Key Drivers of Marine Ecosystem Change under Climate Warming
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Key Drivers of Marine Ecosystem Change under Climate Warming: Results from the Distributed Biological Observatory in the Pacific Arctic
When and where: April 19, 2023, 2023 12p - 1p (est) | HYBRID
Learn More about Professors Lee W. Cooper and Jacqueline M. Grebmeier
Lee Cooper is a Professor at the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. He received his Ph.D. in Oceanography from the University of Alaska Fairbanks in 1987 following undergraduate and graduate work at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the University of Washington. He has been involved in long-term studies of biological communities on the seafloor of the Bering and Chukchi Seas and how they are responding to changes in seasonal sea ice and other climatically-driven variables. His analytical expertise includes measurements of stable and radioactive isotopes, including organic and inorganic materials, such as soils and sediments, atmospheric gasses, plant and animal tissues, and natural waters. He served internationally as the chair of the Marine Working Group of the International Arctic Science Committee, a non-governmental entity that helps to coordinate arctic research among 24 nation members. He is the section editor for Biogeochemistry for the journal PLOS One and the lead author or co-author of approximately 160 peer-reviewed publications, including high-impact journals such as Science, Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, Ecology, Marine Ecology Progress Series and Geophysical Research Letters.
Jackie Grebmeier is a Professor at the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. Her oceanographic research interests are related to pelagic-benthic coupling, benthic carbon cycling, and benthic faunal population structure in the marine environment. Her field research program in the Arctic has focused on such topics as understanding how water column processes influence biological productivity in Arctic waters and sediments, how materials are exchanged between the sea bed and overlying waters, and documenting longer-term trends in ecosystem health of Arctic continental shelves. Research projects have included analyses of the importance of benthic organisms to higher levels of the Arctic food web, including walrus, gray whale, and diving sea ducks, and studies of radionuclide distributions in sediments and within the water column in the Arctic as a whole. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a recipient of the International Arctic Science Committee Medal, and she has also served on a number of advisory and review committees to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, Polar Research Board, National Science Foundation (NSF), National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and Fish and Wildlife Service, and she was appointed to the US Arctic Research Commission by President Clinton. She also served as project director and chief scientist for a National Science Foundation and Office of Naval Research supported field research program in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas that investigated the exchange of materials between the continental shelves and the deeper Arctic basin in the context of global change (Shelf-Basin Interactions Phase II, 2001-2007), as well as a number of other interdisciplinary projects in the Arctic. A current effort is the internationally coordinated Distributed Biological Observatory in the Arctic that is supported by a number of US agencies, as well as science agencies in Canada, Korea, Japan and China.