Geraint Tarling

Science Leader IMP 3

Biography

Present roles

Science Leader of Ecosystems team
Individual Merit Promotion Scientist (Band 3)
Principal Investigator of project BIOPOLE

Main Research Themes

Krill and copepod ecophysiology and population dynamics
Zooplankton lipid pump
Physical and biological influences on krill swarming behaviour
Zooplankton community structure and diversity
Vertical migration behaviour of pelagic organisms
Influence of zooplankton on carbon flux, particularly at high latitudes

Honorariums

April 2020 Fellow of the Marine Biological Association
May 2015 Honorary Chair, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia
April 2015 Senior Honorary Fellow of Environmental and Marine Sciences, University of Hull
April 2008 Honorary Fellow of Environmental and Marine Sciences, University of Hull

Scientific committees and panels

Sept 2021- ARIES Doctoral Training Partnership strategic committee
Jun 2018 Executive committee SCAR Krill Action Group
Mar 2017 Convenor, Ocean Acidification session, SCAR Biology Conference, Belgium
Feb 2017 UK Arctic and Antarctic Partnership Steering Committee
Nov 2015 Co-scientific lead of the international krill and salp database, KRILLBASE

Supervision of students

2022- Jamine Yang PhD “Myctophid population dynamics” GW4+ (Co-supervisor)
2016-2021 Victoria Fowler PhD “Detecting zooplankton foray behaviour in polar marine environments” EnvEast DTP (Primary supervisor)
2016-2021 Franki Perry PhD “Understanding how rapid regional climatic-change impact krill-dominated food webs of the Southern Ocean” Spitfire DTP (Co-supervisor)
2016-2020 Louise Cornwell PhD “Assessing the mechanisms driving marine organism responses to changes in climate using the globally important copepod Oithona similis GW4+ DTP (Co-supervisor)
2015-2020 Jose Seco PhD “Trace metals in Southern Ocean foodwebs” U Coimbra, Portugal (Co-supervisor)
2014-2019 Jessie Gardner PhD “Winners and losers in a more acidified ocean: impact on the physiology and life history of two pteropod species” EnvEAST DTP (Co-supervisor)
2014-2018 Jennifer Freer PhD “Biodiversity and evolutionary ecology of myctophids: an abundant and extraordinarily diverse clade of deep-sea fishes” GW4+ DTP (Co-supervisor)
2014-2018 Cecelia Liszka PhD “Determining the active flux of carbon within the Southern Ocean and its sensitivity to climate change” EnvEAST DTP (Primary supervisor)
2013-2017 Anna Belcher PhD “Sources of carbon flux in the Southern Ocean” NOC Southampton/BAS (Co-supervisor)
2009-2014 Claire Tancell PhD “Identification and structure of distribution hotspots of pelagic fauna in the Scotia Sea” British Antarctic Survey/Cambridge University (Co-supervisor)
2010-2014 Ella Howes PhD “Effects of ocean acidification on calcification, elemental composition and isotopic composition in Mediterranean pteropods and foraminifers” Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris) and Jacobs University (Bremen) (Member of supervisory committee)
2007-2010 Nina Bednarsek PhD “Potential impacts of ocean acidification on Southern Ocean pteropods” British Antarctic Survey/University of East Anglia (Primary supervisor)
2005-2009 Renuka Badhe PhD. “Phytoplanton productivity in the Scotia Sea”, British Antarctic Survey/Essex University (Co-supervisor)
2005-2006 Oystein Varpe PhD “Life-cycle strategies of copepods” Bergen University (Co-supervisor)
2002-2006 Kate Cresswell Ph.D. “Behavioural modeling of krill-penguin interactions”, British Antarctic Survey (Primary supervisor)
1999-2003 Toby Jarvis Ph.D. “The vertical export of material caused by the vertical migration of zooplankton Scottish Association for Marine Science (Primary supervisor)
1998-1999 Jani Sassi M. Phil “Modelling the life-history and vertical migration of krill” University of Bergen (Co-supervisor)
1997-1998 Sandra Lass M. Phil. “Trophic analysis of Meganyctiphanes norvegica” Christian Albrecht Universität, Kiel (Co-supervisor)
1992-1995 Supervision of 5 undergraduate projects in Southampton University

External examiner to 9 PhD Theses

Recent Research Grants

2022-2027 Principal Investigator – BIOPOLE – Ecosystems and biogeochemistry of Arctic and Southern Oceans – NERC National Capability (NC-SM2; £9M – £5M to BAS)
2021-2027 Co-investigator – PolarRES – Horizon 2020 programme examining climate, sea-ice and ecosystems impacts in both polar regions
2018-2021 Co Principal Investigator – CHASE Chronobiology of changing Arctic Sea Ecosystems – NERC Thematic Call on Changing Arctic (£93K)
2017-2021 Co Principal Investigator – DIAPOD Mechanistic understanding of the role of diatoms in the success of the Arctic Calanus complex and implications for a warmer Arctic – NERC Thematic Call on ‘Changing Arctic’(£408K)
2017-2021 Co Principal Investigator – COMICS Controls over Ocean Mesopelagic Interior Carbon Storage – NERC Large grant (£503K)
2016-2021 Co Principal Investigator – SeaDNA Assessing marine biodiversity and structure using environmental DNA: from groundtruthing to food web structure and stability – NERC Highlight Topic (£153K)

Recent Conferences

April 2020 “Remote sensing of surface krill swarms” 1st SKAG conference [virtual] (oral; co-presented with Anna Belcher)
Sept. 2018 “Influence of advection on the structure of Antarctic krill swarms” 18th Challenger Conference, Newcastle University, UK (oral)
July 2017 “Spatial distributions of Southern Ocean mesozooplankton communities have been resilient to long term surface warming” XIIth SCAR Biology Symposium, Leuven, Belgium (oral)
June 2017 “Detecting satiation sinking within open ocean krill swarms” 3rd International Symposium on krill, St Andrews, UK (oral)
May 2016 “Growth and shrinkage is sex-dependent in Antarctic krill” 6th Zooplankton Production Symposium, Bergen, Norway (oral)
Sept 2015 “Response of Arctic pelagic food-webs to predicted changes in ocean chemistry” UK Arctic Science conference, Sheffield (oral)

Invited Presentations (Scientific)

Jan 2019 “Is Antarctic krill the last sustainable exploited resource in the seas?” University of 3rd Age Polar Studies module, Cambridge
Oct 2017 “Antarctic krill: its biology and exploitation” University of Hull
Jan 2016 “Antarctic krill: their biomass, behaviour and biogeochemical impact” Atmospheric and Marine Biogeochemistry Seminar, University of East Anglia
Feb. 2015 “Is Antarctic krill to be yet another overexploited marine resource” Life Sciences Department, Bristol University

Invited Presentations (Public)

Oct 2021 “Science on board RRS Sir David Attenborough” Ice Worlds Festival, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
Oct 2021 “In search of super-sized swarms: why krill is important to us all” The Polar Connection: linking past to future, Pint of Science (https://pintofscience.co.uk)
Mar 2021 “Science achievement of the RRS James Clark Ross” Lecture during the passing out ceremony, hosted by British Antarctic Survey
Oct 2020 “In search of super-sized swarms: why krill are important to us all” Talk for Atlantic Circle: InConversation lecture series
Dec 2019 “How I do my science in the Southern Ocean Q&A”, Gosforth Central Middle School, teleconference for Antarctica week
Dec 2019 “Living and working in Antarctica” Invergordon Academeny, teleconference for Antarctica Week
Dec 2018 “My working life in Antarctica” Hazelwood School, teleconference for Antarctica Day
Jan 2016 “How I use statistics in my science” Histon and Impington Junior School
Feb 2015 “Deep-ocean explorers” Histon and Impington Infant School

Editorial Roles

1. The Physiology, Ecology and Biogeochemistry of Marine Zooplankton in a Changing Arctic Ocean (2022). Frontiers in Marine Science – Research Topic. Mayor DJ, Tarling GA, Last K and Daase M (Eds.)
2. Impacts of surface ocean acidification in polar seas and globally: a field-based approach (2016) Tyrrell T and Tarling GA (Eds.) Deep-Sea Research II: Volume 127
3. DISCOVERY 2010: Spatial and temporal variability in a dynamic polar ecosystem (2012). Deep-Sea Research II Special Issue. Tarling GA, Ward P, Atkinson A, Collins MA, Murphy EJ (Eds.)
4. The Biology of Northern krill (2010). Advances in Marine Biology 57 pp. 314. Tarling GA (Ed.)

