Large copepods as conduits of the microbial loop: rethinking pathways linking surface production to deep-ocean carbon export

Kelton McMahon1, Catherine Nowakowski1, Owen Sherwood2, Karen Stamieszkin3, Nicholas Record4 and Harvey J Walsh5, (1)University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Oceanography, Narragansett, United States, (2)Dalhousie University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Halifax, NS, Canada, (3)Bigelow Lab for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay, United States, (4)Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay, Maine, United States, (5)NOAA, Fisheries, Narragansett, United States