Scientific Publications

Taylor, M. and S. Henson (2026), A method for quantifying correlation in the shape of oceanographic profile data, Ocean Science, 22, 1377–1390, doi: 10.5194/os-22-1377-2026

Lin, L., C. Dong, S. Henson and B. Chen (2026), Deep Learning Identifies the Climate Warming Signal in Global Ocean Chlorophyll From Satellite Records, Geophysical Research Letters, 53, e2025GL120669, doi: 10.1029/2025GL120669

Le Moigne, F., K. Pabortsava, M. Villa-Alfageme, N. Briggs, C. Baker, H. Bouman, C. English, S. Blackbird, S. Henson, H. Venables, C. Carlson, C.M. Moore, J. Williams and A. Martin (2025), Particle Export Fluxes in the Southern Ocean: Importance of Non-heterotrophic Processes in POC Flux Attenuation, JGR Oceans, 130, e2024JC021607, doi: 10.1029/2024JC021607

Oliver, S., A. Yool, S. Henson and A. Martin (2025), Where and when the mesopelagic carbon budget balances, if at all, Geophysical Research Letters, 52, e2024GL111667, doi: 10.1029/2024GL111667

Lovecchio, E., S. Henson, F. Carvalho, N. Briggs, H. Hilder, G. Wolff, S. Giering, K. Cook, C. Baker, S. Fielding, C. Preece and M. Stinchcombe (2025), Mesopelagic particle layers in the dynamic hypoxic northern Benguela are shaped by zooplankton activity, Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 130, e2024JC021039, doi: 10.1029/2024JC021039

Williams, J.R., S.L.C. Giering, C.A. Baker, K. Pabortsava, N. Briggs, H. East, B. Espinola, S. Blackbird, F. Le Moigne, M. Villa-Alfageme, A. Poulton, F. Carvalho, C. Pebody, K. Saw, C.M. Moore, S. Henson, R. Sanders and A. Martin (2025), Inefficient transfer of diatoms through the subpolar Southern Ocean twilight zone, Nature Geoscience, 18, 72-77, doi: 10.1038/s41561-024-01602-2

Henson, S., C. Baker, P. Halloran, A. McQuatters-Gollop, S. Painter, A. Planchet and A. Tagliabue (2024), Knowledge gaps in quantifying the climate change response of biological storage of carbon in the ocean, Earth’s Future, 12, e2023EF004375, doi: 10.1029/2023EF004375

Henson, S., K. Bisson, M. Hammond, A. Martin, C. Mouw and A. Yool (2024), Effect of sampling bias on global estimates of ocean carbon export, Environmental Research Letters, 19(2), doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/ad1e7f

Major, W., S. Giering, J. Ainsworth, A. Belcher, S. Blackbird, M. Bridger, N, Briggs, F. Carvalho, L. Clement, K. Cook, C. Dumousseaud, B. Espinola, C. Evans, S. Fielding, M. Hartmann, S. Henson, M. Iversen, K. Kiriakoulakis, R. Lampitt, E. Lovecchio, A. Martin, D. Mayor, C.M. Moore, K. Pabortsava, C. Pebody, K. Peel, C. Preece, A. Poulton, R. Rayne, K. Saw, M. Stinchcombe, G. Stowasser, G. Tarling, S. Thomalla, M. Villa-Alfageme, G. Wolff and R. Sanders (2024), Active and passive organic carbon fluxes during a bloom in the Southern Ocean (South Georgia), Scientific Data, 11, 1392, doi: 10.1038/s41597-024-04151-w

Cael, B.B., C.M. Moore, J. Guest, T. Jarníková, C. Mouw, C. Bowler, E. Mawji, S. Henson and C. Le Quere (2024), A global ocean opal ballasting–silicate relationship, Geophysical Research Letters, 51, e2024GL110225, doi: 10.1029/2024GL110225

Martin, A., A. Bahamondes Dominguez, C. Baker, C. Baumas, K. Bisson, E. Cavan, M. Freilich, E. Galbraith, M. Galí, S. Henson, K. Kvale, C. Lemmen, J. Luo, H. McMonagle, F. de Melo Viríssimo, K. Möller, C. Richon, I. Suresh, J. Wilson, M. Woodstock and A. Yool (2024), When to add a new process to a model – and when not: A marine biogeochemical perspective, Ecological Modelling, 498, doi: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2024.110870

Doney, S., K. Mitchell, S. Henson, E. Cavan, T. DeVries, N. Gruber, J. Hauck, C. Mouw, J. Mueller and F. Primeau (2024), Observational and numerical modelling constraints on the global ocean biological carbon pump, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 38, e2024GB008156, doi: 10.1029/2024GB008156

