Roberta C. Hamme is a Canadian chemical

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at the

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. She holds a

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in Ocean Carbon Dynamics (Tier 2).

Education, research and career

She did her Phd and MSc at

University of Washington The University of Washington (UW and informally U-Dub or U Dub) is a public research university in Seattle, Washington, United States. Founded in 1861, the University of Washington is one of the oldest universities on the West Coast of the Uni ...

and BA at

Pomona College Pomona College ( ) is a private university, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Claremont, California. It was established in 1887 by a group of Congregationalism in the United States, Congregationalists ...

. Previously, Hamme's research demonstrated that the 2008 eruption of the Kasatochi island volcano resulted in one of the largest phyotoplankton blooms observed in the subarctic North Pacific, covering between 1.5 and 2 million square kilometres of ocean. Hamme also noted that this phytoplankton bloom had a minor impact on carbon dioxide absorption levels as it absorbed only 0.01 petagrams of carbon. Researchers later linked this bloom to an increase in the

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population in British Columbia. Hamme is now an associate professor in the School of Earth and Ocean Science at the

, where her lab studies air-sea exchange. She is leading a team of Canadian researchers who have received $540,000 in funding from the Advancing Climate Change Science in Canada initiative to investigate the role of the ocean in slowing down the effects of

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, including measuring

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absorption levels and predicting future changes in Canadian oceans. Hamme's research has been cited over 1,000 times, and has an

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and

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of 16 and 23 respectively. She was appointed as a

in Ocean Carbon Dynamics (Tier 2) in 2014, which was renewed in 2019.

Selected bibliography

* Hamme, Roberta C., and Steven R. Emerson. "The solubility of neon, nitrogen and argon in distilled water and seawater." '' Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers'' 51, no. 11 (2004): 1517-1528. * Hamme, Roberta C., Peter W. Webley, William R. Crawford, Frank A. Whitney, Michael D. DeGrandpre, Steven R. Emerson, Charles C. Eriksen et al. "Volcanic ash fuels anomalous plankton bloom in subarctic northeast Pacific." ''

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'' 37, no. 19 (2010). * Cassar, Nicolas, Bruce A. Barnett, Michael L. Bender, Jan Kaiser, Roberta C. Hamme, and Bronte Tilbrook. "Continuous high-frequency dissolved O2/Ar measurements by equilibrator inlet mass spectrometry." ''

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'' 81, no. 5 (2009): 1855-1864. * Hamme, Roberta C., and Steven R. Emerson. "Constraining bubble dynamics and mixing with dissolved gases: Implications for productivity measurements by oxygen mass balance." ''

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'' 64, no. 1 (2006): 73-95. * Hamme, Roberta C., and Steven R. Emerson. "Mechanisms controlling the global oceanic distribution of the inert gases argon, nitrogen and neon." ''

'' 29, no. 23 (2002): 35-1.

References

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