Anne louise cohen

Research Specialist, Department of Geology and Geophysics,

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

research areas

Biomineralization, Paleoceanography, Geochemistry of Biominerals, Impacts of Climate Change on Marine Calcification

WHOI Post-doctoral Fellow (1994-1995) Advisor: Lloyd Keigwin.

PhD (1994) University of Cape Town, South Africa (paleoclimatology). Thesis Title: “A Holocene Sea Surface Temperature Record in Mollusc Shells from the Coast of Southern Africa” Thesis Advisors: Nikolaas van der Merwe, Peabody Museum, Harvard University and Archaeometry Laboratory, UCT and George Branch, Department of Zoology, UCT

Bachelor of Science (Hons.) (1988) Majors in Zoology, Archaeology; Minor in Oceanography

2005:Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Ocean Life Institute Fellowship

1997: Oliver Davies Medal (South African Young Scientist Award)

1994: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Post-doctoral Fellowship

1989-1993: Foundation for Research Development (NSF equivalent) graduate student fellowship

1987: Class Medal (top of graduating class)

Dr Justin Ries, WHOI post doctoral fellow (2006-2008); Dr Rinat Gabitov, WHOI-RPI post doctoral fellow (2005-2006); Dr Zoe Bond, PhD candidate, Southampton Oceanography Centre/WHOI (graduated 2005); Mr Michael Holcomb, WHOI-MIT Joint Program (2004-2009); Mr Casey Saenger, WHOI–MIT Joint Program (2004-2009)

David Spofforth, National Oceanography Center, Southampton (WHOI-NOC exchange student 2007); Alexandra Pogue, Whitman College (Guest student, summer 2007); Nicholas Jachowski, University of Stanford (WHOI Minority SSF 2006); Nicole Nichols, University of Massachussets (WHOI SSF 2003 and 2004); Kate Owens, University of Chicago (SSF, 2002); Jackie van Etten, Bridgewater State College (Guest student 1999-2001)

Associate Editor, JGR Biogeosciences (2004-2006)

Associate Editor, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (2006-)

reviewer

In addition to serving as AE for GCA and JGR-Biogeosciences, I regularly review manuscripts for Paleoceanography, Geology, Geophysical Research Letters, G-cubed and Science. I have also reviewed manuscripts for Palaios, Journal of Archeological Science, Chemical Geology, Coral Reefs, International Coral Reef Society, American Mineralogist and JEMBE.

I have reviewed research proposals for NSF (ATM, CO, BO, MG&G, ESH and Career Advance awards), NOAA (Office of Global Programs and Ocean Exploration Initiatives), The National Undersea Research Council, The NERC Research Fellowship Scheme (UK), The German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development, The MacArthur Foundation, EUROCORES Programme EuroMARC, and The South African Foundation for Research Development.

OCB Scoping Workshop for Ocean Acidification Research; Plenary Lecture: Biocalcification Responses to Ocean Acidification: the Interplay of Physicochemistry and Physiology Scripps, October 2007

9^th International Conference on Paleoceanography; Special Session: Biotic Response to Oceanic Perturbations, September 2007

synergistic activities

Organizer of symposia at international meetings (2006/2007)

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  Frontiers in Biomineralization Research: Processes, Geochemical Signatures and Responses to Global Change, Fall AGU, 2007. Co-Chairs: Jess Adkins, Daniel McCorkle, David Gillikin
  
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  Geochemistry of Biominerals, 17^th Annual Goldschmidt Conference, 2007. Co-Chair: Dorrit Jacob
  
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  Frontiers in Biomineralization Research: Processes and signatures in natural and model systems Fall AGU 2006. Co-Chairs: Patricia Dove, Adam Wallace
  

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  Expert Witness: Impact of Climate Change on Coral Reefs; US House of Representatives, Subcommittee on Fisheries, Conservation, Wildlife and Oceans, Washington D.C.
  
