{"title":"Beryllium Isotopes in Marine Science: Understanding Ocean Current and Ice Dynamics","authors":"Yusuke Yokoyama, Adam D. Sproson","doi":"10.1146/annurev-marine-040224-033226","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-marine-040224-033226","url":null,"abstract":"The Earth's climate has been kept under Goldilocks conditions because a variety of feedback systems maintain the atmospheric <jats:italic>p</jats:italic>CO<jats:sub>2</jats:sub> within a narrow range. The ocean, as a large reservoir of carbon compared with the atmosphere, plays a key role in the climate system, and studying ocean process can help us better understand this system. Cosmogenic nuclides produced in the atmosphere and their ratio to a terrestrial counterpart can provide detailed depictions of Earth surface process, and they have therefore been utilized widely since it became possible to measure them with accelerator mass spectrometry. Beryllium isotopes (<jats:sup>10</jats:sup>Be<jats:inline-formula> <jats:tex-math>$/$</jats:tex-math> </jats:inline-formula> <jats:sup>9</jats:sup>Be) are one of the most useful isotope systems for this purpose. In this article, we summarize recent developments in beryllium isotope chemistry and the isotopes’ relation to ocean current and ice sheet dynamics as well as weathering in relation to long-term climate.","PeriodicalId":55508,"journal":{"name":"Annual Review of Marine Science","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144756002","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Probability of an AMOC Collapse Onset in the Twenty-First Century","authors":"Henk A. Dijkstra, René M. van Westen","doi":"10.1146/annurev-marine-040324-024822","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-marine-040324-024822","url":null,"abstract":"The Atlantic Ocean circulation, in particular its zonally averaged north–south volume transport indicated by the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), is sensitive to surface buoyancy anomalies. It may undergo a transition to a climate-disrupting state within a century under continuing greenhouse gas emissions. The potential climate and societal impacts are expected to be large, and therefore reliable estimates of the probability of the onset of such a collapse before the year 2100 are crucial for policymakers. This article addresses whether current Earth system models are fit for purpose to capture present-day AMOC stability and presents the current status of estimates of collapse onset probabilities.","PeriodicalId":55508,"journal":{"name":"Annual Review of Marine Science","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144719681","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Marcel Babin, Jody W Deming, Eric Maréchal, Josephine Z Rapp, Søren Rysgaard, Martin Vancoppenolle
{"title":"Life in the Frozen Ocean.","authors":"Marcel Babin, Jody W Deming, Eric Maréchal, Josephine Z Rapp, Søren Rysgaard, Martin Vancoppenolle","doi":"10.1146/annurev-marine-032123-025316","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-marine-032123-025316","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Present seasonally or year-round in polar and subpolar seas, sea ice is one of the most complex and biologically rich ecosystems on Earth. Throughout the history of our planet, sea ice has periodically covered vast proportions of the world's oceans, and it may also serve as a plausible habitat on other ocean worlds. In this review, we provide a comprehensive overview of current knowledge on sea ice as a habitat, both on Earth and in extraterrestrial environments. We focus on bacteria, microalgae, and their associated viruses, describing the key physicochemical characteristics that shape this unique ecosystem. Additionally, we explore hypotheses on how microorganisms colonize sea ice, survive by protecting themselves and altering their environment, and ultimately proliferate and evolve. Finally, we consider the potential role of the sea-ice microbiome in the evolution of life on Earth and its possible existence beyond our planet.</p>","PeriodicalId":55508,"journal":{"name":"Annual Review of Marine Science","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":18.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144735542","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Daniel J Clements,Karen Stamieszkin,Daniele Bianchi,Leocadio Blanco-Bercial,Nicholas R Record,Rocio B Rodriguez-Perez,Amy E Maas
{"title":"Active Carbon Transport by Diel Vertical Migrating Zooplankton: Calculated and Modeled, but Never Measured.","authors":"Daniel J Clements,Karen Stamieszkin,Daniele Bianchi,Leocadio Blanco-Bercial,Nicholas R Record,Rocio B Rodriguez-Perez,Amy E Maas","doi":"10.1146/annurev-marine-121422-015330","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-marine-121422-015330","url":null,"abstract":"Zooplankton diel vertical migration (DVM) is a globally ubiquitous phenomenon and a critical component of the ocean's biological pump. During DVM, zooplankton metabolism leads to carbon and nutrient export to mesopelagic depths, where carbon can be sequestered for decades to millennia, while also introducing labile, energy-rich food sources to midwater ecosystems. Three pervasive metabolic pathways allow zooplankton to sequester carbon: