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WHOI Computational Biogeochemistry Group

Principal Investigators

Recent News

New Ocean Carbon Programs:Two new efforts across the U.S. ocean biogeochemistry community are underway to improve communication and coordination across the field.

Ocean Carbon and Climate Change (OCCC)

Research Strategy (Doney et al., 2004)
New Scientific Steering Group formed in June, 2005 (Chair, Scott Doney)
OCCC is part of the U.S. Global Change Research Program's Carbon Cycle Science Program.

Ocean Carbon Biogeochemistry (OCB)

Objective is to help coordinate ocean biogeochemical and associated ecological research across the U.S. research community
New Scientific Steering Committee formed in Jan., 2006 (Chair, Scott Doney)

Ocean Acidification: Rising atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) levels from fossil fuel burning is lowering surface ocean pH and will severely impact by the end of this century many organisms that build shells from calcium carbonte (e.g., corals, pteropods, coccolithophores).

Nature paper: (pdf) (supplement) (website)
WHOI press release
Oceanus Magazine News
Scientific American Article: Scott C. Doney, "The dangers of ocean acidification" March 2006, 58-65. Reprints available on request (sdoney@whoi.edu)

Carbon-climate Feedbacks: Future climate warming and changes in the water cycle and ocean circulation will likely decrease the ability of the land biosphere and oceans to store carbon; the resulting carbon-climate feedbacks would accelerate human induced climate-change.

PNAS paper
WHOI press release
Oceanus Magazine News

Human World: Doney interviewed for The Earth & Sky radio series Special Report on the Human World.

Research Overview

Our central research focus is on ocean biogeochemistry and the coupling with the global climate system. Specific scientific topics currently under investigation include:

marine ecosystem dynamics
ocean and global carbon cycle
ocean interannual variability
air-sea gas exchange
marine sulfur cycling
sub- and mesoscale biological/physical interactions
phytoplankton genomics

Most of our present work involves the use of numerical models and satellite remote sensing (thus "computational biogeochemistry"), but we also have active data analysis, laboratory and sea-going efforts.

Last modified on 15 November 2006