Publications

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Peer-reviewed publications

Hetherington, E., Anderson, C., Bastian, L., (…) Halfter, S. et al. (2024): Deepening the Decade: Collaborative action for advancing deep ocean science and policy in the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. Limnology and Oceanography Bulletin.

Boyd, P.W., Arrigo, K.R., Ardyna, M., Halfter, S., et al. (2024). The role of biota in the Southern Ocean carbon cycle. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment.

Boyd, P. W., Antoine, D., Baldry, K.A., Cornec, M., Ellwood, M., Halfter, S., et al., (2024). Controls on Polar Southern Ocean Deep Chlorophyll Maxima: Viewpoints from Multiple Observational Platforms. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 38, e2023GB008033.

Hill, S.L., Atkinson, A., Arata, J.A., Belcher, A., (…) Halfter, S., et al. (2024). Observing change in pelagic animals as sampling methods shift: the case of Antarctic krill. Frontiers in Marine Science, 11 (March), p.1307402.

Bisson, K., McMonagle, H., Iglesias, I., Halfter, S., Gallo, N. (2023). Five reasons to take the precautionary approach to deep sea exploitation. Communications Earth and Environment, 4 (1), 153.

Johnston, N. M., Murphy, E. J., Atkinson, A. A., Constable, A. J., Cotté, C. S., Cox, M., Daly, K., Driscoll, R., Flores, H., Halfter, S. et al. (2022). Status, change and futures of zooplankton in the Southern Ocean. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 9 (June), 1-41.

Halfter, S., Cavan, E. L., Butterworth, P., Swadling, K. M., & Boyd, P. W. (2021). “Sinking dead” — How zooplankton carcasses contribute to particulate organic carbon flux in the subantarctic Southern Ocean. Limnology and Oceanography, Cv, 1–13.

Van de Putte, A. P., Griffiths, H. J., Brooks, C., Bricher, P., Sweetlove, M., Halfter, S., & Raymond, B. (2021). From Data to Marine Ecosystem Assessments of the Southern Ocean: Achievements, Challenges, and Lessons for the Future. Frontiers in Marine Science, 8 (October), 1–15.

Cavanagh, R.D., Melbourne-Thomas, J., Grant, S.M., Barnes D.K.A., Hughes, K.A., Halfter, S. et al. Future risk for Southern Ocean ecosystem services under climate change. Frontiers in Marine Science. 7 (January), 1224.

Halfter, S., Cavan, E.L., Swadling, K.M., Eriksen, R., Boyd, P.W. (2020). The role of zooplankton in establishing carbon export regimes in the Southern Ocean – A comparison of two representative case studies in the subantarctic region. Frontiers in Marine Science. 7 (September), 837.

Brasier, M. J., McCormack, S., Bax, N., Caccavo, J. A., Cavan, E., Ericson, J. A., Figuerola, B., Hancock, A., Halfter, S. et al. (2020). Overcoming the Obstacles Faced by Early Career Researchers in Marine Science : Lessons From the Marine Ecosystem Assessment for the Southern Ocean. Frontiers in Marine Science, 7 (August), 1–9.

Halfter, S., & Coleman, C. O. (2019). Chevreuxiopsis franki gen. n., sp. n. (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Thoriellidae) from the deep sea southwest of Tasmania. Zoosystematics and Evolution, 95(1), 125–132.

Thesis

Halfter, S. (2022). The role of zooplankton in the biological carbon pump of the subantarctic Southern Ocean. PhD thesis, University of Tasmania, Australia. Submitted: Nov 2021.

Halfter, S. (2017). Large-scale phenology of marine plankton in the North Atlantic and Arctic Ocean. Master’s thesis, University of Rostock, Germany. Submitted: May 2017.

Technical reports (Internal/external)

Plasman, C., Hancock, A., Raymond, B., Fierro Arcos, D., Evans, K., Swadling, K., Henley, S., Halfter, S., et al. (2024). Designing Southern Ocean E(B)V workflows from data collection to data products. Towards a Distributed System for Essential Variables for the Southern Ocean, Hobart, TAS. Zenodo.

Pinkerton, M.H., Halfter, S., Stewart, R., Robinson, K. (2024). Zooplankton and microplastic in the Southern Ocean: Continuous Plankton Recorder sampling to 2023 with special focus on the Ross Sea sector. New Zealand Aquatic Environment and Biodiversity Report. Submitted in June 2024. Fisheries New Zealand, 96pp.

Pinkerton, M.H., and Halfter, S. (2023). Environmental change in the Southern Ocean: observations, trends, bioregions, and species-distribution models. CCAMLR, Hobart, Australia, 4pp.

Pinkerton, M.H., Adams, C.I.M., Behrens, E., Devine, J., Eisert, R., Finucci, B., Grüss, A., Halfter, S. et al. (2023). New Zealand research and monitoring in support of the Ross Sea region Marine Protected Area: 2022–2023 update. Report number: WG-EMM_2023/07. CCAMLR, Hobart, Australia, 16pp.

Mountjoy, J., Ladroit, Y., Mills, S., Law, C., Lamare, M., Twigge, O., Van Rossem, H., Spain, E., George, S., Canese, S., Kolzenburg, R., Quinn, W., Deppeler, S., Halfter, S. et al. (2023). 2023 Ross Sea Antarctic Voyage. TAN2302 Voyage Report. Submitted in July 2023. 223pp.

Halfter, S. (2023). Integrating a zooplankton component in the Munida time-series. Internal report to the OCOF-program Flux and Productivity funded by NIWA’s Strategic Science Investment Fund. Submitted in June 2023. Internal report, 4pp.

Newman, L., Hancock, M. A., Hofmann, E., Williams, M. J. M., Henley, S. F.,(…) Halfter, S. et. al., (2022). The Southern Ocean Observing System 2021-2025 Science and Implementation Plan.

Sakurai, H., Moteki, M., Shimada, K., Tachibana, A., Yasuda, M., Tanaka, A., Hamamoto, H., Weldrick, C., Halfter, S. et al. (2020). Plankton sampling by the training vessel Umitaka-maru in the Indian sector of the Southern Ocean in the austral summer of 2020. JARE DATA REPORTS (Marine Biology), 67, 1–8.

Other publications/popular press

ABC News (02/10/2022), “Scientists hopeful tiny ocean zooplankton will help tell if climate change targets are met” (Link)

Halfter, S. (2020). Treasure from the Deep - Using sediment traps to understand deep-sea biodiversity and carbon flux. ECO magazine, Polar Special Issue, pages 64-67. Available here.