Denis Pierrot

Denis Pierrot, Ph.D.

Oceanographer, Ocean Chemistry and Ecosystems Division

305.361.4441

4301 Rickenbacker Causeway
Miami, Florida 33149

Dr. Denis Pierrot is a chemical oceanographer at AOML’s Ocean Chemistry and Ecosystems Division. He is in charge of the Ocean Carbon Cycle group’s Ship of Opportunity CO2 program which measures the surface partial pressure of carbon dioxide (pCO2) on Volunteer Observing Ships. Dr. Pierrot has also developed instrumentation and software that is used in the collection and processing of underway and discrete pCO2 data.

Current Work

Principal Investigator for the Ocean Carbon Group’s Ship of Opportunity Program

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  1. Roberts, E. G., Ouyang, Z., Li, Q., Barbero, L., Pierrot, D., Featherstone, C., ... & Cai, W. J. Summertime Net Community Production (Ncp) Via Underway Measurements of O2/Ar and Its Control on CO2 Flux in the Northern Gulf of America Science of The Total Environment, 966, 178729., https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2025.178729 2025
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  2. Wanninkhof, R., Trinanes, J., Pierrot, D., Munro, D. R., Sweeney, C. and Fay, A. R. Trends in Sea-Air CO2 Fluxes and Sensitivities to Atmospheric Forcing Using an Extremely Randomized Trees Machine Learning Approach Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 39(2), e2024GB008315, https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GB008315 2025
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  3. Wanninkhof, R., Trinanes, J., Pierrot, D., Munro, D. R., Sweeney, C., & Fay, A. R. Trends in Sea-Air CO2 Fluxes and Sensitivities to Atmospheric Forcing Using an Extremely Randomized Trees Machine Learning Approach Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 39(2), e2024GB008315., https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GB008315Digital Object Identifier (DOI) 2025
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