Collaborations

Dan Mayor (National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK): zooplankton community structure, carbon flux, copepod diapause behaviour

Kim Last (Scottish Association for Marine Science, UK): clock genes in zooplankton

Stefano Mariani (University of Salford, UK): eDNA

Martin Genner (University of Bristol, UK): mesopelagic ecology; eDNA

Magnus Johnson (University of Hull, UK): Swimming energetics of krill

Jorgen Berge (University centre of Svalbard, Norway); Zooplankton behaviour in Arctic

Andrew Brierley (University of St Andrews, UK); bioacoustics

Finlo Cottier (Scottish Association for Marine Sciences, UK); biophysical interactions

Angus Atkinson (Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UK); krill distribution and population dynamics

Publications from NERC Open Research Archive

2022

Manno, C. , Stowasser, G. , Fielding, S. , Apeland, B., Tarling, G.A. . (2022) Deep carbon export peaks are driven by different biological pathways during the extended Scotia Sea (Southern Ocean) bloom. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 205. 9 pp. 10.1016/j.dsr2.2022.105183

Freer, Jennifer J. , Collins, Rupert A., Tarling, Geraint A. , Collins, Martin A. , Partridge, Julian C., Genner, Martin J.. (2022) Global phylogeography of hyperdiverse lanternfishes indicates sympatric speciation in the deep sea. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 31. 2353-2367. 10.1111/geb.13586

ten Hoopen, Petra , Peat, Helen J. , Ward, Peter, Tarling, Geraint A. . (2022) Polar biodiversity data: from a national marine platform to a global data portal. Patterns, 3. 8 pp. 10.1016/j.patter.2022.100566

Ward, Peter, Tarling, Geraint A. , ten Hoopen, Petra . (2022) A database of zooplankton abundance in the Atlantic sectors of the Southern and sub-Arctic Oceans. Patterns, 3. 14 pp. 10.1016/j.patter.2022.100554

Whitehouse, Michael J., Hendry, Katharine R. , Tarling, Geraint A. , Thorpe, Sally E. , ten Hoopen, Petra . (2022) A database of marine macronutrient, temperature and salinity measurements made around the highly productive island of South Georgia, the Scotia Sea and the Antarctic Peninsula between 1980–2009 [in review]. Earth System Science Data: Discussions. 10.5194/essd-2022-244

López-López, Lucía, Genner, Martin J., Tarling, Geraint A. , Saunders, Ryan A. , O’Gorman, Eoin J.. (2022) Ecological networks in the Scotia Sea: Structural changes across latitude and depth. Ecosystems, 25. 457-470. 10.1007/s10021-021-00665-1

Grigor, Jordan J., Freer, Jennifer J. , Tarling, Geraint A. , Cohen, Jonathan H., Last, Kim S.. (2022) Swimming activity as an indicator of seasonal diapause in the copepod Calanus finmarchicus. Frontiers in Marine Science, 9. 11 pp. 10.3389/fmars.2022.909528

Tarling, Geraint A. , Belcher, Anna , Blackwell, Mayleen, Castellani, Claudia, Cook, Kathryn Barbara , Cottier, Finlo R., Dewar-Fowler, Victoria, Freer, Jennifer J. , Gerrish, Laura , Johnson, Magnus L., Last, Kim S., Lindeque, Penelope Kate, Mayor, Daniel J. , Parry, Helen E., Stowasser, Gabriele , Wootton, Marianne. (2022) Carbon and lipid contents of the copepod Calanus finmarchicus entering diapause in the Fram Strait and their contribution to the boreal and Arctic lipid pump. Frontiers in Marine Science, 9. 18 pp. 10.3389/fmars.2022.926462

Johnston, Nadine M., Murphy, Eugene J. , Atkinson, Angus, Constable, Andrew J., Cotté, Cédric, Cox, Martin, Daly, Kendra L., Driscoll, Ryan, Flores, Hauke, Halfter, Svenja, Henschke, Natasha, Hill, Simeon L. , Höfer, Juan, Hunt, Brian P. V., Kawaguchi, So, Lindsay, Dhugal, Liszka, Cecilia , Loeb, Valerie, Manno, Clara , Meyer, Bettina, Pakhomov, Evgeny A., Pinkerton, Matthew H., Reiss, Christian S., Richerson, Kate, Smith, Walker O., Steinberg, Deborah K., Swadling, Kerrie M., Tarling, Geraint A. , Thorpe, Sally E. , Veytia, Devi, Ward, Peter, Weldrick, Christine K., Yang, Guang. (2022) Status, change, and futures of zooplankton in the Southern Ocean. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 9. 41 pp. 10.3389/fevo.2021.624692

Mayor, D.J. , Cook, K.B. , Thornton, B., Atherden, F., Tarling, Geraint A. , Anderson, T.R. . (2022) Biomass Turnover Rates in Metabolically Active and Inactive Marine Calanoid Copepods. Frontiers in Marine Science, 9. 6 pp. 10.3389/fmars.2022.907290

Liszka, Cecilia M. , Thorpe, Sally E. , Wootton, Marianne, Fielding, Sophie , Murphy, Eugene J. , Tarling, Geraint A. . (2022) Plankton and nekton community structure in the vicinity of the South Sandwich Islands (Southern Ocean) and the influence of environmental factors. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 198. 16 pp. 10.1016/j.dsr2.2022.105073

Tarling, Geraint , Abrahamsen, Povl , Lucas, Natasha , Brearley, Alexander , Fleming, Andrew , Shepherd, Andrew, Liszka, Cecilia , Manno, Clara , Murphy, Eugene , Meredith, Michael , Ratcliffe, Norman , Braakmann-Folgmann, Anne, Gerrish, Laura . (2022) The birth and death of ‘megaberg’ A68. The Marine Biologist, 22. 25-26.

Tarling, Geraint A. , Freer, Jennifer J. , Banas, Neil S., Belcher, Anna , Blackwell, Mayleen, Castellani, Claudia, Cook, Kathryn B. , Cottier, Finlo R., Daase, Malin, Johnson, Magnus L., Last, Kim S., Lindeque, Penelope K., Mayor, Daniel J. , Mitchell, Elaine, Parry, Helen E., Stowasser, Gabriele , Wootton, Marianne. (2022) Can a key boreal Calanus copepod species now complete its life-cycle in the Arctic? Evidence and implications for Arctic food-webs. Ambio, 51. 333-344. 10.1007/s13280-021-01667-y

Atkinson, Angus, Hill, Simeon L. , Reiss, Christian S., Pakhomov, Evgeny A., Beaugrand, Gregory, Tarling, Geraint A. , Yang, Guang, Steinberg, Deborah K., Schmidt, Katrin, Edwards, Martin, Rombolá, Emilce, Perry, Frances A.. (2022) Stepping stones towards Antarctica: Switch to southern spawning grounds explains an abrupt range shift in krill. Global Change Biology, 28. 1359-1375. 10.1111/gcb.16009

Freer, Jennifer J. , Daase, Malin, Tarling, Geraint A. . (2022) Modelling the biogeographic boundary shift of Calanus finmarchicus reveals drivers of Arctic Atlantification by subarctic zooplankton. Global Change Biology, 28. 429-440. 10.1111/gcb.15937

2021

Edwards, M., Hélaouët, P., Goberville, E., Lindley, A., Tarling, G.A. , Burrows, M.T., Atkinson, A.. (2021) North Atlantic warming over six decades drives decreases in krill abundance with no associated range shift.. Communications Biology, 4. 10 pp. 10.1038/s42003-021-02159-1

Murphy, Eugene J. , Johnston, Nadine M., Hofmann, Eileen E., Phillips, Richard A., Jackson, Jennifer A. , Constable, Andrew J., Henley, Sian F., Melbourne-Thomas, Jess, Trebilco, Rowan, Cavanagh, Rachel D. , Tarling, Geraint A. , Saunders, Ryan A. , Barnes, David K.A. , Costa, Daniel P., Corney, Stuart P., Fraser, Ceridwen I., Höfer, Juan, Hughes, Kevin A. , Sands, Chester J. , Thorpe, Sally E. , Trathan, Philip N. , Xavier, José C.. (2021) Global connectivity of Southern Ocean ecosystems. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 9. 29 pp. 10.3389/fevo.2021.624451

Belcher, Anna , Fielding, Sophie , Gray, Andrew, Biermann, Lauren, Stowasser, Gabriele , Fretwell, Peter , Ireland, Louise , Tarling, Geraint A. . (2021) Experimental determination of reflectance spectra of Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) in the Scotia Sea. Antarctic Science, 33. 13 pp. 10.1017/S0954102021000262

Seco, José, Freitas, Rosa, Xavier, José C. , Bustamante, Paco, Coelho, João P., Coppola, Francesca, Saunders, Ryan A. , Almeida, Ângela, Fielding, Sophie , Pardal, Miguel A., Stowasser, Gabriele , Pompeo, Giulia, Tarling, Geraint A. , Brierley, Andrew S., Pereira, Eduarda. (2021) Oxidative stress, metabolic activity and mercury concentrations in Antarctic krill Euphausia superba and myctophid fish of the Southern Ocean. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 166. 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2021.112178

Seco, J., Aparício, S., Brierley, A.S., Bustamante, P., Ceia, F.R., Coelho, J.P., Phillips, R.A., Saunders, R.A. , Fielding, S. , Gregory, S., Matias, R.S., Pardal, M.A., Pereira, E., Stowasser, G. , Tarling, G.A. , Xavier, J.C. . (2021) Mercury biomagnification in a Southern Ocean food web. Environmental Pollution, 275. 11 pp. 10.1016/j.envpol.2021.116620

