GEOMAR  Somes, Christopher

Dr. Christopher Somes


Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter in der Forschungseinheit Biogeochemische Modellierung

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Raum: 5.515
Tel.: +49 431 600-2053
E-Mail: csomes(at)geomar.de

Anschrift:
GEOMAR Helmholtz Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel
Wischhofstr. 1-3
24148 Kiel

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Publikationen

2024

  • Golikov A.V., Xavier J.C., Ceia F.R., Queiros J.P., Bustamante P., Couperus B., Guillou G., Larionova A.M., Sabirov R.M., Somes C.J., Hoving H.-J. (2024), Insights on long-term ecosystem changes from stable isotopes in historical squid beaks, BMC Ecology and Evolution, 24, 90, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-024-02274-7

  • Frenger I., Landolfi A., Kvale K., Somes C.J., Oschlies A., Yao W., Koeve W. (2024), Misconceptions of the marine biological carbon pump in a changing climate: Thinking outside the "export" box, Global Change Biology, 30(1), https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.17124

2023

  • Pelz M.-T., Schartau M., Somes C.J., Lampe V., Slawig T. (2023): A diffusion-based kernel density estimator (diffKDE, version 1) with optimal bandwidth approximation for the analysis of data in geoscience and ecological research, Geoscientific Model Development Discussion, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-2023-17
  • Derville S., Torres L.G., Newsome S., Somes C.J., Valenzuela L.O., Zanden H.B.V., et al., Carroll E.L. (2023): Long-term stability in the circumpolar foraging range of a Southern Ocean predator between the eras of whaling and rapid climte change, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2214035120

2022

  • Pelz M.-T., Somes C.J., Tuerena R.E., Lorrain A., Close H.G., Henderson L.C., St. John Glew K., Espinasse B., Trueman C.N. (2022): A global marine particulate organic carbon-13 isotope data product (Version2). PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.946915
  • Wallmann K., José Y.S., Hopwood M.J., Somes, C.J., Dale A.W., Scholz F., Achterberg E.P., Oschlies A. (2022), Biogeochemical feedbacks may amplify ongoing and future deoxygenation: a case study from the Peruvian oxygen minimum zone, Biogeochemistry, 159, 45-67, e2021GB006948,  https://doi.org/10.1007/s10533-022-00908-w

2021

  • Bodin N., Pethybridge H., Duffy L.M., Lorrain A., Allain V., Logan J.M., Ménard F., Graham B., Choy C.A., Somes C.J., Olson R.J., Young J.W. (2021), Global data set for nitrogen and carbon stable isotopes of tunas, Ecology, 102(3):e03265, https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3265

  • Farmer J., Hertzberg J.E., Cardinal D., Fietz F., Hendry K., Jaccard S.L., Paytan A., Rafter P.A., Ren H., Somes C.J., Sutton J.N., and the GEOTRACES-PAGES Biological Productivity Working Group Members (2021), Assessment of C, N, and Si isotopes as tracers of past ocean nutrient and carbon cycling, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 35, e2020GB006775, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GB006775

  • Kvale K., Keller D.P., Koeve W., Meissner K.J., Somes C.J., Yao W., Oschlies A. (2021), Explicit silicate cycling in the Kiel Marine Biogeochemistry Model, version 3 (KMBM3) embedded in the UVic ESCM version 2.9, Geoscientific Model Development , 14, 7255-7285, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-7255-2021

  • Landolfi A., Prowe F.A.E., Pahlow M., Somes C.J., Chien C.-T., Schartau M., Koeve W., Oschlies A. (2021), Can top-down controls expand the ecological niche of marine N2 fixers?, Frontiers in Microbiology, 12:690200, https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2021.690200

  • Mèdieu A., Point D., Receveur A., Gauthier O., Allain V., Pethybridge H., Menkes C.E., Gillikin D.P., Revill A.T., Somes C.J., Collin J., Lorrain A. (2021), Stable mercury concentrations of tropical tuna in the south western Pacific Ocean: an 18-year monitoring study, Chemosphere, 263:128024. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2020.128024

  • Somes, C.J., Dale A.W., Wallmann K., Scholz F., Yao W., Oschlies A., Muglia J., Schmittner A., Achterberg E.P. (2021), Constraining global marine iron sources and ligand-mediated scavenging fluxes with GEOTRACES dissolved iron measurements in a global ocean biogeochemical model, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 35, e2021GB006948,  https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GB006948

