Will Burt

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I'm a born and raised west-coast Canadian with a love for the outdoors. I am also an oceanographer with a passion for conducting research aboard ships, where interdisciplinary teamwork is at its best.

Rosengard, S.Z., R.W. Izett, W.J. Burt, N. Schuback, and P.D. Tortell. In press. Decoupling of net community production and particulate organic carbon dynamics in near shore surface ocean waters. Biogeosciences.

Behrenfeld, M.J., P. Gaube, A.D. Penna, R.T. O’Malley, W.J. Burt, Y. Hu, P.S. Bontempi, D.K. Steinberg, E.S. Boss, D.A. Siegel, C.A. Hostetler, P.D. Tortell, and S.C. Doney. 2019. Global satellite-observed daily vertical migrations of ocean animals. Nature 576: 257–261. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1796-9

Horwitz, R.M., A.E. Hay, W.J. Burt, R.A. Cheel, J. Salisbury, and H. Thomas. 2019. High-frequency variability of CO₂ in Grand Passage, Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia, Biogeosciences 16(2): 605–615. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-605-2019

Burt, W.J., and P.D. Tortell. 2018. Observations of zooplankton diel vertical migration from high-resolution surface ocean optical measurements. Geophysical Research Letters 45(24): 13,396–13,404. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL079992 

Burt, W.J., T.K. Westberry, M.J. Behrenfeld, C. Zeng, R.W. Izett, and P.D. Tortell. 2018. Carbon: chlorophyll ratios and net primary productivity of Subarctic Pacific surface waters derived from autonomous shipboard sensors. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 32(2): 267–288. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017GB005783

Miller, L.A., T.M. Burgers, W.J. Burt, M.A. Granskog, and T.N. Papakyriakou. 2018. Air-sea CO₂ flux estimates in stratified Arctic coastal waters: How wrong can we be? Geophysical Research Letters 46(1): 235–243.  https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL080099

Zeng, C., S.Z. Rosengard, W.J. Burt, M.A. Peña, N. Nemcek, T. Zeng, K.R. Arrigo, and P.D. Tortell. 2018. Optically-derived estimates of phytoplankton size class and taxonomic group biomass in the Eastern Subarctic Pacific Ocean. Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers 136:107–118. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2018.04.001

• Marine biogeochemical cycles
• Phytoplankton biomass and productivity
• Biological oxygen production
• Ocean optics
• Radium/radon isotope tracers

• High-resolution primary productivity in the Gulf of Alaska (NPRB; Project #2001)
• Exploring radium isotopes as tracers of groundwater inputs, flushing rates, and produced water in Cook Inlet (BOEM-CMI; proposal in review)

• NSERC Postdoctoral Scholarship, 2016–2019
• Killam Predoctoral Scholarship, 2013–2015
• Dalhousie President's Award, 2013