Dr. James Bishop

Biography

James Bishop is a Professor at Berkeley in the Earth & Planetary Science department. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Physical Inorganic Chemistry from the University of British Columbia and a Doctor of Science in Marine Chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program in Oceanography. He joined the faculty of Earth & Planetary Science at Berkeley in 2006 after an extensive career that includes positions at Columbia University, the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, and the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York. Additionally, he has worked at the University of Victoria in the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the Earth Sciences Division. His research focuses on the dynamics of the ocean carbon cycle, remote sensing, and aquatic chemistry. He is also involved in marine biogeochemistry, land-ocean interactions, chemical oceanography, and the development of autonomous observing systems for ocean sensors.

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