Dr. Thomas J. Browning

Group leader ERC Starting Grant

Topic 6: Marine and polar Life

RD2: Marine Biogeochemistry
RU CH Chemical Oceanography

WG Biogeochemical controls on ocean productivity

Research Focus

• controls on phytoplankton abundance, ecology and physiology in the ocean
• phytoplankton culturing experiments and numerical analysis
• satellite remote sensing and analysis of climate model output

If you are interested in our research – as a student, postdoc, or collaborating scientist, don’t hesitate to get in touch with me.

Projects

• Ocean Glow (2022-2027) | Website: click here for more information
• ReSEAt (2022-2025) | Website: click hier for more information
• EMS-FORE/EMS-PS (2021-2026) | Website: geomar.de/en/ems-fore
• GEOTRACES GP11 | Website: click here for more information

Vita

• 2022 – today: Group leader ERC Starting Grant
• 2021 – today: Senior scientist permanent position (GEOMAR, Kiel, Germany)
• 2017 – 2021: Senior scientist (GEOMAR, Kiel, Germany)
• 2015 – 2017: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow (GEOMAR, Kiel, Germany)
• 2010 – 2014: DPhil (University of Oxford, UK)
• 2006 – 2010: MSci (University of Bristol, UK)

Publications

For a full list of publications please click here.

• Browning, T.J., Saito, M.A., Garaba, S.P., Wang, X., Achterberg, E.P., Moore, C.M., Engel, A., Mcllvin, M.R., Moran, D., Voss, D. and Zielinski, O. (2023). Persistent equatorial Pacific iron limitation under ENSO forcing. Nature, 621, 330-335.
  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06439-0
• Browning, T.J., Moore, C.M. (2023). Global analysis of ocean phytoplankton nutrient limitation reveals high prevalence of co-limitation. Nature Communications, 14, 5014.
  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-40774-0
• Wen, Z., Browning, T.J., Cai, Y., Dai, R., Zhang, R., Du, C., Jiang, R., Lin, W., Liu, X., Cao, Z., Hong, H., Dai, M., Shi, D. (2022). Nutrient regulation of biological nitrogen fixation across the tropical western North Pacific. Science Advances, 8, eabl7564.
  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abl7564
• Browning, T.J., Achterberg, E.P., Engel, A., Mawji, E. (2021). Manganese co-limitation of phytoplankton growth and major nutrient drawdown in the Southern Ocean. Nature Communications, 12, 884.
  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21122-6
• Browning, T.J., Achterberg, E.P., Rapp, I., Bertrand, E.M., Engel, A., Tagliabue, A., Moore, C.M. (2017). Nutrient co-limitation at the boundary of an oceanic gyre. Nature, 550, 242–246.
  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/nature24063