deepseasgroup - Arabian Sea
The deepseas group has been involved in a number of Arabian Sea cruises / projects. These include two NERC-support projects: "Benthic processes in the Arabian Sea: Interrelationships between the benthos, sediment biogeochemistry, and organic matter cycling" (NER/A/S/2000/01381), and Benthic community and sediment fluxes in the arabian sea implications of monsoon dynamics and the oxygen minimum zone (GR3/08927), that examined the Pakistan and Oman Margins respectively. We were also partners, with our colleagues in Geology and Geophysics, in the UK Government commissioned project "Scheherezade II" that studied the Gulf of Oman. Use the links below to see the results of these projects:
Pakistan Margin Project
Benthic Biological and Biogeochemical Patterns and Processes Across an Oxygen Minimum Zone (Pakistan Margin, NE Arabian Sea)
Deep Sea Research Part II, 56(6-7), 2009:
Foraminiferal faunal responses to monsoon-driven changes in organic matter and oxygen availability at 140 and 300 m water depth in the NE Arabian Sea
KE Larkin, AJ Gooday, 403-421
Large organic-walled Protista (Gromia) in the Arabian Sea: Density, diversity, distribution and ecology
AA da Silva, AJ Gooday, 422-433
Megafaunal responses to strong oxygen gradients on the Pakistan margin of the Arabian Sea
SJ Murty, BJ Bett, AJ Gooday, 472-487
Faunal responses to oxygen gradients on the Pakistan margin: A comparison of foraminiferans, macrofauna and megafauna
AJ Gooday, LA Levin, AA da Silva, BJ Bett, GL Cowie, D Dissard, JD Gage, DJ Hughes, R Jeffreys, PA Lamont, KE Larkin, SJ Murty, S Schumacher, C Whitcraft, C Woulds, 488-502
Oman Margin Projects
Mass deposition of jellyfish in the deep Arabian Sea
DSM Billett, BJ Bett, CL Jacobs, IP Rouse, BD Wigham
Limnology and Oceanography, 51(5), 2006, 2077-2083SCHEHEREZADE II: Geological and biological surveys of the Arabian Sea and the continental slope of Oman. Southampton, UK, Southampton Oceanography Centre, 79pp. (Southampton Oceanography Centre Cruise Report, 42)
CL Jacobs et al., 2003
Deep Sea Research Part II, 47(1-2), 2000:
Foraminifera in the Arabian Sea oxygen minimum zone and other oxygen-deficient settings: taxonomic composition, diversity, and relation to metazoan faunas
AJ Gooday, JM Bernhard, LA Levin, SB Suhr , 25-54
A large testate protist, Gromia sphaerica sp. nov. (Order Filosea), from the bathyal Arabian Sea
AJ Gooday, SS Bowser, BJ Bett, CR Smith, 55-73
Nematode abundance at the oxygen minimum zone in the Arabian Sea
AA Cook, PJD Lambshead, LE Hawkins, N Mitchell, LA Levin, 75-85
Genetic and morphometric comparisons of squat lobster, Munidopsis scobina (Decapoda: Anomura: Galatheidae) populations, with notes on the phylogeny of the genus Munidopsis
S Creasey, A Rogers, P Tyler, J Gage, D Jollivet, 87-118
Megafauna Can Control the Quality of Organic Matter in Marine Sediments
BJ Smallwood, GA Wolff, BJ Bett, CR Smith, D Hoover, JD Gage, A Patience
Naturwissenschaften, 86 (1999), 320-324
