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Marine biogeochemist
Maureen Hatcher Conte is biogeochemist known for her work using particles to define the long-term cycling of chemical compounds in seawater.
Education and career
Conte has a B.A. from
Johns Hopkins University (1975), and an M.A. (1982), M.Phil. (1987), and Ph.D. (1989) from
Columbia University .
[1] Her Ph.D. examined lipids found in particles in the
Gulf Stream .
[2] Following her Ph.D. she conducted postdoctoral work at the
University of Bristol before joining
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in 1994. As of 2022 Conte is a senior scientist at the
Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences and a fellow at the
Marine Biological Laboratory .
[3] Conte is the lead investigator for the Ocean Flux Program,
[1] a program that has been examining particles in the
Sargasso Sea since 1978.
[4]
[5]
Research
Conte is known for her work on the organic compounds found in particles.
[6] Her early work examined the consumption of organic matter,
[7] and the development of methods to analyze lipids from seawater.
[8]
[9] Subsequently, she examined the different types of lipids found in organisms such as
coccolithophores .
[10]
[11] At the
Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study site, Conte has used long-term measurements of particles to quantify changes in the flux of organic carbon to the seafloor over time,
[12]
[13] and used the presence of
alkenones in particles to track changes in ocean temperatures over time.
[14]
[15] Through her research she has characterized how hurricanes impact the flow of organic carbon to the seafloor,
[16]
[17] and examined the impact of cold shock on sea turtles that are trapped in cold waters off Cape Cod.
[18] Conte's research involves spending extended periods of time on research ships,
[19] and in 2020, her research was delayed because she could not collect her samples due to the
COVID-19 pandemic .
[20]
Selected publications
Anand, Pallavi; Elderfield, Henry; Conte, Maureen H. (June 2003).
"Calibration of Mg/Ca thermometry in planktonic foraminifera from a sediment trap time series: CALIBRATION OF Mg/Ca THERMOMETRY IN PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA" . Paleoceanography . 18 (2): n/a.
Bibcode :
2003PalOc..18.1050A .
doi :
10.1029/2002PA000846 .
Conte, Maureen H.; Sicre, Marie-Alexandrine; Rühlemann, Carsten; Weber, John C.; Schulte, Sonja; Schulz-Bull, Detlef; Blanz, Thomas (February 2006).
"Global temperature calibration of the alkenone unsaturation index (U K′ 37 ) in surface waters and comparison with surface sediments: ALKENONE UNSATURATION INDEX" . Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems . 7 (2): n/a.
doi :
10.1029/2005GC001054 .
hdl :
1912/652 .
S2CID
62825795 .
Conte, Maureen H; Thompson, Anthony; Lesley, David; Harris, Roger P (January 1998). "Genetic and Physiological Influences on the Alkenone/Alkenoate Versus Growth Temperature Relationship in Emiliania huxleyi and Gephyrocapsa Oceanica". Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta . 62 (1): 51–68.
Bibcode :
1998GeCoA..62...51C .
doi :
10.1016/S0016-7037(97)00327-X .
Medeiros, Patricia M.; Conte, Maureen H.; Weber, John C.; Simoneit, Bernd R. T. (1 March 2006).
"Sugars as source indicators of biogenic organic carbon in aerosols collected above the Howland Experimental Forest, Maine" . Atmospheric Environment . 40 (9): 1694–1705.
Bibcode :
2006AtmEn..40.1694M .
doi :
10.1016/j.atmosenv.2005.11.001 .
hdl :
1912/910 .
ISSN
1352-2310 .
References
^
a
b
"Dr. Maureen Conte | Team Members | About BIOS | BIOS - Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences" . www.bios.edu . Retrieved 2022-04-09 .
^ Conte, Maureen Hatcher (1991).
The biogeochemistry of particulate lipids in warm-core Gulf Stream ring systems (Thesis).
OCLC
82869924 .
^
"Conte CV" (PDF) . Retrieved April 9, 2022 .
^ Conte, Maureen; Weber, JC (2014-03-01).
"Particle Flux in the Deep Sargasso Sea: The 35-Year Oceanic Flux Program Time Series" . Oceanography . 27 (1): 142–147.
doi :
10.5670/oceanog.2014.17 .
hdl :
1912/6582 .
ISSN
1042-8275 .
^ Earle, Sylvia A.; Glover, Linda; Glover, Linda K. (2009).
Ocean: An Illustrated Atlas . National Geographic Books. p. 121.
ISBN
978-1-4262-0319-0 .
^
"Autobiographical Sketches of Women in Oceanography" . Oceanography . 18 (1): 97. March 2005.
^ Bishop, J.K.B.; Conte, M.H.; Wiebe, P.H.; Roman, M.R.; Langdon, C. (1986).
