Wojtal Paul K.

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    Particle bulk d15N values from EXPORTS cruises SR1812 on R/V Sally Ride and RR1813 on R/V Roger Revelle in August to September 2018
    (Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO). Contact: bco-dmo-data@whoi.edu, 2022-09-30) Wojtal, Paul K. ; Popp, Brian N. ; Close, Hilary G.
    This dataset includes d15N values of bulk nitrogen from size-fractionated and sinking particles collected on the EXPORTS cruises (SR1812 on R/V Sally Ride and RR1813 R/V Roger Revelle) in August to September 2018. For a complete list of measurements, refer to the full dataset description in the supplemental file 'Dataset_description.pdf'. The most current version of this dataset is available at: https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/880376
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    Particle d15N values of amino acids from EXPORTS cruises SR1812 on R/V Sally Ride and RR1813 on R/V Roger Revelle in August to September 2018
    (Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO). Contact: bco-dmo-data@whoi.edu, 2022-09-30) Wojtal, Paul K. ; Popp, Brian N. ; Close, Hilary G.
    This dataset includes d15N values of individual amino acids from size-fractionated and sinking particles collected on the EXPORTS cruises (SR1812 on R/V Sally Ride and RR1813 R/V Roger Revelle) in August to September 2018. For a complete list of measurements, refer to the full dataset description in the supplemental file 'Dataset_description.pdf'. The most current version of this dataset is available at: https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/880041
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    Deconvolving mechanisms of particle flux attenuation using nitrogen isotope analyses of amino acids
    (Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO), 2023-07-12) Wojtal, Paul K. ; Doherty, Shannon C. ; Shea, Connor H. ; Popp, Brian N. ; Benitez-Nelson, Claudia R. ; Buesseler, Kenneth O. ; Estapa, Margaret L. ; Roca-Marti, Montserrat ; Close, Hilary G.
    Particulate organic matter settling out of the euphotic zone is a major sink for atmospheric carbon dioxide and serves as a primary food source to mesopelagic food webs. Degradation of this organic matter encompasses a suite of mechanisms that attenuate flux, including heterotrophic metabolic processes of microbes and metazoans. The relative contributions of microbial and metazoan heterotrophy to flux attenuation, however, have been difficult to determine. We present results of compound specific nitrogen isotope analysis of amino acids of sinking particles from sediment traps and size-fractionated particles from in situ filtration between the surface and 500 m at Ocean Station Papa, collected during NASA EXPORTS (EXport Processes in the Ocean from RemoTe Sensing). With increasing depth, we observe: (1) that, based on the δ15N values of threonine, fecal pellets dominate the sinking particle flux and that attenuation of downward particle flux occurs largely via disaggregation in the upper mesopelagic; (2) an increasing trophic position of particles in the upper water column, reflecting increasing heterotrophic contributions to the nitrogen pool and the loss of particles via remineralization; and (3) increasing δ15N values of source amino acids in submicron and small (1–6 μm) particles, reflecting microbial particle solubilization. We further employ a Bayesian mixing model to estimate the relative proportions of fecal pellets, phytodetritus, and microbially degraded material in particles and compare these results and our interpretations of flux attenuation mechanisms to other, independent methods used during EXPORTS.