North American carbon budget and implications for the global carbon cycle

Education

1968
B.A. in Chemistry Swarthmore College

1974
M.A. in Geology Columbia University

1976
M.Ph. in Geology Columbia University

1978
Ph.D. in Geology Columbia University

Employment History

1973‑1978
Graduate Research Assistant, Columbia University

1978‑1980
Research Associate in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Program, Princeton University

1980‑1986
Assistant Professor in Geological and Geophysical Sciences Department, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Program, Princeton University

1986‑1991
Associate Professor in Geological and Geophysical Sciences Department, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Program, Princeton University

1991‑present
Professor in Geological and Geophysical Sciences Department, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Program, Princeton University

1995-present
Associated Faculty in Department of Civil Engineering and Operations Research, Princeton University

1996-present
Associated Faculty in Princeton Environmental Institute, Princeton University

Professional Service/Activities

1995-2003
Member U.S. JGOFS ExecPlus Committee

1995-2003
Co-Chairman U.S. JGOFS Synthesis and Modeling Project

1995-2003
Co-Chairman Carbon and Climate Planning Group, USGCRP

1998-1999
Co-Chairman Carbon and Climate Planning Group, USGCRP

2000-
Member-U.S. Carbon Scientific Steering Group, USGCRP

2003-
Director, NOAA/Princeton Cooperative Institute on Climate Science

Summer 1993
H. Burr Steinbach Visiting Scholar, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

1994-1995
Visiting Professor, Physikalisches Institut, Universität Bern, Bern, Switzerland

1998-1999
Bourse a haut-Niveau from the French Minister of Science

2003
Fellow of the American Geophysical Union

2004
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

American Association for the Advancement of Science

American Geophysical Union

American Meteorological Society

American Society of Limnology and Oceanography

Oceanography Society

Sigma Xi

Publications

Gloor, M., N. Gruber, J. L. Sarmiento, C. S. Sabine, R. Feely, and C. Rödenbeck, 2003. A first estimate of present and pre-industrial air-sea CO2 flux patterns based on ocean carbon measurements. Geophys. Res. Lett., 30(1): 10.1029/2002GL015594.

McNeil, B. I., R. J. Matear, R. M. Key, J. L. Bullister, and J. L. Sarmiento, 2003. Anthropogenic CO2 uptake by the ocean based on the global chlorofluorocarbon dataset Science, 299: 235-239.

Toggweiler, J. R., A. Gnanadesikan, S. Carson, R. Murnane, and J. L. Sarmiento, 2003. Representation of the carbon cycle in box models and GCMs, Part 1, the solubility pump, Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 17(1): 1026, doi:10.1029/2001GB001401.

Toggweiler, J. R., R. Murnane, S. Carson, A. Gnanadesikan, and J. L. Sarmiento, 2003. Representation of the carbon cycle in box models and GCMs, Part 2, the organic carbon pump, Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 17(1): 1027, doi:10.1029/2001GB001841.

Gnanadesikan, A., J. L. Sarmiento, and R. D. Slater,2003. Effects of patchy ocean fertilization on atmospheric carbon dioxide and biological production. Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 17 (2), doi: 10.1029/2002GB001940.

Law, R. M., Y.-H. Chen, K. R. Gurney, and TransCom 3 modellers, 2003. TransCom 3 CO2 inversion intercomparison: 2. Sensitivity of annual mean results to data choices. Tellus, 55B (2): 580-595.

Gurney, K. R., R. M. Law, et al., 2003. TransCom 3 CO2 inversion intercomparison: 1. Annual mean control results and sensitivity to transport and prior flux information. Tellus, 55B (2): 555-579.

Patra, P. K., S. Maksyutov, and TransCom-3 Modelers, 2003. Sensitivity of optimal extension of observation networks to the model transport. Tellus, 55B (2): 498-511.

Maksyutov, S., T. Machida, H. Mukai, P. Patra, T. Nakazawa, G. Inoue, and TransCom-3 Modelers, 2003. Effect of recent observations on Asian CO2 flux estimates with transport model inversions. Tellus 55B (2): 522-529.

Gao, Y., S.-M. Fan, and J. L. Sarmiento, 2003. Aeolian iron input to the ocean through precipitation scavenging: a modeling perspective and its implication for natural iron fertilization in the ocean. (J. Geophys. Res., 108(D7), 4221, doi:10.1029/2002JD002420.

Watson, A. J., J. C. Orr, et al. 2003. Carbon dioxide fluxes in the global ocean. In: Ocean Biogeochemistry, ed. M. J. R. Fasham, Springer-Verlag, Publishers, New York, pp. 123-143.

Sarmiento, J. L., N. Gruber, M. A. Brzezinski, and J. P. Dunne, 2004. High latitude controls of the global nutricline and low latitude biological productivity. Nature, 427: 56-60.

Matsumoto, K., J.L. Sarmiento, et al., 2004. Evaluation of ocean carbon cycle models with data-based metrics. Geophys. Res. Lett., 31, L07303, doi:10.1029/2003GL018970.

Mignone, B. K., J. L. Sarmiento, R. D. Slater, and A. Gnanadesikan, 2004. Sensitivity of sequestration efficiency to mixing processes in the global ocean. Energy, 29: 1467-1478

Greenblatt, J. B., and J. L. Sarmiento, 2004. Variability and climate feedback mechanisms in ocean uptake of CO2. In: The Global Carbon Cycle, ed. C. B. Field and M. R. Raupach, Island Press, Washington, D.C., pp. 257-275.

Edmonds, J., F. Joos, N. Nakicenovic, R. G. Richels, and J. L. Sarmiento, 2004. Scenarios, targets, gaps, and costs. In: The Global Carbon Cycle, ed. C. B. Field and M. R. Raupach, Island Press, Washington, D.C., pp. 77-102.

Sarmiento, J. L., R. Slater, R. Barber, L. Bopp, S. C. Doney, A. C. Hirst, J. Kleypas, R. Matear, U. Mikolajewicz, P. Monfray, V. Soldatov, S. A. Spall, and R. Stouffer, 2004. Response of ocean ecosystems to climate warming. Global Biogeochem . Cycles, 18, GB3003, doi:1029/2003GB002134.

Marinov, I., and J. L. Sarmiento, 2004. The role of the oceans in the global carbon cycle: An overview. In: The Ocean Carbon Cycle and Climate, ed. M. Follows and T. Oguz, NATO ASI, Ankara, Turkey, Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 251-295.

Doney, S. C., K. Lindsay, et al., 2004. Evaluating global ocean carbon models: The importance of realistic physics, Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 18, GB3017, doi:10.1029/2003GB002150.

Gnanadesikan, A., J. P. Dunne, R. M. Key, K. Matsumoto, J. L. Sarmiento, R. D. Slater, and P, S. Swathi, 2004. Oceanic ventilation and biogeochemical cycling: Understanding the physical mechanisms that produce realistic distributions of tracers and productivity. Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 18, GB4010, doi:10.1029/2003GB002097.