Dr. rer. nat. Toste Tanhua

Research Division 2: Marine Biogeochemistry
FE Chemical Ozeanography
Working group: Transient Tracers

Office:
Room: 5 3.511
Tel.: 0431 600 2092
Fax: 0431 600 4202
email: ttanhua(at)geomar.de

Address:
GEOMAR Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research Kiel
Wischhofstraße 1-3
D-24148 Kiel

Personal Information

• Born: January 25, 1965
• Born in: Sweden
• Citizenship: Sweden, Germany

Education

• 1992 Göteborg University, M.Sc. Analytical Chemistry
• 1997 Göteborg University, Ph.D Marine Chemistry, Dissertation title: Halogenated substances as marine tracers

Research Interests

  • Transient Tracers in the Ocean
  • Ocean Ventilation and Mixing
  • Deliberate Tracer Release Experiments
  • Novel Tracer Development
  • Sustained Ocean Observing Systems

Career, Employment

  • 01.09.2002 – present GEOMAR, Senior Scientist
  • March 1999 – April 2002 SIO-UCSD, San Diego, CA, Postdoctoral researcher.
  • July 1997 – July 1998 Göteborg University, Sweden, Postdoctoral researcher.

Membership and Expert Activities

  • GOOS (Global Ocean Observing System): Co-Chair, 2017 – present
  • Joint WMO-IOC Collaborative Board: 2019 – present
  • Eurofleets+ Scientific Liaison Panel, 2019 – present

Current Projects 

Expeditions

since 1992 participation in 35 marine research expeditions in the Mediterranean Sea, the Black Sea and to the Arctic, Atlantic, Antarctic Oceans.