Title
Professor

Department
Dept of Earth and Planetary Science


Faculty URL
http://eps.berkeley.edu/people/james-bishop

Email
jkbishop@berkeley.edu

Phone
(510) 642-6110


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Research Expertise and Interest
ocean carbon cycle dynamics, remote sensing, aquatic chemistry, marine biogeochemistry, land - ocean biogeochemistry, chemical oceanography, ocean sensors and autonomous observing systems, Carbon Explorer, Carbon Flux Explorer.

Research Description
James Bishop is a professor of Marine Science in the Department of Earth and Planetary Science.? At sea, his research group's focus?is to understand and thus gain predictive capability of how biological processes operate to transform and transport carbon in the sea. The carbon flows in the ocean are substantial and there are open questions regarding the stability of these flows due to human induced warming and acidification of the ocean. Is the ocean biological carbon pump strengthening (good) or weakening (bad)? We just don't know. We need to find out. That is what motivates their development of autonomous ocean carbon observing sensors and robots.??On land, as part of the NSF funded Eel River Critical Zone Observaory, they have applied ocean robotic methodology to enable high frequency observations of the chemistry of water as it transits the forest canopy and the unsaturated soils and fractured bedrock to form ground water on its way to the ocean.