Boyce, D., D. Tittensor, S. Fuller, S. Henson, K. Kaschner, G. Reygondeau, K. Schleit, V. Saba, N. Shackell, R. Stanley and B. Worm (2024), Operationalising climate risk in a global warming hotspot, npj Ocean Sustainability, 3, 33, doi: 10.1038/s44183-024-00067-5

de Melo Virissimo, F., A. Martin, S. Henson and J. Wilson (2024), Seasonality in carbon flux attenuation explains spatial variability in transfer efficiency, Geophysical Research Letters, 51, e2023GL107050, doi: 10.1029/2023GL107050

Cael, B.B., F. Burger, S. Henson, G. Britten and T. Frolicher (2024), Historical and future maximum sea surface temperatures, Science Advances, 10, eadj5569, doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adj5569

Johnson, L., D. Siegel, A.F. Thompson, E. Fields, Z. Erickson, I. Cetinic, C.M. Lee, E. D’Asaro, N.B. Nelson, M. Omand, M. Sten, S. Traylor, D. Nicholson, J.R. Graff, D. Steinberg, H.M. Sosik, K. Buesseler, M. Brzezinski, I. Soto Ramos, F. Carvalho and S. Henson (2024), Assessment of Oceanographic Conditions during the North Atlantic EXport Processes in the Ocean from RemoTe Sensing (EXPORTS) Field Campaign, Progress in Oceanography, 220, doi: 10.1016/j.pocean.2023.103170

Cael, B.B., K. Bisson, E. Boss, S. Dutkiewicz and S. Henson (2023), Global climate-change trends detected in indicators of ocean ecology, Nature, 619, 551-554, doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06321-z

Henson, S., N. Briggs, F. Carvalho, C. Manno, A. Mignot and S. Thomalla (2023), A seasonal transition in biological carbon pump efficiency in the northern Scotia Sea, Southern Ocean, Deep Sea Research Part II, 208, doi: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2023.105274

Hemsley, V., J. Fuessel, M. Duret, R. Rayne, M. Iversen, S. Henson, R. Sanders, P. Lam and M. Trimmer (2023), Suspended particles are hotspots of microbial remineralisation in the ocean’s twilight zone, Deep Sea Research Part II, 212, doi: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2023.105339

Devries, T., K. Yamamoto, R. Wanninkhof, N. Gruber, J. Hauck, J. Müller, L. Bopp, D. Carroll, B. Carter, T. Chau, S. Doney, M. Gehlen, L. Gloege, L. Gregor, S. Henson, J.H. Kim, Y. Iida, T. Ilyina, P. Landschützer, C. Le Quéré, D. Munro, C. Nissen, L. Patara, F. Pérez, L. Resplandy, K. Rodgers, J. Schwinger, R. Séférian, V. Sicardi, J. Terhaar, J. Triñanes, H. Tsujino, A. Watson, S. Yasunaka and J. Zeng (2023), Magnitude, trends, and variability of the global ocean carbon sink from 1985-2018, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 37, e2023GB007780, doi: 10.1029/2023GB007780

Lampitt, R., N. Briggs, B.B. Cael, B. Espinola, P. Helaouet, S. Henson, F. Norrbin, C. Pebody and D. Smeed (2023), Deep ocean particle flux in the Northeast Atlantic over the past 30 years: Carbon sequestration is controlled by ecosystem structure in the upper ocean, Frontiers in Earth Science, 11, doi: 10.3389/feart.2023.117619

Thomalla, S., M. Du Plessis, N. Fauchereau, I. Giddy, L. Gregor, S. Henson, W. Joubert, H. Little, P. Monteiro, T. Mtshali, S. Nicholson and T. Ryan-Keogh (2023), Southern Ocean phytoplankton and carbon dynamics: insights from a seasonal cycle approach, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 381, doi: 10.1098/rsta.2022.0068

Giering, S., R. Sanders, S. Blackbird, N. Briggs, F. Carvalho, H. East, B. Espinola, S. Henson, K. Kiriakoulakis, M. Iversen, R. Lampitt, K. Pabortsava, C. Pebody, K. Peel, C. Preece, K. Saw, M. Villa-Alfageme and G. Wolff (2023), Vertical imbalance in organic carbon budgets is indicative of a missing vertical transfer during a phytoplankton bloom near South Georgia (COMICS), Deep Sea Research Part II, 208, doi: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2023.105277

Henson, S., C. Laufkoetter, S. Leung, S. Giering, H. Palevsky and E. Cavan (2022), Uncertain response of ocean biological carbon export in a changing world, Nature Geoscience, 15, 248-254, doi: 10.1038/s41561-022-00927-0

Lovecchio, E., S. Henson, F. Carvalho and N. Briggs (2022), Oxygen variability in the offshore northern Benguela Upwelling System from glider data, JGR-Oceans, 127, e2022JC019063, doi: 10.1029/2022JC019063

Boyce, D., D. Tittensor, C. Garilao, S. Henson, K. Kaschner, K. Kesner-Reyes, A. Pigot, R. Reyes, G. Reygondeau, K. Schleit, N. Shackell, P. Sorongon-Yap and B. Worm (2022), A climate risk index for marine life, Nature Climate Change 12, 854-862, doi: 10.1038/s41558-022-01437-y

