Rik Wanninkhof

Interests

The oceanic inorganic carbon cycle with a focus on the anthropogenic perturbation thereof.

Biography

Rik Wanninkhof is an oceanographer at the Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory of NOAA in Miami FL, USA. He studies the oceanic inorganic carbon cycle and has done extensive research on the transfer of carbon dioxide across the air-water interface. His research portfolio is comprised of several sustained observations projects including:

 

• Measurements of partial pressure of CO₂ from ships of opportunity.
• GO-SHIP repeat hydrography that detects changes in anthropogenic CO₂ in the ocean and natural and climate induced variability on decadal time scales by repeat occupations of global ocean transects.
• Coastal ocean acidification monitoring of Gulf Coast and East Coast.

 

Wanninkhof will participate in SOCCOM as an external collaborator.