"Particulate matter production and consumption in deep mixed layers: observations in a warm-core ring" . Deep Sea Research Part A. Oceanographic Research Papers . 33 (11–12): 1813–1841.
Bibcode :
1986DSRA...33.1813B .
doi :
10.1016/0198-0149(86)90081-6 .
^ Conte, Maureen H.; Bishop, James K. B. (1988).
"Nanogram quantification of nonpolar lipid classes in environmental samples by high performance thin layer chromatography" . Lipids . 23 (5): 493–500.
doi :
10.1007/BF02535526 .
ISSN
0024-4201 .
S2CID
31322887 .
^ Conte, Maureen H.; Eglinton, Geoffrey; Madureira, Luiz A.S. (1992).
"Long-chain alkenones and alkyl alkenoates as palaeotemperature indicators: their production, flux and early sedimentary diagenesis in the Eastern North Atlantic" . Organic Geochemistry . 19 (1–3): 287–298.
Bibcode :
1992OrGeo..19..287C .
doi :
10.1016/0146-6380(92)90044-X .
^ Conte, Maureen H.; Thompson, Anthony; Eglinton, Geoffrey; Green, John C. (1995).
"Lipid Biomarker Diversity in the Coccolithophorid Emiliania Huxleyi (Prymnesiophyceae) and the Related Species Gephyrocapsa Oceanica1" . Journal of Phycology . 31 (2): 272–282.
doi :
10.1111/j.0022-3646.1995.00272.x .
ISSN
0022-3646 .
S2CID
85989423 .
^ Conte, Maureen H; Thompson, Anthony; Lesley, David; Harris, Roger P (1998).
"Genetic and Physiological Influences on the Alkenone/Alkenoate Versus Growth Temperature Relationship in Emiliania huxleyi and Gephyrocapsa Oceanica" . Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta . 62 (1): 51–68.
Bibcode :
1998GeCoA..62...51C .
doi :
10.1016/S0016-7037(97)00327-X .
^ Conte, Maureen H; Ralph, Nate; Ross, Edith H (2001).
"Seasonal and interannual variability in deep ocean particle fluxes at the Oceanic Flux Program (OFP)/Bermuda Atlantic Time Series (BATS) site in the western Sargasso Sea near Bermuda" . Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography . 48 (8–9): 1471–1505.
Bibcode :
2001DSRII..48.1471C .
doi :
10.1016/S0967-0645(00)00150-8 .
^ Conte, M.H.; Dickey, T.D.; Weber, J.C.; Johnson, R.J.; Knap, A.H. (2003).
"Transient physical forcing of pulsed export of bioreactive material to the deep Sargasso Sea" . Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers . 50 (10–11): 1157–1187.
Bibcode :
2003DSRI...50.1157C .
doi :
10.1016/S0967-0637(03)00141-9 .
^ Conte, M.H; Weber, J.C; King, L.L; Wakeham, S.G (2001).
"The alkenone temperature signal in western North Atlantic surface waters" . Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta . 65 (23): 4275–4287.
Bibcode :
2001GeCoA..65.4275C .
doi :
10.1016/S0016-7037(01)00718-9 .
^ Conte, Maureen H.; Sicre, Marie-Alexandrine; Rühlemann, Carsten; Weber, John C.; Schulte, Sonja; Schulz-Bull, Detlef; Blanz, Thomas (2006).
"Global temperature calibration of the alkenone unsaturation index (U K′ 37 ) in surface waters and comparison with surface sediments: ALKENONE UNSATURATION INDEX" . Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems . 7 (2): n/a.
doi :
10.1029/2005GC001054 .
hdl :
1912/652 .
S2CID
62825795 .
^
"Hurricane Nicole sheds light on how storms impact deep ocean" . phys.org . September 19, 2019. Retrieved 2022-04-09 .
^ Pedrosa‐Pàmies, R.; Conte, M. H.; Weber, J. C.; Johnson, R. (2019).
"Hurricanes Enhance Labile Carbon Export to the Deep Ocean" . Geophysical Research Letters . 46 (17–18): 10484–10494.
Bibcode :
2019GeoRL..4610484P .
doi :
10.1029/2019GL083719 .
hdl :
1912/24907 .
ISSN
0094-8276 .
S2CID
202191389 .
^ Rec, Abigail (2019-06-05).
"Sea turtles trapped in Cape Cod Bay - How science is saving them" . Cape Cod LIFE . Retrieved 2022-04-09 .
^ Peterson, Christy (2020-04-07).
Into the Deep: Science, Technology, and the Quest to Protect the Ocean . Millbrook Press.
ISBN
978-1-5415-9584-2 .
^ Moran, Barbara (May 15, 2020).
"With Ships Docked And Labs Closed, Scientists' Field Research Season Fades Away" . www.wbur.org . Retrieved 2022-04-09 .
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