SOLACE 

SOLACE aims to improve water column measurement of the downward export flux of carbon of the biological pump in the Southern Ocean using an integrated suite of new technological advances – from particle decomposition to mesopelagic vertical migrations.

Publications:

Pumps

• Thompson, A.F., Dove, L.A., Flint, E., Lacour, L., Boyd, P. (2025) Interactions Between Multiple Physical Particle Injection Pumps in the Southern Ocean.  Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 2024, 38(12), e2024GB008122
• Baker K, Halfter S, Scoulding B, Swadling KM, Richards SA, Bressac M, Sutton CA and Boyd PW (2025) Carbon injection potential of the mesopelagic-migrant pump in the Southern Ocean during summer. Front. Mar. Sci. 12:1461723. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2025.1461723
• Petiteau, L., Boyd, P. W., Le Moigne, F. A.C., Villa‐Alfageme, M., Vioque, I.,Laurenceau‐Cornec, E. C., et al. (2025). Microbial remineralization is a depth‐varying contributor to particle flux attenuation in the Southern Ocean. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 39,e2025GB008498. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GB008498

Others

• Boyd, P. W., Antoine, D., Baldry, K., Cornec, M., Ellwood, M., Halfter, S., ... Rohr, T. (2024). Controls on polar Southern Ocean deep chlorophyll maxima: Viewpoints from multiple observational platforms. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 38(3). https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GB008033
• Latour, P., Eggins, S., van Der Merwe, P., Bach, L. T., Boyd, P. W., Ellwood, M. J., ... Strzepek, R. F. (2024). Characterization of a Southern Ocean deep chlorophyll maximum: Response of phytoplankton to light, iron, and manganese enrichment. Limnology and Oceanography Letters, 9(2), 145-154. https://doi.org/10.1002/lol2.10366
• Strzepek, R.F., Latour, P., Ellwood, M.J., Shaked, Y., Boyd, P.W. (2025) Microbial competition for iron determines its availability to the ferrous wheel. Isme Journal, 2025, 19(1), wraf015