2026 Stephanie A. Henson: Earth Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Earth Science	53	2897	2647	323	299	123	9372

Overview

Stephanie A. Henson is affiliated with the National Oceanography Centre in the United Kingdom and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences with a focus on Environmental Science. Their research contributions largely pertain to oceanography and related subfields, examining complex interactions in marine and coastal ecosystems.

The scientist's work spans several subfields of study including oceanography, global and planetary change, ecology, atmospheric science, and management, monitoring, policy, and law. Their research topics emphasize marine and coastal ecosystems, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, oceanographic and atmospheric processes, marine biology and ecology research, ocean acidification effects and responses, microbial community ecology and physiology, as well as marine and fisheries research.

Stephanie A. Henson has collaborated frequently with several scholars, notably Adrian P. Martin, B. B. Cael, Nathan Briggs, Kelsey Bisson, and Filipa Carvalho. These coauthors have partnered on multiple research projects, contributing to the advancement of marine and environmental sciences.

Their publication record includes papers in high-impact journals and scientific venues. Notable recent papers are:

Future phytoplankton diversity in a changing climate, 2021, Nature Communications
Uncertain response of ocean biological carbon export in a changing world, 2022, Nature Geoscience
The oceans' twilight zone must be studied now, before it is too late, 2020, Nature
A climate risk index for marine life, 2022, Nature Climate Change
Magnitude, Trends, and Variability of the Global Ocean Carbon Sink From 1985 to 2018, 2023, Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Frequent publication venues where Stephanie A. Henson's contributions appear include Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Deep Sea Research Part II Topical Studies in Oceanography, Geophysical Research Letters, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans, and Nature Geoscience. These venues reflect a focus on oceanographic and environmental scientific discourse.

Best Publications

Detection of anthropogenic climate change in satellite records of ocean chlorophyll and productivity

Stephanie A. Henson;Stephanie A. Henson;Jorge L. Sarmiento;John P. Dunne;Laurent Bopp

500
Citations
Global patterns in efficiency of particulate organic carbon export and transfer to the deep ocean

Stephanie A. Henson;Richard J. Sanders;Esben Madsen

485
Citations
A reduced estimate of the strength of the ocean's biological carbon pump

Stephanie A. Henson;Richard J. Sanders;Esben Madsen;Paul J. Morris

468
Citations
Reconciliation of the carbon budget in the ocean’s twilight zone

Sarah L. C. Giering;Sarah L. C. Giering;Sarah L. C. Giering;Richard Sanders;Richard S. Lampitt;Thomas R. Anderson

417
Citations
Attenuation of sinking particulate organic carbon flux through the mesopelagic ocean

Chris M. Marsay;Chris M. Marsay;Richard J. Sanders;Stephanie A. Henson;Katsiaryna Pabortsava;Katsiaryna Pabortsava

357
Citations
Decadal variability in North Atlantic phytoplankton blooms

Stephanie A. Henson;John P. Dunne;Jorge Louis Sarmiento

348
Citations
Rapid emergence of climate change in environmental drivers of marine ecosystems

Stephanie A. Henson;Claudie Beaulieu;Tatiana Ilyina;Jasmin G. John

306
Citations
Future phytoplankton diversity in a changing climate.

Stephanie A. Henson;B. B. Cael;Stephanie R. Allen;Stephanie R. Allen;Stephanie R. Allen;Stephanie Dutkiewicz

298
Citations
Climate change threatens the world’s marine protected areas

John F. Bruno;Amanda E. Bates;Amanda E. Bates;Chris Cacciapaglia;Elizabeth P. Pike

258
Citations
Uncertain response of ocean biological carbon export in a changing world

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245
Citations
Diatom carbon export enhanced by silicate upwelling in the northeast Atlantic

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

229
Citations
A census of oceanic anticyclonic eddies in the Gulf of Alaska

Stephanie A. Henson;Andrew C. Thomas

226
Citations
The Biological carbon pump in the North Atlantic

Richard J. Sanders;Stephanie A. Henson;Marja Koski;Christina L. De la Rocha

211
Citations
Observing climate change trends in ocean biogeochemistry: when and where.

Stephanie A. Henson;Claudie Beaulieu;Richard Lampitt

193
Citations
Global reductions in seafloor biomass in response to climate change

Daniel O.B. Jones;Andrew Yool;Chih-Lin Wei;Stephanie A. Henson

185
Citations
A new look at ocean carbon remineralization for estimating deepwater sequestration

Lionel Guidi;Lionel Guidi;Louis Legendre;Gabriel Reygondeau;Gabriel Reygondeau;Julia Uitz

183
Citations
Ocean colour signature of climate change.

Stephanie Dutkiewicz;Anna E. Hickman;Oliver Jahn;Stephanie Henson

175
Citations
Natural iron fertilization by the Eyjafjallajökull volcanic eruption

Eric P. Achterberg;C. Mark Moore;Stephanie A. Henson;Sebastian Steigenberger

167
Citations
OceanGliders: A component of the integrated GOOS

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

152
Citations
Variability in efficiency of particulate organic carbon export: A model study

Stephanie A. Henson;Andrew Yool;Richard Sanders

148
Citations
Effect of meteorological conditions on interannual variability in timing and magnitude of the spring bloom in the Irminger Basin, North Atlantic

Stephanie A. Henson;Ian Robinson;John T. Allen;Joanna J. Waniek

140
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard Sanders National Oceanography Centre

Andrew Yool National Oceanography Centre

Adrian P. Martin National Oceanography Centre

Richard S. Lampitt National Oceanography Centre

Alex J. Poulton Heriot-Watt University

John P. Dunne Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory

Eric P. Achterberg GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel

Daniel J. Mayor University of Exeter

Geraint A. Tarling British Antarctic Survey

Jorge L. Sarmiento Princeton University

External Links

Personal website of Stephanie A. Henson

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