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  Invited Speaker/presentations to: Mr John Prescott, Deputy Prime Minister U.K; Mr Scott Lockledge, Presidents Science Advisory Wing; Mr Elwood Holstein, Assistant Secretary for Oceans and Atmosphere, NOAA
  
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  Keynote Speaker: Executive Board of the New England Section of the Air & Waste Management Association, Annual conference on greenhouse gases, Cape Cod Massachussets
  
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  Radio: Interviewed for KVMR-FM (CA) by Alan Stahler on Coral Biomineralization
  
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  Television: Discovery Channel (Discovery Communications Incorporated) Discovery Science “Science of the Deep: Tuna Earbones”.
  
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  Magazine and Newspaper interviews/articles: Interviewed by/appeared in National Geographic, Science News, New York Science Times, Swiss newspaper "Tages-Anzeiger". I have also served as science consultant for National Geographic Magazine.
  
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  Invited Speaker: Mass Maritime Educators Annual Meeting, Woods Hole
  

2007: July 13^th-23^rd, Bermuda Institute for Ocean Sciences

2006: February 11^th –March 5^th: IODP 310 Tahiti Sea-level Expedition, Onshore Science Party, Bremen; May 1^st – 9^th: St Croix, USVI (coral drilling, in situ staining, logger deployment)

2005: June 1^st- 7^th and July 12^th-August 2^nd: Bermuda (coral coring)

2001: September 23^rd- October 5^th: Bermuda (octocoral experiments and collection)

2000: March 15^th- 30^th and June 7^th- 17th: St Croix USVI (in situ staining, coral coring); May 12^th- 22^nd: Bermuda (coral coring, logger deployment); November 5^th-7^th: Great Barrier Reef, Australia (exploratory)

1997: March 4^th-17^th: Johnston Atoll, NC Pacific (logger deployment, coral coring, bleaching follow-up)

1996: January: Two-Mile Reef, Sodwana Bay, South Africa; April 22nd-May 14^th, October 2^nd-October 4^th, October 20^th-November 4^th : Johnston Atoll, NC Pacific (logger deployment, coral coring, bleaching study)

1995: August 5^th-18th: Johnston Atoll, NC Pacific (logger deployment, coral coring)

publications (* denotes student)

in preparation

submitted/in review

Gaetani GA, Cohen AL, Wang Z. Deriving temperatures from coral skeleton using a Rayleigh fractionation model for coral biomineralization, manuscript submitted to Science, January 2008.

*Holcomb M, Cohen AL, Gabitov RI and Hutter J. A comparison of micron and nanoscale features of aragonite crystals accreted by corals, with aragonites precipitated abiogenically from seawater. Geochemica et Cosmochimica Acta, in revision

*Saenger C, Cohen AL, Oppo DW, Hubbard D. Caribbean sea surface temperature during the Little Ice Age derived from a growth-dependent coral Sr/Ca-SST calibration. Paleoceanography, in review.

*Gabitov RI, Watson EB, Cohen AL, Gaetani GA, Ehrlich HL. Experimental determination of temperature and growth rate effects on U⁶+ and Mg²+ partitioning between aragonite and fluid at elevated U⁶+ concentration. Geochem. et Cosmochim. Acta, in revision.

published

*Goodkin NF, Hughen KA, Cohen AL (2007). Multicoral calibration of Sr/Ca and growth rate to sea surface temperature, Paleoceanography, 22, PA1214, doi:10.1029/2006PA001312.

Gaetani GA, Cohen AL (2006) Element partitioning during precipitation of aragonite from seawater: a framework for understanding paleoproxies, Geochemica et Cosmochimica Acta, 70, 4617-4634

*Goodkin NF, Hughen KA, Cohen AL, Smith SR (2005) The Little Ice Age at Bermuda from a Growth-Dependent Calibration of Coral Sr/Ca, Paleoceanography, 20, PA4016, doi:10.1029/2005PA001140

*Bond ZA, AL Cohen, SR Smith, WJJ Jenkins (2005) Growth and composition of high-Mg calcite in the skeleton of a Bermudian gorgonian (Plexaurella dichotoma): Potential for paleothermometry, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 6, Q08010, doi:10.1029/2005GC000911.

