

Devlin Hall 321A
Telephone: 617-552-4936
Email: palevsky@bc.edu
ORCID 0000-0002-0488-4531
Fall 2020:
Oceanography (EESC 1157)
Marine Biogeochemistry (EESC 5540)
Spring 2021:
Environmental Data Exploration and Analysis (Undergraduate EESC 4464)
(Graduate EESC 6664)
marine biogeochemistry, oceanography, climate science, carbon cycle
My research focuses on marine biogeochemistry and the mechanisms that enable the ocean to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. On human time scales of decades to centuries, the ocean is the ultimate carbon sink, having absorbed ~40% of anthropogenic carbon emissions to date. However, the rates and mechanisms of ocean carbon uptake remain difficult to quantify or mechanistically predict, leading to uncertainty in how climate change will modify the ocean carbon sink and how those changes will feedback on future changes to global climate.
My research combines field measurements at sea, biogeochemical sensor data from autonomous moorings and robots, satellite observations, and global climate model simulations to improve our understanding of the ocean carbon cycle. These approaches enable us to determine the current rate at which the ocean exchanges carbon dioxide with the atmosphere due to biological, chemical, and physical processes, and to improve mechanistic understanding of the past, present, and future drivers of ocean carbon uptake.
Selected Recent Publications