Brendan R. Carter
- Research Scientist
- Education:
- Ph.D. in Chemical Oceanography, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 2011
- B.A. in Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California at Berkeley, High Honors, 2004
- B.S. in Chemistry, University of California at Berkeley, High Honors, 2004
- Email:
- Phone:
- 206-526-6885
- Location:
- NOAA PMEL, Building 3
Anthropogenic carbon distributions, repeat hydrography, alkalinity cycling, carbonate system measurements, seawater property estimate algorithm development, biogeochemical profiling floats, marine carbon dioxide removal
Selected publications
Carter, B. R., Schwinger, J., Sonnerup, R., Fassbender, A. J., Sharp, J. D., Dias, L. M., & Sandborn, D. E. (2025). Tracer-based Rapid Anthropogenic Carbon Estimation (TRACE). Earth System Science Data, 17(6), 3073–3088. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-3073-2025
Barrett, R. C., Carter, B. R., Fassbender, A. J., Tilbrook, B., Woosley, R. J., Azetsu-Scott, K., Feely, R. A., Goyet, C., Ishii, M., Murata, A., & Pérez, F. F. (2025). Biological Responses to Ocean Acidification Are Changing the Global Ocean Carbon Cycle. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 39(3), e2024GB008358. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GB008358
Carter, B. R., Sharp, J. D., Dickson, A. G., Álvarez, M., Fong, M. B., García-Ibáñez, M. I., Woosley, R. J., Takeshita, Y., Barbero, L., Byrne, R. H., Cai, W.-J., Chierici, M., Clegg, S. L., Easley, R. A., Fassbender, A. J., Fleger, K. L., Li, X., Martín-Mayor, M., Schockman, K. M., & Wang, Z. A. (2024). Uncertainty sources for measurable ocean carbonate chemistry variables. Limnology and Oceanography, 69(1), 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.12477
Carter, B. R., Sharp, J. D., García-Ibáñez, M. I., Woosley, R. J., Fong, M. B., Álvarez, M., Barbero, L., Clegg, S. L., Easley, R., Fassbender, A. J., Li, X., Schockman, K. M., & Wang, Z. A. (2024). Random and systematic uncertainty in ship-based seawater carbonate chemistry observations. Limnology and Oceanography, 69(10), 2473–2488. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.12674
Carter, B. R., Bittig, H. C., Fassbender, A. J., Sharp, J. D., Takeshita, Y., Xu, Y. Y., … & Barbero, L. (2021). New and updated global empirical seawater property estimation routines. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods.
Carter, B. R., Feely, R. A., Lauvset, S. K., Olsen, A., DeVries, T., & Sonnerup, R. (2021). Preformed properties for marine organic matter and carbonate mineral cycling quantification. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 35(1), e2020GB006623.
Carter, B. R. and coauthors, Pacific anthropogenic carbon between 1991 and 2017, (2019)Global Biogeochemical Cycles 33, 5 (2019): 597-617, doi: 10.1029/2018GB006154[doi.org].
Carter, B.R., and coauthors (2019), Time-of-detection as a metric for prioritizing between climate observation quality, frequency, and duration, Geophys. Res. Lett. 46.7: 3853-3861, doi: 10.1029/2018GL080773 [agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com].
Carter, B. R., R. A. Feely, N. L. Williams, A. G. Dickson, M. B. Fong, and Y. Takeshita. (2017a) Updated methods for global locally interpolated estimation of alkalinity, pH, and nitrate. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods., doi: 10.1002/lom3.10232.
Carter B. R., R.A. Feely, S. Mecking, J.N. Cross, A.M. Macdonald, S.A. Siedlecki, L.D Talley, C.L. Sabine, F.J. Millero, J.H. Swift, and A.G. Dickson, (2017b) Two Decades of Pacific Anthropogenic Carbon Storage and Ocean Acidification Along GO-SHIP Sections P16 and P02, doi: 10.1002/2016GB005485 [aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com].
Carter B. R., N. L. Williams, A. R. Gray, and R. A. Feely, Locally Interpolated Alkalinity Regression for Global Alkalinity Estimation (2016a), Limnol. Oceanogr. Methods. 14(4), 268-277, doi: 10.1002/lom3.10087 [onlinelibrary.wiley.com]
Carter, B. R., et al. (2016b), When can ocean acidification impacts be detected from decadal alkalinity measurements?. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 30.4: 595-612, doi: 10.1002/2015GB005308 [onlinelibrary.wiley.com].
Carter, B. R., J. R. Toggweiler, R.M. Key, and J.L. Sarmiento (2014) Processes controlling the marine alkalinity and carbonate saturation distributions, Biogeosci., 11(7), 11139-11178, doi: 10.5194/bg-11-7349-2014 [biogeosciences.net].
Carter, B. R., J. A. Radich, H. L. Doyle, and A. G. Dickson, (2013) An automated spectrophotometric system for discrete and underway seawater pH measurements. Limnol. Oceanogr.: Methods. 11 (2013): 16-27, doi: 10.4319/lom.2013.11.16 [aslo.net].