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Alexander Agassiz Professor of Biological Oceanography
Harvard University, United States
Museum of Comparative Zoology
26 Oxford Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
United States of America
Tel: +1-617-495-2330
Fax: +1-617-495-0506
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James J. McCarthy is Alexander Agassiz Professor of Biological Oceanography and Director of Harvard University's Museum of Comparative Zoology. He holds faculty appointments in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology (OEB) and the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences (EPS), and he is the Head Tutor for degrees in Environmental Science and Public Policy (ESPP). He received his undergraduate degree in biology from Gonzaga University, and his Ph.D. from Scripps Institution of Oceanography. His research interests have focused on the regulation of plankton productivity in the sea. He has worked extensively on the upper ocean nitrogen cycle in many areas of the world's oceans, and in the past decade has directed these efforts primarily towards regions that are strongly forced by physical processes, such as annual mixing processes, monsoonal cycles and the ENSO system -- processes likely to be altered temporally or spatially by global climate change. Over the past two decades he has become increasingly involved in the planning and implementation of interdisciplinary research efforts. In the mid-1980s he was the founding editor for the American Geophysical Union's Global Biogeochemical Cycles. He participated in the early planning phases of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) and served as its chair for the first six years of the program. He was involved in the first Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessment, co-authoring the concluding chapter of Working Group I. In the third IPCC assessment he co-chaired Working Group II, whose task it was to assess impacts of and vulnerabilities to global climate change, with an intensified focus on adaptation.
This Network Member is involved with the following projects:
Research and Assessment Systems for Sustainability
Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA)
Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA)
Initiative on Science and Technology for Sustainability (ISTS)
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