Martin Visbeck

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Martin Visbeck

Martin Visbeck (born March 21, 1963 in Braunschweig ) is a German oceanographer and climate researcher .

Life

Martin Visbeck passed his Abitur in 1982 at the Soltau grammar school , then studied from 1982 to 1989 at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel and received his diploma in physical oceanography in 1989 . From 1989 to 1993 he completed his postgraduate studies in physical oceanography at the Institute for Oceanography (IfM) in Kiel .

Create

From 1994 to 1995, after completing his doctorate, he spent some time at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, USA . From 1995 to 2004 he was at Columbia University in New York , USA, a. a. employed as a professor and received the so-called "Storke-Doherty Lectureship" at the Institute of Earth and Environmental Sciences. Between 1998 and 1999 he was a visiting scientist at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) in Hobart , Australia . Since 2004 he has been professor for physical oceanography at today's GEOMAR Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research Kiel . In 2007 he was elected spokesman for the Cluster of Excellence " The Future Ocean " and still holds this position. Between 2007 and 2011 he was Deputy Director of the Leibniz Institute for Marine Sciences in Kiel.

Martin Visbeck's research focus is on ocean and climate variability with a strong focus on the circulation of the subpolar North Atlantic and the subtropical oxygen minimum zones . For data acquisition and further development of the observation possibilities of oceanic circulation, Visbeck relies on expeditions of research ships and increasingly also on the possibilities of modern robotics platforms, such as underwater gliders. Visbeck is involved in the development of long-term observatories of the oceanic water column . The aim is, among other things, to better understand the large-scale ocean circulation of all depth areas, physical processes of the ocean, their effects on currents, deep water formation and the oceanic transport of heat and fresh water as well as their interactions with biological and chemical processes.

Selected publications

  • Keeling, RF, Visbeck, M. (2011) On the Linkage between Antarctic Surface Water Stratification and Global Deep-Water Temperature. J. Clim. 24 (14), 3545 - 3557, doi : 10.1175 / 2011JCLI3642.1 .
  • Visbeck, M. (2008) From Climate assessment to climate services. Nat. Geosci. 1, 1 - 2.
  • Hurrell, JW, Kushnir, Y., Visbeck, M. (2001) The North Atlantic Oscillation. Science 291 (5504): 603-605.

Research projects

  • 2005–2012 NORTH ATLANTIC: Labrador Sea Boundary Current Timeseries
  • 2008–2011 SFB 754: 'Climate-Biogeochemistry Interactions in the Tropical Oceans', Head of SP: 'Dipycnal Mixing and Along Slope Spreading at the Southern Rim of the Guinea Upwelling Region: A Tracer Release Experiment'
  • 2009–2012 THOR: 'Thermohaline Overturning - at Risk'
  • 2011 MoLab - A modular multidisciplinary marine bottom observatory
  • 2011–2014 Gliders for Research, Ocean Observation & Management

honors and awards

  • 1993 Postdoctoral research grant, NOAA-OGP's "Global and Climate Program"
  • 1997 “Storke-Doherty Lectureship”, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University in New York, USA
  • 1999 DEES "Outstanding Teacher"
  • 2003 Tenure at Columbia University
  • 2008 Guest Professor, Ocean University, Qingdao, China
  • 2009 CIMAS Visiting Scientist Award, University of Miami, USA
  • 2019 Henry Stommel Research Award

Bodies

International:

  • since 2011 Member of the ICSU Transition Team, the interim governing body of the new global sustainability initiative "Future Earth"
  • since 2010 Member of AGU Ocean Science Section Executive Committee
  • 2008–2009 Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the World Climate Conference 3 (WCC-3)
  • since 2007 Co-Chair of CLIVAR Scientific Steering Group
  • since 2006 IOC working group Advisory Body of Experts on the Law of the Sea
  • since 1999 NOAA-OAR / OGP Climate observing system council
  • 2008–2009 member of the Science and Innovation Strategic Board (NERC, UK)
  • 2005–2010 member of the RAPID Steering Group (NERC, UK)
  • 2005–2009 member of GEO ( Group on Earth Observations ) science and technology
  • 2004–2005 COPES Task Force WCRP
  • 2000–2006 International CLIVAR Atlantic Sector Implementation Panel (chair)
  • 1999-2004 US-CLIVAR Atlantic Sector Implementation Panel (co-chair with J. Hurrell)
  • 1998–2004 NOAA-OGP Global and Climate Change advisory panel, USA

National:

UNITED STATES:

  • 2001–2002 NOAA-OGP Climate Change Data and Detection advisory panel
  • 2000-2001 Nat. Academy of Sciences: Organizing Committee for the 13th annual Frontiers of Science Symposium
  • 1999-2004 US-CLIVAR Atlantic Sector Implementation Panel (co-chair with J. Hurrell)
  • 1998–2004 NOAA-OGP Global and Climate Change advisory panel

Germany:

  • since 2009 Deputy Speaker of the National Committee for Global Change Research
  • since 2007 spokesman for the Cluster of Excellence " Future Ocean ", Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
  • since 2007 member of the " DFG Senate Commission for Oceanography"
  • since 2007 speaker of the Kiel Earth Institute
  • since 2004 steering group BMBF joint project "NORDATLANTIK"
  • 2008–2012 elected member of the DFG Review Board for Atmospheric and Marine Research
  • 2006–2008 "Medium-sized research vessels" steering group of the federal-state working group "German research fleet"

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f German Committee for Sustainability Research in Future Earth | Committee> Members. Retrieved December 17, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Prof. Dr. Martin Visbeck. Retrieved December 17, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b c Profile of Martin Visbeck on the homepage of the GEOMAR Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research Kiel , accessed on March 26, 2013
  4. ↑ a b c d Renewal Proposal For a Cluster of Excellence The Future Ocean, The Future Ocean, August 8, 2011
  5. ^ PAGES Goa - Plenary Speaker Martin Visbeck. 2013, accessed September 20, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Research focus of the work area Ocean Circulation and Climate Dynamics of GEOMAR , accessed on March 26, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Visbeck, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German oceanographer and climate researcher
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig