Hernan
E. Garcia
Mailing Address:
National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency
National Oceanographic Data Center
Ocean Climate Laboratory
SSMC III, E/OC5 Room 4326
1315 East-West Highway
Silver Spring, MD 20910
USA
Phone: (301) 713-3290 Ext 184; Fax: (301) 713-3303
Last updated: Jan 2004
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- Research interests and qualifications
- Education and training
- Teaching and work experience
- Professional awards, honors, and scholarships
- Professional memberships
- Publications and other work
- Academic references
- Mailing address and e-mail
Research interests (Top of page)
Teaching undergraduate/graduate, inverse methods, biogeochemical cycles, coupling of chemical and physical tracers, water-masses and large�scale mixing, oceanic variability, time-series data.
Other qualifications (Top of page)
Nutrient and oxygen chemical automated methods, large historical data manipulation, numerical and statistical methods, computer languages (Fortran, Dos, Unix), speak English and Spanish fluently.
- Ph.D. Chemical Oceanography, Jun., 1996. College of Oceanic & Atmos. Sci., Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR.
- M.Sc. Oceanography (marine resource management), Dec., 1988, College of Oceanic & Atmos. Sci., Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR.
- B.Sc. Major: Oceanography. Minors: Physics and Mathematics, Dec., 1985, Oceanography Department, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA
Work and teaching experience (Top of page)
- Graduate student teaching assistant, College of Oceanography, Oregon State University (Fall 1987, 1988).
- Visiting scholar, U.S. NODC, Washington, D.C. (Summer, 1988).
- Oceanography student senator, Ass. Student Oregon State University, 1988.
- Oceanography student computer representative, College of Oceanography, Oregon State University (1989).
- Consultant, NOAA-NMFS, Auke Bay Laboratory, Alaska (August-�December, 1990).
- Visiting scholar, Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Blanes, Spain (Summer, 1994).
- Graduate research assistant, College of Oceanic & Atmos. Sci., Oregon State University (1989-�1996).
- Postdoctoral researcher, College of Oceanic & Atmos. Sci., Oregon State University (March�June, 1996).
- Postdoctoral fellow, Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Blanes, Spain (June 1996�May 1998).
- Lecturer, Chemical Oceanography, Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain (1997, 1998).
- Postdoctoral fellow, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla (June 1998�-July 2001).
- Oceanographer, NOAA/NODC/Ocean Climate Laboratory, Silver Spring, MD (Aug 2001-�present).
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Profesional awards,
honors, and scholarships (Top of page)
- Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho undergraduate fellowship (1981�1985).
- Sea Grant International, Oregon State University (1988).
- Organization of American States graduate fellowship (1987�1989).
- XII Dissertations in Chemical Oceanography (DISCO), Hawaii, Nov., 1994.
- Spain Ministry of Science and Education postdoctoral fellowship (1996).
- International award (1997) for best dissertation in physical oceanography (1995-1996) "Enrico Ferruccci", University of Trieste, Italy.
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Publications and other work (Top
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- Garcia, H. E. 1988. Caribbean Sea marine research data inventory and the feasibility of establishing a coastal and marine data and information center in Venezuela. College of Oceanography, Oregon State University.
- Garcia, H. E. and L. I. Gordon. 1990. Principal component analysis of nutrients and hydrography in the Caribbean and tropical Atlantic Ocean. EOS 71(2), 105
- Garcia, H. E., and L. I. Gordon. 1991. Large�scale mixing and regeneration of nutrients in the deep Atlantic Ocean. EOS 71(3), 1396
- Garcia, H. E. 1991. Mesoscale thermohaline characteristics of the subarctic�subtropic transition zone in the northeastern Pacific Ocean during winter 1989. National Marine Fisheries Service, Alaska.
- Garcia, H. E., and L. I. Gordon. 1992. Oxygen solubility in seawater: better fitting equations. Limnol. Oceanogr. 37(6), 1307�1312.
- Garcia, H. E., and L. I. Gordon. 1993. On the structure and variability of the Deep Western Boundary Current and subtropical Northwestern Atlantic deduced from nutrient and oxygen data. The Oceanography Society, Seattle, WA.