Liszka, Cecilia M. , Robinson, Carol, Manno, Clara , Stowasser, Gabriele , Tarling, Geraint A. . (2021) Diel vertical migration of the Southern Ocean euphausiid, Euphausia triacantha, and its metabolic response to consequent short-term temperature changes. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 660. 37-52. 10.3354/meps13618

2020

Manno, C. , Fielding, S. , Stowasser, G. , Murphy, E.J. , Thorpe, S.E. , Tarling, G.A. . (2020) Continuous moulting by Antarctic krill drives major pulses of carbon export in the north Scotia Sea, Southern Ocean. Nature Communications, 11. 8 pp. 10.1038/s41467-020-19956-7

Tarling, G.A. , Hobbs, C., Johnson, M.L., Färber Lorda, J.. (2020) Comparative morphology of Southern Ocean Euphausia species: ecological significance of sexual dimorphic features. Polar Biology, 43. 2043-2058. 10.1007/s00300-020-02764-6

Belcher, Anna , Cavan, Emma L., Tarling, Geraint . (2020) Why krill swarms are important to the global climate. Frontiers for Young Minds, 8. 8 pp. 10.3389/frym.2020.518995

Meyer, Bettina, Atkinson, Angus, Bernard, Kim S., Brierley, Andrew S., Driscoll, Ryan, Hill, Simeon L. , Marschoff, Enrique, Maschette, Dale, Perry, Frances A., Reiss, Christian S., Rombolá, Emilce, Tarling, Geraint A. , Thorpe, Sally E. , Trathan, Philip N. , Zhu, Guoping, Kawaguchi, So. (2020) Successful ecosystem-based management of Antarctic krill should address uncertainties in krill recruitment, behaviour and ecological adaptation. Communications Earth & Environment, 1. 10.1038/s43247-020-00026-1

Belcher, Anna , Cook, Kathryn , Bondyale-Juez, Daniel, Stowasser, Gabriele , Fielding, Sophie , Saunders, Ryan A. , Mayor, Daniel J. , Tarling, Geraint A. . (2020) Respiration of mesopelagic fish: a comparison of respiratory electron transport system (ETS) measurements and allometrically calculated rates in the Southern Ocean and Benguela Current. ICES Journal of Marine Sciences, 77. 1672-1684. 10.1093/icesjms/fsaa031

Seco, José, Xavier, José C. , Bustamante, Paco, Coelho, João P., Saunders, Ryan A. , Ferreira, Nicole, Fielding, Sophie , Pardal, Miguel A., Stowasser, Gabriele , Viana, Thainara, Tarling, Geraint A. , Pereira, Eduarda, Brierley, Andrew S.. (2020) Main drivers of mercury levels in Southern Ocean lantern fish Myctophidae. Environmental Pollution, 264. 10.1016/j.envpol.2020.114711

Freer, Jennifer , Tarling, Geraint , Collins, Martin , Partridge, J.C., Genner, M.J.. (2020) Estimating circumpolar distributions of lanternfish using 2D and 3D ecological niche models.. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 647. 15 pp. 10.3354/meps13384

Tarling, Geraint A. . (2020) Routine metabolism of Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) in South Georgia waters: Absence of metabolic compensation at its range edge. Marine Biology, 167. 15 pp. 10.1007/s00227-020-03714-w

Perry, Frances A., Kawaguchi, So, Atkinson, Angus, Sailley, Sévrine F., Tarling, Geraint A. , Mayor, Daniel J. , Lucas, Cathy H., King, R., Cooper, A.. (2020) Temperature-induced hatch failure and nauplii malformation in Antarctic krill.. Frontiers in Marine Science, 7. 13 pp. 10.3389/fmars.2020.00501

Siegert, Martin, Bacon, Sheldon, Barnes, David , Brooks, Ian, Burgess, Henry, Cottier, Finlo, Depledge, Duncan, Dodds, Klaus, Edwards, Mary, Essery, Richard, Heywood, Karen, Hendry, Katharine, Jones, Vivienne, Lea, James, Medby, Ingrid, Meredith, Michael , Screen, James, Steinberg, Philip, Tarling, Geraint , Warner, James, Young, Gillian. (2020) The Arctic and the UK: Climate, research and engagement. Imperial College London, The Grantham Institute, 8 pp. (Grantham Institute Discussion Paper 7.) 10.25561/80095

Mayor, Daniel J. , Cook, Kathryn B. , Anderson, Thomas R. , Belcher, Anna , Jenkins, Holly, Lindeque, Pennie, Tarling, Geraint A. , Pond, David. (2020) Marine Copepods, The Wildebeest of the Ocean. Frontiers for Young Minds, 8. 10.3389/frym.2020.00018

Seco, José, Xavier, José C. , Brierley, Andrew S., Bustamante, Paco, Coelho, João P., Gregory, Susan, Fielding, Sophie , Pardal, Miguel A., Pereira, Bárbara, Stowasser, Gabriele , Tarling, Geraint , Pereira, Eduarda. (2020) Mercury levels in Southern Ocean squid: Variability over the last decade. Chemosphere, 239. 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2019.124785

2019

Cavan, E.L., Belcher, A. , Atkinson, A., Hill, S. , Kawaguchi, S., McCormack, S., Meyer, B., Nicol, S., Ratnarajah, L., Schmidt, K., Steinberg, D.K., Tarling, G.A. , Boyd, P.W.. (2019) The importance of Antarctic krill in biogeochemical cycles. Nature Communications, 10. 10.1038/s41467-019-12668-7

Saunders, Ryan A. , Hill, Simeon L. , Tarling, Geraint A. , Murphy, Eugene J. . (2019) Myctophid fish (Family Myctophidae) are central consumers in the food web of the Scotia Sea (Southern Ocean). Frontiers in Marine Science, 6. 10.3389/fmars.2019.00530

Perry, Frances A., Atkinson, Angus, Sailley, Sévrine F., Tarling, Geraint A. , Hill, Simeon L. , Lucas, Cathy H., Mayor, Daniel J. . (2019) Habitat partitioning in Antarctic krill: Spawning hotspots and nursery areas. PLoS ONE, 14. 10.1371/journal.pone.0219325

Ryabov, Alexey B, Tarling, Geraint A. . (2019) Scaling of size, shape and surface roughness in Antarctic krill swarms. ICES Journal of Marine Sciences, 76. 1177-1188. 10.1093/icesjms/fsz005

Freer, Jennifer J. , Tarling, Geraint A. , Collins, Martin A. , Partridge, Julian C., Genner, Martin J. (2019) Predicting future distributions of lanternfish, a significant ecological resource within the Southern Ocean. Diversity and Distributions, 25. 1259-1272. 10.1111/ddi.12934

Havermans, Charlotte, Auel, Holger, Hagen, Wilhelm, Held, Christoph, Ensor, Natalie S., Tarling, Geraint A. . (2019) Predatory zooplankton on the move: Themisto amphipods in high-latitude marine pelagic food webs. In: Advances in Marine Biology, Vol. 82, London, Elsevier, 51-92. (Advances in Marine Biology, ). 10.1016/bs.amb.2019.02.002

Seco, José, Xavier, Jose C. , Coelho, João P., Pereira, Bárbara, Tarling, Geraint , Pardal, Miguel A., Bustamante, Paco, Stowasser, Gabriele , Brierley, Andrew S., Pereira, Maria E.. (2019) Spatial variability in total and organic mercury levels in Antarctic krill Euphausia superba across the Scotia Sea. Environmental Pollution, 247. 332-339. 10.1016/j.envpol.2019.01.031

Liszka, Cecilia , Manno, Clara , Stowasser, Gabriele , Robinson, Carol, Tarling, Geraint . (2019) Mesozooplankton community composition controls faecal pellet flux and remineralisation depth in the Southern Ocean. Frontiers in Marine Science, 6. 10.3389/fmars.2019.00230

Thorpe, Sally E. , Tarling, Geraint A. , Murphy, Eugene J. . (2019) Circumpolar patterns in Antarctic krill larval recruitment: an environmentally-driven model. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 613. 77-96. 10.3354/meps12887

Belcher, Anna , Henson, Stephanie , Manno, Clara , Hill, Simeon , Atkinson, A, Thorpe, Sally , Fretwell, Peter , Ireland, Louise , Tarling, Geraint . (2019) Krill faecal pellets drive hidden pulses of particulate organic carbon in the marginal ice zone. Nature Communications, 10. 10.1038/s41467-019-08847-1

Atkinson, Angus, Hill, Simeon L. , Pakhomov, Evgeny A., Siegel, Volker, Reiss, Christian S., Loeb, Valerie J., Steinberg, Deborah K., Schmidt, Katrin, Tarling, Geraint A. , Gerrish, Laura , Sailley, Sevrine F.. (2019) Krill (Euphausia superba) distribution contracts southward during rapid regional warming. Nature Climate Change, 9. 142-147. 10.1038/s41558-018-0370-z

