Principal Investigator John Marshall
Co-investigators Glenn Flierl , Raffaele Ferrari , Michael Follows , Edward Boyle
A significant challenge in understanding the changing earth system is to quantify and model the role of ocean ecosystems in the global carbon cycle. Researchers within PAOC are developing tools to allow marine ecosystems and biogeochemistry to be modeled within the framework of eddy-resolving models of the ocean circulation to better understand the interplay of the processes involved.
In PAOC we try to understand, model and describe the role of ocean circulation and its variability in controlling and modulating global biogeochemical cycles. In addition we also seek to understand and describe the feedbacks between climate and biogeochemical processes. Using tracers PAOC researchers are able to extract quantitative information about the rates of communication between the surface and the deep ocean.