- Garcia, H. E., and L. I. Gordon. 1994. On the distribution and transport of nutrients and oxygen in the Atlantic Ocean by the Deep Western Boundary Current. EOS 75(3), 63
- Garcia, H. E., and L. I. Gordon. 1994. Biogeochemical studies in the deep western boundary current of the subtropical northwestern Atlantic: ventilation intensity and evolution. Atlantic Climate Change Program�NOAA, Princeton, NJ., May 9�11, 1994
- Garcia, H. E., and L. I. Gordon. 1994. Chemical studies in the North Atlantic Deep Western Boundary Current: mixing of source waters and regeneration of nutrients. EOS 75(44), 325
- Cruzado, A., H. E. Garcia, L. I. Gordon, and J. Escanez. 1994. Nutrient and oxygen distributions along the WOCE A�5 trans�Atlantic section at 24.5/N. EOS 75(44), 325
- Garcia, H. E.. 1996. On the large�scale characteristics, fluxes, and variability of the North Atlantic Deep Water and its Deep Western Boundary Current deduced from nutrient and oxygen data. PhD thesis, College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University. 184 pp.
- Garcia, H. E., and A. Cruzado. 1997. On the distribution of nutrients and oxygen across the Scotia Sea during austral summer 1996. Boletin de la Real Sociedad Espanola de Historia Natural 93(1-4):161-171.
- Garcia, H. E., A. Cruzado, L. I. Gordon, and J. Escanez. 1998. Decadal-scale chemical variability at 24.5�N latitude in the subtropical Atlantic Ocean deduced from nutrient and oxygen data. Journal Geophysical Research-Oceans, 103:2817-2830.
- Zhang, J.-Z. C.W. Mordy, L.I. Gordon, A. Ross, and H. E. Garcia. 2000. Are reported temporal trends in the deep ocean Redfield Ratios real? Science, 289:1839.
- Garcia, H. E., and Keeling. 2001. On the global seasonal air-sea oxygen flux. Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans 106: 31155-31166 [PDF]
- Stephens, C., J. I. Antonov, T. P. Boyer, M. E. Conkright, R. A. Locarnini, T. D. O'Brien, H. E. Garcia, 2002: World Ocean Atlas 2001, Volume 1: Temperature. S. Levitus, Ed., NOAA Atlas NESDIS 49, U.S. Government Printing Office, Wash., D.C., 167 pp., CD-ROMs. [PDF]
- Boyer, T. P., Stephens, C., J. I. Antonov, M. E. Conkright, R. A. Locarnini, T. D. O'Brien, H. E. Garcia, 2002: World Ocean Atlas 2001, Volume 2: Salinity. S. Levitus, Ed., NOAA Atlas NESDIS 50, U.S. Government Printing Office, Wash., D.C., 165 pp., CD-ROMs. [PDF].
- Locarnini, R. A., T. D. O'Brien, H. E. Garcia, J. I. Antonov, T. P. Boyer, M. E. Conkright, C. Stephens, 2002: World Ocean Atlas 2001, Volume 3: Oxygen. S. Levitus, Ed., NOAA Atlas NESDIS 51, U.S. Government Printing Office, Wash., D.C., 286 pp., CD-ROMs. [PDF]
- Conkright, M. E., H. E. Garcia, T. D. O'Brien, R. A. Locarnini, T. P. Boyer, C. Stephens J. I. Antonov, 2002: World Ocean Atlas 2001, Volume 4: Nutrients. S. Levitus, Ed., NOAA Atlas NESDIS 52, U.S. Government Printing Office, Wash., D.C., 392 pp., CD-ROMs. [PDF].
- O'Brien, T. D., M. E. Conkright, T. P. Boyer, C. Stephens, J. I. Antonov, R. A. Locarnini, H. E. Garcia, 2002: World Ocean Atlas 2001, Volume 5: Plankton. S. Levitus, Ed., NOAA Atlas NESDIS 53, U.S. Government Printing Office, Wash., D.C., 95 pp., CD-ROMs. [PDF].
- Conkright, M. E., T. D. O'Brien, C. Stephens, R. A. Locarnini, H. E. Garcia, T. P. Boyer, J. I. Antonov, 2002: World Ocean Atlas 2001, Volume 6: Chlorophyll. S. Levitus, Ed., NOAA Atlas NESDIS 54, U.S. Government Printing Office, Wash., D.C., 46 pp., CD-ROMs. [PDF].
- Conkright, M. E., J. I. Antonov, O. Baranova, T. P. Boyer, H. E. Garcia, R. Gelfeld, D. Johnson, R. A. Locarnini, P. P. Murphy, T. D. O'Brien, I. Smolyar, C. Stephens, 2002: NOAA Atlas NESDIS 42, WORLD OCEAN DATABASE 2001 Volume 1: Introduction, U.S. Gov. Printing Office, Wash., D.C., 160pp. [PDF].