Belcher, Anna , Saunders, Ryan A. , Tarling, Geraint A. . (2019) Respiration rates and active carbon flux of mesopelagic fishes (Family Myctophidae) in the Scotia Sea, Southern Ocean. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 610. 149-162. 10.3354/meps12861

2018

Xavier, Jose C. , Velez, N., Trathan, Phil N. , Cherel, Y., De Broyer, C., Cánovas, F., Seco, J., Ratcliffe, Norman , Tarling, Geraint A. . (2018) Seasonal prey switching in non-breeding gentoo penguins related to a wintertime environmental anomaly around South Georgia. Polar Biology, 41. 2323-2335. 10.1007/s00300-018-2372-8

Manno, Clara , Giglio, F., Stowasser, Gabriele , Fielding, Sophie , Enderlein, Peter, Tarling, Geraint . (2018) Threatened species drive the strength of the carbonate pump in the northern Scotia Sea. Nature Communications, 9. 7 pp. 10.1038/s41467-018-07088-y

Ward, Peter, Tarling, Geraint A. , Thorpe, Sally E. . (2018) Temporal changes in abundances of large calanoid copepods in the Scotia Sea: comparing the 1930s with contemporary times. Polar Biology, 41. 2297-2310. 10.1007/s00300-018-2369-3

Saunders, Ryan A. , Collins, Martin A, Shreeve, Rachael, Ward, Peter, Stowasser, Gabriele , Hill, Simeon L. , Tarling, Geraint A. . (2018) Seasonal variation in the predatory impact of myctophids on zooplankton in the Scotia Sea (Southern Ocean). Progress in Oceanography, 168. 123-144. 10.1016/j.pocean.2018.09.017

Tarling, Geraint A. , Thorpe, Sally E. , Fielding, Sophie , Klevjer, Thor, Ryabov, Alexey, Somerfield, Paul J. (2018) Varying depth and swarm dimensions of open-ocean Antarctic krill Euphausia superba Dana, 1850 (Euphausiacea) over diel cycles. Journal of Crustacean Biology, 38. 716-727. https://doi.org/10.1093/jcbiol/ruy040

Sheppard, C. (eds.). (2018) The State of the Polar Oceans 2018.

Meredith, Michael , Sundfjord, Arild, Henson, Stephanie, Meijers, Andrew , Murphy, Eugene , Bellerby, Richard, Daase, Malin, Cottier, Finlo, Belchier, Mark, Chierici, Melissa, Ellingsen, Ingrid, Falk-Petersen, Stig, Hill, Simeon , Holland, Paul , Tarling, Geraint , Trathan, Phil , Turner, John , Wilkinson, Jeremy, Batchellier, Layla, Capper, Linda, Oliver, Jamie. Sheppard, C. (eds.). (2018) The state of the polar oceans 2018: making sense of our changing world. Cambridge, British Antarctic Survey, 14 pp.

Belcher, Anna , Manno, Clara , Thorpe, Sally , Tarling, Geraint . (2018) Acantharian cysts: high flux occurrence in the bathypelagic zone of the Scotia Sea, Southern Ocean. Marine Biology, 165. 11 pp. 10.1007/s00227-018-3376-1

Rembauville, Mathieu, Blain, Stéphane, Manno, Clara , Tarling, Geraint , Thompson, Anu, Wolff, George, Salter, Ian. (2018) The role of diatom resting spores in pelagic–benthic coupling in the Southern Ocean. Biogeosciences, 15. 3071-3084. 10.5194/bg-15-3071-2018

Moodley, Leon, Arnberg, Maj, Dunaevskaya, Evgenia, Seear, Paul, Bærheim, Linda, Nilsen, Marianne, Ramanand, Sreerekha S., Øysæd, Kjell Birger, Westerlund, Stig, Jonsson, Grete, Tarling, Geraint A. , Bechmann, Renée K.. (2018) Effects of low crude oil chronic exposure on the northern krill ( Meganyctiphanes norvegica ). Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 500. 120-131. 10.1016/j.jembe.2017.07.003

Saunders, Ryan A. , Tarling, Geraint A. . (2018) Southern Ocean mesopelagic fish comply with Bergmann’s Rule. The American Naturalist, 191. 343-351. 10.1086/695767

Peck, Victoria L. , Oakes, Rosie L., Harper, Elizabeth M., Manno, Clara , Tarling, Geraint A. . (2018) Pteropods counter mechanical damage and dissolution through extensive shell repair. Nature Communications, 9. 7 pp. 10.1038/s41467-017-02692-w

Tarling, Geraint A. , Ward, Peter, Thorpe, Sally E. . (2018) Spatial distributions of Southern Ocean mesozooplankton communities have been resilient to long-term surface warming. Global Change Biology, 24. 132-142. 10.1111/gcb.13834

Freer, Jennifer J., Partridge, Julian C., Tarling, Geraint A. , Collins, Martin A., Genner, Martin J.. (2018) Predicting ecological responses in a changing ocean: the effects of future climate uncertainty. Marine Biology, 165. 18 pp. 10.1007/s00227-017-3239-1

Gardner, Jessie , Manno, Clara , Bakker, Dorothee C.E., Peck, Victoria L. , Tarling, Geraint A. . (2018) Southern Ocean pteropods at risk from ocean warming and acidification. Marine Biology, 165. 12 pp. 10.1007/s00227-017-3261-3

2017

Tarling, Geraint A. , Thorpe, Sally E. . (2017) Oceanic swarms of Antarctic krill perform satiation sinking. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 284. 7 pp. 10.1098/rspb.2017.2015

Belcher, Anna , Tarling, G.A. , Manno, C. , Atkinson, A., Ward, P., Skaret, G., Fielding, S. , Henson, S.A. , Sanders, R. . (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. 2001-2013. doi:10.1007/s00300-017-2118-z

Hunt, Benjamin J., Özkaya, Özge, Davies, Nathaniel J., Gaten, Edward, Seear, Paul, Kyriacou, Charalambos P., Tarling, Geraint , Rosato, Ezio. (2017) The Euphausia superba transcriptome database, SuperbaSE: An online, open resource for researchers. Ecology and Evolution, 7. 6060-6077. 10.1002/ece3.3168

Arnberg, Maj, Moodley, Leon, Dunaevskaya, Evgenia, Ramanand, Sreerekha, Ingvarsdóttir, Anna, Nilsen, Marianne, Ravagnan, Elisa, Westerlund, Stig, Sanni, Steinar, Tarling, Geraint A. , Bechmann, Renée K.. (2017) Effects of chronic crude oil exposure on early developmental stages of the Northern krill (Meganyctiphanes norvegica). Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, Part A, 80. 916-931. 10.1080/15287394.2017.1352204

Murphy, Eugene J. , Thorpe, Sally E. , Tarling, Geraint A. , Watkins, Jonathan L., Fielding, Sophie , Underwood, Philip. (2017) Restricted regions of enhanced growth of Antarctic krill in the circumpolar Southern Ocean. Scientific Reports, 7. 10.1038/s41598-017-07205-9

Manno, Clara , Bednaršek, Nina, Tarling, Geraint A. , Peck, Vicky L. , Comeau, Steeve, Adhikari, Deepak, Bakker, Dorothee C.E., Bauerfeind, Eduard, Bergan, Alexander J., Berning, Maria I., Buitenhuis, Erik, Burridge, Alice K., Chierici, Melissa, Flöter, Sebastian, Fransson, Agneta, Gardner, Jessie , Howes, Ella L., Keul, Nina, Kimoto, Katsunori, Kohnert, Peter, Lawson, Gareth L., Lischka, Silke, Maas, Amy, Mekkes, Lisette, Oakes, Rosie L., Pebody, Corinne, Peijnenburg, Katja T.C.A., Seifert, Miriam, Skinner, Jennifer, Thibodeau, Patricia S., Wall-Palmer, Deborah, Ziveri, Patrizia. (2017) Shelled pteropods in peril: Assessing vulnerability in a high CO2 ocean. Earth-Science Reviews, 169. 132-145. 10.1016/j.earscirev.2017.04.005

Barnes, David K.A. , Tarling, Geraint A. . (2017) Polar oceans in a changing climate. Current Biology, 27. R454-R460. 10.1016/j.cub.2017.01.045

Saunders, Ryan A. , Collins, Martin A. , Stowasser, Gabriele , Tarling, Geraint A. . (2017) Southern Ocean mesopelagic fish communities in the Scotia Sea are sustained by mass immigration. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 569. 173-185. doi:10.3354/meps12093

Xavier, Jose C. , Trathan, Philip N. , Ceia, Filipe R., Tarling, Geraint A. , Adlard, Stacey, Fox, Derren, Edwards, Ewan W.J., Vieira, Rui P., Medeiros, Renata, De Broyer, Claude, Cherel, Yves. (2017) Sexual and individual foraging segregation in Gentoo penguins Pygoscelis papua from the Southern Ocean during an abnormal winter. PLOS ONE, 12. 25 pp. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0174850

