Esa Peltola

Oceanographer, Ocean Chemistry and Ecosystems Division

305.361.4391

4301 Rickenbacker Causeway
Miami, Florida 33149

About

Esa Peltola is an oceanographer with the Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory and is currently the Finance Manager for the Ocean Chemistry and Ecosystems Division of AOML. He received his Licentiate Degree from the University of Jyvaskyla in 1996. While working for AOML’s Ocean Carbon Cycle group, Esa designed and built several DICE systems currently being used to analyze dissolved organic carbon in the water column and has participated in various research cruises executed in every major ocean basin.

Current Work

Finance Manager for the Ocean Chemistry and Ecosystems Division

Publications

Takahashi, T., F. Millero, R. Key, D. Chipman, E. Peltola, S. Rubin, C. Sweeney, and S. Sutherland. Determination of carbon dioxide, hydrographic, and chemical parameters during the R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer cruise in the southern Indian Ocean (WOCE section SO4I, 3 May-4 July 1996). Oak Ridge National Laboratory/Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, Technical Report, ORNL/CDIAC-150, 50 pp., 2006
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Peltola, E., R. Wanninkhof, R. Feely, R. Castle, D. Greeley, J.-Z. Zhang, F. Millero, N. Gruber, J. Bullister, and T. Graham. Inorganic carbon, nutrient, and oxygen data from the R/V Ronald H. Brown repeat hydrography cruise in the Atlantic Ocean: CLIVAR CO₂ section A16N_2003a (4 June-11 August 2003). Oak Ridge National Laboratory/Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, Technical Report, ORNL/CDIAC-149, 36 pp., 2005
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Wanninkhof, R.H., S.C. Doney, E. Peltola, R.D. Castle, F.J. Millero, J.L. Bullister, D.A. Hansell, M.J. Warner, C. Langdon, G.C. Johnson, and C.W. Mordy. Carbon dioxide, hydrographic, and chemical data obtained during the R/V Ronald H. Brown repeat hydrography cruise in the Atlantic Ocean: CLIVAR CO₂ section A16S_2005 (11 January-24 February 2005). Oak Ridge National Laboratory/Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, Oak Ridge, Technical Report, ORNL/CDIAC-151, 38 pp., 2005
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Takahashi, T., F. Millero, R. Key, D. Chipman, E. Peltola, S. Rubin, C. Sweeney, and S. Sutherland. Determination of carbon dioxide, hydrographic, and chemical parameters during the R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer cruise in the southern Indian Ocean (WOCE section SO4I, 3 May-4 July 1996). Oak Ridge National Laboratory/Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, Technical Report, ORNL/CDIAC-150, 50 pp., 2006
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Peltola, E., R. Wanninkhof, R. Feely, R. Castle, D. Greeley, J.-Z. Zhang, F. Millero, N. Gruber, J. Bullister, and T. Graham. Inorganic carbon, nutrient, and oxygen data from the R/V Ronald H. Brown repeat hydrography cruise in the Atlantic Ocean: CLIVAR CO₂ section A16N_2003a (4 June-11 August 2003). Oak Ridge National Laboratory/Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, Technical Report, ORNL/CDIAC-149, 36 pp., 2005
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Wanninkhof, R.H., S.C. Doney, E. Peltola, R.D. Castle, F.J. Millero, J.L. Bullister, D.A. Hansell, M.J. Warner, C. Langdon, G.C. Johnson, and C.W. Mordy. Carbon dioxide, hydrographic, and chemical data obtained during the R/V Ronald H. Brown repeat hydrography cruise in the Atlantic Ocean: CLIVAR CO₂ section A16S_2005 (11 January-24 February 2005). Oak Ridge National Laboratory/Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, Oak Ridge, Technical Report, ORNL/CDIAC-151, 38 pp., 2005
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Peltola, E., K. Lee, R.H. Wanninkhof, R. Feely, M. Roberts, D. Greeley, M.O. Baringer, G. Johnson, J. Bullister, C. Mordy, J.-Z. Zhang, P. Quay, F. Millero, D. Hansell, and P. Minnett. Chemical and hydrographic measurements on a Climate and Global Change Cruise along 24°N in the Atlantic Ocean WOCE Section A5R (repeat) during January-February 1998. NOAA Data Report, OAR-AOML-41 (PB2001-107645), 210 pp., 2001
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Millero, F.J., D.G. Purkerson, P. Steinberg, E. Peltola, K. Lee, C. Edwards, J. Goen, and M.P. Roche. The carbon dioxide system in the Ross Sea during the JGOFS Southern Ocean Process Study. University of Miami-Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, Technical Report, RSMAS-98-001, 159 pp., 1998
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Peltola, E., R. Wanninkhof, R. Molinari, B.E. Huss, R. Feely, J. Bullister, J.-Z. Zhang, F. Chavez, A. Dickson, A. Ffield, D. Hansell, F. Millero, P. Quay, R. Castle, G. Thomas, R. Roddy, T. Landry, M. Roberts, H. Chen, D. Greeley, K. Lee, M. Roche, J.A. Goen, F. Millero, K. Buck, M. Kelly, F. Menzia, A. Huston, T. Waterhouse, S. Becker, and C. Mordy. Chemical and hydrographic measurements during the Indian Ocean I8 repeat cruise (IR8N) in September and October 1995. NOAA Data Report, ERL-AOML-34 (PB99-126948), 176 pp., 1998
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O'Sullivan, D.W., F.J. Millero, C. Goyet, E. Peltola, E.A. Degler, B. Adams, R.G.J. Bellerby, G. Eischeid, and S.J. McCue. Carbon dioxide system measurements on Arabian Sea waters. University of Miami-Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, Technical Report, RSMAS 97-005, 283 pp., 1997
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Millero, F.J., J.-Z. Zhang, E. Peltola, M. Roche, S. Olivella, M. De Alessi, and B. Vargas. Total alkalinity measurements in the South Pacific. University of Miami Technical Report, RSMAS-94-003, 207 pp., 1994
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Education

1996, Licentiate Degree from the University of Jyvaskyla

Awards

Department of Commerce Gold Medal 2006

For 15 years of painstaking research and observations that have shown the oceans are becoming more acidic as a result of the uptake and storage of anthropogenic carbon dioxide.