Cael, B.B., C. Begouen-Demeaux, S. Henson, C. Stock, F. Gonzalez-Taboada, J. John and A. Barton (2022), Marine ecosystem changepoints spread under ocean warming in an Earth System Model, JGR Biogeosciences, 127, e2021JG006571, doi: 10.1029/2021JG006571

de Melo Virissimo, F., A. Martin and S. Henson (2022), Influence of seasonal variability in flux attenuation on global organic carbon fluxes and nutrient distributions, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 36, e2021GB007101, doi: 10.1029/2021GB007101 Featured in EOS

Cael, B.B., S. Dutkiewicz and S. Henson (2021), Abrupt shifts in 21st-century plankton communities, Science Advances, 7, 44, doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abf8593

Henson, S.A., B.B. Cael, S.R. Allen and S. Dutkiewicz (2021), Future phytoplankton diversity in a changing climate, Nature Communications, 12, 5372, doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-25699-w

Canadell, J. G., P. M.S. Monteiro, M. H. Costa, L. Cotrim da Cunha, P. M. Cox, A. V. Eliseev, S. Henson, M. Ishii, S. Jaccard, C. Koven, A. Lohila, P. K. Patra, S. Piao, J. Rogelj, S. Syampungani, S. Zaehle, K. Zickfeld (2021), Global Carbon and other Biogeochemical Cycles and Feedbacks. In: Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781009157896.007

Giamalaki, K., C. Beaulieu, S. Henson, A. Martin, H. Kassem and D. Faranda (2021), Future intensification of extreme Aleutian low events and their climate impacts, Scientific Reports, 11, 18395, doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-97615-7

Hendry, K., N. Briggs, S. Henson, J. Opher, J.A. Brearley, M. Meredith, M. Leng and L. Meire (2021), Tracing glacial meltwater from the Greenland Ice Sheet to the ocean using gliders, JGR Oceans, 126, e2021JC017274, doi: 10.1029/2021JC017274

Cael, B.B., K. Bisson, M. Conte, M. Duret, C. Follett, S. Henson, M. Honda, M. Iversen, D. Karl, R. Lampitt, C. Mouw, F. Muller-Karger, C. Pebody, K.L. Smith and D. Talmy (2021), Open ocean particle flux variability from surface to seafloor, Geophysical Research Letters, 48, e2021GL092895, doi: 10.1029/2021GL092895

Hartman, S., B. Bett, J. Durden, S. Henson, M. Iversen, R. Jeffreys, T. Horton, R. Lampitt and A. Gates (2021), Enduring science: three decades of observing the Northeast Atlantic from the Porcupine Abyssal Plain Sustained Observatory (PAP-SO), Progress in Oceanography, 191, 102508, doi: 10.1016/j.pocean.2020.102508

Martin, A., P. Boyd, K. Buesseler, I. Cetinic, H. Claustre, S. Giering, S. Henson, X. Irigoien, I. Kriest, L. Memery, C. Robinson, G. Saba, R. Sanders, D. Siegel, M. Villa-Alfageme and L. Guidi (2020), Comment: The oceans’ twilight zone must be studied now before it’s too late, Nature, 580, 26-28, doi: 10.1038/d41586-020-00915-7

Hammond, M., C. Beaulieu, S. Henson and S. Sahu (2020), Regional surface chlorophyll trends and uncertainties in the global ocean, Scientific Reports, 10, 15273, doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-72073-9

Allen, S., S. Henson, A. Hickman, C. Beaulieu, P. Doncaster and D. Johns (2020), Interannual stability of phytoplankton community composition in the North-East Atlantic, Marine Ecology Progress Series, 655, 43-57, doi: 10.3354/meps13515

Hammond, M., S. Henson, N. Lamquin, S. Clerc and C. Donlon (2020), Assessing the effect of tandem phase Sentinel-3 OLCI sensor uncertainty on the estimation of potential ocean chlorophyll-a trends, Remote Sensing, 12, 2522, doi: 10.3390/rs12162522

Binetti, U., J. Kaiser, G. Damerell, A. Rumyantseva, A. P. Martin, S. Henson and K. Heywood (2020), Net comunity oxygen production derived from Seaglider deployments at the Porcupine Abyssal Plain site (PAP; northeast Atlantic) in 2012-2013, Progress in Oceanography, 183, 102293, doi: 10.1016/j.pocean.2020.102293

Ruhl, H, F. Bahr, S. Henson, W. B. Hosking, B. Espinola, M. Kahru, P. Daniel, P. Drake and C. Edwards (2020), Understanding the remote influences of ocean weather on the episodic pulses of particulate organic carbon flux, Deep Sea Research II, 173, 104741, doi: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2020.104741

Henson, S., F. Le Moigne and S. Giering (2019), Drivers of carbon export efficiency in the global ocean, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 33, 891-903, doi: 10.1029/2018GB006158 Featured in EOS

