Katja Fennel

Department of Oceanography
Dalhousie University
1355 Oxford Street
PO BOX 15000
Halifax NS  B3H 4R2

Room 2634 LSC

Phone: (902) 494-4526
   Fax: (902) 494-3877
Email: katja.fennel@dal.ca
Webpage: memg.ocean.dal.ca/fennel

Education Background

• Diploma – Numerical Mathematics, University Rostock, Germany
• PhD – Marine Biology, University Rostock, Germany

Awards and Honours

• Canada Research Chair II in Marine Prediction (2006- )
• Adjunct Affiliation with Rutgers University, New Jersey (2006- )

Research Interests

• Coupled physical-biological modeling
• Biogeochemical cycles (Carbon, Nitrogen, Oxygen etc.)
• Data assimilation

4380.03/5380.04: Marine Modelling
4000.03: Oceans and Global Change
5240.03 05: Special Topics in Oceanography: MATLAB for Oceanography

Mattern, J.P., K. Fennel, and M. Dowd - 2010 - Introduction and assessment of measures for quantitative model-data comparison using satellite images - Remote Sensing, 2, 794-818

Mattern, J.P., M. Dowd, and K. Fennel - 2010 - Sequential data assimilation applied to a physical-biological model for the Bermuda Atlantic Time Series station - Journal of Marine Systems, 79, 144-156, doi:10.1016/j.jmarsys.2009.08.004

Fennel, K., D. Brady, D. DiToro, R. Fulweiler, W.S. Gardner, A. Giblin, M.J. McCarthy, A. Rao, S. Seitzinger, M. Thouvenot-Korppoo, and C. Tobias - 2009 - Modelling denitrification in aquatic sediments - Biogeochemistry, 93:159-178, doi:10.1007/s10533-008-9270-z

O'Dor, R.K., K. Fennel, and E. Vanden Berghe - 2009 - A one ocean model of biodiversity - Deep Sea Research II, 56, 1816-1823, doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2009.05.023

Previdi, M., K. Fennel, J. Wilkin, and D.B. Haidvogel - 2009 - Interannual variability in atmospheric CO2 uptake on the northeast U.S. continental shelf - Journal of Geophysical Research, 114, G04003, doi:10.1029/2008JG000881

Lehmann, M.K., K. Fennel, and R. He - 2009 - Statistical validation of a 3-D bio-physical model for the western North Atlantic - Biogeosciences, 6, 1961-1974

Fennel, K. and J. Wilkin - 2009 - Quantifying biological carbon export for the northwest North Atlantic continental shelves - Geophysical Research Letters, L18605, doi:10.1029/2009GL039818

Berman-Frank, I., Chen, Y., Gao, Y., Fennel, K., Follows, M., Milligan, A., Falkowski, P.G. - 2008 - Chapter 35: Feedbacks between the Nitrogen, Carbon and Oxygen Cycles - In: Nitrogen in the Marine Environment, edited by Mulholland, M., Carpenter, E., Capone, D.,
Bronk, D. doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-372522-6.00035-9, p. 1537-1564

Haidvogel, D.B., Arango, H., Budgell, W.P., Cornuelle, B.D., Curchitser, E., Di Lorenzo, E., Fennel, K., Geyer, W.R., Hermann, A.J., Lanerolle, L., Levin, J., McWilliams, J.C., Miller, A. J., Moore, A.M., Powell, T.M., Shchepetkin, A.F., Sherwood, C.R., Signell, R.P., Warner, J.C., Wilkin, J. - 2008 - Regional Ocean Forecasting in Terrain-following Coordinates: Model Formulation and Skill Assessment - Journal of Computational Physics, 227:3595–3624, doi:10.1016/j.jcp.2007.06.016