Belcher, Anna , Manno, Clara , Ward, Pete, Henson, Stephanie , Sanders, Richard , Tarling, Geraint . (2017) Copepod faecal pellet transfer through the meso- and bathypelagic layers in the Southern Ocean in spring. Biogeosciences, 14. 1511-1525. 10.5194/bg-14-1511-2017

Atkinson, Angus, Hill, Simeon L. , Pakhomov, Evgeny A., Siegel, Volker, Anadon, Ricardo, Chiba, Sanae, Daly, Kendra L., Downie, Rod, Fielding, Sophie , Fretwell, Peter , Gerrish, Laura , Hosie, Graham W., Jessopp, Mark J., Kawaguchi, So, Krafft, Bjørn A., Loeb, Valerie, Nishikawa, Jun, Peat, Helen J. , Reiss, Christian S., Ross, Robin M., Quetin, Langdon B., Schmidt, Katrin, Steinberg, Deborah K., Subramaniam, Roshni C., Tarling, Geraint A. , Ward, Peter. (2017) KRILLBASE: a circumpolar database of Antarctic krill and salp numerical densities, 1926–2016. Earth System Science Data, 9. 193-210. doi:10.5194/essd-9-193-2017

Johnson, Magnus L., Tarling, Geraint A. . (2017) Collecting and processing euphausiids. Journal of Crustacean Biology, 37. 228-231. 10.1093/jcbiol/rux002

Le Moigne, Frederic A.C., Poulton, Alex J., Henson, Stephanie A. , Daniels, Chris J., Fragoso, Glaucia M., Mitchell, Elaine, Richier, Sophie, Russell, Benjamin C., Smith, Helen E.K., Tarling, Geraint A. , Young, Jeremy R., Zubkov, Mike. (2017) Carbon export efficiency and phytoplankton community composition in the Atlantic sector of the Arctic Ocean. In: Climate change and the oceanic carbon cycle: variables and consequences, Oakville, Ontario, Apple Academic Press Inc, 149-190.

2016

Rembauville, M., Manno, C. , Tarling, G.A. , Blain, S., Salter, I.. (2016) Strong contribution of diatom resting spores to deep-sea carbon transfer in naturally iron-fertilized waters downstream of South Georgia. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, 115. 22-35. doi:10.1016/j.dsr.2016.05.002

Sanders, R. , Henson, S.A. , Martin, A.P. , Anderson, T.R. , Bernardello, R., Enderlein, P., Fielding, S. , Giering, S. , Hartmann, M., Iversen, M., Khatiwala, S., Lam, P., Mayor, D.J. , Moore, C.M., Murphy, E. , Painter, S.C., Poulton, A.J., Saw, K., Stowasser, G. , Tarling, G.A. , Torres-valdes, S., Trimmer, M., Wolff, G.A., Yool, A. . (2016) Controls over Ocean Mesopelagic Interior Carbon Storage (COMICS): fieldwork, synthesis and modelling efforts. Frontiers in Marine Science, 3. 7 pp. doi:10.3389/fmars.2016.00136

Manno, Clara , Peck, Victoria L. , Tarling, Geraint A. . (2016) Pteropod eggs released at high pCO2 lack resilience to ocean acidification. Scientific Reports, 6. 10 pp. doi:10.1038/srep25752

Tarling, G.A. , Peck, V. , Ward, P., Ensor, N.S., Achterberg, E., Tynan, E., Poulton, A.J., Mitchell, E., Zubkov, M.V.. (2016) Effects of acute ocean acidification on spatially-diverse polar pelagic foodwebs: insights from on-deck microcosms. Deep Sea Research II, 127. 75-92. doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2016.02.008

Peck, Victoria L. , Tarling, Geraint A. , Manno, Clara , Harper, Elizabeth M., Tynan, Eithne. (2016) Outer organic layer and internal repair mechanism protects pteropod Limacina helicina from ocean acidification. Deep Sea Research II, 127. 41-52. 10.1016/j.dsr2.2015.12.005

Belcher, Anna , Iversen, Morten, Manno, Clara , Henson, Stephanie A. , Tarling, Geraint A. , Sanders, Richard . (2016) The role of particle associated microbes in remineralisation of faecal pellets in the upper mesopelagic of the Scotia Sea, Antarctica. Limnology and Oceanography, 61. 1049-1064. doi:10.1002/lno.10269

Tyrrell, Toby, Tarling, Geraint A. , Leakey, Raymond J.G., Cripps, Gemma, Thorpe, Sally , Richier, Sophie, Moore, C. Mark. (2016) Preface to special issue (Impacts of surface ocean acidification in polar seas and globally: a field-based approach). Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 127. 1-6. doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2016.02.009

Peck, Victoria L. , Tarling, Geraint A. , Manno, Clara , Harper, Elizabeth M.. (2016) Response to comment “Vulnerability of pteropod (Limacina helicina) to ocean acidification: Shell dissolution occurs despite an intact organic layer” by Bednarsek et al.. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 127. 57-59. doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2016.03.007

Tarling, G.A. , Hill, S. , Peat, H. , Fielding, S. , Reiss, C., Atkinson, A.. (2016) Growth and shrinkage in Antarctic krill Euphausia superba is sex-dependent. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 547. 61-78. 10.3354/meps11634

Tarling, Geraint A. , Fielding, Sophie . (2016) Swarming and behaviour in Antarctic krill. In: Biology and ecology of Antarctic krill, Switzerland, Springer International Publishing, 279-320. (Advances in Polar Ecology, ). 10.1007/978-3-319-29279-3_8

2015

Saunders, Ryan A. , Collins, Martin A., Ward, Peter, Stowasser, Gabriele , Hill, Simeon L. , Shreeve, Rachael, Tarling, Geraint A. . (2015) Predatory impact of the myctophid fish community on zooplankton in the Scotia Sea (Southern Ocean). Marine Ecology Progress Series, 541. 45-64. 10.3354/meps11527

Tarling, Geraint A. . (2015) Marine ecology: a wonderland of marine activity in the Arctic night. Current Biology, 25. R1088-R1091. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2015.09.067

Saunders, R. A. , Collins, M. A., Ward, P., Stowasser, G. , Shreeve, R., Tarling, G. A. . (2015) Trophodynamics of Protomyctophum (Myctophidae) in the Scotia Sea (Southern Ocean). Journal of Fish Biology, 87. 1031-1058. doi:10.1111/jfb.12776

Le Moigne, Frederic A.C., Poulton, Alex J., Henson, Stephanie A. , Daniels, Chris J., Fragoso, Glaucia M., Mitchell, Elaine, Richier, Sophie, Smith, Helen E.K., Russell, Benjamin C., Tarling, Geraint A. , Young, Jeremy R., Zubkov, Mike. (2015) Carbon export efficiency and phytoplankton community composition in the Atlantic sector of the Arctic Ocean. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 120. 3896-3912. 10.1002/2015JC010700

Manno, Clara , Stowasser, Gabriele , Enderlein, Peter, Fielding, Sophie , Tarling, Geraint A. . (2015) The contribution of zooplankton faecal pellets to deep carbon transport in the Scotia Sea (Southern Ocean). Biogeosciences, 12. 1955-1965. 10.5194/bg-12-1955-2015

Saunders, Ryan A. , Collins, Martin A., Ward, Peter, Stowasser, Gabriele , Shreeve, Rachael, Tarling, Geraint A. . (2015) Distribution, population structure and trophodynamics of Southern Ocean Gymnoscopelus (Myctophidae) in the Scotia Sea. Polar Biology, 38. 287-308. doi:10.1007/s00300-014-1584-9

Cavan, E.L., Le Moigne, F.A.C., Poulton, A.J., Tarling, G.A. , Ward, P., Daniels, C.J., Fragoso, G., Sanders, R.J. . (2015) Attenuation of particulate organic carbon flux in the Scotia Sea, Southern Ocean, is controlled by zooplankton fecal pellets. Geophysical Research Letters, 42. 821-830. doi:10.1002/2014GL062744

2014

Fielding, Sophie , Watkins, Jonathan L., Trathan, Philip N. , Enderlein, Peter, Waluda, Claire M. , Stowasser, Gabriele , Tarling, Geraint A. , Murphy, Eugene J. . (2014) Inter-annual variability in Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) density at South Georgia, Southern Ocean: 1997 – 2013. ICES Journal of Marine Sciences, 71. 2578-2588. 10.1093/icesjms/fsu104

Bednarsek, Nina, Tarling, Geraint A. , Bakker, Dorothee C. E., Fielding, Sophie , Feely, Richard A.. (2014) Dissolution dominating calcification process in polar pteropods close to the point of aragonite undersaturation. PLoS ONE, 9. 14 pp. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0109183