Hopkins, J., S. Henson, A. Poulton and B. Balch (2019), Regional characteristics of the temporal variability in the global particulate inorganic carbon inventory, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 33, 1328-1338, doi: 10.1029/2019GB006300

Rumyantseva, A., S. Henson, A. Martin, A. Thompson, G. Damerell, J. Kaiser and K. Heywood (2019), Phytoplankton spring bloom initiation: The impact of atmospheric forcing and light in the temperate North Atlantic Ocean, Progress in Oceanography, 178:102202, doi: 10.1016/j.pocean.2019.102202

Belcher, A., S. Henson, C. Manno, S. Hill, A. Atkinson, S. Thorpe, P. Fretwell, L. Ireland and G. Tarling (2019), Krill faecal pellets driven hidden pulses of particulate organic carbon in the marginal ice zone, Nature Communications, 10:889, doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-08847-1

Dutkiewicz, S., A. Hickman, O. Jahn, S. Henson, C. Beaulieu and E. Monier (2019), Ocean colour signature of climate change, Nature Communications, 10:578, doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-08457-x

Cavan, E., S. Henson and P. Boyd (2019), The sensitivity of subsurface microbes to ocean warming accentuates future declines in particulate carbon export, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 6:230, doi: 10.3389/fevo.2018.00230

Benway, H. and 14 others (2019), Ocean time series observations of changing marine ecosystems: An era of integration, synthesis and societal applications, Frontiers in Marine Science, 6:393, doi: 10.3389/fmars.2019.00393

Testor, P. and 99 others (2019), Ocean Gliders: A component of the integrated GOOS, Frontiers in Marine Science, 6:422, doi: 10.3389/fmars.2019.00422

Hooper, J., P. Mayewski, S. Marx, S. Henson, M. Potocki, S. Sneed, M. Handley, S. Gasso, M. Fischer and K. Saunders (2019), Examining links between dust deposition and phytoplankton response using ice cores, Aeolian Research, 36, 45-60, doi: 10.1016/j.aeolia.2018.11.001

Bol, R., S. Henson, A. Rumyantseva and N. Briggs (2018), High-frequency variability of small-particle carbon export flux in the Northeast Atlantic, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 32, 1803-1814, doi: 10.1029/2018gb005963 Featured in EOS

Henson, S., M. Humphreys, P. Land, J. Shutler, L. Goddijn‐Murphy and M. Warren (2018), Controls on open‐ocean North Atlantic ΔpCO2 at seasonal and interannual timescales are different, Geophysical Research Letters, 45(17), 9067-9076, doi: 10.1029/2018GL078797

Bruno, J., A. Bates, C. Cacciapaglia, E. Pike, S. Amstrup, R. van Hooidonk, S. Henson and R. Aronson (2018), Climate change threatens the world’s marine protected areas, Nature Climate Change, 8, 499-503, doi: 10.1038/s41558-018-0149-2

Hammond, M., C. Beaulieu, S. Henson and S. Sahu (2018), Assessing the presence of discontinuities in the ocean colour satellite record and their effects on chlorophyll trends and their uncertainties, Geophysical Research Letters, 45, 7654-7662, doi: 10.1029/2017GL076928

Giamalaki, K., C. Beaulieu, D. Faranda, S. Henson, S. Josey and A. Martin (2018), Signatures of the 1976-1977 regime shift in the North Pacific revealed by statistical analysis, Journal of Geophysical Research, 123, 4388-4397, doi: 10.1029/2017JC013718

Henson, S., H. Cole, J. Hopkins, A. Martin and A. Yool (2018), Detection of climate change-driven trends in phytoplankton phenology, Global Change Biology, 24:e101-e111, doi: 10.1111/gcb.13886

Reygondeau, G., L. Guidi, G. Beaugrand, S. Henson, P. Koubbi, B. MacKenzie, T. Sutton, M. Fioroni and O. Maury (2018), Global biogeochemical provinces of the mesopelagic zone, Journal of Biogeography, 45, 500-514, doi: 10.1111/jbi.13149

Friedland, K., C. Mouw, R. Asch, A. Ferreira, S. Henson, K. Hyde, R. Morse, A. Thomas and D. Brady (2018), Phenology and time series trends of the dominant seasonal phytoplankton bloom across global scales, Global Ecology and Biogeography, 27, 551-569, doi: 10.1111/geb.12717

Anderson, T., A. Martin, R. Lampitt, C. Trueman, S. Henson and D. Mayor (2018), Quantifying carbon fluxes from primary production to mesopelagic fish using a simple food web model, ICES Journal of Marine Science, fsx234,  doi: 10.1093/icesjms/fsx234

Henson, S., C. Beaulieu, T. Ilyina, J. John, M. Long, R. Seferian, J. Tjiputra and J. Sarmiento (2017), Rapid emergence of climate change in environmental drivers of marine ecosystems, Nature Communications, 8:14682, doi: 10.1038/ncomms14682

