This webinar links to EMB's working group on marine carbon dioxide removal.
Peter Landschützer received his undergraduate and graduate degrees in Environmental Systems Science from the University of Graz (Austria) in 2011. In July 2014, he completed his PhD on the variability of the global ocean carbon sink at the University of East Anglia (Norwich, England). From 2014 to 2016, he was a postdoctoral researcher at ETH Zurich, Switzerland before joining the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology and eventually becoming group leader of the research group 'Observations, Analysis and Synthesis'. Since 2022 he now serves as Research Director at the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ) where he oversees the research developments of the department.
While being interested in many aspects of the Ocean in the Earth system, Peter's research focus is set on Ocean biogeochemistry and the marine carbon cycle. His expertise ranges from CO2 measurements through big data modelling using artificial neural networks. The outcome of his work - particularly those building on the Self-Organizing Maps Feed-Forward Network (SOM-FFN) neural network method he developed - has become one of the gold standards in the determination of the role of the Ocean for the global carbon cycle, and has served as the basis for a number of highly important papers. This includes his 2015 Science paper on the reinvigoration of the Southern Ocean carbon sink, which demonstrated, for the first time, the importance of decadal variations for the Ocean carbon sink, or his demonstration that the seasonal cycle of surface ocean pCO2 has increased substantially in recent decades, with potential important consequences for marine life (Nature Climate Change, 2018). For this and other achievements, Peter was awarded the Outstanding Early Career Scientist award of the Ocean Science division of the EGU in 2019 and he has been named lead author for the IPCC AR7 report.
The webinar will be live-streamed on the EMB YouTube Channel.