David Ho (U. Hawaii) gave a talk yesterday on “Towards a
universal relationship between wind speed and gas exchange.”
If you were at his talk, I am sure you enjoyed his stories
as much as I do, in addition to his excellent work.
One of this stories is about the ASLO 2012 John Martin Award
winner, Wanninkhof. The interesting thing is Wanninkhof (1992) has been cited
for more than 1,500 times (as of today), yet it is one of the three curves David
(with Wanninkhof as a co-author; see below) warned the audience NOT to use.
The John Martin Award, established in 2005, recognizes a
paper in aquatic sciences that is judged to have had a high impact on
subsequent research in the field. The model for such a paper is Martin et al
(1991), which laid out the case for iron limitation of phytoplankton
productivity in the ocean. This award will be given to at most one paper per
year. Unlike the Lindeman Award, which recognizes very recent papers (within 2
years) by young investigators, the Martin Award is for papers at least 10 years
old.
Martin, JH, RM Gordon, and SE Fitzwater. 1991. The case for iron. Limnol.
Oceanogr. 36:1793-1802
http://www.aslo.org/information/awards.html#MARTIN
Ho, D.T., R.
Wanninkhof, P. Schlosser, D.S. Ullman, D. Hebert, K.F. Sullivan (2011), Toward
a universal relationship between wind speed and gas exchange: Gas transfer
velocities measured with 3He/SF6 during the Southern Ocean Gas Exchange
Experiment, J. Geophys. Res, 116, C00F04, doi:10.1029/2010JC006854.
You can down load David’s paper from his web site at
http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/~ho/publication/w1.htm