Publications resulting from the Oceanic Flux Program

Deuser, W. G. and E. H. Ross (1980) Seasonal change in the flux of organic
carbon to the deep Sargasso Sea. Nature 283, 364-365.
Deuser, W. G., E. H. Ross, C. Hemleben, M. Spindler (1981) Seasonal
changes in species composition, numbers, mass, size and isotopic
composition of planktonic foraminifera settling into the deep Sargasso
Sea. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol. 33, 103-127.
Deuser, W. G., E. H. Ross, R. F. Anderson (1981) Seasonality in the supply
of sediment to the deep Sargasso Sea and implications for the rapid
transfer of matter to the deep ocean. Deep-Sea Res. 28A, 495-505.
Deuser, W. G. (1982) Marine sediments: Seasonal changes. McGraw-Hill Yrbk.
Sci. Technol. 292-294.
Deuser, W. G., P. G. Brewer, J. D. Jickells, R. F. Commeau (1983)
Biological control of the removal of abiogenic particles from the surface
ocean. Science 219, 388-391.
Deuser, W. G., K. Emeis, V. Ittekkot, E. T. Degens (1983) Fly-ash
particles intercepted in the deep Sargasso Sea. Nature 305, 216-218.
Ittekkot, V., W. G. Deuser, E. T. Degens (1984) Seasonality in the fluxes
of sugars, amino acids and amino sugars to the deep ocean: Sargasso Sea.
Deep-Sea Res. 31, 1057-1069.
Jickells, T. D., W. G. Deuser, A. H. Knap (1984) The sedimentation rates
of trace elements in the Sargasso Sea measured by sediment trap. Deep-Sea
Res. 31, 1169-1178.
Bandel, K., A. Almogi-Labin, C. Hemleben, W. G. Deuser (1984) The conch of
Limacina and Peraclis (Pteropoda) and a model for the development of
planktonic gastropods. N. Jahrb. Geol. Palaeontol. Abh. 168, 87-107.
Deuser, W. G. (1984) Seasonality of particle fluxes in the ocean's
interior. In: Global Ocean Flux Study, Proceedings of a Workshop, National
Academy Press, Washington, D. C., pp 221-236.
Bacon, M. P., C.-A. Huh, A. P. Fleer, W. G. Deuser (1985) Seasonality in
the flux of natural radionuclides and plutonium in the deep Sargasso Sea.
Deep-Sea Res. 32, 273-286.
Hemleben, C., M. Spindler, I. Breitinger, W. G. Deuser (1985) Field and
laboratory studies of the ontogeny and ecology of some globorotaliid
species from the Sargasso Sea off Bermuda. J. Foram. Res. 15, 254-272.
Altabet, M. A. and W. G. Deuser (1985) Seasonal variations in natural
abundance of 15N in particles sinking to the deep Sargasso Sea. Nature
315, 218-219.
Knap, A. H., K. Binkley, W. G. Deuser (1986) Synthetic organic chemicals
in the deep Sargasso Sea. Nature 319, 572-574.
Deuser, W. G. (1986) Seasonal and interannual variations in deep-water
particle fluxes in the Sargasso Sea and their relation to surface
hydrography. Deep-Sea Res. 33, 225-246.
Deuser, W. G. (1987) Seasonal variations in isotopic composition and
deep-water fluxes of the tests of perennially abundant planktonic
foraminifera of the Sargasso Sea: Results from sediment-trap collections
and their paleoceanographic significance. J. Foram. Res. 17, 14-27.
Deuser, W. G. (1987) Variability of hydrography and particle flux:
Transient and long-term relationships. In: Particle Flux in the Ocean,
Mitt. Geol. Palaeontol. Inst. Univ. Hamburg. 62, 179-193.
Jickells, T. D., T. M. Church, W. G. Deuser (1987) A comparison of
atmospheric inputs and deep-ocean particle fluxes for the Sargasso Sea.
Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 1, 117-130.
Almogi-Labin, A., C. Hemleben, W. G. Deuser (1988) Seasonal variation in
the flux of euthecosomatous pteropods collected in a deep sediment trap in
the Sargasso Sea. Deep-Sea Res. 35, 441-464.
Deuser, W. G., F. E. Muller-Karger, C. Hemleben (1988) Temporal variations
of particle fluxes in the deep subtropical and tropical North Atlantic:
Eulerian versus Lagrangian effects, J. Geophys. Res. 93, 6857-6862 and
6977-6978.
Deuser, W. G., and E. H. Ross (1989) Seasonally abundant planktonic
foraminifera of the Sargasso Sea: Succession, deep-water fluxes, isotopic
composition, and paleoceanographic implications, J. Foram. Res. 19,
268-293.
