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
Publications
How Does the Pinatubo Eruption Influence Our Understanding of Long‐Term Changes in Ocean Biogeochemi...
Pinatubo erupted during the first decadal survey of ocean biogeochemistry, embedding its climate fingerprint into foundational ocean biogeochemical...
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
Internal Climate Variability modulates the storage of Anthropogenic Carbon in the Ocean Interior
OCEAN SCIENCES 2024
ocean biology and biogeochemistry | 20 february 2024
Holly Olivarez, Nicole S. Lovenduski, Jens D. Müll...
The ocean absorbs anthropogenic carbon from the atmosphere and thereby reduces global temperature increases. The absorption rate is controlled by the ...
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Using Data-Constrained Modeling to Examine the Drivers of Central Labrador Sea Oxygen Variability
OCEAN SCIENCES 2024
physical oceanography: mesoscale and larger | 19 february 2024
Lauren Moseley, Dariia Atamanchuk, Jannes Koelling...
The subpolar region of the North Atlantic Ocean plays an important role in determining the oxygen inventory of the global deep ocean. In the Labrador ...
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Impacts of Sampling Patterns and Observational Uncertainties on Surface Ocean pCO2 Reconstructions
OCEAN SCIENCES 2024
ocean biology and biogeochemistry | 19 february 2024
Thea Hatlen Heimdal, Galen A. McKinley, Adrienne J...
Improved data coverage in the Southern Ocean represents a major opportunity to advance our understanding of the ocean carbon sink and air-sea CO2 exch...
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Volunteer History
2011 - 2014
Associate Editor
Global Biogeochemical Cycles
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