fecal pellet egestion, dissolved organic matter excretion, and respiration. Additionally, there are several less well-parameterized sources of DVM transport associated with growth, feeding, reproduction, and mortality. These processes are challenging to measure in situ and difficult to extrapolate from laboratory experiments, making them some of the most poorly constrained factors in assessments and models of the biological pump. In this review, we evaluate and compare observational and modeling approaches to estimate zooplankton DVM and the resulting active carbon flux, highlighting major discrepancies and proposing directions for future research.","PeriodicalId":55508,"journal":{"name":"Annual Review of Marine Science","volume":"37 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144719877","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Biology of Marine Snowflakes","authors":"Colleen A. Durkin","doi":"10.1146/annurev-marine-040523-021832","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-marine-040523-021832","url":null,"abstract":"Organic detrital particles drift and sink through all ocean waters. This marine snow mediates the global carbon cycle by sequestering carbon in the deep sea and fuels ocean ecosystems by feeding deep-sea organisms. These global processes are ultimately controlled by the collection of events that occur at the scale of individual marine snowflakes. These particles are incredibly diverse, with physical characteristics and compositions determined by the myriad processes that lead to their formation and transformation over time. When that diversity is classified, we can calculate the quantity of carbon that particles transport to the deep sea. Each marine snowflake is a microcosm, with distinct organisms and metabolisms concentrated within the organic matter of a particle. Resolving the biology of individual marine snowflakes is possible through innovations in physical collection and the development of autonomous imaging platforms. Accounting for particle-specific biology generates major advancements in ocean biogeochemistry and ecology.","PeriodicalId":55508,"journal":{"name":"Annual Review of Marine Science","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144639894","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From Alpheus to Zooxanthellae: Probing and Protecting the Dizzying Diversity of the Ocean","authors":"Nancy Knowlton","doi":"10.1146/annurev-marine-071124-121335","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-marine-071124-121335","url":null,"abstract":"For over 50 years I have studied corals, coral reefs, and reef-associated animals. Although much of my work was underpinned by genetics and I have dabbled in theory, I am a natural historian at heart. The many topics I pursued reflect in part what sparked my fancy but were also greatly shaped by a series of chance events, unexpected data, and unplanned opportunities. Many of the findings and ideas for which I am now known were initially met with skepticism and rejection—success required stubborn faith in my intuitions and convictions and the support of many assistants, collaborators, mentors, and leaders. Watching the sudden loss of the reefs that dazzled me as a graduate student and the subsequent steady decline of ocean life around the world has driven my interests in conservation and communication, and in the end, perhaps surprisingly, made me focus on the positive.","PeriodicalId":55508,"journal":{"name":"Annual Review of Marine Science","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144533149","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Gulf Stream: Its History and Links to Coastal Impacts and Climate Change","authors":"Tal Ezer","doi":"10.1146/annurev-marine-040224-120037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-marine-040224-120037","url":null,"abstract":"The Gulf Stream (GS) is possibly the world's most widely recognized oceanic feature—from encounters by Spanish sailors in the 1500s, to Benjamin Franklin's charts in the 1700s, to early observations by Stommel and other in the 1900s. Today, modern undersea observations, satellite data, and computer models have revealed the GS's complex nature, though some challenges remain. This review provides an overview of past and recent studies of the GS, with a focus on links between the GS, extreme weather events, climate change, and coastal impacts. Examples of those links include a potential slowdown of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) and the GS that could increase coastal flooding, and hurricanes that disrupt the flow of the GS and cause posthurricane coastal sea level rise. A better understanding of the role of the GS in the Earth's system will help in the prediction of future climate change.","PeriodicalId":55508,"journal":{"name":"Annual Review of Marine Science","volume":"246 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2025-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144503618","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Annie Mercier, Steven W. Purcell, Emaline M. Montgomery, Jeff Kinch, Maria Byrne, Jean-François Hamel
