A NATO Advanced Study Institute. The Ocean Carbon Cycle and Climate. 5-16 August 2002, Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Turkey

Lecturers in brief

Tom Anderson:

http://www.soc.soton.ac.uk/GDD/people/tra/

George Deacon Division

Southampton Oceanography Centre
Waterfront Campus, European Way
Southampton SO14 3ZH, United Kingdom
tel +44 23 80596337, fax +44 23 80596247

Research interests:
1) ecosystem modeling, biogeochemical cycles
2) zooplankton nutrition, stoichiometry
3) bacteria, cycling of dissolved organic matter

 

James K.B. Bishop:

http://flameglo.lbl.gov/people/bishop/bishop.html 

EO Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 
MS 90-1116, 1 Cyclotron Road, 
Berkeley, CA 94720-0001 
tel: 510 495-2457 fax: 510 486 5686

Research interests: 
Understanding ocean carbon system dynamics through a combination of novel in-situ sampling and remote sensing technologies.

 

Mick Follows:

http://puddle.mit.edu/~mick/ 

54-1514 
Department of Earth, Atmosphere and Planetary Sciences 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02130, USA 
tel: 617 253 5939; fax: 617 253 4464 

Research Interests: 
Investigation the connections between ocean circulation and biogeochemical cycles using numerical models and analysis of observed data. Main interests are:
1) Ocean Tracer and Biogeochemical Modeling
2) Transient Tracers. 
3) Interannual Variability of Air-Sea Gas Fluxes
4) Regional and Interannual Variability of Ocean Biological Productivity 
5) Ocean Carbon Cycle Model Intercomparison

 

Inez Fung:

http://www.atmos.berkeley.edu/~inez/ 

Department of Earth & Planetary Science 
Enviromental Science and Policy Management 
Director 
Center for Atmospheric Sciences
office: 335 Hilgard 
telephone: (510) 643-9367 
fax: (510) 643-9377 

Research interests: 
Geophysical fluid dynamics and large-scale numerical modeling. Biogeochemical cycles. 
Remote sensing of earth systems. Atmosphere-ocean interactions, and atmosphere-biosphere interactions. 

 

Tommy D. Dickey:

http://www.opl.ucsb.edu/tommy.html

Ocean Physics Laboratory
University of California, Santa Barbara
6487 Calle Real, Suite A,
Goleta CA, 93117, USA

Research Activites: 
Interdisciplinary oceanographic and environmental problems including: upper ocean dynamics, bio-optics, ecology, biogeochemistry and global climate change (greenhouse effect), coastal water pollution, bottom boundary layers, and sediment resuspension. Recent efforts have emphasized studies of physical/biological processes and interactions on time scales from minutes to the interannual, yet some of our work retains focus on fundamental physics at the air-sea interface and in the upper and bottom layers of the ocean. Our group is studying both open and coastal ocean domains simultaneously. We continue to expand both disciplinary and interdisciplinary efforts toward multi-platform (in situ an d remote sensing) observational networks for science, monitoring, and modeling with application to coastal pollution and global climate change. Our work often involves innovative development and use of new technologies. An important aspect of our work h as concerned the development of instrumentation and techniques for linking in situ and remote sensing observations, particularly through use of mooring-based measurements for groundtruthing (calibration/validation) ocean color satellite sensors.

 

Hezi Gildor:

http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~hezi/

Climate Modeling Group
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University
61 Route 9W, Palisades, NY 10964-8000 

Research Interests: 
1. The interaction between ocean biogeochemistry and the climate system
2. Glacial-interglacial cycles

 

Nicolas Gruber:

http://www.atmos.ucla.edu/~gruber/people/gruber/gruber_fr_main_overview.htm

Assistant Professor for Biogeochemistry
Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics & Department of Atmospheric Sciences 

Research Interests:
1) determining the oceanic uptake of anthropogenic CO2, 
2) investigating the role of oceanic nitrogen fixation and denitrification on the cycling of carbon within the ocean, 
3) identifying and studying interannual to decadal variability in the marine carbon cycle, 
4) applying inverse modeling techniques to estimate the exchange of heat and carbon and other tracers across the air-sea interface, 
5) to investigate the role of the coastal oceans in the global carbon cycle.

 

Dr. David Kirchman:

http://www.ocean.udel.edu/level1/facultystaff/faculty/dkirchman/ 
Acting Associate Dean and 
Maxwell P. and Mildred H. Harrington Professor of Marine Studies 
University of Delaware 
Graduate College of Marine Studies 
700 Pilottown Rd., Lewes, Delaware 19958
Phone: (302) 645-4375, Fax: (302) 645-4028

Research Interests:
Microbial ecology of heterotrophic bacteria in aquatic environments (mainly estuaries and oceans); bacterial and degradation of macromolecules and other organic compounds; inorganic nutrient cycling of heterotrophic bacteria; phylogenetic structure of bacterial assemblages as revealed by molecular techniques. 

