Showcasing research on how marine ecosystems, climate change and fishing impact the ocean carbon sink, led by Dr Emma Cavan at Imperial College London.

News

Cordelia joins the group!

We are super excited that Dr Cordelia Roberts has joined our research group as a Post-doctoral Research Associate! She will be working on the NERC BIO-Carbon project as well as continuing her exciting research on all things particles and microbes!

Three funding announcements for the Cavan group!

July has been a bumper month in funding to support the Cavan research group in driving forward research on the ocean carbon cycle. In the next 6 months three new projects will start (and excitingly 3 post-doc positions will be available), two of which were funded by NERC and the third by Horizon Europe.

ICED Co-chair

Emma is now a co-chair of ICED, the international multidisciplinary program on ‘Integrating Climate and Ecosystem Dynamics in the Southern Ocean’. ICED is a regional group of IMBeR, and works to coordinate Southern Ocean scientists to better understand climate interactions in the Southern Ocean, the implications for ecosystem dynamics, the impacts on biogeochemical cycles, and the development of sustainable management procedures.

New WWF-funded project on Southern Ocean zooplankton carbon sequestration

A 3-year project funded by WWF and led by Imperial has just begun with the aim to increase knowledge on how krill and salps contribute to carbon (C) sequestration. Excitingly Anona Griffiths has joined the team as a Research Assistant to lead this work, having finished her Masters at Imperial in September 2022. You can read more about the project on the Research page.

OCB Fish, Fisheries and Carbon meeting

This week in collaboration with OCB I co-chaired an online workshop to bring together experts on 1) the role of fish in the biological carbon pump, 2) the potential impact of fishing on oceanic carbon and 3) what the implications to society would be if fishing management changed to protect the biological pump.

ICES Workshop chair

A new ICES workshop has been formed, to assess the impact of fishing on oceanic carbon. The new workshop WKFISHCARBON will be chaired by Emma and David Reid, with the first meeting scheduled for 24-28th April at ICES headquarters in Denmark. The Terms of Reference can be found online.