Baker, C., S. Henson, E. Cavan, S. Giering, A. Yool, M. Gehlen, A. Belcher, J. Riley, H. E. K. Smith and R. Sanders (2017), Slow-sinking particulate organic carbon in the Atlantic Ocean: Magnitude, flux and potential controls, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 31(7), 1051-1065, doi: 10.1002/2017GB005638 Featured in Nature and in EOS

Hammond, M. L., C. Beaulieu, S. K. Sahu, and S. Henson (2017), Assessing trends and uncertainties in satellite-era ocean chlorophyll using space-time modeling, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 31(7), 1103-1117, doi: 10.1002/2016GB005600 Editor’s Highlight

Belcher, A., G. Tarling, C. Manno, A. Atkinson, P. Ward, G. Skaret, S. Fielding, S. Henson and R. Sanders (2017), The potential role of Antarctic krill faecal pellets in efficient carbon export at the marginal ice zone of the South Orkney Islands in spring, Polar Biology, 40(10), 2001-2013, doi: 10.1007/s00300-017-2118-z

Belcher, A., C. Manno, P. Ward, S. Henson, R. Sanders and G. Tarling (2017), Copepod faecel pellet transfer through the meso-and bathypelagic layers in the Southern Ocean in spring, Biogeosciences, 14, 1511-1525, doi: 10.5194/bg-14-1511-2017

Giering, S., R. Sanders, A. Martin, S. Henson, J. Riley, C. Marsay and D. Johns (2017), Particle flux in the oceans: Challenging the steady state assumption, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 31(1),159-171, doi: 10.1002/2016GB005424

Cavan, E., S. Henson, A. Belcher and R. Sanders (2017), Role of zooplankton in determining the efficiency of the biological carbon pump, Biogeosciences, 14, 177-186, doi: 10.5194/bg-14-177-2017

Ceballos-Romero, E., M. Villa-Alfageme, F. Le Moigne, S. Henson, C. Marsay, R. Sanders and R. Garcia-Tenorio (2016), Influence of bloom dynamics on particle export efficiency in the North Atlantic: A comparative study of radioanalytical techniques and sediment traps, Marine Chemistry, 186, 198-210, doi: 10.1016/j.marchem.2016.10.001

Belcher, A., M. Iversen, S. Giering, V. Riou, S. Henson, L. Berline, L. Guilloux and R. Sanders (2016), Depth-resolved particle-associated microbial respiration in the northeast Atlantic, Biogeosciences, 13, 4927-4943, doi: 10.5194/bg-13-4927-2016

Villa-Alfageme, M., F. C. de Soto, E. Ceballos, S. L. C. Giering, F. A. C. Le Moigne, S. Henson, J. L. Mas and R. J. Sanders (2016), Geographical, seasonal and depth variation in sinking particle speeds in the North Atlantic, Geophysical Research Letters, 43(16), 8609-8616, doi: 10.1002/2016GL069233

Beaulieu, C., H. Cole, S. Henson, A. Yool, T. Anderson, L. de Mora, E. Buitenhuis, M. Butenschoen, I. Totterdell and J. I. Allen (2016), Marine regime shifts in ocean biogeochemical models: a case study in the Gulf of Alaska, Biogeosciences, 13, 4533-4553, doi: 10.5194/bg-13-4533-2016

Sanders, R., S. Henson, A. Martin, T. Anderson, R. Bernardello, P. Enderlein, S. Fielding, S. Giering, M. Hartmann, M. Iversen, S. Khatiwala, P. Lam, R. Lampitt, D. Mayor, C. M. Moore, E. Murphy, S. Painter, A. Poulton, K. Saw, G. Stowasser, G. Tarling, S. Torres-Valdes, M. Trimmer, G. Wolff, A. Yool and M. Zubkov (2016), Controls over Oceanic Mesopelagic Interior Carbon Storage (COMICS): Fieldwork, synthesis and modeling efforts, Frontiers in Marine Science, 3(136), doi: 10.3389/fmars.2016.00136

Henson, S., C. Beaulieu and R. Lampitt (2016), Observing climate change trends in ocean biogeochemistry: when and where, Global Change Biology, 22(4), 1561-1571, doi: 10.1111/gcb.13152

Le Moigne, F., S. Henson, E. Cavan, C. Georges, K. Pabortsava, E. Achterberg, E. Ceballos-Romero, M. Zubkov and R. Sanders (2016), What causes the inverse relationship between primary production and export efficiency in the Southern Ocean?, Geophysical Research Letters, 43(9), 4457-4466, doi: 10.1002/2016GL068480

Popova, E., A. Yool, V. Byfield, K. Cochrane, A. Coward, S. Salim, M. Gasalla, S. Henson, A. Hobday, G. Pecl, W. Sauer and M. Roberts (2016), From global to regional and back again: common climate stressors of marine ecosystems relevant for adaptation across five ocean warming hotspots, Global Change Biology, 22(6), 2038-2053, doi:10.1111/gcb.13247

