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James K. Bishop

Senior Faculty Scientist

Building 070A, Room 4458

M/S 70A3317

Phone: 510-642-6110

Fax: 510-486-5686

jkbishop@lbl.gov

Curriculum Vitae

  • Education
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Biography

Jim Bishop received a B.Sc. (hon) in Physical and Inorganic Chemistry from the University of British Columbia and Sc.D. in Marine Chemistry from the MIT/WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography. He held postdoctoral and research positions at Columbia University’s Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory and at NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Just before arriving at Berkeley Lab, he was a professor of Ocean Sciences at the University of Victoria. He is a member of the faculty in the Department of Earth and Planetary Science at UC Berkeley where he teaches undergraduate courses on marine geochemistry and oceangraphy. To date, he has spent 79 weeks at sea during 29 oceanographic expeditions.
His research is centered on understanding ocean carbon system dynamics through a combination of novel in-situ sampling and remote sensing technologies.

Research Interests

Our main area of interest is the ocean's carbon cycle. As geochemists, we're interested in how carbon cycle processes influence the geochemical cycles of the 50 or so elements which exhibit nonconservative behavior in sea water (they don't follow variations of sodium). Most of these elements are transported vertically in the ocean associated with particles of biogenic and terrestrial origin. As earth scientists, we're concerned with the consequences of rising levels of CO2 in the atmosphere. How will living systems respond to climate induced change in the ocean? How does the ocean naturally sequester carbon and how will this change in the future? The research is multidisciplinary and requires knowledge of mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology, computer science, and engineering.

Education

  • Sc.D Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1977, "The chemistry and vertical flux of oceanic particulate matter."
  • B.S. Physical and inorganic chemistry, University of British Columbia, 1971, Honors

Experience

  • Professor, Earth and Planetary Science, UC Berkeley, 2006-Present
  • Faculty Senior Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), 2006-Present
  • Senior Scientist, LBNL, 2006
  • Staff Scientist, LBNL, 1998-2006
  • Adjunct Professor, Earth and Planetary Science, UC Berkeley, 1998-2006
  • Professor, School of Earth and Ocean Science, Univ. Victoria, 1993-1998
  • Physical Scientist (GS15), NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, 1993-1997
  • Adjunct Senior Research Scientist, Lamont-Doherty Earth Obs. Columbia University, 1993-1997
  • Research Scientist, Lamont-Doherty Earth Obs. Columbia University, 1992-1993
  • Senior Staff Assoc., Lamont-Doherty Earth Obs. Columbia University, 1989-1992
  • Assoc. Research Sci., Lamont-Doherty Earth Obs. Columbia University, 1978-1989
  • Post Doctoral Fellow, Lamont-Doherty Earth Obs. Columbia University, 1977-1978

Awards

  • UC Berkeley Presidential Chair Fellow (F2007 and S2008)
  • R&D 100 AWARD Nov 2006. "The Carbon Explorer"

Professional Affiliations

  • American Geophysical Union
  • The Oceanography Society
  • American Society of Limnology and Oceanography
  • The Challenger Society

Advisory Boards, Committees, and Councils

  • Member, Science Panel, WCRP, Baseline Surface Radiation Budget Network, 1996-2000
  • Member, Canadian-JGOFS Science Steering Committee, 1996-1999
  • Member, US-Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (JGOFS) Time Series oversight committee, 1992-2000
  • Panel Member, NSF (OCE), NOAA, NOPP, SOI

Scholarly Service

  • Reviewer of, Nature, Science, Deep-Sea Research, Marine Chemistry, Journal of Marine Research, Geophysical Research Letters, Limnology and Oceanography, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.

Other Contributions

  • Marine Science Track Undergraduate Advisor, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Science, 2006
  • Co-Director, DOE Center for Research on Ocean Carbon Sequestration, 1999-2002
  • Director University of Victoria Regional Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer facility, 1993-1998
  • Co-Developer, (with Prof. Glenn Flierl, MIT; Dr. David Glover, WHOI) of the network distributed object-oriented data system for JGOFS. The system provides access to distributed physical, geochemical, and biological data bases. Access U.S. JGOFS Website
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