  • St. John Glew K., Espinasse B., Hunt B.P.V, Pakhomov E.A., Bury S.J., Pinkerton M.H., Nodder S.D., Gutierrez-Rodrigues A., Safi K., Brown J.C.S., Graham L., Dunbar R.B., Mucciarone D.A., Magozzi S., Somes C.J., Trueman C. (2021), Isoscape Models of the Southern Ocean: Predicting Spatial and Temporal Variability in Carbon and Nitrogen Isotope Compositions of Particulate Organic Matter, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 35, e2020GB006901, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GB006901

  • Verwega T.-M., Somes C.J., Schartau M., Lorrain A., Tuerena R.E., Oschlies A., Slawig T. (2021), Description of a global marine pariculate organic carbon-13 data set, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 13, 4861-4880, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-4861-2021

2020

  • Lorrain, A., Pethybridge, H., Cassar, N., Receveur, A., Allain, V., Bodin, N., Bopp, L., Choy, C.A., Duffy, L., Fry, B., Goñi, N., Graham, B.S., Hobday, A.J., Logan, J.M., Ménard, F., Menkes, C., Olson, D.E., Pagendam, R.J., Point, D., Revill, A.T., Somes, C.J., Young, J.W. (2020), Trends in tuna isotopes suggest global changes in pelgic phytoplankton communities, Global Change Biology, 26:458-470. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14858
  • Logan J.M., Pethybridge H., Lorrain A., Somes C.J., Allain V., Bodin N., Choy C.A., Duffy L., Goñi N., Graham B., Langlais C., Ménard F., Olson R., Young J. (2020), Global patterns and inferences of tuna movements and trophodynamics, Deep Sea Research II, 175:104775. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2020.104775
  • Dhureea Z., Pethybridge H., Langlais C., Somes C.J., Nikolic N., Bourjea J., Appadoo C., Bodin N. (2020), Spatial variation in stable isotopes and fatty acid trophic markers in albacore tuna (Thunnus alalunga) from the western Indian Ocean, Deep Sea Research I, 161:103286, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2020.103286

2018

  • Pethybridge, H., Choy, C.A., Logan, L.M., Allain, V., Lorrain, A., Bodin, N., Somes, C.J., Young, J., Menard, F., Langlais, C., Duffy, L., Hobday, A.J., Kuhnert, P., Fry, B., Menkes, C., Olson, R.J. (2018). A global meta-analysis of marine predator nitrogen stable isotopes: Relationships between trophic structure and environmental conditions. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2018;00:1-13.  doi:10.1111/geb.12763
  • Glock, N., Erdem, Z., Wallmann, K., Somes, C. J., Liebtrau, V., Schönfeld, J., Gorb, S.,  Eisenhauer, A. (2018). Coupling of oceanic carbon and nitrogen facilitates spatially resolved quantitative reconstruction of nitrate inventories. Nature Communications, 9:1217.  doi:10.1038/s41467-018-03647-5

2017

  • Muglia, J., Somes, C., Nickelsen, L. and Schmittner, A. (2017). Combined Effects of Atmospheric and Seafloor Iron Fluxes to the Glacial Ocean. Paleoceanography, 32, 1204-1218.  doi:10.1002/2016PA003077
  • Landolfi, A., Somes, C. J., Koeve, W., Zamora, L. M. and Oschlies, A. (2017) Oceanic nitrogen cycling and N2O flux perturbations in the Anthropocene. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 31 (8), 1236-1255.  doi10.1002/2017GB005633
  • Somes, C. J., Schmittner, A., Muglia, J. and Oschlies, A. (2017). A Three-Dimensional Model of the Marine Nitrogen Cycle during the Last Glacial Maximum Constrained by Sedimentary Isotopes. Frontiers in Marine Science, 4:108. doi:10.3389/fmars.2017.00108

2016

  • Schmittner, A. and Somes, C. J. (2016). Complementary constraints from carbon (13C) and nitrogen (15N) isotopes on the glacial ocean's soft-tissue biological pump. Paleoceanography, 31 (6), 669-693. doi:10.1002/2015PA002905
  • Somes, C. J., Landolfi, A., Koeve, W. and Oschlies, A. (2016). Limited impact of atmospheric nitrogen deposition on marine productivity due to biogeochemical feedbacks in a global ocean model. Geophysical Research Letters, 43 (9), 4500-4509. doi:10.1002/2016GL068335

