Martin Visbeck
Chair in Physical Oceanography
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Martin Visbeck is chair in Physical Oceanography at the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences (IFM-GEOMAR) at the University in Kiel, Germany. He has served and is serving on several national and international advisory committees. Currently he is the co-chair of the World Climate Research Programs Project CLIVAR (Climate Variability and Predictability), which facilitates global climate research in the atmosphere and ocean. He was the chair of the organizing committee of the World Meteorological Organization’s Third World Climate Conference in 2009, which called for the development of the Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS). He is a member of the German National Committee for Global Change Research, the German Research Foundations (DFG) Senatskommision for Oceanography, and is Speaker of the Kiel Research Cluster ‘The Future Ocean’ supported by the German Excellence initiative.
Martin’s current research is concerned with ocean and climate variability and change with particular emphasis on the circulation of the Subpolar North Atlantic. He maintains direct current measurements to document the variability and change of North Atlantic Deep Water transport, a key component of the Atlantic Overturning Circulation. He works in the context of a Kiel based special research program on climate-biogeochemical interactions in the tropical ocean with a focus on the supply of oxygen towards the extensive tropical oxygen minimum zones.