Belcher, A., M. Iversen, C. Manno, S. Henson, G. Tarling and R. Sanders (2016), The role of particle associated microbes in remineralisation of fecal pellets in the upper mesopelagic of the Scotia Sea, Antarctica, Limnology and Oceanography, 61(3), 1049-1064, doi: 10.1002/lno.10269

Friedland, K., N. Record, R. Asch, T. Kristiansen, V. Saba, K. Drinkwater, S. Henson, R. Leaf, R. Morse, D. Johns, S. Large, S. Hjollo, J. Nye, M. Alexander and R. Ji (2016), Seasonal phytoplankton blooms in the North Atlantic linked to the overwintering strategies of copepods, Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, 4: 000099, doi:10.12952/journal.elementa.000099

Rumyantseva, A., N. Lucas, T. Rippeth, A. Martin, S. Painter, T. Boyd and S. Henson (2015), Ocean nutrient pathways associated with the passage of a storm, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 29(8), 1179-1189, doi: 10.1002/2015GB005097   Featured in Nature doi: 10.1038/525460a

Frigstad, H., S. Henson, S. Hartman, A. Omar, E. Jeansson, H. Cole, C. Pebody and R. Lampitt (2015), Links between surface productivity and deep ocean particle flux at the Porcupine Abyssal Plain sustained observatory, Biogeosciences, 12(19), 5885-5897, doi: 10.5194/bg-12-5885-2015

Guidi, L., L. Legendre, G. Reygondeau, J. Uitz, L. Stemmann and S. Henson (2015), A new look at ocean carbon remineralization for estimating deepwater sequestration, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 29(7), 1044-1059, doi: 10.1002/2014GB005063

Henson, S., A. Yool and R. Sanders (2015), Variability in efficiency of particulate organic carbon export: A model study, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 29(1), 33-45, doi:10.1002/2014GB004965

Le Moigne, F., A. Poulton, S. Henson, C. Daniels, G. Fragoso, E. Mitchell, S. Richier, B. Russell, H. Smith, G. Tarling, J. Young and M. Zubkov (2015), Carbon export efficiency and phytoplankton community composition in the Atlantic sector of the Arctic Ocean, JGR Oceans, 120(6), 3896-3912, doi:10.1002/2015JC010700

Hopkins, J., S. Henson, S.Painter, T. Tyrrell, A. Poulton (2015), Phenological characteristics of global coccolithophore blooms, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 29(2), 239-253, doi: 10.1002/2014GB004919

Marsay, C, R. Sanders, S. Henson, K. Pabortsava, E. Achterberg and R. Lampitt (2015), Attenuation of sinking particulate organic carbon flux through the mesopelagic ocean, PNAS, 112(4), 1089-1094, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1415311112

Cole, H., S. Henson, A. Martin and A. Yool (2015), Basin-wide mechanisms for spring bloom initiation: how typical is the North Atlantic?, ICES Journal of Marine Science, 72(6), 2029-2040, doi: 10.1093/icesjms/fsu239

Henson, S. (2014), Slow science: The value of long ocean biogeochemistry records, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 372(2025), doi:10.1098/rsta.2013.0334

Giering, S., R. Sanders, R. Lampitt, T. Anderson, C. Tamburini, M. Boutrif, M. Zubkov, C. Marsay, S. Henson, K. Saw, K. Cook and D. Mayor (2014), Reconciliation of the carbon budget in the ocean’s twilight zone, Nature, 507, 480-483, doi: 10.1038/nature13123

Sanders, R. S. Henson, M. Koski, C. De La Rocha, S. Painter, A. Poulton, J. Riley, B. Salihoglu, A. Visser, A. Yool, R. Bellerby, A. P. Martin (2014), The biological carbon pump in the North Atlantic, Progress in Oceanography, 129B, 200-218, doi: 10.1016/j.pocean.2014.05.005

Jones, D., A. Yool, C-L. Wei, S. Henson, H. Ruhl, R. Watson and M. Gehlen (2014), Global reductions in seafloor biomass in response to climate change, Global Change Biology, 20(6), 1861-1872, doi: 10.1111/gcb.12480

Painter, S., S. Henson, A. Forryan, S. Steigenberger, J. Klar, M. Stinchcombe, N. Rogan, A. Baker, E. Achterberg and C. M. Moore (2014), An assessment of the vertical diffusive flux of iron and other nutrients to the surface waters of the subpolar North Atlantic Ocean, Biogeosciences, 11, 2113-2130, doi: 10.5194/bg-11-2113-2014

Henson, S., S. Painter, N. P. Holliday, M. Stinchcombe, and S. Giering (2013), Unusual subpolar North Atlantic phytoplankton bloom in 2010: Volcanic fertilisation or North Atlantic Oscillation?, JGR Oceans, 118, 1-10, doi: 10.1002/jgrc.20363

Henson, S., H. Cole, C. Beaulieu, and A. Yool (2013), The impact of global warming on seasonality of ocean primary production, Biogeosciences, 10, 4357-4369, doi:10.5194/bg-10-4357-2013

