Stefan Gary

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As a large-scale physical oceanographer, my overarching research focus is the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC): a northward flow of relatively warm, shallow, and salty waters and the corresponding southward return flow of cold, deep, fresher waters. As such, the AMOC impacts the global redistribution of heat and freshwater as well as the timescale and extent of oceanic anthropogenic carbon uptake. For my PhD dissertation and associated publications, my collaborators and I showed that a signficant component of the deep flow follows a broad, distributed pathway though the interior of the Atlantic in addition to a generally accepted pathway along the Deep Western Boundary Current. This result is important because the interior pathway is much slower than the boundary pathway, prompting a reevaluation of the timescales of the AMOC. More recently, I have also explored the fate of temperature anomalies in Eighteen Degree Water (EDW), a watermass embedded in the upper layer of the AMOC. Now, I am investigating heat and freshwater fluxes in the subpolar North Atlantic by conducting observations with ships and gliders on the Extended Ellett Line (http://prj.noc.ac.uk/ExtendedEllettLine/).

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815 Citations
14 h-Index
22 Article
2 Poster
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Larval behaviour, dispersal and population connectivity in the deep sea

Gary, S. F., Fox, A. D., Biastoch, A., Roberts, J. M. & Cunningham, S. A., 30 Jun 2020, In : Scientific Reports. 10, 1, 12 p., 10675.

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Microplastic accumulation in deep-sea sediments from the Rockall Trough

Courtene-Jones, W., Quinn, B., Ewins, C., Gary, S. & Narayanaswamy, B., 2020, In : Marine Pollution Bulletin. 154, 9 p., 111092.

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5 Citations (Scopus)

Significance of climate indices to benthic conditions across the northern North Atlantic and adjacent shelf seas

Johnson, C. L., Inall, M., Gary, S. & Cunningham, S., 23 Jan 2020, In : Frontiers in Marine Science. 7, 19 p.

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A sea change in our view of overturning in the sub polar North Atlantic

Lozier, M. S., Li, F., Bacon, S., Bahr, F., Bower, A. S., Cunningham, S., de Jong, M. F., de Steur, L., deYoung, B., Fischer, J., Gary, S., Greenan, B. J. W., Holliday, N. P., Houk, A., Houpert, L., Inall, M., Johns, W., Johnson, C. L., Karstensen, J., koman, G. & 17 others, Le Bras, I. A., Lin, X., Mackay, N., Marshall, D., Mercier, H., Oltmans, M., Pickart, R. S., Ramsey, A. L., Rayner, D., Straneo, F., Thierry, V., Torres, D. J., Williams, R., Wilson, C., Yang, J., Yashayaev, I. & Zhao, J., 1 Feb 2019, In : Science. 363, 6426, p. 516-521 6 p.

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Consistent microplastic ingestion by deep-sea invertebrates over the last four decades (1976–2015), a study from the North East Atlantic

Courtene-Jones, W., Quinn, B., Ewins, C., Gary, S. & Narayanaswamy, B., 1 Jan 2019, In : Environmental Pollution. 244, p. 503-512 10 p.

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Activities

19 Oral presentation

Out of sight out of mind? Microplastic pollution of the deep-sea ecosystem, a study from the Rockall Trough

Winnie Courtene-Jones (Speaker), , Brian Quinn (Speaker), , Stefan Gary (Speaker), & Bhavani Narayanaswamy (Speaker)

13 Sep 2018