Hofmann, E., Druon, J.-N., Fennel, K., Friedrichs, M., Haidvogel, D., Lee, C., Mannino, A., McClain, C., Najjar, R., O'Reilly, J., Siewert, J., Pollard, D., Previdi, M., Seitzinger, S., Signorini, S., Wilkin, J. - 2008 - Eastern U.S. Continental Shelf Carbon Budget: Integrating Models, Data Assimilation, and Analysis - Oceanography, 21(1):32–50

Fennel, K., Wilkin, J., Previdi, M., Najjar, R. - 2008 - Denitrification effects on air-sea CO2 flux in the coastal ocean: Simulations for the northwest North Atlantic - Geophysical Research Letters, 35, L24608, doi:10.1029/2008GL036147

Fennel, K. - 2008 - Widespread implementation of controlled upwelling in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre would counteract diazotrophic N2 fixation - Marine Ecology Progress Series, 371:301-303, doi:10.3354/meps07772

Boss, E., Collier, R., Larson, G., Fennel, K., Pegau, W. S. - 2007 - Measurements of spectral optical properties and their relation to biogeochemical variables and processes in Crater Lake, Crater Lake National Park, OR - Hydrobiologia, 574:149–159, DOI 10.1007/s10750-006-2609-3

Fennel, K., Collier, R., Larson, G., Crawford, G., Boss, E. - 2007 - The seasonal cycle of nutrients and plankton in Crater Lake, OR - Hydrobiologia, 574:265–280, DOI 10.1007/s10750-006-0356-0

Katz, M.E., Fennel, K., Falkowski, P.G. - 2007 - Geochemical and biological consequences of phytoplankton evolution - In: Evolution of Primary Producers of the Sea, edited by Falkowski, P.G. & Knoll, A., Elsevier Academic Press, pp 405-430

Fennel, K., Wilkin, J., Levin, J., Moisan, J., O'Reilly, J., Haidvogel, D. - 2006 - Nitrogen cycling in the Mid Atlantic Bight and implications for the North Atlantic nitrogen budget: Results from a three-dimensional model - Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 20, GB3007, doi:10.1029/2005GB002456

Falkowski, P.G., Katz, M.E., Milligan, A., Fennel, K., Cramer, B., Pierre Aubry, M., Berner, R., Zapol, W.M. - 2005 - The rise of atmospheric oxygen levels over the past 205 million years and the evolution of large placental mammals - Science, 309:2202-2204

Fennel, K., Follows, M., Falkowski, P.G. - 2005 - The co-evolution of the nitrogen, carbon and oxygen cycles in the Proterozoic Ocean - American Journal of Science, 305:526-545

Katz, M.E., Wright, J.D., Miller, K.G., Cramer, B.S., Fennel, K., Falkowski P.G. - 2005 - Biological overprint of the geological carbon cycle. - Marine Geology, 217(3-4):323-338

Fennel, K., Abbott, M.R., Spitz, Y.H., Richman, J.G., Nelson, D.M. - 2003 - Modeling controls of phytoplankton production in the southwest Pacific sector of the Southern Ocean - Deep-Sea Research II, 50:769-798

Fennel, K., Boss, E. - 2003 - Subsurface maxima of phytoplankton and chlorophyll: Steady state solutions from a simple model - Limnology & Oceanography, 48(4):1521-1534

Fennel, K., Abbott, M.R., Spitz, Y.H., Richman, J.G., Nelson, D.M. - 2003 - Impacts of iron control on phytoplankton production in the modern and glacial Southern Ocean - Deep-Sea Research II, 50:833-851

Rothstein, L.M., Cullen, J.J., Abbott, M., Chassignet, E., Denman, K., Doney, S., Ducklow, H., Fennel, K., Follows, M., Haidvogel, D., Hoffman, E., Karl, D., Kindle, J., Lima, I., Maltrud, M., McClain, C., McGillicuddy, D., Olascoaga, J., Spitz, Y., Wiggert, J., Yoder, J. - 2006 - Modeling Ocean Ecosystems: The PARADIGM Program - Oceanography, 19(1):16-45