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James J. McCarthy, Ph.D.
Alexander Agassiz Professor of Biological Oceanography
Harvard University

Harvard University, FAS Org. and Evol. Biology
Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: 617-495-2330 | E-mail: jmccarthy@oeb.harvard.edu
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James J. McCarthy is Alexander Agassiz Professor of Biological Oceanography and from 1982 until 2002 he was the Director of Harvard University's Museum of Comparative Zoology. He holds faculty appointments in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, and he is the Head Tutor for degrees in Environmental Science and Public Policy. He is also the Master of Harvard's Pforzheimer House.  McCarthy received his undergraduate degree in biology from Gonzaga University, and his Ph.D. from Scripps Institution of Oceanography.  His research interests relate to the regulation of plankton productivity in the sea, and in recent years have focused on regions that are strongly affected by seasonal and inter-annual variation in climate.  He is an author of many scientific papers, and he currently teaches courses on biological oceanography and biogeochemical cycles, marine ecosystems, and global change and human health. McCarthy has served and serves on many national and international planning committees, advisory panels, and commissions relating to oceanography, polar science, and the study of climate and global change.  From 1986 to 1993, he chaired the international committee that establishes research priorities and oversees implementation of the International Geosphere - Biosphere Program.  He was the founding editor for the American Geophysical Union's Global Biogeochemical Cycles.  McCarthy was involved in two of the recent international assessments on climate impacts. He served as co-chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Working Group II, which had responsibilities for assessing impacts of and vulnerabilities to global climate change for the Third IPCC Assessment (2001).  He was also one of the lead authors on the recently completed Arctic Climate Impact Assessment.McCarthy is President-elect of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Selected Publications

McCarthy, J.J., C. Garside and J.L. Nevins. 1999. Nitrogen Dynamics during the Arabian Sea Northeast Monsoon. Deep Sea Res., 46: 1623-1664. McCarthy, J.J. The evolution of the Joint Global Ocean Flux Study project. 1999. In The Changing Ocean Carbon Cycle, Book 5, International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme Book Series. Ed. R.B.Hanson, H.W. Ducklow and J.G.Field. Cambridge University Press. McCarthy, J. J. and M. C. McKenna, 2000. How Earth's Ice is Changing. Environment, 42: 8-18. Aufdenkampe, A. K., J. J. McCarthy, C. Navarett, J. Dunne and J.W. Murray. Estimation of new production in the tropical Pacific. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 15(1): 101-113. McCarthy, J.J., A.R. Robinson, B.J. Rothschild. Biological-Physical Interactions in the Sea: Emergent Findings and New Directions. 2001 Chapter 1, in The Sea, Vol. 12. , Biological - Physical Interactions in the Sea, Robinson, A.R., J. J. McCarthy, and B.J. Rothschild, Eds., John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 634pp. McCarthy, J. J. , Biological Reponses to Nutrients. 2001 Chapter 6, in The Sea, Vol. 12, Biological - Physical Interactions in the Sea, Robinson, A.R., J. J. McCarthy, and B.J. Rothschild, Eds., John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 634pp. Schrag, D.P., and J.J. McCarthy. Biological-Physical Interactions and Global Climate Change: Some Lessons from Earth History. 2001. Chapter 15, in The Sea, Vol. 12, Biological - Physical Interactions in the Sea, Robinson, A.R., J. J. McCarthy, and B.J. Rothschild, Eds., John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 634pp. McCarthy, J. J., O. F. Canziani, N.A. Leary, D. J. Dokken, K.S. White eds. Climate Change 2001: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability. 2001. Published for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge University Press. 1032pp. Turner, B.L., R.E. Kasperson, P.A. Matson, J.J. McCarthy, R.W. Corell, L. Christensen, N. Eckley, J.X. Kasperson, A. Luers, M.L.Martello, C. Polsky, A. Pulsipher, A Schiller. 2003. A framework for vulnerability analysis in sustainability science. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 100: 8074-8079. McCarthy, J. J. , M.L. Martello and others in press. Climate Change in the Context of Multiple Stressors and Resilience. Ch. 16 in The Arctic Climate Impact Assessment.

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