Oceanographer, Professor Philip Boyd, is among over 90 outstanding researchers from across the world who have been elected to the prestigious Fellowship of the Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of sciences.
“I am honoured to be elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society, and especially proud of this recognition for our important work to better understand the interactions between ocean biogeochemistry, Earth’s carbon cycle, and climate,” said Professor Boyd, who is a biogeochemical oceanographer at the University of Tasmania’s Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS).
Professor Boyd’s research has revealed how environmental controls like the essential nutrient, iron, determine the scale of productivity in the modern, past and future ocean.
Along with assessing how much of the carbon fixed by photosynthetic Southern Ocean plankton sinks into the deep ocean, he has also transformed the understanding of what the fate of these organic carbon particles are as they are degraded and transported within the depths of the ocean.
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