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Thomas R. Anderson is affiliated with the National Oceanography Centre in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple areas within Earth and Planetary Sciences, Environmental Science, and Physics and Astronomy, with a particular focus on oceanographic and marine systems. The primary subfields of study associated with Anderson include Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, Radiation, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, and Ecology.

The main topics covered by Anderson's work are as follows:

  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Radiation Detection and Scintillator Technologies
  • Particle Detector Development and Performance
  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses
  • Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies

Anderson's recent publications highlight their contributions across a variety of ecological and oceanographic themes. Notable papers include:

  • "Validation of three-dimensional hydrodynamic models of the Gulf of Finland" (2024) published in BIBSYS Brage (BIBSYS (Norway))
  • "Ocean carbon sequestration: Particle fragmentation by copepods as a significant unrecognised factor?" (2020) published in BioEssays
  • "Geometric Stoichiometry: Unifying Concepts of Animal Nutrition to Understand How Protein-Rich Diets Can Be "Too Much of a Good Thing"" (2020) published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • "Phytoplankton acclimation to changing light intensity in a turbulent mixed layer: A Lagrangian modelling study" (2020) published in Ecological Modelling
  • "Is the growth of marine copepods limited by food quantity or quality?" (2021) published in Limnology and Oceanography Letters

The scientist frequently publishes in journals such as Frontiers in Marine Science, Journal of Instrumentation, arXiv (Cornell University), BIBSYS Brage (BIBSYS (Norway)), and BioEssays.

Collaboration has been a notable aspect of Anderson's work. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Daniel J. Mayor
  • Wendy C. Gentleman
  • Dag O. Hessen
  • Andrew Yool
  • F. M. Addesa

Best Publications

  • CO2, the greenhouse effect and global warming: from the pioneering work of Arrhenius and Callendar to today's Earth System Models.

    Thomas R. Anderson;Ed Hawkins;Philip D. Jones;Philip D. Jones

  • CARBON SEQUESTRATION IN ECOSYSTEMS: THE ROLE OF STOICHIOMETRY

    Dag O. Hessen;Göran I. Ågren;Thomas R. Anderson;James J. Elser

  • Plankton functional type modelling : running before we can walk?

    Thomas R. Anderson

  • 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

  • Mesopelagic zone ecology and biogeochemistry - a synthesis

    Carol Robinson;Deborah K. Steinberg;Thomas R. Anderson;Javier Arístegui

  • MEDUSA-2.0: an intermediate complexity biogeochemical model of the marine carbon cycle for climate change and ocean acidification studies

    A. Yool;E. E. Popova;T. R. Anderson

  • Metabolic Stoichiometry and the Fate of Excess Carbon and Nutrients in Consumers

    Thomas R. Anderson;Dag O. Hessen;James J. Elser;Jotaro Urabe

  • Assessing the apparent imbalance between geochemical and biochemical indicators of meso- and bathypelagic biological activity: What the @#! is wrong with present calculations of carbon budgets?

    Adrian B. Burd;Dennis A. Hansell;Deborah K. Steinberg;Thomas R. Anderson

  • Ocean fertilization: a potential means of geoengineering?

    R. S. Lampitt;Eric P. Achterberg;T. R. Anderson;J. A. Hughes

  • Beyond the Durfee square: enhancing the h-index to score total publication output

    Thomas R. Anderson;Robin K. S. Hankin;Peter D. Killworth

  • Excess carbon in aquatic organisms and ecosystems: physiological, ecological, and evolutionary implications

    Dag O. Hessen;Thomas R. Anderson

  • Stoichiometry: Linking elements to biochemicals

    Thomas R. Anderson;Maarten Boersma;David Raubenheimer

  • A dynamic model of oceanic sulfur (DMOS) applied to the Sargasso Sea: Simulating the dimethylsulfide (DMS) summer paradox

    S. M. Vallina;S. M. Vallina;R. Simo;T. R. Anderson;Albert Jerome Gabric

  • Modelling the influence of food C:N ratio, and respiration on growth and nitrogen excretion in marine zooplankton and bacteria

    Thomas R. Anderson

  • Control of primary production in the Arctic by nutrients and light: insights from a high resolution ocean general circulation model

    E. E. Popova;A. Yool;A. C. Coward;Y. K. Aksenov

  • Parameter optimisation techniques and the problem of underdetermination in marine biogeochemical models

    Ben A. Ward;Marjorie A.M. Friedrichs;Thomas R. Anderson;Andreas Oschlies

  • Modelling the Seasonal Cycle of Dissolved Organic Carbon at Station E1in the English Channel

    T.R. Anderson;P.J.le B. Williams

  • Microbial loop carbon cycling in ocean environments studied using a simple steady-state model

    Thomas R. Anderson;Hugh W. Ducklow

  • Stoichiometric theory extended to micronutrients: Comparison of the roles of essential fatty acids, carbon, and nitrogen in the nutrition of marine copepods

    Thomas R. Anderson;David W. Pond

  • Carbon or nitrogen limitation in marine copepods

    Thomas R. Anderson;Dag O. Hessen

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew Yool
Andrew Yool National Oceanography Centre
Daniel J. Mayor
Daniel J. Mayor University of Exeter
Dag O. Hessen
Dag O. Hessen University of Oslo
Adrian P. Martin
Adrian P. Martin National Oceanography Centre
Richard S. Lampitt
Richard S. Lampitt National Oceanography Centre
David W. Pond
David W. Pond University of Stirling
Erik T. Buitenhuis
Erik T. Buitenhuis University of East Anglia
Bablu Sinha
Bablu Sinha National Oceanography Centre
Andrew C. Coward
Andrew C. Coward National Oceanography Centre
Richard Sanders
Richard Sanders National Oceanography Centre

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