2015

  • Somes, C. J. and Oschlies, A. (2015). On the influence of “non-Redfield” dissolved organic nutrient dynamics on the spatial distribution of N2 fixation and the size of the marine fixed nitrogen inventory. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 29 (7), 973-993. doi:10.1002/2014GB005050
  • Young, J. W., Olson, R. J., Ménard, F., Kuhnert, P. M., Duffy, L. M., Allain, V., Logan, J. M., Lorrain, A., Somes, C. J., Graham, B., Goñi, N., Pethybridge, H., Simier, M., Potier, M., Romanov, E., Pagendam, D., Hannides, C. and Choy, C. A. (2015). Setting the stage for a global-scale trophic analysis of marine top predators: a multi-workshop review. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries, 25 (1), 261-272. doi:10.1007/s11160-014-9368-4

2014

  • Moore, R. M., Kienast, M., Fraser, M., Cullen, J. J., Deutsch, C., Dutkiewicz, S., Follows, M. J. and Somes, C. J. (2014). Extensive hydrogen supersaturations in the western South Atlantic Ocean suggest substantial underestimation of nitrogen fixation. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans, 119 (7), 4340-4350. doi:10.1002/2014JC010017

2013

  • Navarro, J., Coll, M., Somes, C. J. and Olson, R. J. (2013). Trophic niche of squids: Insights from isotopic data in marine systems worldwide. Deep-Sea Research II, 95, 93-102. doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2013.01.031
  • Somes, C. J., Oschlies, A. and Schmittner, A. (2013). Isotopic constraints on the pre-industrial oceanic nitrogen budget. Biogeosciences, 10 (9), 5889-5910. doi:10.5194/bg-10-5889-2013
  • Galbraith, E. D., Kienast, M., Galbraith, E. D., Kienast, M., Albuquerque, A. L., Altabet, M. A., Batista, F., Bianchi, D., Calvert, S. E., Contreras, S., Crosta, X., De Pol-Holz, R., Dubois, N., Etourneau, J., Francois, R., Hsu, T. C., Ivanochko, T., Jaccard, S. L., Kao, S. J., Kiefer, T., Kienast, S., Lehmann, M. F., Martinez, P., McCarthy, M., Meckler, A. N., Mix, A., Möbius, J., Pedersen, T. F., Pichevin, L., Quan, T. M., Robinson, R. S., Ryabenko, E., Schmittner-Boesch, A., Schneider, R., Schneider-Mor, A., Shigemitsu, M., Sinclair, D., Somes, C. J., Studer, A. S., Tesdal, J. E., Thunell, R. and Terence Yang, J. Y. (2013). The acceleration of oceanic denitrification during deglacial warming. Nature Geoscience, 6, 579-584. doi:10.1038/ngeo1832

2012

  • Robinson, R. S., Kienast, M., Luiza Albuquerque, A., Altabet, M., Contreras, S., De Pol Holz, R., Dubois, N., Francois, R., Galbraith, E., Hsu, T. C., Ivanochko, T., Jaccard, S., Kao, S. J., Kiefer, T., Kienast, S., Lehmann, M., Martinez, P., McCarthy, M., Möbius, J., Pedersen, T., Quan, T. M., Ryabenko, E., Schmittner, A., Schneider, R., Schneider-Mor, A., Shigemitsu, M., Sinclair, D., Somes, C. J., Studer, A., Thunell, R. and Yang, J. Y. (2012). A review of nitrogen isotopic alteration in marine sediments. Paleoceanography, 27 (4), PA4203. doi:10.1029/2012PA002321

2010

  • Somes, C. J., Schmittner, A. and Altabet, M. A. (2010). Nitrogen isotope simulations show the importance of atmospheric iron deposition for nitrogen fixation across the Pacific Ocean. Geophysical Research Letters, 37 (23), L23605. doi:10.1029/2010GL044537
  • Somes, C. J., Schmittner, A., Galbraith, E. D., Lehmann, M. F., Altabet, M. A., Montoya, J. P., Letelier, R. M., Mix, A. C., Bourbonnais, A. and Eby, M. (2010). Simulating the global distribution of nitrogen isotopes in the ocean. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 24 (4), GB4019. doi:10.1029/2009GB003767