Le Moigne, F., S. Henson, R. J. Sanders, and E. Madsen (2013), Global database of surface ocean particulate organic carbon export fluxes diagnosed from the 234Th technique, Earth System Science Data, 5, 295-304, doi: 10.5194/essd-5-295-2013

Beaulieu, C. S. Henson, J. Sarmiento, J. Dunne, S. Doney, R. Rykaczewski and L. Bopp (2013), Factors challenging our ability to detect long-term trends in ocean chlorophyll, Biogeosciences, 10, 2711-2724, doi: 10.5194/bg-10-2711-2013

Achterberg, E., C. M. Moore, S. Henson, S. Steigenberger, A. Stohl, S. Eckhardt, L. Avendano, M. Cassidy, D. Hembury, J. Klar, M. I. Lucas, A. Macey, C. Marsay and T. Ryan-Keogh (2013), Natural iron fertilisation by the Eyjafjallajokull volcanic eruption, Geophysical Research Letters, 40, 1-6, doi: 10.1002/grl.50221

Le Moigne, F., M. Villa-Alfageme, R. Sanders, C. Marsay, S. Henson and R. Garcia-Tenorio (2013), Export of organic carbon and biominerals derived from 234Th and 210Po at the Porcupine Abyssal Plain, Deep Sea Research I, 72, 88-101, doi: 10.1016/j.dsr.2012.10.010

Henson, S., R. Lampitt and D. Johns (2012), Variability in phytoplankton community structure in response to the North Atlantic Oscillation and implications for organic carbon flux, Limnology and Oceanography, 57(6), 1591-1601, doi:10.4319/lo.2012.57.6.1591

Cole, H.S., S. Henson, A. Martin and A. Yool (2012), Mind the gaps: The impact of missing data on the calculation of phytoplankton phenology metrics, JGR Oceans, 117, C08030, doi:10.1029/2012JC008249

Henson, S., R. Sanders and E. Madsen (2012), Global patterns in efficiency of particulate organic carbon export and transfer to the deep ocean, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 26, GB1028, doi:10.1029/2011GB004099

S. R. Signorini, S. Hakkinen, K. Gudmundsson, A. Olsen, A. M. Omar, J. Olafsson, G. Reverdin, S. A. Henson, and C. R. McClain (2012), The role of phytoplankton dynamics in the seasonal variability of carbon in the subpolar North Atlantic: a modeling study, Geoscientific Model Development, 5, 683-707, doi:10.5194/gmd-5-683-2012

Henson, S., R. Sanders, E. Madsen, P. Morris, F. Le Moigne and G. Quartly (2011), A reduced estimate of the strength of the ocean’s biological carbon pump, Geophysical Research Letters, 38, L04606, doi:10.1029/2011GL046735

Henson, S., J. Sarmiento, J. Dunne, L. Bopp, I. Lima, S. Doney, J. John and C. Beaulieu (2010), Detection of anthropogenic climate change in satellite records of ocean chlorophyll and productivity, Biogeosciences, 7, 621-640, doi:10.5194/bg-7-621-2010

Henson, S., D. Raitsos, J. Dunne and A. McQuatters-Gollop (2009), Decadal variability in biogeochemical models: Comparison with a 50-year ocean colour dataset, Geophysical Research Letters, 36, L21601, doi:10.1029/2009GL040874

Henson, S., J. Dunne and J. Sarmiento (2009), Decadal variability in North Atlantic phytoplankton blooms, JGR Oceans, 114, C04013, doi:10.1029/2008JC005139

Henson, S. and A. Thomas (2008), A census of oceanic anticyclonic eddies in the Gulf of Alaska, Deep Sea Research I, 52, 163-176,http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2007.11.005

Heath, M., J. Rasmussen, Y. Ahmed, J. Allen, C.I.H. Anderson, A.S. Brierley, L. Brown, A. Bunker, K. Cook, R. Davidson, S. Fielding, W.S.C. Gurney, R. Harris, S. Hay, S. Henson, A.G. Hirst, N.P. Holliday, A. Ingvarsdottir, X. Irigoien, P. Lindeque, D.J. Mayor, D. Montagnes, C. Moffat, R. Pollard, S. Richards, R.A. Saunders, J. Sidey, G. Smerdon, D. Spiers, P. Walsham, J. Waniek, L. Webster and D. Wilson (2008), Spatial demography of Calanus finmarchicus in the Irminger Sea, Progress in Oceanography, 76(1), 39-88, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2007.10.001

Henson, S. (2007), Water column stability and spring bloom dynamics in the Gulf of Alaska, Journal of Marine Research, 65(6), 715-736, http://dx.doi.org/10.1357/002224007784219002

Henson, S. and A. Thomas (2007), Interannnual variability in timing of bloom initiation in the California Current System, JGR Oceans, 112, C08007,doi:10.1029/2006JC003960