Jickells, T. D., W. G. Deuser, R. A. Belastock (1990) Temporal variations
in the concentrations of some particulate elements in the surface waters
of the Sargasso Sea and their relationship to deep-sea fluxes, Mar. Chem.
29, 203-219.
Deuser, W. G., F. E. Muller-Karger, R. H. Evans, O. B. Brown, W. E.
Esaias, G. C. Feldman (1990) Surface-ocean color and deep-ocean carbon
flux: How close a connection?  Deep-Sea Res. 37, 1331-1343.
Jickells, T.D., W. G. Deuser, A. Fleer, C. Hemleben (1990) Variability of
some elemental fluxes in the western tropical Atlantic Ocean. Oceanol.
Acta 13, 291-298.
Fabry, V. J., and W. G. Deuser (1991) Aragonite and magnesian calcite
fluxes to the deep Sargasso Sea.Deep-Sea Res. 38, 713-728.
Altabet, M. A., W. G. Deuser, S. Honjo, C. Stienen (1991) Seasonal and
depth-related changes in the source of sinking particles in the North
Atlantic using 15N/14N ratios. Nature 354, 136-139.
Fabry, V. J., and W. G. Deuser (1992) Seasonal changes in isotopic
compositions and sinking fluxes of euthecosomatous pteropod shells in the
Sargasso Sea.  Paleoceanogr. 7, 195-213.
Asper, V. L., W. G. Deuser, G. A. Knauer, S. E. Lohrenz (1992) Rapid
biogeochemical coupling between surface and deep ocean waters via
particles.  Nature 357, 670-672.
Jasper, J. P. and W. G. Deuser (1993) Annual cycles of mass flux and
isotopic composition of pteropod shells settling into the deep Sargasso
Sea. Deep-Sea Res 40, 653-669.
Gust, G., A. F. Michaels, R. Johnson, W. G. Deuser, W. Bowles (1994)
Mooring line motions and sediment trap hydromechanics: In-situ
intercomparison of three common deployment designs.  Deep-Sea Res. 41,
831-857.
Sayles, F. L., W. R. Martin, W. G. Deuser (1994) The response of benthic
oxygen demand to particulate organic carbon supply in the deep sea near
Bermuda.  Nature 371, 686-689.
Deuser, W. G., T. D. Jickells, P. King, J. A. Commeau (1995) Decadal and
annual changes in biogenic opal and carbonate fluxes to the deep Sargasso
Sea.  Deep-Sea Res. I 42, 1923-1932.
Deuser, W. G. (1995) Temporal variability of particle flux in the deep
Sargasso Sea, in Particle Flux in the Ocean, pp. 185 - 198.
V. Ittekkot, S. Honjo and P. J. Depetris (eds.), Wiley and Sons.
Sayles, F. L., W. G. Deuser, J. E. Goudreau, W. H. Dickinson, T. D.

Jickells P. King (1996) The benthic cycle of biogenic opal at the Bermuda
Atlantic time series site.  Deep-Sea Res. I 43, 383 - 409.
Siegel, D. A. and W. G. Deuser (1997) Trajectories of sinking particles in
the Sargasso Sea: modeling of "statistical funnels" above deep-ocean
sediment traps.  Deep-Sea Res. 44, 1519-1541.
Conte, M. H. (1998) The Oceanic Flux Program: Twenty years of particle
flux measurements in the deep Sargasso Sea. Oceanus 40, 15 -19.
Jickells T. D., S. Dorling, W. G. Deuser, T. M. Church, R. Arimoto and J.
Prospero (1998) Air-borne dust fluxes to a deep water sediment trap in the
Sargasso Sea.Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 12, 311-320.
Conte, M. H., J. C. Weber and N. Ralph (1998) Episodic particle flux in
the deep Sargasso Sea: an organic geochemical assessment. Deep-Sea
Research I, 45, 1819-1841.
Conte, M. H., N. Ralph and E. H. Ross (1999) 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. in press, Deep-Sea Research.
Haidar, A. T., H. R. Theirstein and W. G. Deuser (submitted) Calcareous
phytoplankton standing stocks, fluxes and acuumulation in Holocene
sediments off Bermuda (N. Atlantic)
Conte, M. H. and J. C. Weber (submitted) Calibration of the alkenone
temperature signal in western North Atlantic surface waters.
Kim, G., L. Alleman, T. M. Church, M. H. Conte and B. K. Steinberg (in
prep) Atmospheric Fe precipitation fuels oceanic export of carbon and
reactive elements in the oligotrophic Sargasso Sea.
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