{"title":"Revered and Reviled: The Plight of the Vanishing Sea Cucumbers","authors":"Annie Mercier, Steven W. Purcell, Emaline M. Montgomery, Jeff Kinch, Maria Byrne, Jean-François Hamel","doi":"10.1146/annurev-marine-032123-025441","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-marine-032123-025441","url":null,"abstract":"Sea cucumbers paradoxically suffer from being both highly prized and commonly disregarded. As an Asian medicine and delicacy, they command fabulous prices and are thus overfished, poached, and trafficked. As noncharismatic animals, many are understudied and inadequately protected. Despite presenting a rich diversity of life histories, members of this broad taxonomic group (class Holothuroidea) are often managed simply as “sea cucumbers” in fisheries worldwide. One cannot imagine fishes (class Pisces) being given the same universal treatment. Yet this may happen for species of sea cucumber that differ on the same fundamental level as tilapia and tuna. As more sea cucumbers reach an endangered status and wild populations become depleted to the point of collapse, critical questions arise about the relevance of established conservation and governance strategies. This article reviews the main threats faced by exploited sea cucumbers, outlines conservation and governance effectiveness, identifies gaps in knowledge, and explores management and research perspectives in the context of climate change and booming fisheries crime. We stress the perilous state of harvested sea cucumbers globally and the urgent need for action.","PeriodicalId":55508,"journal":{"name":"Annual Review of Marine Science","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142987634","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Thibaut Caley, Antoine Souron, Kevin T Uno, Gabriele A Macho
{"title":"Climate and Human Evolution: Insights from Marine Records.","authors":"Thibaut Caley, Antoine Souron, Kevin T Uno, Gabriele A Macho","doi":"10.1146/annurev-marine-032223-031306","DOIUrl":"10.1146/annurev-marine-032223-031306","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The relationship between climate and human evolution is complex, and the causal mechanisms remain unknown. Here, we review and synthesize what is currently known about climate forcings on African landscapes, focusing mainly on the last 4 million years. We use information derived from marine sediment archives and data-numerical climate model comparisons and integration. There exists a heterogeneity in pan-African hydroclimate changes, forced by a combination of orbitally paced, low-latitude fluctuations in insolation; polar ice volume changes; tropical sea surface temperature gradients linked to the Walker circulation; and possibly greenhouse gases. Pan-African vegetation changes do not follow the same pattern, which is suggestive of additional influences, such as CO<sub>2</sub> and temperature. We caution against reliance on temporal correlations between global or regional climate, environmental changes, and human evolution and briefly proffer some ideas on how pan-African climate trends could help create novel conceptual frameworks to determine the causal mechanisms of associations between climate/habitat change and hominin evolution.</p>","PeriodicalId":55508,"journal":{"name":"Annual Review of Marine Science","volume":" ","pages":"23-53"},"PeriodicalIF":14.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141581582","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Emily F Eidam, Nina Stark, Jaap H Nienhuis, Molly Keogh, Jeff Obelcz
{"title":"Arctic Continental-Shelf Sediment Dynamics.","authors":"Emily F Eidam, Nina Stark, Jaap H Nienhuis, Molly Keogh, Jeff Obelcz","doi":"10.1146/annurev-marine-040423-023827","DOIUrl":"10.1146/annurev-marine-040423-023827","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Sediments covering Arctic continental shelves are uniquely impacted by ice processes. Delivery of sediments is generally limited to the summer, when rivers are ice free, permafrost bluffs are thawing, and sea ice is undergoing its seasonal retreat. Once delivered to the coastal zone, sediments follow complex pathways to their final depocenters-for example, fluvial sediments may experience enhanced seaward advection in the spring due to routing under nearshore sea ice; during the open-water season, boundary-layer transport may be altered by strong stratification in the ocean due to ice melt; during the fall storm season, sediments may be entrained into sea ice through the production of anchor ice and frazil; and in the winter, large ice keels more than 20 m tall plow the seafloor (sometimes to seabed depths of 1-2 m), creating a type of physical mixing that dwarfs the decimeter-scale mixing from bioturbation observed in lower-latitude shelf systems. This review summarizes the work done on subtidal sediment dynamics over the last 50 years in Arctic shelf systems backed by soft-sediment coastlines and suggests directions for future sediment studies in a changing Arctic. Reduced sea ice, increased wave energy, and increased sediment supply from bluffs (and possibly rivers) will likely alter marine sediment dynamics in the Arctic now and into the future.</p>","PeriodicalId":55508,"journal":{"name":"Annual Review of Marine Science","volume":" ","pages":"435-460"},"PeriodicalIF":14.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141861750","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}