Pond, David W., Tarling, Geraint A. , Mayor, Daniel J . (2014) Hydrostatic Pressure and Temperature Effects on the Membranes of a Seasonally Migrating Marine Copepod. PLoS ONE, 9. 9 pp. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0111043

Saunders, Ryan A. , Collins, Martin A., Foster, Emma, Shreeve, Rachel, Stowasser, Gabriele , Ward, Peter, Tarling, Geraint A. . (2014) The trophodynamics of Southern Ocean Electrona (Myctophidae) in the Scotia Sea. Polar Biology, 37. 789-807. doi:10.1007/s00300-014-1480-3

Tarling, Geraint A. , Thorpe, Sally E. . (2014) Instantaneous movement of krill swarms in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current. Limnology and Oceanography, 59. 872-886. doi:10.4319/lo.2014.59.3.0872

Tarling, Geraint A. , Cottier, Finlo R., Everson, Inigo. (2014) Spatial patterns in the vertical structure of euphausiids in Gullmarsfjord, Sweden: Identifying influences on bilayer formation and distribution. Marine Biology Research, 10. 537-553. doi:10.1080/17451000.2013.831180

Ward, Peter, Tarling, Geraint A. , Thorpe, Sally E. . (2014) Mesozooplankton in the Southern Ocean: spatial and temporal patterns from Discovery Investigations. Progress in Oceanography, 120. 305-319. doi:10.1016/j.pocean.2013.10.011

2013

Saunders, Ryan A. , Fielding, Sophie , Thorpe, Sally E. , Tarling, Geraint A. . (2013) School characteristics of mesopelagic fish at South Georgia. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, 81. 62-77. doi:10.1016/j.dsr.2013.07.007

Saunders, R.A. , Rasmussen, J., Tarling, G.A. , Brierley, A.S.. (2013) Distribution, population dynamics and growth rates of Thysanopoda acutifrons, Thysanoessa inermis and Nematobrachion boöpis in the Irminger Sea, North Atlantic. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 93. 1287-1301. doi:10.1017/S0025315412001385

Wallace, M.I., Cottier, F.R., Brierley, A.S., Tarling, G.A. . (2013) Modelling the influence of copepod behaviour on faecal pellet export at high latitudes. Polar Biology, 36. 579-592. doi:10.1007/s00300-013-1287-7

Pond, D.W., Tarling, G.A. . (2013) Solid evidence or fluid ideas on the importance lipid phase transitions to diapausing copepods: reply. Journal of Plankton Research, 35. 441-443. doi:10.1093/plankt/fbt010

Decelle, Johan, Martin, Patrick, Pabortsava, Katsiaryna, Pond, David W., Tarling, Geraint , Mahé, Frédéric, de Vargas, Colomban, Lampitt, Richard, Not, Fabrice. (2013) Diversity, ecology and biogeochemistry of cyst-forming Acantharia (Radiolaria) in the oceans. PLoS One, 8. 13 pp. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0053598

Tancell, Claire, Phillips, Richard A., Xavier, Jose C. , Tarling, Geraint A , Sutherland, William J.. (2013) Comparison of methods for determining key marine areas from tracking data. Marine Biology, 160. 15-26. doi:10.1007/s00227-012-2050-2

Murphy, E.J. , Hofmann, E.E., Watkins, J.L., Johnston, N.M., Piñones, A., Ballerini, T., Hill, S.L. , Trathan, P.N. , Tarling, G.A. , Cavanagh, R.A. , Young, E.F. , Thorpe, S.E. , Fretwell, P. . (2013) Comparison of the structure and function of Southern Ocean regional ecosystems: The Antarctic Peninsula and South Georgia. Journal of Marine Systems, 109-110. 22-42. doi:10.1016/j.jmarsys.2012.03.011

2012

Pond, David W., Tarling, Geraint A. , Schmidt, Katrin, Everson, Inigo. (2012) Diet and growth rates of Meganyctiphanes norvegica in autumn. Marine Biology Research, 8. 615-623. 10.1080/17451000.2011.653366

Pond, David, Tarling, Geraint , Ward, Peter, Mayor, Daniel J. . (2012) Wax ester composition influences the diapause patterns in the copepod Calanoides acutus. Deep Sea Research II, 59-60. 93-104. 10.1016/j.dsr2.2011.05.009

Ward, Peter, Atkinson, Angus, Venables, Hugh, Tarling, Geraint , Whitehouse, Michael, Fielding, Sophie , Collins, Martin Anthony , Korb, Rebecca, Black, Andrew, Stowasser, Gabriele , Schmidt, Katrin, Thorpe, Sally , Enderlein, Peter. (2012) Food web structure and bioregions in the Scotia Sea: A seasonal synthesis. Deep Sea Research II, 59-60. 253-266. 10.1016/j.dsr2.2011.08.005

Tarling, Geraint , Ward, Peter, Atkinson, Angus, Collins, Martin Anthony , Murphy, Eugene . (2012) DISCOVERY 2010: Spatial and temporal variability in a dynamic polar ecosystem. Deep Sea Research II, 59-60. 1-13. 10.1016/j.dsr2.2011.10.001

Tarling, Geraint , Stowasser, Gabriele , Ward, Peter, Poulton, Alex J., Zhou, M., Venables, Hugh, McGill, R.A.R., Murphy, Eugene . (2012) Seasonal trophic structure of the Scotia Sea pelagic ecosystem considered through biomass spectra and stable isotope analysis. Deep Sea Research II, 59-60. 222-236. 10.1016/j.dsr2.2011.07.002

Flores, H., Atkinson, A., Kawaguchi, S., Krafft, B.A., Milinevsky, G., Nicol, S., Reiss, C., Tarling, G.A. , Werner, R., Bravo Rebolledo, E., Cirelli, V., Cuzin-Roudy, J., Fielding, S. , Groeneveld, J.J., Haraldsson, M., Lombana, A., Marschoff, E., Meyer, B., Pakhomov, E.A., Rombolá, E., Schmidt, K., Siegel, V., Teschke, M., Tonkes, H., Toullec, J.Y., Trathan, P.N. , Tremblay, N., Van de Putte, A., van Franeker, J.A., Werner, T.. (2012) Impact of climate change on Antarctic krill. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 458. 1-19. 10.3354/meps09831

Bednarŝek, Nina, Tarling, Geraint , Fielding, Sophie , Bakker, D.C.E. (2012) Population dynamics and biogeochemical significance of Limacina helicina antarctica in the Scotia Sea (Southern Ocean). Deep Sea Research II, 59-60. 105-116. 10.1016/j.dsr2.2011.08.003

Bednarsek, Nina, Tarling, Geraint A. , Bakker, Dorothee CE, Fielding, Sophie , Cohen, Anne, Kuzirian, Alan, McCorkle, Dan, Lézé, Bertrand, Montagna, Roberto. (2012) Description and quantification of pteropod shell dissolution: a sensitive bioindicator of ocean acidification. Global Change Biology, 18. 2378-2388. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2486.2012.02668.x

Atkinson, A., Nicol, S., Kawaguchi, S., Pakhomov, E., Quetin, L., Ross, R., Hill, S. , Reiss, C., Siegel, V., Tarling, G. . (2012) Fitting Euphausia superba into Southern Ocean food-web models: a review of data sources and their limitations. CCAMLR Science, 19. 219-245.

Seear, Paul J., Goodall-Copestake, William P. , Fleming, Andrew H. , Rosato, Ezio, Tarling, Geraint A. . (2012) Seasonal and spatial influences on gene expression in Antarctic krill Euphausia superba. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 467. 61-75. doi:10.3354/meps09947

Goodall-Copestake, W.P. , Tarling, G.A. , Murphy, E.J. . (2012) On the comparison of population-level estimates of haplotype and nucleotide diversity: a case study using the gene cox1 in animals. Heredity, 109. 50-56. 10.1038/hdy.2012.12

Ward, Peter, Atkinson, Angus, Tarling, Geraint . (2012) Mesozooplankton community structure and variability in the Scotia Sea: A seasonal comparison. Deep Sea Research II, 59-60. 78-92. 10.1016/j.dsr2.2011.07.004

Bednarsek, N., Tarling, G. A. , Bakker, D. C. E., Fielding, S. , Jones, E. M., Venables, H. J., Ward, P., Kuzirian, A., Lézé, B., Feely, R. A., Murphy, E.J. . (2012) Extensive dissolution of live pteropods in the Southern Ocean. Nature Geoscience, 5. 881-885. doi:10.1038/NGEO1635

Murphy, E. J. , Watkins, J.L., Trathan, P.N. , Reid, K., Meredith, M.P. , Hill, S.L. , Thorpe, S.E. , Johnston, N.M., Clarke, A. , Tarling, G.A. , Collins, M.A. , Forcada, J. , Atkinson, A., Ward, P., Staniland, I.J. , Pond, D.W., Cavanagh, R.A. , Shreeve, R.S., Korb, R.E., Whitehouse, M.J., Rodhouse, P.G., Enderlein, P., Hirst, A.G., Martin, A.R., Briggs, D.R., Cunningham, N.J., Fleming, A.H. . (2012) Spatial and Temporal Operation of the Scotia Sea Ecosystem. In: Antarctic Ecosystems: An Extreme Environment in a Changing World, Blackwell Publishing, 160-212. 10.1002/9781444347241.ch6

