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Andrew Bowie

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Professor, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania

Dust storm blowing off the Australian east coast over the South Pacific. Jeff Schmaltz/NASA GSFC

May 15, 2024

Floating robots reveal just how much airborne dust fertilises the Southern Ocean – a key climate ‘shock absorber’

Jakob Weis, University of Tasmania; Andrew Bowie, University of Tasmania; Christina Schallenberg, CSIRO; Peter Strutton, University of Tasmania, and Zanna Chase, University of Tasmania

Iron-rich dust feeds phytoplankton. They are a key form of life in the Southern Ocean, which acts as a climate shock absorber.

Whales make more than a splash in the southern ocean. Micheline Jenner

August 4, 2014

Bottoms up: how whale poop helps feed the ocean

Lavenia Ratnarajah, University of Tasmania; Andrew Bowie, University of Tasmania, and Indi Hodgson-Johnston, University of Tasmania

Centuries of over-exploitation of whales for their meat and blubber has seen populations of most species plummet. But with no small amount of irony, the tables have turned with research discovering that…

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