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Sophie Fielding is a researcher affiliated with the British Antarctic Survey in the United Kingdom. Their work predominantly focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with specific attention to global and planetary change, oceanography, and ecology.

Fielding's research covers a range of topics related to marine and fisheries research, marine and coastal ecosystems, and marine animal studies. Other key areas include isotope analysis in ecology, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, marine bivalve and aquaculture studies, and marine biology and ecology research.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Fielding include Geraint A. Tarling, Gabriele Stowasser, Eugene J. Murphy, Ryan A. Saunders, and Anna Belcher.

The scientist has contributed to numerous publications, often appearing in prominent journals such as:

  • ICES Journal of Marine Science
  • Deep Sea Research Part I Oceanographic Research Papers
  • Deep Sea Research Part II Topical Studies in Oceanography
  • Nature Communications
  • Environmental Pollution

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Fielding include:

  • Continuous moulting by Antarctic krill drives major pulses of carbon export in the north Scotia Sea, Southern Ocean, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Mercury biomagnification in a Southern Ocean food web, 2021, Environmental Pollution
  • Corrigenda to: Standing stock of Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba Dana, 1850) (Euphausiacea) in the Southwest Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean, 2018-19, 2021, Journal of Crustacean Biology
  • Large mesopelagic fish biomass in the Southern Ocean resolved by acoustic properties, 2022, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Population abundance of recovering humpback whales Megaptera novaeangliae and other baleen whales in the Scotia Arc, South Atlantic, 2021, Marine Ecology Progress Series

Best Publications

  • Southern Ocean deep-water carbon export enhanced by natural iron fertilization

    Raymond T. Pollard;Ian Salter;Richard J. Sanders;Mike I. Lucas

  • Extensive dissolution of live pteropods in the Southern Ocean

    N. Bednarsek;N. Bednarsek;N. Bednarsek;G. A. Tarling;D. C. E. Bakker;S. Fielding

  • Impact of climate change on Antarctic krill

    H. Flores;H. Flores;A. Atkinson;S. Kawaguchi;B. A. Krafft

  • 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

  • Diatom carbon export enhanced by silicate upwelling in the northeast Atlantic

    John T. Allen;Louise Brown;Louise Brown;Richard Sanders;C. Mark Moore

  • A review of unmanned vehicles for the detection and monitoring of marine fauna

    Ursula K. Verfuss;Ana Sofia Aniceto;Danielle V. Harris;Douglas Gillespie

  • Interannual variability in Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) density at South Georgia, Southern Ocean: 1997–2013

    Sophie Fielding;Jonathan L. Watkins;Philip N. Trathan;Peter Enderlein

  • OceanGliders: A component of the integrated GOOS

    Pierre Testor;Brad DeYoung;Daniel L. Rudnick;Scott Glenn

  • Variability and predictability of Antarctic krill swarm structure

    Geraint A. Tarling;Thor Klevjer;Sophie Fielding;Jon Watkins

  • 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

  • Dissolution dominating calcification process in polar pteropods close to the point of aragonite undersaturation.

    Nina Bednaršek;Geraint A. Tarling;Dorothee C. E. Bakker;Sophie Fielding

  • Description and quantification of pteropod shell dissolution: a sensitive bioindicator of ocean acidification

    Nina Bednaršek;Nina Bednaršek;Nina Bednaršek;Geraint A. Tarling;Dorothee C. E. Bakker;Sophie Fielding

  • Latitudinal and bathymetric patterns in the distribution and abundance of mesopelagic fish in the Scotia Sea

    Martin Anthony Collins;Martin Anthony Collins;Gabriele Stowasser;Sophie Fielding;Rachael Shreeve

  • Zooplankton Gut Passage Mobilizes Lithogenic Iron for Ocean Productivity.

    Katrin Schmidt;Christian Schlosser;Christian Schlosser;Angus Atkinson;Angus Atkinson;Sophie Fielding

  • KRILLBASE: a circumpolar database of Antarctic krill and salp numerical densities, 1926–2016

    Angus Atkinson;Simeon L Hill;Evgeny A Pakhomov;Volker Siegel

  • Phytoplankton community composition around the Crozet Plateau, with emphasis on diatoms and Phaeocystis

    Alex J. Poulton;C. Mark Moore;Sophie Seeyave;Mike I. Lucas;Mike I. Lucas

  • Variable food absorption by Antarctic krill: Relationships between diet, egestion rate and the composition and sinking rates of their fecal pellets

    Angus Atkinson;Katrin Schmidt;Sophie Fielding;S Kawaguchi

  • The contribution of zooplankton faecal pellets to deep-carbon transport in the Scotia Sea (Southern Ocean)

    Clara Manno;Gabriele Stowasser;Peter Enderlein;Sophie Fielding

  • The biological validation of ADCP acoustic backscatter through direct comparison with net samples and model predictions based on acoustic-scattering models

    S. Fielding;G. Griffiths;H.S.J. Roe

  • Population dynamics and biogeochemical significance of Limacina helicina antarctica in the Scotia Sea (Southern Ocean)

    Nina Bednarsek;Nina Bednarsek;Geraint A. Tarling;Sophie Fielding;D.C.E Bakker

Frequent Co-Authors

Geraint A. Tarling
Geraint A. Tarling British Antarctic Survey
Eugene J. Murphy
Eugene J. Murphy British Antarctic Survey
Angus Atkinson
Angus Atkinson Plymouth Marine Laboratory
Karen J. Heywood
Karen J. Heywood University of East Anglia
Dorothee C. E. Bakker
Dorothee C. E. Bakker University of East Anglia
Hugh J. Venables
Hugh J. Venables British Antarctic Survey
Peter Ward
Peter Ward University of Washington
Sally E. Thorpe
Sally E. Thorpe Natural Environment Research Council
Richard Sanders
Richard Sanders National Oceanography Centre
Andrew S. Brierley
Andrew S. Brierley University of St Andrews

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