Watts, Jamie, Tarling, Geraint . (2012) Population dynamics and production of Themisto gaudichaudii (Amphipoda, Hyperiidae) at South Georgia, Antarctica. Deep Sea Research II, 59-60. 117-129. 10.1016/j.dsr2.2011.05.001

Ward, Peter, Tarling, Geraint A. , Coombs, Stephen H., Enderlein, Peter. (2012) Comparing Bongo net and N70 mesozooplankton catches: using a reconstruction of an original net to quantify historical plankton catch data. Polar Biology, 35. 1179-1186. 10.1007/s00300-012-1163-x

Bednaršek, N., Možina, J., Vogt, M., O'Brien, C., Tarling, G.A. . (2012) The global distribution of pteropods and their contribution to carbonate and carbon biomass in the modern ocean. Earth System Science Data, 4. 167-186. doi:10.5194/essd-4-167-2012

2011

Schmidt, Katrin, Atkinson, Angus, Steigenberger, Sebastian, Fielding, Sophie , Lindsay, Margaret C.M., Pond, David W., Tarling, Geraint A. , Klevjer, Thor A., Allen, Claire S. , Nicol, Stephen, Achterberg, Eric P.. (2011) Seabed foraging by Antarctic krill: Implications for stock assessment, bentho-pelagic coupling, and the vertical transfer of iron. Limnology and Oceanography, 56. 1411-1428. 10.4319/lo.2011.56.4.1411

Pond, David W., Tarling, Geraint A. . (2011) Phase transitions of wax esters adjust buoyancy in diapausing Calanoides acutus. Limnology and Oceanography, 56. 1310-1318. 10.4319/lo.2011.56.4.1310

2010

Seear, Paul J., Tarling, Geraint A. , Burns, Gavin, Goodall-Copestake, Will P. , Gaten, Edward, Ozkaya, Ozge, Rosato, Ezio. (2010) Differential gene expression during the moult cycle of Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba). BMC Genomics, 11. 13 pp. 10.1186/1471-2164-11-582

Schmidt, Katrin. (2010) Food and feeding in northern krill (Meganyctiphanes norvegica sars). In: The biology of northern krill, Academic Press, 127-171. (Advances in Marine Biology, 57). 10.1016/S0065-2881(10)57005-6

Atkinson, Angus, Tarling, Geraint , Pond, David, Stowasser, Gabriele , Schmidt, Katrin, Fielding, Sophie , Murphy, Eugene , Cavanagh, Rachel . (2010) Discovery 2010: understanding the Scotia Sea food web. GLOBEC International Newsletter, April. 63-66.

Klevjer, T.A., Tarling, G.A. , Fielding, S. . (2010) Swarm characteristics of Antarctic krill Euphausia superba relative to the proximity of land during summer in the Scotia Sea. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 409. 157-170. 10.3354/meps08602

Tarling, Geraint A. (eds.). (2010) The biology of Northern krill. London, Academic Press, 314 pp. (Advances in Marine Biology, 57).

Tarling, Geraint A. , Ensor, Natalie S., Fregin, Torsten, Goodall-Copestake, Will P. , Fretwell, Peter . (2010) An introduction to the biology of Northern krill (Meganyctiphanes norvegica Sars). In: The biology of Northern krill, London, Academic Press, 1-40. (Advances in Marine Biology, ).

Tarling, Geraint A. . (2010) Population dynamics of Northern krill (Meganyctiphanes norvegica Sars). In: The biology of Northern krill, London, Academic Press, 59-90. (Advances in Marine Biology, ).

Goodall-Copestake, WP , Perez-Espona, S, Clark, MS , Murphy, EJ , Seear, PJ, Tarling, GA . (2010) Swarms of diversity at the gene cox1 in Antarctic krill. Heredity, 104. 513-518. 10.1038/hdy.2009.188

Wallace, Margaret I., Cottier, Finlo R., Berge, Jorgen, Tarling, Geraint A. , Griffiths, Colin, Brierley, Andrew S.. (2010) Comparison of zooplankton vertical migration in an ice-free and a seasonally ice-covered Arctic fjord: An insight into the influence of sea ice cover on zooplankton behaviour. Limnology and Oceanography, 55. 831-845. 10.4319/lo.2009.55.2.0831

2009

Cresswell, Katherine A., Tarling, Geraint A. , Thorpe, Sally E. , Burrows, Michael T., Wiedenmann, John, Mangel, Marc. (2009) Diel vertical migration of Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) is flexible during advection across the Scotia Sea. Journal of Plankton Research, 31. 1265-1281. 10.1093/plankt/fbp062

Varpe, Øystein, Jørgensen, Christian, Tarling, Geraint A. , Fiksen, Øyvind. (2009) The adaptive value of energy storage and capital breeding in seasonal environments. Oikos, 118. 363-370. 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2008.17036.x

Tarling, G.A. , Atkinson, A.. (2009) Antarctic krill an intriguing tale of ice and industry. Ocean Challenge, 16. 20-27.

Tarling, Geraint A. , Klevjer, Thor, Fielding, Sophie , Watkins, Jon, Atkinson, Angus, Murphy, Eugene , Korb, Rebecca, Whitehouse, Mick, Leaper, Russell. (2009) Variability and predictability of Antarctic krill swarm structure. Deep-Sea Research Part I, 56. 1994-2012. 10.1016/j.dsr.2009.07.004

Shreeve, Rachael S., Collins, Martin Anthony , Tarling, Geraint A. , Main, Charlotte, Ward, Peter, Johnston, Nadine. (2009) Feeding ecology of myctophid fishes in the northern Scotia Sea. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 386. 221-236. 10.3354/meps08064

Seear, Paul, Tarling, Geraint A. , Teschke, Mathias, Meyer, Bettina, Thorne, Michael A.S. , Clark, Melody S. , Gaten, Edward, Rosato, Ezio. (2009) Effects of simulated light regimes on gene expression in Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba Dana). Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 381. 57-64. 10.1016/j.jembe.2009.09.010

Tarling, Geraint Andrew , Cuzin-Roudy, J., Wootton, K., Johnson, M.L.. (2009) Egg-release behaviour in Antarctic krill. Polar Biology, 32. 1187-1194. 10.1007/s00300-009-0617-2

2008

Collins, Martin A. , Xavier, Jose C. , Johnston, Nadine M., North, Anthony W., Enderlein, Peter, Tarling, Geraint A. , Waluda, Claire M. , Hawker, Elizabeth J., Cunningham, Nathan J.. (2008) Patterns in the distribution of myctophid fish in the northern Scotia Sea ecosystem. Polar Biology, 31. 837-851. 10.1007/s00300-008-0423-2

Gaten, Edward, Tarling, Geraint , Dowse, Harold, Kyriacou, Charalambos, Rosato, Ezio. (2008) Is vertical migration in Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) influenced by an underlying circadian rhythm?. Journal of Genetics, 87. 473-483. 10.1007/s12041-008-0070-y

Tarling, Geraint A. , Cuzin-Roudy, J.. (2008) External parasite infestation depends on moult-frequency and age in Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba). Polar Biology, 31. 121-130. 10.1007/s00300-007-0339-2

Atkinson, A., Siegel, V., Pakhomov, E. A., Rothery, P., Loeb, V., Ross, R. M., Quetin, L. B., Schmidt, K., Fretwell, P. , Murphy, E. J. , Tarling, G. A. , Fleming, A. H. . (2008) Oceanic circumpolar habitats of Antarctic krill. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 362. 1-23. doi:10.3354/meps07498

Johnson, Magnus L., Tarling, Geraint A. . (2008) Influence of individual state on swimming capacity and behaviour of Antarctic krill Euphausia superba. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 366. 99-110. 10.3354/meps07533

2007

Cresswell, Katherine A., Tarling, Geraint A. , Burrows, Michael T.. (2007) Behaviour affects local-scale distributions of Antarctic krill around South Georgia. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 343. 193-206. 10.3354/meps06908

Cresswell, Katherine A., Tarling, Geraint A. , Trathan, Phil N. . (2007) Weight loss during breeding is adaptive for female macaroni penguins, Eudyptes chrysolophus. Evolutionary Ecology Research, 9. 1053-1076.

