Undergraduate and University of California Berkeley, major in Marine Science (2008-2012). Graduate Student at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry (2013-2018), NASA Postdoctoral Program at Goddard Institute for Space Studies (2018-2020).
Paul Lerner
(POST DOC)
| Email: | paul.lerner@nasa.gov |
| Phone: | 212.678.5546 |
| Org Code: | 611 |
| Address: |
NASA/GISS Mail Code 611 New York, NY 10025 |
| Employer: | TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY |
Brief Bio
Current Projects
Biogeochemical Impacts of Marine Dissolved Oxygen and Carbon Feedbacks
NASA Postdoctoral Program funded project. Under supervision of Dr. Anastasia Romanou
Development of NASA-GISS ocean biogeochemical model
under supervision of and in collaboration with Dr. Anastasia Romanou
Positions/Employment
NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow
USRA - NASA GISS, NYC,NY
2018 - Present
Teaching Experience
- Part-Time Instructor at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy (2017)
- Teaching Assistant for MIT course 12.747, "Modelling, Data Analysis, and Numerical Techniques for Geochemistry" (2015).
Education
- Ph.D., Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, MIT/WHOI Joint Program, Woods Hole, MA, 2018
- B.A., Marine Science, University of California Berkeley, Berkely, CA, 2012
Awards
- NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellowship (2018)
- Invited to Dissertation Symposium in Chemical Oceanography XXVI (2018)
Selected Publications
Refereed
2021. "Drivers of Air‐Sea CO 2 Flux Seasonality and its Long‐Term Changes in the NASA‐GISS Model CMIP6 Submission." Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 13 (2): [10.1029/2019ms002028] [Journal Article/Letter]
2020. "A model study of the relative influences of scavenging and circulation on 230Th and 231Pa in the western North Atlantic." Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers 155 103159 [10.1016/j.dsr.2019.103159] [Journal Article/Letter]
2018. "Effects of particle composition on thorium scavenging in the North Atlantic." Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 233 115-134 [10.1016/j.gca.2018.04.035] [Journal Article/Letter]
2017. "Kinetics of thorium and particle cycling along the U.S. GEOTRACES North Atlantic Transect." Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers 125 106-128 [10.1016/j.dsr.2017.05.003] [Journal Article/Letter]
2016. "Testing models of thorium and particle cycling in the ocean using data from station GT11-22 of the U.S. GEOTRACES North Atlantic section." Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers 113 57-79 [10.1016/j.dsr.2016.03.008] [Journal Article/Letter]
Talks, Presentations and Posters
Other
Pre-Industrial Spin-Up of Dissolved Oxygen in the NASA GISS Model E2.1, with Emphasis on the Major ODZs.
2020
Poster Presented at Ocean Sciences Meeting, San Diego, CA
Influences of the Deep Western Boundary Current and Scavenging on 231Pa/230Th in the Northwest Atlantic.
2018
Poster session: Goldschmidt Conference, Boston, MA, USA.
On the Effect of Particle Composition on Thorium Scavenging in the North Atlantic
2017
Oral Presentation: Goldschmidt Conference, Paris, Fr.
Contrasting Rates of Thorium and Particle Cycling in Different Oceanographic Environments along the US GEOTRACES North Atlantic Section
2015
Poster session: Goldschmidt Conference. Prague, CZ.
Testing Models of Chemical Scavenging Using Th and Particle Data from GEOTRACES
2014
Poster session: Goldschmidt Conference. Sacramento, CA.