Cohen AL and Hart SR (2004) Deglacial sea surface temperatures of the western tropical Pacific: A new look at old coral, Paleoceanography, 19, PA4031, doi:10.1029/2004PA001084.

Cohen AL, Reves-Sohn RA. (2004) Tidal Modulation of Sr/Ca in a Pacific Reef Coral. Geophysical Research Letters. Vol. 31, No. 16, L16310

Cohen AL, Smith SR, McCartney MS, van Etten J (2004) How Brain Corals Record Climate: An Integration of Skeletal Structure, Growth and Chemistry in Diploria labyrinthiformis on Bermuda. Marine Ecology Progress Series 271:147-158.

Cleveland RA, Cohen AL, Roy R, Singh H, Szabo T (2004) Imaging Coral II: Using Ultrasound to Image Coral Skeleton, Subsurface Sensing Technologies and Applications 5(1): 43 - 61

Hart SR, Cohen AL, Ramsay PB (1997) Microscale analysis of Sr/Ca and Ba/Ca in Porites. IN: Lessios, H. A., Macintyre, I.G. (eds). Proceedings of the 8th International Coral Reef Symposium 2:1707-1712

Ramsay PJ, Cohen AL (1997) Coral paleoclimatology research on the Southeast African Shelf. IN: Lessios, H. A., Macintyre, I.G. (Eds). Proceedings of the 8th International Coral Reef Symposium 2:1731-1734.

Hart SR, Cohen AL (1996) Sr/Ca in Corals: An Ionprobe Study of Annual Cycles and Microscale Coherence with Other Trace Elements. Geochemica et Cosmochimica Acta, 60:3075-3084.

Cohen AL, Tyson PD (1995) Holocene Sea Surface Temperatures on the South Coast of Africa: Implications for Terrestrial Climate and Rainfall. The Holocene, 5(3):304-312

Schumann EH, Cohen AL, Jury MR (1995) Coastal sea surface temperature variability along the south coast of Africa and the relation to regional) A Holocene marine climate record in mollusc shells from the southwest African coast. Quaternary Research, 38:379-85

Ries, JB, Cohen AL, McCorkle DC. Effects of CO2-driven reductions in seawater CaCO₃ saturation state on aragonitic and low-to-high Mg calcitic marine invertebrates and algae. 2008 Ocean Sciences Meeting · 2-7 March 2008 · Orlando, Florida, USA

De Putron S, Cohen AL, McCorkle DC. Effect of seawater saturation state on early skeletal development in two Atlantic corals (Porites astreoides and Favia fragum), 11th International Coral Reef Symposium, Miami, July 7-11, 2008 ICRS 2008

Cohen AL, Jachowski N, Jones R, Smith SR. Declining calcification rates of Bermudan brain corals over the past 50 years, 11th International Coral Reef Symposium, Miami, July 7-11, 2008 ICRS 2008

Cohen AL, McCorkle D, de Putron, S. The Impact of Seawater Saturation State on Early Skeletal Development in Larval Corals: Insights into Scleractinian Biomineralization. Fall AGU, 2007

Cohen AL, McCorkle D, Petitt, R, *Holcomb MC, Ries, J (2007) Dissolution of Cool-Water Corals in Under-Saturated Seawater. 9^th International Conference on Paleoceanography INVITED

Cohen AL, *Holcomb MC, McCorkle D, Hutter J (2006) An Experimental Investigation of Coral Mineralization: understanding the calcification response to ocean acidification. IGBP-SCOR Fast Track Initiative (FTI ) "Ocean Acidification" Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University (http://igbp-scor.pages.unibe.ch/fti06AbstractVolume.pdf)

Cohen A, Gaetani G, Gabitov R (2006). From Crystals to Climate: Applying Geochemical Principles to understanding PaleoProxies. Eos Trans. AGU, 87(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract V32B-01 INVITED.

