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Holger Brix

Education

Diploma, Meteorology, University of Hamburg, Germany (1997)
PhD, Physics (Physical Oceanography), University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany (2001)

Research Interests

Study of natural versus anthropogenic variability of global biogeochemical cycles using observational data and numerical models of varying complexity.
Investigation of drivers of oxygen minimum zone variability under recent and climate change scenarios.
Regional case studies (e.g. coastal ocean, upwelling regions, mode waters, Southern Ocean) of physical and chemical atmosphere-ocean interactions and their influence on sub-surface ocean physics, chemistry, and biology.

Evaluating and developing numerical ocean models using

satellite data constraints (especially sea surface temperature and surface winds), and
self-organizing ecosystem structures

Investigation of the role of eddies in local processes (mode water formation, for instance).

Projects

ECCO-Ices
ECCO-Ices is an ECCO-follow-on project that aims to produce increasingly accurate syntheses of all available global-scale ocean and sea-ice data at resolutions that start to resolve ocean eddies.

Professional Experience

University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, Assistant Researcher, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences and Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering, 2006-present.
University of California, Los Angeles, CA, Adjunct Assistant Professor: Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, 2006-present.
University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, Postdoctoral Research: Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, 2001-2006.

Selected Publications

Brix, H., and R. Gerdes, North Atlantic Deep Water and Antarctic Bottom Water: Their interaction and influence on the variability of the global ocean circulation, Journal of Geophysical Research, 108(C2), 3022, doi: 10.1029/2002JC001335, 2003.
Brix, H., J.L. Hench, H.L. Johnson, T.M.S. Johnston, J.A. Polton, M. Roughan, and P. Testor, An International Perspective on Graduate Education in Physical Oceanography, Oceanography, 16(3), 128-133, 2003.
Keeling, C.D., H. Brix, and N. Gruber, Seasonal and long-term dynamics of the upper ocean carbon cycle at station ALOHA near Hawaii, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 18, GB4006, doi: 10.1029/2004GB002227, 2004.
Brix, H., N. Gruber, and C.D. Keeling, Interannual variability of the upper ocean carbon cycle at station ALOHA near Hawaii, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 18, GB4019, doi: 10.1029/2004GB002245, 2004.
Brix, H., N. Gruber, D.M. Karl, and N.R. Bates, On the relationships between primary, net community, and export production in subtropical gyres, Deep Sea Research II, 53(5-7), 698-717, doi: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2006.01.024, 2006.
Reid, P. C., A. Fischer, E. Lewis-Brown, M. Meredith, M. Sparrow, A. Andersson, A. Antia, N. Bates, U. Bathman, G. Beaugrand, H. Brix, S. Dye, M. Edwards, T. Furevik, R. Gangstø, H. Hátún, R. R. Hopcroft, M. Kendall, S. Kasten, R. Keeling, C. LeQuéré, F. T. Mackenzie, G. Malin, C. Mauritzen, J. Ólafsson, C. Paull, E. Rignot, K. Shimada, M. Vogt, C. Wallace, Z. Wang, and R. Washington, Impacts of the Oceans on Climate Change, In D. W. Sims, editor: Advances in Marine Biology, Vol. 56, Burlington: Academic Press, 2009, pp. 1-150.

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