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	Dr. Anne L. Cohen. Click here to view her CV »
	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)

The principle focus of my research program is the study of climate change and its impact on ocean life. While the individual research projects within my lab are quite diverse, our collective goals are twofold: first, we strive to achieve, through a combination of laboratory experiments and field observations, a quantitative understanding of organism responses to CO₂ -induced climate changes in the surface oceans. Combining our data with global and regional climate models, we are making a start at predicting the potential impact of CO₂ -induced changes in seawater temperature, saturation state and nutrient concentrations on organisms in the ocean. The second focus of our research is the construction of proxy records of pre-instrumental climate variability, with a particular interest in periods in Earth’s history when global temperatures were warmer than today. One goal of this work is to place recent and projected changes in ocean conditions, and the observed organism responses to it, within the context of longer term, natural variability.