Henson, S. and A. Thomas (2007), Phytoplankton scales of variability in the California Current System: 1. Interannual and cross-shelf variability, JGR Oceans, 112, C07017, doi:10.1029/2006JC004039

Henson, S. and A. Thomas (2007), Phytoplankton scales of variability in the California Current System: 2. Latitudinal variability, JGR Oceans, 112, C07018,doi:10.1029/2006JC004040

Henson, S., I. S. Robinson, J. T. Allen and J. J. Waniek (2006), Effect of meteorological conditions on interannual variability in timing and magnitude of the spring bloom in the Irminger Basin, North Atlantic, Deep Sea Research I, 53,1601-1615, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2006.07.009

Henson, S., R. Sanders, C. Holeton and J. T. Allen (2006), Timing of nutrient depletion, diatom dominance and a lower bound estimate of export production for Irminger Basin, North Atlantic, Marine Ecology Progress Series, 313, 73-84, doi:10.3354/meps313073

Allen, J. T., L. Brown, R. Sanders, C. M. Moore, A. T. Mustard, S. Fielding, M. Lucas, M. Rixen, G. Savidge, S. Henson and D. Mayor (2005), Diatom carbon export enhanced by silicate upwelling in the northeast Atlantic, Nature, 437 (7059): 728-732, doi:10.1038/nature03948

Waniek, J. J., N. P. Holliday, R. Davidson, L. Brown and S. Henson (2005), Freshwater control of onset and species composition of Greenland shelf spring bloom, Marine Ecology Progress Series, 288, 45-57, doi:10.3354/meps288045

Sanders, R., L. Brown, S. Henson and M. Lucas (2005), New production in the Irminger Basin during 2002, Journal of Marine Systems, 55(3/4), 291-310,http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmarsys.2004.09.002

Henson, S., R. Sanders, J. T. Allen, I. S. Robinson and L. Brown (2003), Seasonal constraints on the estimation of new production from space using temperature-nitrate relationships, Geophysical Research Letters, 30(17), doi:10.1029/2003GL017982

Holliday, N. P. and S. Henson (2017), The Marine Environment. In: Castellani C. and M. Edwards (Ed.) Marine Plankton – A Practical Guide to Ecology, Methodology and Taxonomy: Oxford University Press

Sanders R. and S. Henson (2013), Ecological Carbon Sequestration in the Oceans and Climate Change. In: Freedman B. (Ed.) Global Environmental Change: SpringerReference, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, doi: 10.1007/SpringerReference_300111

UNESO (2026). Integrated Ocean Carbon Research: a vision primed for implementation. Robinson, C., C. Sabine, S. Lemke & K. Isensee (eds.), IOC Technical Report Series, No. 214, UNESCO/IOC, Paris, https://doi.org/10.71245/FULK2623

UNESCO (2021). Integrated ocean carbon research: a summary of ocean carbon research, and vision of coordinated ocean carbon research and observations for the next decade. Wanninkhof, R., C. Sabine & S. Arico (eds.), IOC Technical Report Series, No. 158, UNESCO/IOC, Paris, https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000376708

IOCCG (2020). Synergy between Ocean Colour and Biogeochemical/Ecosystem Models. Dutkiewicz, S.(ed.), IOCCG Report Series, No. 19, International Ocean Colour Coordinating Group, Dartmouth Canada, http://dx.doi.org/10.25607/OBP-711

Brown, P., R. Sanders, E. McDonagh, S. Henson, A. Best, A. Poulton and D. Mayor (2016), Impacts and effects of ocean warming on carbon management including methane hydrates. In: Baxter J. and D. Laffoley (ed.) Explaining ocean warming: Causes, scale, effects and consequences. IUCN, Gland Switzerland, https://portals.iucn.org/library/node/46254

Henson, S. and DY180 team (2023), RRS Dicovery Cruise DY180, 22 May – 26 June 2024, Southampton – Aberdeen. BIO-Carbon: Biological controls over ocean carbon storage. Southampton, National Oceanography Centre, 194pp. (National Oceanography Centre Cruise Report, 81)

Henson, S. and DY090 team (2018), RRS Discovery Cruise DY090, 23 May – 28 June 2018, Walvis Bay, Namibia – Cape Town, South Africa. COMICS2: Controls over Ocean Mesopelagic Interior Carbon Storage. Southampton, National Oceanography Centre, 370pp. (National Oceanography Centre Cruise Report, 53)

Meredith, M., A. Sundfjord, S. Henson, A. Meijers, E. Murphy, R. Bellerby, M. Daase, F. Cottier, M. Belchier, M. Chierici, I. Ellingsen, S. Falk-Petersen, S. Hill, P. Holland, G. Tarling, P. Trathan, J. Turner, J. Wilkinson, L. Batchellier, L. Capper and J. Oliver (2018), The State of the Polar Oceans 2018, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London, https://www.bas.ac.uk/data/our-data/publication/the-state-of-the-polar-oceans-2018/