Welcome to Anne Cohen's Lab |
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Dr. Anne L. Cohen. Click here to view her CV »
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Enlarge Image Lab group in June 2007 (left to right): Ryan Petit (high school science project), Michael Holcomb (grad student), Alex Pogue (guest student), Anne Cohen, Casey Saenger (grad student), David Spofforth (WHOI-NOC exchange student), Justin Ries (post-doc). (Tom Kleindinst, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
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I am interested in climate change and its impact on life in the
oceans. Research in my lab is focused on decoding geochemical and
structural information contained within the skeletons of marine
organisms, living and fossil. We use this information to build records
of past climate, and to study how climate change
affects the ability of marine calcifying organisms to build their
skeletons.
Some of our current projects include:
- Building proxy records of past sea surface temperatures by
measuring compositional and structural changes in the skeletons of
massive, long-lived corals
- Developing new geochemical thermometers
- Quantifying changes in the growth and
calcification of reef-building corals in response to climate change
- Conducting
laboratory experiments with live corals and other calcifying plants and
animals to quantify the impacts of temperature and pCO2 on calcification (visit our Marine Calcification lab).
- Growing
abiogenic (non-biological) carbonates from seawater with variable
temperature and saturation states to provide a framework for
understanding the response of biogenic calcification to similar changes
in the natural environment (see Paleoceanography Research at WHOI)
To read more about these projects and tour our lab and analytical
facilities, click on the research section. Our lab members include
post-docs, graduate students, summer research fellows, guest students
and exchange students. If you are interested in working with us via one
of these programs, please visit WHOI’s educational pages or contact acohen@whoi.edu
Last updated: May 7, 2008 |