Dr Elisa Lovecchio
Biography
My research interests lay at the boundary between ocean physics and biogeochemistry. My work combines the use of both models and observations to study biophysical interactions from the sub-mesoscale to the basin scale. I'm particularly interested in the study of the organic carbon, nutrients and oxygen cycles, physical drivers of ecosystem variability, upwelling systems dynamics and climate change feedbacks.
I'm currently involved in a variety of projects such as NERC BioCarbon's PARTITRICS project, as well as NERC projects AtlantiS and ReBELS.
My MSc background is in Physics of Complex Systems. My PhD is in environmental sciences (ETH-Zurich) with a PhD thesis on the mesoscale drivers of the lateral transport of organic carbon from the coast of the Canary Upwelling System to the open North Atlantic. As a postdoc, I worked at the University of Exeter on modelling changes in the ocean nutrient and redox state due to the evolution of the biological pump at the Proterozoic-Paleozoic transition. I joined NOC in the group of Steph Henson initially under my own SNSF-funded postdoc project "The influence of mesoscale activity on organic carbon export fluxes: bridging models and observations". Since then, I've been involved in a variety of projects such as GOCART, SUMMER and COMICS combining models with autonomous, ship and satellite data. I participated to fieldwork activities at PAP and within project ReBELS, and contributed to the planning of autonomous surveys with TechOceanS. I've been widely involved in the organisation of conference sessions and seminars, including the international EBUS Webinars project. At NOC, I've co-organized the OBG-MSM seminars.
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You can also find my list of publications and projects on OrcID and ResearchGate.
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Projects
Projects I'm involved in:
Current
PARTITRICS "PARTIcle Transformation and Respiration Influence on ocean Carbon Storage (PARTITRICS)
AtlantiS "Atlantic Climate and Environment Strategic Science"
ReBELS "Resolving Biological carbon Export in the Labrador Sea"
Past
GOCART “Gauging ocean Organic Carbon fluxes using Autonomous Robotic Technologies”
SUMMER "Sustainable Management of Mesopelagic Resources"
COMICS "Controls over Ocean Mesopelagic Interior Carbon Storage"
TechOceanS "Technologies for Ocean Sensing" (scientific advisory role)
CLASS "Climate Linked Atlantic Sector Science"
Personal postdoc mobility fellowship "The influence of mesoscale activity on organic carbon export fluxes: bridging models and observations"
Roles Provided
Member of Upwelling Systems team of SOLAS "Surface Ocean - Lower Atmosphere Study"
Member of ProClim "Forum for Climate and Global Change"
Publications
Lovecchio, Elisa 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7183-4761; Henson, Stephanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3875-6802; Carvalho, Filipa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8355-4329; Briggs, Nathan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1549-1386; Hilder, Hans ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-8882-0754; Wolff, George A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9380-1039; Giering, Sarah L. C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3090-1876; Cook, Kathryn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8590-3011; Baker, Chelsey A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0840-2333; Fielding, Sophie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3152-4742; Preece, Calum; Stinchcombe, Mark.
2025
Mesopelagic particle layers in the dynamic hypoxic northern Benguela are shaped by zooplankton activity.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 130 (3), e2024JC021039.
24, pp.
10.1029/2024JC021039
2025
Article
Major, William ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9994-6944; Giering, Sarah L.C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3090-1876; Ainsworth, Joanna; Belcher, Anna ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9583-5910; Blackbird, Sabena ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0942-6836; Bridger, Martin; Briggs, Nathan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1549-1386; Carvalho, Filipa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8355-4329; Clément, Louis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6935-9455; Cook, Kathryn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8590-3011; Dumousseaud, Cynthia; Espinola, Benoit ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2412-9645; Evans, Claire ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0569-7057; Fielding, Sophie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3152-4742; Hartmann, Manuela; Henson, Stephanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3875-6802; Iversen, Morten; Kiriakoulakis, Konstadinos; Lampitt, Richard; Lovecchio, Elisa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7183-4761; Martin, Adrian ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1202-8612; Mayor, Daniel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1295-0041; Moore, Mark; Pabortsava, Katsiaryna ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9808-012X; Pebody, Corinne; Peel, Kate; Preece, Calum; Poulton, Alex ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5149-6961; Rayne, Rachel; Saw, Kevin; Stinchcombe, Mark; Stowasser, Gabriele ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0595-0772; Tarling, Geraint A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3753-5899; Thomalla, Sandy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6802-520X; Villa-Alfageme, María ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7157-8588; Wolff, George A.; Sanders, Richard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6884-7131.
2024
Active and passive organic carbon fluxes during a bloom in the Southern Ocean (South Georgia).
Scientific Data, 11, 1392.
9, pp.
10.1038/s41597-024-04151-w
2024
Article
Lachkar, Zouhair; Cornejo-D'Ottone, Marcela; Singh, Arvind; Arístegui, Javier; Dewitte, Boris; Fawcett, Sarah; Garçon, Veronique; Lovecchio, Elisa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7183-4761; Molina, Veronica; Vinayachandran, P. N. M..
2024
Biogeochemistry of greenhouse gases in coastal upwelling systems: Processes and sensitivity to global change.
Elem Sci Anth, 12 (1).
10.1525/elementa.2023.00088
2024
Article
Lovecchio, Elisa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7183-4761; Clement, Louis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6935-9455; Evans, Claire ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0569-7057; Rayne, Rachel; Dumousseaud, Cynthia; Roshan, Saeed; Giering, Sarah L.C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3090-1876; Martin, Adrian ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1202-8612.
2023
Export of Dissolved Organic Carbon (DOC) compared to the particulate and active fluxes near South Georgia, Southern Ocean.
Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 212, 105338.
10.1016/j.dsr2.2023.105338
2023
Article
Bograd, Steven J.; Jacox, Michael G.; Hazen, Elliott L.; Lovecchio, Elisa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7183-4761; Montes, Ivonne; Pozo Buil, Mercedes; Shannon, Lynne J.; Sydeman, William J.; Rykaczewski, Ryan R..
2023
Climate change impacts on eastern boundary upwelling systems.
Annual Review of Marine Science, 15 (1).
10.1146/annurev-marine-032122-021945
2023
Article
Lovecchio, Elisa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7183-4761; Henson, Stephanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3875-6802; Carvalho, Filipa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8355-4329; Briggs, Nathan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1549-1386.
2022
Oxygen variability in the offshore northern Benguela Upwelling System from glider data.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans.
10.1029/2022JC019063
2022
Article
Lovecchio, Elisa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7183-4761; Gruber, Nicolas; Münnich, Matthias; Frenger, Ivy.
2022
On the processes sustaining biological production in the offshore propagating eddies of the northern canary upwelling system.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 127 (2).
10.1029/2021JC017691
2022
Article
Bonino, Giulia; Lovecchio, Elisa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7183-4761; Gruber, Nicolas; Münnich, Matthias; Masina, Simona; Iovino, Doroteaciro.
2021
Drivers and impact of the seasonal variability of the organic carbon offshore transport in the Canary upwelling system.
Biogeosciences, 18 (8).
2429-2448.
10.5194/bg-18-2429-2021
2021
Article
Lovecchio, Elisa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7183-4761; Henson, Stephanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3875-6802; Carvalho, Filipa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8355-4329; Briggs, Nathan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1549-1386.
2021
Combining gliders and models to understand mesoscale biogeochemical patterns at the Angola-Benguela front.
In: EGU General Assembly 2021, Online, 19-30 April 2021.
2021
Conference item