PD Dr. rer. nat. Iris Kriest
Scientist in research unit Biogeochemical Modeling
Office:
Room 5.505 (Tower 5, Floor 5)
Phone: +49 431 600-1772
E-Mail: ikriest(at)geomar.de
Address:
GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Wischhofstraße 1-3
24148 Kiel
Research Interests
My research foci are description of biogeochemical processes in large-scale models, assessment of model skill, and calibration of biogeochemical model parameters (constants) on a global scale. This involves analysis and synthesis of observations, in close collaboration with observing scientists, as well as development of different metrics for global model optimization. For my work I mainly use the "Transport Matrix Method" developed by Samar Khatiwala.
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Education and Employment
- 2019 Habilitation at Kiel University
- since 2004 Research Scientist at IFM-GEOMAR, now GEOMAR
- 2002-2004 PostDoc, Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg
- 1999-2002 PostDoc, Institute for Marine Research Kiel
- 1995-1999 PhD student, Institute for Marine Research Kiel
- 1994 Scholarship (DAAD), Department of Fisheries and Oceans, St. John's, NF, Canada
- 1994 Diploma (Biology), Institute for Marine Research Kiel, Kiel University
Expeditions
- 2019 R/V Meteor M158 (Atlantic)
- 2016 R/V Meteor M130 (Atlantic)
- 1997 R/V Sonne SO120 (Arabian Sea)
- 1995 R/V Meteor M32/5 (Indian Ocean/Arabian Sea)
- 1993 R/V Meteor M25/2 (Mediterranean Sea)
External Funding
OceanICU "Understanding Ocean Carbon" - work package 6 (lead) "Determine significance of key processes in the evolving Ocean C Cycle" (EU Horizon; funding period 2022-2027)
CUSCO "Coastal Upwelling System in a Changing Ocean" - work package 5 (co-lead) "Particle size distribution, particle export and zooplankton-particle interactions" (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, funding period: 2019-2021)
PALMOD (German Climate Modeling Initiative) "From the Last Interglacial to the Anthropocene - Modeling a Complete Biogeochemical Cycle" - work package 4.1 (lead) "A model calibration framework exemplified for the ocean biogeochemical component" (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, funding period: 2015-2019)
SFB 754 “Climate-Biogeochemistry Interactions in the Tropical Ocean” - subproject B8 "The role of zooplankton in N-, P- and C-cycling and for the oxygen budget of tropical oxygen minimum zones” (co-lead; German Science Foundation DFG, funding period: 2016 – 2019)
