
Research Interests
- Oceanography
- Climate Dynamics
- Inverse and Ocean Modeling
- Ecosystems and Climate Change
Awards
AWARDS
- Class of 1964 Teaching Award, Georgia Tech, 2012
- Sigma Xi Young Faculty Award, Georgia Tech, 2009
- Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence, Georgia Tech, 2007
- Regents Graduate Fellowship, University of California San Diego, 2000
NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL DISTINCTIONS
- Vice-chair, Science Board, North Pacific Marine Science Organization (PICES), [4/2017-, web]
- Chairman PICES Physical Oceanography and Climate Committee (POC), [1/2017-, web]
- Member US CLIVAR Science Steering Committee, [1/2017-, web]
- Co-chair US CLIVAR Phenomena, Observations, and Synthesis Panel, [1/2017-, web]
- Founding Director, Program in Ocean Science & Engineering, Georgia Tech, [10/2016-present, web]
- Member PICES FUTURE Science Steering Committee, [1/2015-present, web]
- Chair PICES SG-SEES Social-Ecological-Environmental Systems, [10/2013-10/2015, web]
- Member CLIVAR ENSO Diversity WG, [01/2012-02/2015, web]
- Chair PICES-WG27 North Pacific Climate Variability & Change, [04/2011-10/2015, web]
- US delegate Advancing US-DPRK Relations through Science Engagement, [04/2012, web]
- Chair ICES-WKECOFOR Forecasting Ecosystem Indicators, [03/2012-03/2013, web]
- US representative PICES-COVE international advisory panel, [10/10/2009-2014, web]
- Member Steering Committee, NSF/NOAA CAMEO Program, [03/2009-03/2012, web]
- Member PICES-WG20 Evaluations of Climate Change Projections, [11/2005-2011, web]
Publications
SELECTED RECENT
- Di Lorenzo, E., and N. J. Mantua (2016), Multi-year persistence of 2014/15 North Pacific marine heatwave, Nature Climate Change, doi:10.1038/nclimate3082.
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Di Lorenzo, E., G. Liguori, N. Schneider, J. C. Furtado, B. T. Anderson, and M. A. Alexander (2015), ENSO and meridional modes: A null hypothesis for Pacific climate variability, Geophys. Res. Lett., 42(21), 9440-9448, doi:10.1002/2015gl066281.
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Di Lorenzo, E. (2015), The future of coastal ocean upwelling, Nature, 518(7539).
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Di Lorenzo, E., and M. D. Ohman (2013), A double-integration hypothesis to explain ocean ecosystem response to climate forcing, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 110(7), 2496-2499, doi:10.1073/pnas.1218022110.
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Di Lorenzo, E., D. Mountain, H. P. Batchelder, N. Bond, and E. E. Hofmann (2013), Advances in Marine Ecosystem Dynamics from US GLOBEC The Horizontal-Advection Bottom-up Forcing Paradigm, Oceanography, 26(4), 22-33.
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Di Lorenzo, E., et al. (2013), Synthesis of Pacific Ocean Climate and Ecosystem Dynamics, Oceanography, 26(4), 68-81.
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Di Lorenzo, E., K. M. Cobb, J. C. Furtado, N. Schneider, B. T. Anderson, A. Bracco, M. A. Alexander, and D. J. Vimont (2010), Central Pacific El Nino and decadal climate change in the North Pacific Ocean, Nature Geoscience, 3(11), 762-765, doi:10.1038/ngeo984.
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Di Lorenzo, E., et al. (2009), Nutrient and salinity decadal variations in the central and eastern North Pacific, Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, doi:10.1029/2009gl038261.
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Di Lorenzo, E., et al. (2008), North Pacific Gyre Oscillation links ocean climate and ecosystem change, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35(8), L08607, doi:10.1029/2007gl032838.
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Di Lorenzo, E., A. M. Moore, H. G. Arango, B. D. Cornuelle, A. J. Miller, B. Powell, B. S. Chua, and A. F. Bennett (2007), Weak and strong constraint data assimilation in the inverse Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS): Development and application for a baroclinic coastal upwelling system, Ocean Modelling, 16(3-4), 160-187, doi:10.1016/j.ocemod.2006.08.002.
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Contact Information
Phone:
404-894-3994
Fax:
404-894-5638
Email:
edl@gatech.edu
Office:
ES&T 3252
Responsibilities
- Director, Program in Ocean Science & Engineering (OSE)