NOC-led Study Paves the Way for Future Climate Models
in knowledge of the biological carbon pump, in the hope of prioritizing which aspects should be included in future climate model developments, and the observations necessary to achieve that. The study, which was carried out with the Imperial College, University of Washington, University of Bern and Boston College is aiming to pave the way for more accurate modelling of future ocean carbon storage.Climate models aim to inform us about how the world will respond to climate change caused by increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. A critical part of the Earth’s carbon cycle occurs in the ocean
WHOI Hires New Chief Development Officer
of Development & Alumni Relations at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, where he expanded school philanthropic revenue by more than 400 percent. He has also worked in various fundraising roles at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Habitat for Humanity International, and Boston College
Celata Heads BOEM's Gulf of Mexico Office
experience and ability to seek out opportunities that strike a balance between resource development and environmental protection make him a perfect fit for overseeing our program in the Gulf.” After receiving a B.A. in geology and physics from Bowdoin College in 1980, Celata attended the Boston College Master of Science Program where he was a seismological research assistant. He began his career as a geophysicist with Exxon in 1984. For the past 20 years, Celata has held varying positions of increased responsibility with BOEM. He has served as principal authority to enhance the development
Karnauskas Selected for Research Fellowship
in 2013 from the WHOI Ocean and Climate Change Institute. In addition to his research, Karnauskas also advises graduate students in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography, as well as undergraduate guest students, and he has taught in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Boston College. Karnauskas received a B.S. degree in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences from the University of Wisconsin in 2004, and a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland in 2007. He was a post-doctoral fellow at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in 2008 and 2009.
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