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Kenneth H. Coale

Biology, Geosciences & Oceanography / Moss Landing Marine Laboratories
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About me

Dr. Kenneth Coale is the Director of the Moss Landing Marine Laboratories: the graduate program in marine sciences and research facilities serving a consortium of seven California State University campuses. Dr. Coale is a biogeochemist who studies the cycles of chemicals in the sea and the natural and anthropogenic processes which influence these cycles. He was the Chief Scientist/Principal Investigator on all the US-led open ocean iron fertilization experiments in both the equatorial Pacific and Southern Ocean which have advanced the “Iron Hypothesis” of phytoplankton production and climate forcing. His research interests include trace element, carbon and nutrient cycling in ocean, coastal and freshwater systems; the application of natural and anthropogenic radionuclides in the study of marine rate processes; and the development of integrated coastal ocean observing systems. Dr. Coale serves on the CSU Council on Ocean Affairs, Science and Technology (COAST) Executive Committee, Central and Northern California Ocean Observing System (CeNCOOS) Executive Committee and the California Ocean Protection Council's Science Advisory Team.

Areas of interest / keywords

marine sciences, ocean affairs, trace element biogeochemistry, use of u/th radionuclides

chemical cycling in marine and lacustrine systems

california, central pacific, southern ocean

holocene

global biogeochemist

Publications

1. Buesseler, K., S. Doney, D. Karl, P. Boyd, K. Caldeira, F. Chai, K. Coale, H. de Baar, P. Falkowski, K. Johnson, R. Lampitt, A. Michaels, S. Naqvi, V. Smetacek, S. Takeda, and A. Watson. 2008. Ocean iron fertilization--moving forward in a sea of uncertainty. Science (New York, N.Y.) 319: 162. (article)

2. Heim, W., K. Coale, M. Stephenson, K. Choe, G. Gill, and C. Foe. 2007. Spatial and habitat-based variations in total and methyl mercury concentrations in surficial sediments in the San Francisco Bay-Delta. Environmental Science & Technology: 3501-7. (article)

3. Coale, K.H., R.M. Gordon, and X. Wang. 2005. The distribution and behavior of the dissolved and particulate iron and zinc in the Ross Sea and Antarctic Circumpolar Current along 70 W. Deep-Sea Research I. 52(2): 295-318. (article)

4. Coale, K.H. and 47 others. 2004. Southern Ocean Iron Enrichment Experiment: Carbon Cycling in High- and Low-Si Waters. Science 304: 408-414. (article)

5. Kerr-Ferrey, L., A.H. Andrews, B.R. Frantz, T.A. Brown, G.M. Cailliet, and K.H. Coale. 2004. Radiocarbon in otoliths of yelloweye rockfish (Sebastes ruberrimus): a reference time series for the waters of southeast Alaska. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 61: 443-451. (article)

6. Coale, K.H., L.A. Kerr, A.H. Andrews, B.R. Frantz, T.A. Brown, and G.M. Cailliet. 2004. Radiocarbon in otoliths of yelloweye rockfish (Sebastes ruberrimus): a reference time series for the coastal waters of southeast Alaska. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 61: 1-9. (article)

7. Coale, K.H., M. Stevens, A. Andrews, G. Cailliet, and C. Lundstrom. 2004. Age, growth and radiometric age validation of the blackgill rockfish, Sebastes melanostomus. Fishery Bulletin. In Press. (article)

8. Coale, K.H., V. Elrod, W. Berelson, and K. Johnson. 2004. The Flux of Iron from Continental Shelf Sediments: A Missing Source for Global Budgets? Geophysical Research Letters. In Press. (article)

9. Coale, K.H., C. Key-Young, G.A. Gill, R.D. Lehman, S. Han, and W.A. Heim. 2004. Sediment-water exchange of total mercury and monomethyl mercury in the San Francisco Bay-Delta. Limnology and Oceanography 49: 1512-1527. (article)

10. Coale, K., K. Johnson, F. Chavez, K. Buesseler, R. Barber, M. Brzezinski, W. Cochlan, F. Millero, P. Falkowski, J. Bauer, R. Wanninkhof, R. Kudela, M. Altabet, B. Hales, T. Takahashi, M. Landry, R. Bidigare, X. Wang, Z. Chase, P. Strutton, G. Friederich, M. Gorbunov, V. Lance, A. Hilting, M. Hiscock, M. Demarest, W. Hiscock, K. Sullivan, S. Tanner, R. Gordon, C. Hunter, V. Elrod, S. Fitzwater, J. Jones, S. Tozzi, M. Koblizek, A. Roberts, J. Herndon, J. Brewster, N. Ladizinsky, G. Smith, D. Cooper, D. Timothy, S. Brown, K. Selph, C. Sheridan, B. Twining, and Z. Johnson. 2004. Southern Ocean iron enrichment experiment: carbon cycling in high- and low-Si waters. Science (New York, N.Y.): 408-14. (article)