- Boyer, T. P., M. E. Conkright, J. I. Antonov, O. Baranova, H. E. Garcia, R. Gelfeld, D. Johnson, R. A. Locarnini, P. P. Murphy, T. D. O'Brien, I. Smolyar, C. Stephens, 2002: NOAA Atlas NESDIS 43 WORLD OCEAN DATABASE 2001 Volume 2: Temporal Distribution of Bathythermograph Profiles, U.S. Gov. Printing Office, Wash., D.C., 119pp. [PDF].
- Stephens, C, M. E. Conkright, J. I. Antonov, O. Baranova, T. P. Boyer, H. E. Garcia, R. Gelfeld, D. Johnson, R. A. Locarnini, P. P. Murphy, T. D. O'Brien, I. Smolyar, 2002: NOAA Atlas NESDIS 44 WORLD OCEAN DATABASE 2001 Volume 3: Temporal Distribution of Conductivity/Salinity-Temperature-Depth (Pressure) Casts, U.S. Gov. Printing Office, Wash., D.C., 47pp. [PDF].
- Locarnini, R. A., M. E. Conkright, J. I. Antonov, O. Baranova, T. P. Boyer, H. E. Garcia, R. Gelfeld, D. Johnson, P. P. Murphy, T. D. O'Brien, I. Smolyar, C. Stephens, 2002: NOAA Atlas NESDIS 45 WORLD OCEAN DATABASE 2001 Volume 4: Temporal Distribution of Temperature, Salinity and Oxygen Profiles U.S. Gov. Printing Office, Wash., D.C., 332pp. [PDF].
- M. E. Conkright, T. P. Boyer, J. I. Antonov, O. K. Baranova, H. E. Garcia, R. Gelfeld, D. Johnson, R. A. Locarnini, P. P. Murphy, T. D. O'Brien, I. Smolyar, C. Stephens, 2002: NOAA Atlas NESDIS 46 WORLD OCEAN DATABASE 2001 Volume 5: Temporal Distribution of Nutrient Profiles. S. Levitus, Ed., U.S. Gov. Printing Office, Wash., D.C., 286pp. [PDF].
- P. P. Murphy, M. E. Conkright, T. P. Boyer, J. I. Antonov, O. K. Baranova, H. E. Garcia, R. Gelfeld, D. Johnson, R. A. Locarnini, T. D. O'Brien, I. Smolyar, C. Stephens, 2002: NOAA Atlas NESDIS 47 WORLD OCEAN DATABASE 2001 Volume 6: Temporal Distribution of pH, Alkalinity, pCO2 and tCO2 Data. S. Levitus, Ed., U.S. Gov. Printing Office, Wash., D.C., 235pp. [PDF].
- T. D. O'Brien, M. E. Conkright, T. P. Boyer, J. I. Antonov, O. K. Baranova, H. E. Garcia, R. Gelfeld, D. Johnson, R. A. Locarnini, P. P. Murphy, I. Smolyar, C. Stephens, 2002: NOAA Atlas NESDIS 48 WORLD OCEAN DATABASE 2001 Volume 7: Temporal Distribution of Chlorophyll and Plankton Data. S. Levitus, Ed., U.S. Gov. Printing Office, Wash., D.C., 219pp. [PDF].
- Garcia, M.A., I. Blade, A. Cruzado, Z. Velasquez, H. E. Garcia, J. Puigdefabregas, and J. Sospedra. 2002. Observed variability of water properties and transport on the WOCE SR1b section across the ACC. Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans 107(C10) [PDF].
- Keeling R. and H. E. Garcia. 2002. The change in oceanic O2 inventory associated with recent global warming. Proceedings U.S. National Academy of Sciences, 99:7848-7853 [PDF]
- Lueker, T.; Walker, S.; Vollmer M.; Keeling R.; Nevison C.; Weiss R; Garcia, H., 2003. Coastal upwelling air-sea fluxes revealed in atmospheric observations of O2/N2, CO2, and N2O. Geophysical Research Letters, 30(6) >]
- Boyer T., S. Levitus, H. Garcia, R. Locarnini, C. Stephens, J. Antonov., 2004, Objective analyses of annual, seasonal, and monthly temperature and salinity for the World Ocean on a 0.25� grid, International Journal of Climatology, 25(7):931-945. doi 10.1002/joc.1173.
