Professor of Oceanography,

IPRC, Department of Oceanography, SOEST, University of Hawaii

2525 Correa Road

Honolulu, HI 96822

USA

email:

axel at hawaii.edu

tel:+1 808-9562720

Education

1998 - Ph. D., Natural Sciences, Max Planck Institute of Meteorology, Hamburg Thesis: Modes of climate variability as simulated by a coupled general circulation model
1995 - Diploma Physics, University of Marburg. Thesis: Photon-interferometry of the quark-gluon plasma (in German)
1992 - B. Sc., Physics, University of Marburg

Awards

    *  Rosenstiel award of the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, 2007

Research Interests

    * ENSO dynamics

    * Coral bleaching

    * Stability of the thermohaline circulation

    * Stochastic climate modeling

    * Millennial-scale climate variability

    * Climate predictability

    * Paleo-modeling

    * Holocene climate change

    * Chaos theory and climate dynamics

    * Bio-physical interactions in the oceans

    * Lake Kauhako

Professional Experience

    * Full Professor, Physical Oceanography, University of Hawaii, since May 2009

    * Associate Professor, Physical Oceanography, University of Hawaii, August 2004 - 2009

    * Head of Research Group: "Centennial and Millennial Climate Variability", IfM-Geomar, April 2001-March 2006

    * Postdoctoral Fellow, International Pacific Research Center, Hawaii, USA, October 2000 - March 2001

    * Postdoctoral Fellow, Royal Dutch Meteorological Institute, the Netherlands, Oct. 1998-Sept.2000

Further Professional Experience

    *Ex officio Member of the CLIVAR Scientific Steering Group, since August 2008

    * Organizer of International  WCRP/PAGES summerschool: “ ENSO: Dynamics and Predictability June 2008

    * Visiting Professor,  Universite de Louvain La Neuve, Belgium, July-August, 2007

    * Organizer CLIVAR workshop "Western Tropical Pacific", Guangzhou, November 2007

    * Organizer CLIVAR Pacific Panel meeting, Guangzhou, November 29-30, 2007

    * Organizer WCRP/CLIVAR Workshop on Multidecadal to Centennial Global Climate Variability,   2006, (talks)

    * Chair of the International CLIVAR Pacific Panel, since January 2005

    * Visiting Scientist, Leibniz Institut fuer Meereswissenschaften, IfM-GEOMAR, August, 2005

    * Member of the Air-Sea Interaction Committee of the AMS, December 2004-Dec. 2007

    * Co-Chair of SPIE's international Asia-Pacific Symposium,  Hangzhou, China September 2002

    * Visiting Scientist, Department of Meteorology, University of Hawai'i, USA, Winter 2001/2002

    * Secretary Nonlinear Processes section of the European Geophysical Society, 2000 -2007

    * Organizer International Workshop Dynamical System Concepts in Climate Dynamics , De Bilt, the Netherlands, 2000

    * Co-author of the Greenpeace Report “Pacific in Peril”, September 2000

    * Visiting Scientist, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California, USA, 2000 (February)

    * IPCC: Co-author of the IPCC Third Assessment Report, Chapter 2,7,9, 1999

    * Lecturer, KNMI. Lecture series on Stochastic Climate Models, 1999 (January - April )

    * German Climate Expert Group Delegate to Jakarta, 1997

    * Oceanographic research cruise ARC XII to the Arctic Ocean, 1996

 

Reviewer for

    * NOAA

    * NSF

    * DFG (German Science Foundation)

    * Paleoceanography

    * NWO/NERC proposals

    * J. Geophys. Research

    * Journal of Climate

    * J. Atmospheric Sciences

    * Geophysical Research Letters

    * Ocean Modeling

    * Climatic Change

    * Advances in Geophysics

    * Climate Dynamics

    * Nature

    * Science

    * Climate of the past