Everson, Inigo, Tarling, Geraint A. , Bergstrom, Bo. (2007) Improving acoustic estimates of krill: experience from repeat sampling of northern krill (Meganyctiphanes norvegica) in Gullmarsfjord, Sweden. ICES Journal of Marine Sciences, 64. 39-48. doi:10.1093/icesjms/fsl010

Chereskin, T.K., Tarling, Geraint A. . (2007) Interannual to diurnal variability in the near-surface scattering layer in Drake Passage. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 64. 1617-1626. 10.1093/icesjms/fsm138

Varpe, Øystein, Jørgensen, Christian, Tarling, Geraint A. , Fiksen, Øyvind. (2007) Early is better: seasonal egg fitness and timing of reproduction in a zooplankton life-history model. Oikos, 116. 1331-1342. 10.1111/j.2007.0030-1299.15893.x

Tarling, G.A. , Shreeve, R.S., Ward, P.. (2007) Life-cycle and population dynamics of Rhincalanus gigas (Copepoda: Calanoida) in the Scotia Sea. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 338. 145-158. 10.3354/meps338145

Tarling, G.A. , Cuzin-Roudy, J., Thorpe, S.E. , Shreeve, R.S., Ward, P., Murphy, E.J. . (2007) Recruitment of Antarctic krill Euphausia superba in the South Georgia region: adult fecundity and the fate of larvae. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 331. 161-179. doi:10.3354/meps331161

Tarling, G.A. . (2007) Productivity and biomass. In: Encyclopedia of the Antarctic, New York, Routledge, 768-769.

Tarling, G.A. . (2007) Pelagic communities of the Southern Ocean. In: Encyclopedia of the Antarctic, New York, Routledge, 717-719.

Murphy, E.J. , Watkins, J.L., Trathan, P.N. , Reid, K., Meredith, M.P. , Thorpe, S.E. , Johnston, N.M., Clarke, A. , Tarling, G.A. , Collins, M.A. , Forcada, J. , Shreeve, R.S., Atkinson, A., Korb, R., Whitehouse, M.J., Ward, P., Rodhouse, P.G., Enderlein, P., Hirst, A.G., Martin, A.R., Hill, S.L. , Staniland, I.J. , Pond, D.W., Briggs, D.R., Cunningham, N.J., Fleming, A.H. . (2007) Spatial and temporal operation of the Scotia Sea ecosystem: a review of large-scale links in a krill centred food web. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (B), 362. 113-148. doi:10.1098/rstb.2006.1957

2006

Atkinson, Angus, Shreeve, Rachael S., Hirst, Andrew G., Rothery, Peter, Tarling, Geraint A. , Pond, David W., Korb, Rebecca E., Murphy, Eugene J. , Watkins, Jonathon L.. (2006) Natural growth rates in Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba): II. Predictive models based on food, temperature, body length, sex, and maturity stage. Limnology and Oceanography, 51. 973-987. 10.4319/lo.2006.51.2.0973

Ward, Peter, Shreeve, Rachael, Tarling, Geraint A. . (2006) The autumn mesozooplankton community at South Georgia: biomass, population structure and vertical distribution. Polar Biology, 29. 950-962. doi:10.1007/s00300-006-0136-3

Buchholz, Cornelia M., Buchholz, Friedrich, Tarling, Geraint A. . (2006) On the timing of moulting processes in reproductively active Northern krill Meganyctiphanes norvegica. Marine Biology, 149. 1443-1452. doi:10.1007/s00227-006-0317-1

Cottier, Finlo R., Tarling, Geraint A. , Wold, Anette, Falk-Petersen, Stig. (2006) Unsynchronized and synchronized vertical migration of zooplankton in a high arctic fjord. Limnology and Oceanography, 51. 2586-2599.

Tarling, Geraint A. , Shreeve, Rachael S., Hirst, Andrew G., Atkinson, Angus, Pond, Dave W., Murphy, Eugene J. , Watkins, Jon L.. (2006) Natural growth rates in Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba): I. Improving methodology and predicting intermolt period. Limnology and Oceanography, 51. 959-972.

Tarling, Geraint A. , Johnson, Magnus L.. (2006) Satiation gives krill that sinking feeling. Current Biology, 16. R83-R84. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2006.01.044

2005

Sims, David W., Southall, Emily J., Tarling, Geraint A. , Metcalfe, Julian D.. (2005) Habitat-specific normal and reverse diel vertical migration in the plankton-feeding basking shark. Journal of Animal Ecology, 74. 755-761. 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2005.00971.x

Shreeve, Rachael S., Tarling, Geraint A. , Atkinson, Angus, Ward, Peter, Goss, Cathy, Watkins, Jonathon. (2005) Relative production of Calanoides acutus (Copepoda: Calanoida) and Euphausia superba (Antarctic krill) at South Georgia, and its implications at wider scales. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 298. 229-239. 10.3354/meps298229

Pond, D.W., Atkinson, A., Shreeve, R.S., Tarling, G.A. , Ward, P.. (2005) Diatom fatty acid biomarkers indicate growth rates in Antarctic krill. Limnology and Oceanography, 50. 732-736.

Emsley, S.M., Tarling, G.A. , Burrows, M.T.. (2005) The effect of vertical migration strategy on retention and dispersion in the Irish Sea during spring–summer. Fisheries Oceanography, 14. 161-174. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2419.2005.00327.x

2004

Tarling, G.A. , Shreeve, R.S., Ward, P., Atkinson, A., Hirst, A.G.. (2004) Life-cycle phenotypic composition and mortality of Calanoides acutus (Copepoda: Calanoida) in the Scotia Sea: a modelling approach. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 272. 165-181.

Schmidt, K., Tarling, G.A. , Plathner, N., Atkinson, A.. (2004) Moult cycle-related changes in feeding rates of larval krill Meganyctiphanes norvegica and Thysanoessa spp. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 281. 131-143.

Burrows, Michael T., Tarling, Geraint . (2004) Effects of density dependence on diel vertical migration of populations of northern krill: a genetic algorithm model. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 277. 209-220. 10.3354/meps277209

Cuzin-Roudy, J., Tarling, G.A. , Strömberg, J.-O.. (2004) Life cycle strategies of Northern krill (Meganyctiphanes norvegica) for regulating growth, moult, and reproductive activity in various environments: the case of fjordic populations. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 61. 721-737. 10.1016/j.icesjms.2004.03.008

2003

Tarling, Geraint A. , Cuzin-Roudy, Janine. (2003) Synchronization in the molting and spawning activity of northern krill (Meganyctiphanes norvegica) and its effect on recruitment. Limnology and Oceanography, 48. 2020-2033.

Tarling, Geraint A. . (2003) Sex-dependent diel vertical migration in northern krill Meganyctiphanes norvegica and its consequences for population dynamics. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 260. 173-188. 10.3354/meps260173

Tarling, G.A. , Jarvis, T., Matthews, J.B.L.. (2003) Calanus finmarchicus descends in response to the arrival of krill – better unfed than dead. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 252. 307-310.

1997

Cripp, G.C., Tarling, G.A. . (1997) Rapid procedure for the isolation and analysis of fatty acid and fatty alcohol fractions from wax esters of marine zooplankton. Journal of Chromatography A, 760. 309-313. doi:10.1016/S0021-9673(96)00780-7

1995

Tarling, G.A. , Ward, P., Sheader, M., Williams, J.A., Symon, C.. (1995) Distribution patterns of macrozooplankton assemblages in the southwest Atlantic. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 120. 29-40. doi:10.3354/meps120029

National and International Media

2022 “”Megaberg dumped huge volume of fresh water” BBC News Online (20^th Jan) and Dubai Eye TalkRadio (31^st Jan)
2021 “Secrets of the icebreaker ‘Noosphere’ ”. BBC Ukraine Online (21^st Nov)
2020 “Giant iceberg headed for South Georgia” BBC News Online and live BBC Radio 4 interviews on ‘Today’ (4^th Nov), ‘World at One’ (15^th Dec), ‘PM’ (22^nd Dec) and BBC World Service (26^th Dec), videocast on Voice of America (5^th Nov), live TV interview on Al Jazeera (15^th Dec), live interviews on BBC Radio Wales, BBC Radio Berkshire (4^th-6^th Nov). Also articles containing quotes in many UK tabloids and broadsheets (Daily Mail, The Times, The Guardian), Reuters News Agency, Wall Street Journal, National Geographic and New Scientist
2020 NETFLIX Ocean Series – Scientific advisor
2018 CNN – Interview on krill vertical migration, contribution of krill to C pump and threats from krill fishery
2017 The Observer newspaper (5 March) ‘Arctic sea-ice decline and wildlife’ quoted on opinion on impact to lower trophic levels
2015 BBC Radio 4 Costing the Earth (23 Sept) “Oceans of acid” Interview with myself and my research group

Other Impacts

July 2018 The State of the Polar Ocean 2018 – Contributed to the writing of the FCO commissioned article, detailing oceanographic change to policy makers
Nov 2016 G7 Future Oceans Initiative – Provided advice on international coordination of marine plankton monitoring
Dec 2016 International Atomic Energy Agency Ocean Acidification ICC – Provision of key datasets on Arctic and Southern Ocean zooplankton responses to OA
Jan 2017 House of Commons Select Committee on Science and Technology Inquiry on Ocean Acidification – Contributor to written evidence
May 2017 A network of Marine Protected Areas in the Southern Ocean The Pew Charitable Trusts – cited my work on krill satiation sinking as major evidence for krill protection measures

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