Keynote Speakers
The following keynote speakers are lined up so far:
| Ken Buesseler | Ken Buesseler is an oceanographer who specializes in studying the controls on carbon cycling by the oceans. Dr. Buesseler has been a leader in developing new instruments to measure the sequestration of carbon by the ocean and in developing field experiments to measure how efficiently carbon is transported from the surface ocean to the deep sea on sinking particles. He has participated in several of the open ocean fertilization experiments to understand the role of nutrients, such as iron, on the oceans carbon cycle. He convened a major international conference on ocean iron fertilization with a goal to understand the impacts and efficacy of ocean iron fertilization as a potential carbon mitigation process. In 2011 Dr. Buesseler led an international study of the impact of Fukushima radionuclides on the ocean and several papers and conferences on this topic. Dr. Buesseler has served as Chair of the Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry Department at WHOI, as Executive Scientist of the US Joint Global Ocean Fluxes Planning and Data Management Office and two years as an Associate Program Director at the US National Science Foundation, Division of Ocean Sciences, Chemical Oceanography Program. In 2009 he was elected Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and in 2011 he was noted as the top cited ocean scientist by the Times Higher Education for the decade 2000-2010. Further information and a CV with over 120 publications can be found at http://cafethorium.whoi.edu. Tuesday 4 September 0905 LT1 |
| Helen Johnson | Helen Johnson is a Royal Society University Research Fellow and Lecturer in Climate and Ocean Modelling at the University of Oxford. She obtained her PhD in Physical Oceanography from the University of Reading, UK, and has worked as a research assistant at the Massachusetts Institute for Technology, Boston, US, and a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Victoria, BC, Canada. In 2008 she received a Fellowship Award from the Challenger Society for Marine Science. Her research is focused on understanding ocean circulation and the role it plays in climate. In particular, she is interested in the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation, its variability and its connection to the polar oceans. She uses the full range of tools available to physical oceanographers, applying theoretical ideas, simple and state-of-the-art computer models, and analysis of observational data to a wide range of ocean problems. http://www.earth.ox.ac.uk/~helenj/ Thursday 6 September 1400 LT1 |
| Phyllis Lam | Phyllis Lam is a research scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen, Germany. She obtained her B.Sc. in Oceanography at the University of Southampton, UK, and her Ph.D. at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA. Her research interests lie in the functional roles of microorganisms within their biological communities as well as in marine biogeochemical cycling. She applies a variety of genomics-based techniques to study the genetic potentials of microorganisms in conducting certain biogeochemical processes, and gene expression analyses to verify their activities. These molecular data together with parallel geochemical rate measurements have, for instance, helped unravel the complex nitrogen cycle in oceanic oxygen minimum zones. Her current projects include studies on microbial nitrogen and carbon cycling in deep-sea cold seeps, suboxic water-columns and surface-ocean. http://www.mpi-bremen.de/en/Phyllis_Lam.html Wednesday 5 September 0905 LT1 |
| Katrin Rehdanz | Katrin Rehdanz is professor for environmental and resource economics at the Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel associated with the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. She holds a diploma and a PhD in economics from the University of Hamburg. She has a strong background in environmental valuation and environmental-economy modeling. Her main areas of research are environmental and climate policies research. She is leading the young researchers group “Valuing the Ocean” within the cluster of excellence initiative “The Future Ocean” funded by the German government. http://www.ifw-members.ifw-kiel.de/~katrin_rehdanz_ifw_kiel_de Thursday 6 September 0905 LT1 |
| David Righton | David Righton is a researcher at the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science in Lowestoft. He started his research career at the University of York’s Tropical Marine Research Unit, where he spent his summers mapping the territorial behaviour of coral reef fish in the Red Sea. On completion of his PhD, David moved into temperate fisheries work to investigate the spatial dynamics and feeding ecology of Atlantic cod in the North Sea, which he broadened to a NE Atlantic focus with the CODYSSEY project. Not content with learning to think like a cod, David continues to explore new opportunities to understand more about the behaviour and ecology of fish, and is now grappling with the eternal mysteries of the European eel, the oceanic behaviour of salmon, and the challenges facing pelagic and demersal sharks. The goal of David’s work is to use new knowledge of fish and their relationship with the environment to improve the effectiveness of fisheries management, which was the topic of his Buckland Professorship in 2010. Monday 3 September 1400 LT1 |
| Jorge Sarmiento | Jorge L. Sarmiento is the George J. Magee Professor of Geoscience and Geological Engineering, Professor of Geosciences at Princeton University. He obtained his Ph.D. at the Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory of Columbia University in 1978, and then served as a post-doc at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory/NOAA in Princeton before joining the Princeton University faculty in 1980. He has published widely on the oceanic cycles of climatically important chemicals such as carbon dioxide, on the use of chemical tracers to study ocean circulation, and on the impact of climate change on ocean biogeochemistry. He has participated in the scientific planning and execution of many of the large-scale multi-institutional and international oceanographic biogeochemical and tracer programs of the last two decades. He was Director of Princeton's Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Program from 1980 to 1990 and 2006 to the present, and is Director of the Cooperative Institute for Climate Science. He has served on the editorial board of multiple journals and as editor of Global Biogeochemical Cycles. He is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Geophysical Union's 2009 Roger Revelle Medalist. Dr. Sarmiento's research aims to improve our understanding of the fundamental processes controlling the ocean-atmosphere distribution of climatically important chemicals, in particular the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, and how these have changed through time. The research covers a wide span of processes such as ocean chemistry, biology, and circulation in the past, present and projected future and includes the effects of anthropogenic perturbations. The approaches he uses include analysis of a variety of observations as well as the development of sophisticated process models to incorporate in global general circulation models of both the ocean and atmosphere. http://www.princeton.edu/aos/people/faculty/jorge_sarmiento/ Monday 3 September 0910 LT1 |
