Mark Warner
University of Washington, WA·Earth & Environmental Science
Measuring the deep ocean repeatedly over decades is the only way to track how it is changing in heat, carbon and dissolved gases. Two projects take part in ship-based surveys that span ocean basins and reach the seafloor.
- Fields
Earth & Environmental Science
Chemistry
- Topics
oceanography
nitrous oxide
greenhouse gases
- Grants
- 2 known grants, through Jun 2027
What they work on
- Place nitrous oxide (N2O) measurements from several GO-SHIP ocean sections on a common calibration scale, merge them with hydrographic data, and release them publicly.
- Measure dissolved N2O from five Southern Ocean surveys to separate air-sea exchange from production within the water and to quantify N2O in Southern Ocean water masses.
- Collect reference-quality measurements of heat, salinity, oxygen, nutrients, the carbon system, and transient tracers (CFCs, sulfur hexafluoride) on fourteen full-depth GO-SHIP cruises to track changes in storage and transport.
More about the research
One collects reference-quality physical and chemical measurements. The other examines nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas the ocean releases.
Why it matters
Climate scientists need accurate records of deep-ocean change to test Earth system models and predict how warming will alter the ocean. Open, reference-quality GO-SHIP data on heat, carbon, oxygen and tracers provide this. New Southern Ocean nitrous oxide measurements could improve estimates of how the ocean's emissions of this greenhouse and ozone-depleting gas may shift as climate changes.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
Closest labs
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San Diego State University, CA·Earth & Environmental Science
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John Wilkin
Rutgers University-New Brunswick, NJ·Earth & Environmental Science
Measure water mass and transport variability at the same time in the inflow and outflow straits of the Indonesian Throughflow, using a 3-year mooring array run jointly with China and Indonesia.
Nicole Lovenduski
University of Colorado Boulder, CO·Earth & Environmental Science
Investigate how small, highly active Southern Ocean hotspots control the transport of heat and carbon between the surface and the deep ocean, using simulations with the Community Earth System Model.
The school
University of Washington: 81 labs on PI Pages, $1.7B a year on research, 694 research doctorates a year.
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