Laurence A. Anderson
Bigelow Building, Room 411 -- Mailstop #9
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Woods Hole, MA 02543
USA
phone: 1-508-289-3742
fax: 1-508-457-2132
email: landerson@whoi.edu

Education:

Ph.D., Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton University, 1993.
M.A., Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton University, 1990.
B.S., Physics, University of Notre Dame, 1988.

Research Interests: 

Nutrient Cycling; Redfield Ratios of Nutrient Coupling; Impact of Physical Processes on Biogeochemical Cycles; Physical-Biogeochemical Numerical Modeling; Data Assimilation in Numerical Models.

Research Projects:

Impact of Mesoscale Eddies on Nutrient Fluxes and Biological New Production

• Ledwell, J. R., D. J. McGillicuddy, Jr., and L. A. Anderson, Nutrient flux into an intense deep chlorophyll layer in a mode-water eddy, Deep-Sea Research II, 55, p 1139-1160, 2008.

• McGillicuddy, D. J., J. R. Ledwell and L. A. Anderson, Response to Comment on "Eddy/wind interactions stimulate extraordinary mid-ocean plankton blooms, Science, 320, p 448c, doi:10.1126/science.1148974, 2008.

• McGillicuddy, D. J., Jr., L. A. Anderson, N. R. Bates, T. Bibby, K. O. Buesseler, C. A. Carlson, C. S. Davis, C. Ewart, P. G. Falkowski, S. A. Goldthwait, D. A. Hansell, W. J. Jenkins, R. Johnson, V. K. Kosnyrev, J. R. Ledwell, Q. P. Li, D. A. Siegel and D. K. Steinberg, Eddy/wind interactions stimulate extraordinary mid-ocean plankton blooms, Science 316, p 1021-1026, 2007.

• Eddy Post-Convective Restratification Simulations I

• Eddy Post-Convective Restratification Simulations II

• Simulations of SF6 Mixing by Eddies in the Tropical Atlantic at 13 N 54 W

• McGillicuddy, D. J., Jr., L. A. Anderson, S. C. Doney and M. E. Maltrud, Eddy-driven sources and sinks of nutrients in the upper ocean: results from a 0.1^o resolution model of the North Atlantic, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 17(2), 1035, doi:10.1029/2002GB001987, 2003.

Eddy-Resolving North Atlantic Model Simulations

Data Assimilation in Coupled Physical-Biological Ocean Models

• Anderson, L.A., The seasonal nitrogen cycle in Wilkinson Basin, Gulf of Maine, as estimated by 1-D biological model optimization, manuscript in preparation.

Nitrate Database for the Western Gulf of Maine

• Mourino, B., and L. A. Anderson, Net production of oxygen derived from in vitro and 1-D model in situ techniques in a cyclonic mesoscale eddy in the Sargasso Sea, manuscript in preparation.

• Friedrichs, M. A. M., J. Dusenberry, L. Anderson, R. Armstrong, F. Chai, J. Christian, S. Doney, J. Dunne, M. Fujii, R. Hood, D. McGillicuddy, K. Moore, M. Schartau, Y. Spitz, and J. Wiggert, Assessment of skill and portability in regional marine biogeochemical models: the role of multiple planktonic groups, Journal of Geophysical Research 112, C08001, doi:10.1029/2006JC003852, 2007.

• Anderson, L., A. Robinson, P. Haley and M. Srokosz, Realtime physical and biological data assimilative forecasts during RRS Discovery Cruise 227, April-May 1997, Northeast Atlantic.  Submitted in 2002, but needs revision.

• Anderson, L. A., and A. R. Robinson, Physical and biological modeling in the Gulf Stream Region: II. Physical and biological processes, Deep-Sea Research I, 48, p 1139-1168, 2001.

• Anderson, L. A., A. R. Robinson and C. J. Lozano, Physical and biological modeling in the Gulf Stream Region: I. Data assimilation methodology,  Deep-Sea Research I, 47, p 1787-1827, 2000.

Redfield Ratios of Nutrient Cycle Coupling

• Anderson, L. A., On the hydrogen and oxygen content of marine phytoplankton, Deep-Sea Research I, 42, p 1675-1680, 1995.
  

• Anderson, L. A., and J. L. Sarmiento, Global Ocean phosphate and oxygen simulations, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 9, p 621-636, 1995.

• Anderson, L. A., and J. L. Sarmiento, Redfield ratios of remineralization determined by nutrient data analysis, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 8, p 65-80, 1994.

Potential and Kinetic Energy Budgets of the World Ocean

• Oort, A. H., L. A. Anderson and J. P. Peixoto, Estimates of the energy cycle of the oceans, Journal of Geophysical Research, 99, p 7665-7688, 1994. 

Last updated: 3 July 2008