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Pamela Barrett

  • Research Scientist
  • Education:
    • Ph.D., Chemical Oceanography, University of Washington
    • B.S., Chemistry, University of Rochester
    • B.A., Political Science, University of Rochester
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  • Phone:
    • 206-526-6709

Research interests

I investigate the role of particles in controlling the distribution of trace metals in the global ocean and the biogeochemical cycling of elements that trace interactions between the lithosphere and oceans.

Selected publications

Barrett PM, Grun R, Ellwood ME. 2021. Tracing iron along the flowpath of East Australian Current using iron stable isotopes. Mar. Chem., 237, 104039.

Buck NJ, Barrett PM, Morton PL, Resing JA, Landing WM. 2021. Energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence methodology and analysis of suspended particulate matter in seawater for trace element compositions and an intercomparison with high-resolution inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry. Limnol. Oceanogr. Methods, 19, 401–415. 

Hull EA, Barajas M, Burkart K, Pendergrass R, Fung S, Barrett PM, Jackson BP, Neumann RB, Olden JD, Gawel, JE. 2021. Human health risk from consumption of aquatic species in arsenic-contaminated shallow urban lakes. Sci. Tot. Environ., 770, 1453183.

Janssen DJ, Sieber M, Ellwood ME, Conway TM, Barrett PM, Chen X, de Souza GF, Hassler CS, Jaccard SL. 2020. Trace metal and nutrient dynamics across broad geochemical gradients in the Indian and Pacific sectors of the Southern Ocean. Mar. Chem., 221, 1–2.

Barrett PM, Hull EA, Burkart K, Hargrave O, McLean J, Taylor VF, Jackson BP, Gawel JE, Neumann RB. 2019. Contrasting arsenic cycling in strongly and weakly stratified contaminated lakes: Evidence for temperature control on sediment-water arsenic fluxes. Limnol. Oceanogr., 64, 1333–1346. 

Barrett PM, Resing JA, Grand MM, Measures CI, Landing WM. 2018. Trace element composition of suspended particulate matter along three meridional CLIVAR sections in the Indian and Southern Oceans: Impact of scavenging on Al distributions. Chem Geol., 502, 15–28.

Marsay CM, Barrett PM, McGillicuddy DJ, Sedwick PN. 2017. Distributions, sources, and transformations of dissolved and particulate iron on the Ross Sea continental shelf during summer. JGR: Oceans, 122, 6371–6393.

Barrett PM, Resing JA, Buck NJ, Landing WM, Morton PL, Shelley RU. 2015. Changes in the distribution of Al and Fe along A16N in the eastern North Atlantic Ocean between 2003 and 2013: Implications for changes in dust deposition. Mar. Chem., 177, 57–68.

Grand MM, Measures CI, Hatta M, Morton PL, Barrett PM, Milne A, Landing WM, Resing JA. 2015. The impact of circulation and dust deposition in controlling the distributions of dissolved Fe and Al in the south Indian subtropical gyre. Mar. Chem., 176, 110–125.

Resing JA, Barrett PM. 2014. Ocean chemistry: Fingerprints of a trace nutrient. Nature, 511, 164–165.

Barrett PM, Resing JA, Buck NJ, Feely RA, Bullister J, Buck CS, Landing WM, Measures CI. 2014. Calcium carbonate dissolution in the upper 1000 m of the eastern North Atlantic. Global Biogeochem. Cycles 28, 386–397.

Marsay CM, Sedwick PN, Dinniman MS, Barrett PM, Mack S, McGillicuddy DJ. 2014. Estimating the benthic efflux of dissolved iron on the Ross Sea continental shelf. Geophys. Res. Lett. 41, 7576–7583.

Barrett PM, Resing JA, Buck NJ, Buck CS, Landing WM, Measures CI. 2012. The trace element composition of suspended particulate matter in the upper 1000 m of the eastern North Atlantic Ocean: A16N. Mar. Chem., 142–144, 41-53.