yair Rosenthal;Phoebe Lam;Edward A Boyle;John Thomson

  • The psychological health benefits of accepting negative emotions and thoughts: Laboratory, diary, and longitudinal evidence.

    Brett Q. Ford;Phoebe Lam;Oliver P. John;Iris B. Mauss

  • Wintertime phytoplankton bloom in the subarctic Pacific supported by continental margin iron

    Phoebe J. Lam;Phoebe J. Lam;Phoebe J. Lam;James K. B. Bishop;Cara C. Henning;Matthew A. Marcus

  • Biogeochemical iron budgets of the Southern Ocean south of Australia: Decoupling of iron and nutrient cycles in the subantarctic zone by the summertime supply

    Andrew R. Bowie;Delphine Lannuzel;Tomas A. Remenyi;Thibaut Wagener;Thibaut Wagener

  • Size-fractionated major particle composition and concentrations from the US GEOTRACES North Atlantic Zonal Transect

    Phoebe J. Lam;Daniel C. Ohnemus;Maureen E. Auro

  • The dynamic ocean biological pump: Insights from a global compilation of particulate organic carbon, CaCO3, and opal concentration profiles from the mesopelagic

    Phoebe J. Lam;Scott C. Doney;James K. B. Bishop

  • Factors regulating the Great Calcite Belt in the Southern Ocean and its biogeochemical significance

    William M. Balch;Nicholas R. Bates;Nicholas R. Bates;Phoebe J. Lam;Phoebe J. Lam;Benjamin S. Twining

  • VERTIGO (VERtical Transport In the Global Ocean) : A study of particle sources and flux attenuation in the North Pacific

    Ken O. Buesseler;Thomas W. Trull;Deborah K. Steinberg;Mary W. Silver

  • Cycling of lithogenic marine particles in the US GEOTRACES North Atlantic transect

    Daniel C. Ohnemus;Daniel C. Ohnemus;Daniel C. Ohnemus;Phoebe J. Lam;Phoebe J. Lam

  • Basin-scale inputs of cobalt, iron, and manganese from the Benguela-Angola front to the South Atlantic Ocean

    Abigail E. Noble;Abigail E. Noble;Carl H. Lamborg;Daniel C. Ohnemus;Daniel C. Ohnemus;Phoebe J. Lam

  • The Transpolar Drift as a Source of Riverine and Shelf-Derived Trace Elements to the Central Arctic Ocean

    Matthew A. Charette;Lauren E. Kipp;Lauren E. Kipp;Laramie T. Jensen;Jessica S. Dabrowski

  • Size-fractionated distributions of suspended particle concentration and major phase composition from the U.S. GEOTRACES Eastern Pacific Zonal Transect (GP16)

    Phoebe J. Lam;Jong-Mi Lee;Maija I. Heller;Sanjin Mehic

  • The GEOTRACES Intermediate Data Product 2014

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

  • Getting good particles: Accurate sampling of particles by large volume in-situ filtration

    James K.B. Bishop;James K.B. Bishop;Phoebe J. Lam;Todd J. Wood

  • High biomass, low export regimes in the Southern Ocean

    Phoebe J. Lam;Phoebe J. Lam;James K.B. Bishop;James K.B. Bishop

  • Barite formation in the ocean: Origin of amorphous and crystalline precipitates

    F. Martinez-Ruiz;A. Paytan;M.T. Gonzalez-Muñoz;F. Jroundi

  • Wintertime pytoplankton bloom in the Subarctic Pacific supported by continental margin iron

    Phoebe J. Lam;James K.B. Bishop;Cara C. Henning;Matthew A. Marcus

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert F. Anderson
Robert F. Anderson Columbia University
James K. B. Bishop
James K. B. Bishop University of California, Berkeley
Ken O. Buesseler
Ken O. Buesseler Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Hai Cheng
Hai Cheng Xi'an Jiaotong University
Laura F. Robinson
Laura F. Robinson University of Bristol
Carl H. Lamborg
Carl H. Lamborg University of California, Santa Cruz
Jessica N. Fitzsimmons
Jessica N. Fitzsimmons Texas A&M University
Seth G. John
Seth G. John University of Southern California
Mak A. Saito
Mak A. Saito Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Karen L. Casciotti
Karen L. Casciotti Stanford University

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