Dorothee Bakker

Academic background

• Student at Merlewood Research Station, Grange-over-Sands, Cumbria, U.K., in 1989. The research with John Adamson was directed towards soil acidification by Sitka spruce and Japanese larch.
  
  
• M.Sc. in Soil Science at the Agricultural University of Wageningen, The Netherlands, 1991. In the Department of Microbiology I simulated with Tom Bosma the transport of bacteria in sediment columns with latex-particles. During a project with Hellenius Rogaar of the Department of Soil Science and Geology I studied the genesis of surprisingly red sandy soils (hematite!) in the temperate Netherlands.
  
  
• As a Ph.D. student at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) at Texel in the group of Hein de Baar I have studied the processes affecting the air-sea exchange of CO2 in the East and South Atlantic Ocean from 1991 to 1996. Shipboard measurements of surface-water fCO2 and dissolved inorganic carbon were part of the research.
  
  
• A Ph.D. at the Faculty of Mathematics and Science, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands, in 1998 completed my thesis research. ‘Promotores’ were Hein de Baar and Andrew Watson.
  
  
• Research Associate in the Laboratoire d’Océanographie Dynamique et de Climatologie (LODYC), Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France, between 1996 and 1998. With Jacqueline Etcheto and Jacqueline Boutin I worked on the spatial and temporal variability of surface-water fCO2 in the equatorial Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Autonomous CO2-buoys (CARIOCA) and satellite observations of sea surface temperature, ocean colour and wind speed were used as tools.
  
  
• Senior Research Associate (1998-2005) and Research Officer (since 2006) at the School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, U.K. The role of iron limitation in Southern Ocean carbon cycling was confirmed in the Southern Ocean Iron Release Experiment (SOIREE) and in EisenEx. Current research focuses on the effect of natural iron fertilisation on CO2 air-sea exchange. One such study was conducted near the Crozet Plateau in the southern Indian Ocean, as part of the CROZEX experiment. Research in the context of CARBOOCEAN and CASIX is directed towards the role of the Southern Ocean as a sink or source for carbon dioxide.
  
  

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