Taro Takahashi
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Columbia University
61 Route 9W
Palisades, NY 10964-8000
Tel. (845) 365-8537
Education:
Bachelor of Engineering, University of Tokyo, JAPAN, 1953
Ph. D. (Earth Science), Columbia University, New York, NY, 1957
Positions Held:
Doherty Senior Scholar, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia
University, Palisades, NY, 1998-present.
Adjunct Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University, New York, NY, 1978-present.
Associate Director, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, 1981-2003.
Acting Chief Executive Officer, Biosphere-2 Center Inc., An affiliate of Columbia University, Oracle, AZ, Jan.,-June, 1996.
Doherty Senior Scientist, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, 1984-1998.
Senior Research Scientist, Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, 1977-1984
Distinguished Professor of Physical Sciences, Queens College, City University of New York, Queens, NY, 1971-1977
Visiting Associate, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 1970-1971
Professor, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, 1969-1970
Recent Professional Services:
Chairman, International Steering Committee for Ocean Nourishment in Asia, 1998-2003.
Member, Ocean CO2 Panel, CCCO/UNESCO, Paris, 1988-2000.
Member, Advisory panel on the Roadmap for the Science and Technology for Carbon Management, Department of Energy, Germantown, VA, October, 1998.
Member, Scientific Steering Committee, International JGOFS Program for the Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (JGOFS) Core Project, International Geosphere-Biosphere Program (IGBP) and the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR), 1995-1997.
Member, Science Steering Committee, US JGOFS Program, June, 1994-1997.
Member and co-chairman, Advisory Panel for the Oceanic CO2 Flux Program, National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, Washington, D. C., 1988-1997.
Member, Scientific Steering Committee, U. S. JGOFS, 1994-1997.
Chairman, Committee on Ocean CO2, Ocean Study Board, National Academy of
Sciences/National Research Council, Washington, D. C., 1992-1995.
Secretary, The Geochemical Society, 1980-1983
Co-chairman, 4th Ewing Symposium on the Climate Processes and Climate Sensitivity, 1982.
Honors Received:
Ford Prize, Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, MI, 2004.
Fellow, American Geophysical Union, 2003
Outstanding Paper Award, Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, NOAA, 2000.
Distinguished Authorship Award (shared with P. P. Tans and I. Fung), NOAA,
Washington, D. C. 1991
Selected Publications:
Books:
"Climate Processes and Climate Sensitivity" (1984) edited by J. E. Hansen and T. Takahashi, Geophysical Monograph #29, American Geophysical Union, Washington, D.C., 368 pp.
Professional Journal Articles:
Hales, B., Takahashi, T. and Bandstra, L. (2005). Atmospheric CO2 uptake by a coastal upwelling system. Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 19. doi.10.1029/2004GB002295.
Hales, B. and Takahashi, T. (2004). High-resolution biogeochemical investigation of the Ross Sea Antarctica, during the AESOPS (U. S.JGOFS) Program . Global Biogeochem. Cycles, Vol. 18, No. 3, GB3006, doi. 10.1029/2003GB002165.
K. H. Coale, K. S. Johnson and the members of the SOFeX Project. (2004). Southern Ocean iron enrichment experiment: Carbon cycling in high- and low-Si waters. Science, 304, 408-414.
Takahashi, T. (2004) Fate of industrial carbon dioxide, Science, 305, 352-353.
Hales, B., Chipman, D. W. and Takahashi, T. (2004). High-frequency measurement of partial pressure and total concentration of carbon dioxide in seawater using microporous hydrophobic membrane contactors. Limnol. & Oceanogr. Methods, 2, 356-364.
Millero, F. J., Pierrot, D. Lee, K., Wanninkhof, R., Feely, R., Sabine, C. L., Key, R. M and Takahashi, T. (2002). Dissociation constants for carbonic acid determined from field measurements. Deep-Sea Res., 49, 1705-1724.
Hales, B. and Takahashi, T. (2002). The pumping SeaSoar: A high-resolution seawater sampling platform. Jour. Oceanic and Atmospheric Technology 19, 1096-1104.
Takahashi, T., Sutherland, S. C., Feely, R. A. and Cosca, C. (2003). Decadal variation of the surface water pCO2 in the western and central Equatorial Pacific. Science, 302, 852-856.
Hales, B., van Geen, A. and Takahashi, T. (2004). High-frequency measurement of seawater chemistry: Flow-injection analysis of macronutrients. Limnol. Oceanogr. Methods (2004) 2:91-101.
Takahashi, T., Sutherland, S. C., Sweeney, C., Poisson, A., Metzl, N., Tillbrook, B., Bates, N., Wanninkhof, R., Feely, R. A., Sabine, C., Olafsson, J. and Nojiri, Y. (2002). Global sea-air CO2 flux based on climatological surface ocean pCO2, and seasonal biological and temperature effects, Deep-Sea Res. II, 49, 1601-1622.
Rubin, S. I., Takahashi, T., Chipman, D. W. and Goddard, J. G. (1998). Primary production and nutrient utilization ratios in the Pacific sector of the Southern Ocean based on seasonal changes in seawater chemistry. Deep-Sea Res., 45, Part I, 1211-1234.
Takahashi, T., Feely, R. A., Weiss, R., Wanninkhof, R. H., Chipman, D. W., Sutherland, S. C. and Takahashi, T. T. (1997). Global air-sea flux of CO2: an estimate based on measurements of sea-air pCO2 difference. Proc. National Acad. Sci., 94, 8292-8299.
Takahashi, T., Takahashi, T. T. and Sutherland, S. C. (1995). An assessment of the role of the North Atlantic as a CO2 sink. Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. London, Series B, 348, 143-152.
Chipman, D. W., Marra, J. and Takahashi, T. (1993). Primary production at 47oN and 20oW in the North Atlantic Ocean: A comparison between the 14C incubation method and the mixed layer carbon budget. Deep-Sea. Res., 40, 151-170.
Takahashi, T., Olafsson, J., Goddard, J., Chipman, D. W. and Sutherland, S. C., (1993). Seasonal variation of CO2 and nutrients in the high-latitude surface oceans: A comparative study. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 7, 843-878.
Tans, P. P., Fung, I. Y. and Takahashi, T. (1990). Observational constraints on the global atmospheric CO2 budget. Science, 247, 1431-1438.
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