11. Coale, K.H., A.H. Andrews, G.M. Cailliet, K.M. Munk, M.M. Mahoney, and V.M. O'Connell. 2002. Radiometric age validation of the yelloweye rockfish (Sebastes ruberrimus) from southeastern Alaska. Marine and Freshwater Research 53(2): 1-8. (article)

12. Coale, K.H., A.H. Andrews, E.E. Cordes, M.M. Mahoney, K. Munk, G.M. Cailliet, and J. Heifetz. 2002. Age, growth and radiometric age validation of a deep-sea, habitat-forming gorgonian (Primnoa resedaeformis) from the Gulf of Alaska. Hydrobiologia 471: 101-110. (article)

13. Coale, K.H., A.H. Andrews, E.J. Burton, G.M. Cailliet, and R.E. Crabtree. 2001. Radiometric age validation of Atlantic tarpon, Megalops atlanticus. Fishery Bulletin 99: 389-398. (article)

14. Coale, K.H. and D. Watters. 2000. Age determination and confirmation from otoliths of the bank rockfish, Sebastes rufus (Scorpaenidae). Fishery Bulletin. (article)

15. Coale, K.H. 2000. Nutrient Cycling: Iron Fertilization. Encyclopedia for Ocean Sciences. Academic Press, London, J. Steele, K. Turekian S Thorpe, Eds. (article)

16. Coale, K.H., A.H. Andrews, and G.M. Cailliet. 1999. Age and growth of the Pacific grenadier (Coryphaenoides acrolepis) with age estimate validation using an improved radiometric ageing technique. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 56: 1339-1350. (article)

17. Coale, K.H. 1998. Preface to Topical Studies in Oceanography, The Galapagos Iron Experiments: A Tribute to John Martin. Deep-Sea Research, Part II 45(6): 915-918. (article)

18. Coale, K.H. and K.S. Johnson. 1997. Recent advances in trace metal and nutrient analysis in seawater. Advances in Environmental Science, N. K. Muraleedharan for Educational Book Publishers and Distributors, New Delhi. C.S.P. Iyer: 63-81. (article)

19. Coale, K.H., K.S. Johnson, S.E. Fitzwater, R.M. Gordon, S. Tanner, F.P. Chavez, L. Ferioli, C. Sakamoto, P. Rogers, F. Millero, P. Steinberg, P. Nightingale, D. Cooper, W.P. Cochlan, M.R. Landry, J. Constantinou, G. Rollwagen, A. Trasvina, and R. Kudela. 1996. A massive phytoplankton bloom induced by an ecosystem-scale iron fertilization experiment in the equatorial Pacific Ocean. Nature 383: 495-501. (article)

20. Coale, K.H., J.H. Martin, K.S. Johnson, S.E. Fitzwater, R.M. Gordon, S.J. Tanner, C.N. Hunter, V.A. Elrod, J.L. Nowicki, T.L. Coley, R.T. Barber, S. Lindley, A.J. Watson, K. Van Scoy, C.S. Law, M.I. Liddicoat, R. Ling, T. Stanton, J. Stockel, C. Collins, A. Anderson, R. Bidigare, M. Ondrusek, M. Latasa, F.J. Millero, K. Lee, W. Yao, J.Z. Zhang, G. Friederich, C. Sakamoto, F. Chavez, K. Buck, Z. Kolber, R. Greene, P. Falkowski, S.W. Chisholm, F. Hoge, R. Swift, J. Yungel, S. Turner, P. Nightingale, A. Hatton, P. Liss, and N.W. Tindale. 1994. Testing the Iron Hypothesis in Ecosystems of the Equatorial Pacific Ocean. Nature 371(6493): 123-129. (article)

21. Johnson, K., W. Berelson, K. Coale, T. Coley, V. Elrod, W. Fairey, H. Iams, T. Kilgore, and J. Nowicki. 1992. Manganese Flux from Continental Margin Sediments in a Transect Through the Oxygen Minimum. Science (New York, N.Y.): 1242-1245. (article)

22. Coale, K.H., C.S. Chin, G.J. Massoth, K.S. Johnson, and E.T. Baker. 1991. In situ chemical mapping of dissolved iron and manganese in hydrothermal plumes. Nature 352: 325-328. (article)

23. Coale, K.H. and K.W. Bruland. 1988. Copper Complexation in the Northeast Pacific. Limnol. Oceanogr 33: 1084 - 1101. (article)

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