 

Marina Levy: 

http://www.lodyc.jussieu.fr/~marina/
Laboratoire d'Océanographie Dynamique et de Climatologie
Institut Pierre Simon Laplace

Postal adress : LODYC Case 100 U.P.M.C. 
4 place Jussieu 
75252 Paris Cedex 5 
France

 

James W. Murray:

http://www.ocean.washington.edu/people/faculty/jmurray/jmurray.html
University of Washington , School of Oceanography 
Room 413 Ocean Sciences Building,
Box 355351 
Seattle WA 98195-5351 
Phone (206) 543-4730, Fax (206) 685-3351

Research Interests: 
Ocean Carbon Cycle Model Intercomparison Processes controlling the distribution of gases, trace metals and U-Th series radionuclides in marine and fresh water environments, new and export production of organic carbon, aquatic surface chemistry of metal oxide phases, and diagenesis of organic matter, nutrients and gases in marine and fresh water sediments. Current field work is focussed on the origin of iron in the equatorial undercurrent in the equatorial Pacific and the suboxic zone at the oxic/anoxic interface in the Black Sea.

 

Temel Oguz:

  http://www.ims.metu.edu.tr/cv/oguz/main.html
Institute of Marine Sciences 
Middle East Technical University 
P.O.Box 28, 33731, Erdemli, Icel,Turkey. 
Phone (office): +90 324 521 2406 
Phone (home): +90 324 521 2143

Research Interests: 
Modeling of the Black Sea ecosystem and circulation dynamics to explore decadal changes in the food web and biogeochemical characteristics due to anthropogenic and climatic changes.

 

William S. Reeburgh: 

http://www.ess.uci.edu/~reeburgh/
Earth System Science 
205 Physical Sciences Research Facility 
University of California 
Irvine, CA 92697-3100 
Telephone 
(949) 824-2986 (office) 
(949) 824-4081 (laboratory) 
(949) 824-8794 (department) 
FAX (949) 824-3256 

Research Interests 
1) Global cycles of biogeochemically important elements. The role and importance of anaerobic proceses and anoxic environments in the global carbon cycle. The role of microbial processes as controls and feedbacks in global climate change.
2) Methane biogeochemistry and organic carbon storage in high deposition rate marine sediments and anoxic marine basins. Methane oxidation as a flux control and global sink in marine systems. Rate measurements of anaerobic methane oxidation using labelled methane (3H and 14C) tracers and extent of reaction estimates using stable isotope (2H, 13C) distributions. Methane oxidation as a control on emissions from decomposing methane clathrates. Laboratory studies using externally controlled partial pressures of hydrogen to determine whether anaerobic methane oxidation is conducted by methanogens operating in reverse. 
3) Importance of high-latitude terestrial environments in the global carbon and atmospheric methane budgets. Response of high-latitude environments to climate change. Time series measurements of trace gas fluxes from wetland, tundra, and boreal forest systems. Biogeochemical processes at the oxic:anoxic interface in soils. Importance of aerobic methane oxidation in wetland and soil systems as a sink, flux control, and possible feedback. Detrmination of kinetic isotope effect for methane oxidation from soil profiles. Laboratory and field manipulation studies of methane oxidation sensitivity to moisture water table level, and temperature changes. Pulse labelling (14CO2) experiments to determine the role of recently-fixed photosynthetic carbon in wetland methane production and release. Biosphere 2 methane budget studies. 

 

Jorge L. Sarmiento:

  http://geoweb.princeton.edu/people/faculty/sarmiento/ 
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (Biogeochemistry)
Co-Director of the Carbon Modeling Consortium

AOS Program, Princeton University
Sayre Hall, Forrestal Campus
PO Box CN710
Princeton, NJ 08544-0710

Research Interests 
1) Using models and observations to determine the oceanic uptake of carbon dioxide produced by fossil fuel burning and deforestation. A carbon measurement program has recently been completed in the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, and Southern Oceans. 
2) Predictions of future atmospheric carbon dioxide levels including the possible effects of changes in ocean circulation and biology resulting from global warming or from direct human intervention. The coupled atmosphere-ocean-ocean biogeochemistry models developed for this purpose show a large potential impact of greenhouse warming on the ocean carbon cycle. 
3) Use of atmospheric general circulation models constrained with atmospheric CO2 observations to estimate transport of CO2 in the atmosphere and the spatial distribution of anthropogenic carbon uptake by the terrestrial biosphere. 
4) Development of biogeochemical process models of photosynthetic uptake of inorganic carbon and the fate of organic carbon as it is cycled through ocean ecosystems back to inorganic carbon or buried in sediments. 
5) Observational and model studies of ocean circulation based on chemical tracer observations such as radiocarbon. 
6) Determining the causes of the reduced atmospheric carbon dioxide levels of the last ice age, including studies of the sensitivity of atmospheric carbon dioxide levels to changes in ocean biology.