- Garcia, H. E., T. P. Boyer, S. Levitus, R. A. Locarnini, and J. I. Antonov, 2005: Climatological annual cycle of upper ocean oxygen content anomaly. Geophys. Res. Lett. , V. 32, L09604, doi:10.1029/2004GL022286.>[PDF]
- Garcia, H. E., T. P. Boyer, S. Levitus, R. A. Locarnini, and J. I. Antonov, 2005: On the variability of dissolved oxygen and apparent oxygen utilization content for the upper world ocean: 1955 to 1998. Geophys. Res. Lett. , L05611, doi:10.1029/2004GL021745.>[PDF]
- Boyer, T.P., J. I. Antonov, S. Levitus, R. Locarnini, and H.E. Garcia, 2005: Linear trends of salinity for the World Ocean, 1955-1998. Geophys. Res. Lett. , 32, L01604, doi:1029:2004GL021791.>[PDF]
- Levitus S., J. Antonov, T. Boyer, H. Garcia, and R. Locarnini, 2005. EOF analysis of the upper ocean heat content, 1956-2003, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L16601, doi:10.1029/2005GL023606.
- Levitus S., J. Antonov, T. Boyer, H. Garcia, and R. Locarnini, 2005. Linear trends of zonally averaged thermostheric, halosteric, and total steric sea level for individual ocean basins and the world ocean, (1955-1959)-(1994-1998), Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L16601, doi:10.1029/2005GL023761
- Garcia, H. E, R. A. Locarnini, T. P. Boyer, and J. I. Antonov, 2006. World Ocean Atlas 2005, Volume 3: Dissolved Oxygen, Apparent Oxygen Utilization, and Oxygen Saturation. S. Levitus, Ed. NOAA Atlas NESDIS 63, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 342 pp. >[PDF]
- Antonov, J. I., R. A. Locarnini, T. P. Boyer, A. V. Mishonov, and H.E. Garcia, 2006. World Ocean Atlas 2005, Volume 2: Salinity. S. Levitus, Ed. NOAA Atlas NESDIS 62, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 182 pp. >[PDF]
- Locarnini, R. A., A. V. Mishonov, J. I. Antonov, T. P. Boyer, and H.E. Garcia, 2006. World Ocean Atlas 2005, Volume 1: Temperature. S. Levitus, Ed. NOAA Atlas NESDIS 61, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 182 pp. >[PDF]
- Garcia, H. E, R. A. Locarnini, T. P. Boyer, and J. I. Antonov, 2006. World Ocean Atlas 2005, Volume 4: Nutrients (phosphate, nitrate, silicate). S. Levitus, Ed. NOAA Atlas NESDIS 64, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 396 pp. >[PDF]
- See also >[OCL publications]
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Profesional memberships
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- American Geophysical Union, American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, The Oceanography Society.
Most recent sea-going experience (Top of page)
- MULTITRACERS IV. 09/1990. R/V Wecoma, COAS-OSU. Chief scientist: Mark Lyle
- WOCE P16 Leg 3, Tahiti�Hawaii. 09�10/1991. R/V T. Washington, UCSD-SIO. Nutrient adquisition. Chief scientist: Lynne Talley
- WOCE P6 Leg I, Valparaiso�Easter Island, Chile. 04�05/1992. R/V Knorr, WHOI. Nutrient adquisition. Chief scientist: Harry Bryden
- TRIDENT, Legs 1�3. N.W. Atlantic. 08/1992. R/V Malcom Baldrige, NOAA. Nutrient/oxygen adquisition. Chief scientist: Robert Molinari.
- WOCE, Drake Passage 1996. R/V Hesperides, Spain Navy. Nutrient/oxygen adquisition. Chief scientist: Mark Garcia
- MESOESCALA 96. N. Mediterranean. 06/1996. R/V Garcia del Cid, CSIC, Spain. Nutrient/oxygen adquisition. Chief scientist: Jordi Salat
- VARIMED 96. N. Mediterranean. 07/1996. R/V Garcia del Cid, CSIC, Spain. Nutrient/oxygen adquisition. Chief scientist: Marta Estrada
- FANS I. N. Mediterranean. 11/1996. R/V Garcia del Cid, CSIC, Spain. Nutrient/oxygen adquisition. Chief scientist: Albert Palanques.
- FANS II. N. Mediterranean. 02/1997. R/V Garcia del Cid, CSIC, Spain. Nutrient/oxygen adquisition. Chief scientist: Jordi Salat
- TOROS 97. N.E. Atlantic. 06/1997. R/V Garcia del Cid, CSIC, Spain. Nutrient/oxygen adquisition. Chief scientist: Hernan Garcia
- FANS III. N. Mediterranean. 07/1997. R/V Garcia del Cid, CSIC, Spain. nutrient/oxygen adquisition. Chief scientist: Albert Palanques
- E-DOVETAIL. Weddell-Scotia Sea. 01/1998. R/V Hesperides, Spain Navy. Oxygen adquisition. Chief scientist: Marc Garcia
Academic References: (Top of page)
- References available upon request
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� 1997 Hernan.Garcia@noaa.gov
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