Cohen A, *Saenger C (2006). Tropical Atlantic SSTS at the Last Glacial Maximum derived from Sr/Ca ratios of fossil coral. Eos Trans. AGU, 87(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract U13A-0808

*Holcomb M, Cohen A, Hutter J, Hirth G, Gabitov R (2006). Comparison of fine scale growth structures in coral skeletons and abiogenic aragonite. Eos Trans. AGU, 87(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract B13B-1077

*Saenger C, Cohen A, Oppo D, Hubbard D. (2006) Tropical North Atlantic Coral-Based Sea Surface Temperature and Salinity Reconstructions From the Little Ice Age and Early Holocene. Eos Trans. AGU, 87(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract PP31A-1735

Schneider D, Gaetani G, Cohen A (2006). The Physicochemical Origin of Trace Element Vital Effects in Coral Skeleton. Eos Trans. AGU, 87(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract B21D-02

*Wang Z, Cohen A, Gabitov R, Gaetani G, Hart S. (2006) Temperature dependent Mg isotope fractionation in corals. Eos Trans. AGU, 87(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract PP13C-07

*Goodkin N, Hughen K, Cohen A, Curry W, Doney S. (2006) The North Atlantic Oscillation Reconstructed at Bermuda for 220 Years Using Sr/Ca Ratios in Diploria labyrinthiformis (brain coral). Eos Trans. AGU, 87(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract PP42A-01

*Gabitov RI, Cohen AL, Gaetani GA, Holcomb M, Watson EB. (2006) Investigating the impact of crystal growth rate on element ratios in aragonite: an experimental approach to understanding vital effects. Geochim. et Cosmochim. Acta (70) doi:10.1016/j.gca.2006.06.377

Gaetani GA, Cohen AL. (2006) Calculating paleotemperatures from the elemental composition of coral skeleton: A new approach to old proxies. Geochim. et Cosmochim. Acta (70) doi:10.1016/j.gca.2006.06.378

*Saenger C, Cohen A, Oppo D, Hubbard D. (2006) Wishing upon a mountainous star: Sr/Ca and 18O-based Caribbean temperature and salinity reconstructions from the coral Montastrea annularis. University of Washington Graduate Student Climate Conference.

Cohen A and Madin K. (2007). Dead Corals Do Tell Tales, Oceanus

Thorrold S. and Cohen A. (2004) Recorded in the ear bones – tracing fish movements through geochemical analyses of otoliths. Oceanus

Cohen AL (1999). Reconstructing Climate with Coral. Rinehart Coastal Research Center quarterly publication.

Robin Cleveland (Boston University), Bruce Corliss (Duke), H.L. Ehrlich (RPI), Rinat Gabitov (CalTech), Glenn Gaetani (WHOI, G&G), Robert George (Adjunct; University of Miami), Stanley Hart (WHOI, G&G), J. Greg Hirth (Brown), Dennis Hubbard (Oberlin), Jeffrey Hutter (University of Western Ontario), William Jenkins (WHOI, MC&G), Ross Jones (BIOS), Chris Langdon (University of Miami), Tomas Lundalv (University of Stockholm), Michael McCartney (WHOI, PO), Daniel McCorkle (WHOI, G&G), Delia Oppo (WHOI, G&G), Samantha de Putron (BIOS), Nobuchimi Shimizu (WHOI, G&G), Struan Smith (University of Atlanta), Robert Sohn (WHOI, G&G), Ann Tarrant (WHOI, Biology), William Thompson (WHOI, G&G), Simon Thorrold (WHOI, Biology), Zhengrong Wang (Yale University), Bruce Watson (RPI),