Member Since 1999
Galen A. McKinley
Professor, Columbia University
Galen McKinley is an ocean, carbon cycle and climate scientist. Her research focuses on the physical, chemical and ecological drivers of the global ocean’s uptake of anthropogenic carbon. Regional and global ocean and climate models, and data science techniques applied to large community-compiled datasets are her primary tools.
Selected honors include AGU's 2020 Ocean Science Voyager award, 2012-2013 Defense Science Study Group, and the Class of 1955 Teaching Award at UW-Madison in 2011.
Professional Experience
Columbia University
Professor
2017 - Present
University of Wisconsin Madison
Professor
2004 - 2017
Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Doctorate
2002
Honors & Awards
Ocean Sciences Voyager Award
Received December 2020
Publications
Scale‐Dependent Drivers of Air‐Sea CO2 Flux Variability
In climate studies, it is crucial to distinguish between changes caused by natural variability and those resulting from external forcing. Here we u...
October 27, 2024
How Does the Pinatubo Eruption Influence Our Understanding o...
January 20, 2024
Immediate and Long‐Lasting Impacts of the Mt. Pinatubo Erupt...
February 04, 2023
Equatorial Pacific pCO2 Interannual Variability in CMIP6 Mod...
December 19, 2022
Explicit Physical Knowledge in Machine Learning for Ocean Ca...
October 05, 2022
AGU Abstracts
Data Requirements for Quantifying the Background Ocean Carbon Sink
MODELING APPROACHES IN SUPPORT OF OCEAN-BASED CARBON DIOXIDE REMOVAL (CDR) RESEARCH I POSTER
ocean sciences | 13 december 2024
Thea Hatlen Heimdal, Galen A. McKinley, Caroline S...
Given the large variability, and uncertainty, of the natural/background carbon sink, a major challenge for marine CDR technologies will be to quantify...
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Climatological Implications of the LDEO-HPD pCO2 Method on CMIP6 Models
ADVANCING OUR UNDERSTANDING OF OCEAN CARBON AND THE AIR-SEA CARBON FLUX II POSTER
ocean sciences | 13 december 2024
Caroline Shaum, Galen A. McKinley
Global Ocean Biogeochemical Models (GOBMs) provide spatiotemporally resolved estimates of air-sea CO2 flux, however these estimates do not always agre...
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Tiny Ocean: Physically Meaningful Dimensionality Reduction for pCO2 Reconstruction
ADVANCING OUR UNDERSTANDING OF OCEAN CARBON AND THE AIR-SEA CARBON FLUX III ORAL
ocean sciences | 13 december 2024
Viviana Acquaviva, Alessandro Laio, Amanda R. Fay,...
Accurate reconstruction of the full pCO2 field is a crucial element in estimating air-sea carbon flux and ultimately understanding the magnitude and t...
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Volunteer Experience
2011 - 2014
Associate Editor
Global Biogeochemical Cycles
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