Research Area
Research Interests
- Oceanography
- Climate Dynamics
- Inverse and Ocean Modeling
- Ecosystems and Climate Change
- Ocean Solutions & Coastal Resilience
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
- Lead for the United Nations Ocean Decade Programme “Global Ecosystem for Ocean Solutions”, [6/2021-present]
- Founding Chairman of Ocean Visions, [8/2019-present]
- Founding Editor of Frontiers in Marine Science Ocean Solutions journal, [5/2019-present]
- Member of Future Earth Ocean Knowledge Action Network (KAN), [8/2017-present]
- 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
- Navarra, G. and E. Di Lorenzo (2021). "Poleward shift and intensification of Kuroshio-Oyashio Extension and North Pacific Transition Zone under climate change " Climate Dynamics, 18, doi:10.1007/s00382-021-05677-0.
- Joh, Y., E. Di Lorenzo, L. Siqueira and B. Kirtman (2021). "Enhanced interactions of Kuroshio Extension with tropical Pacific in a changing climate." Nature Scientific Reports, 11 (6247), doi:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-85582-y.
- Zhao, Y. and E. Di Lorenzo, 2020: The impacts of Extra-tropical ENSO Precursors on Tropical Pacific Decadal-scale Variability. Nature Scientific Reports, doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-59253-3.
- Joh, Y. and E. Di Lorenzo, 2019: Interactions between Kuroshio extension system and Pacific meridional mode enhances a decadal peak in North Pacific Variability. Nature Scientific Reports, 9:13558,https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-49927-y.
- Liguori, G. and E. Di Lorenzo: 2019 Separating the North and South Pacific Meridional Modes contributions to ENSO and tropical decadal variability. Geophysical Research Letters, DOI 10.1029/2018GL080320.
- Sainz, J. F., E. Di Lorenzo, S. Gaines, T. W. Bell, H. Lenihan and R. J. Miller: Spatial planning of Marine Aquaculture under Climate Decadal Variability: A case study for Mussel Farms in California. Frontiers of Marine Science, https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2019.00253.
- Liu, Z. Y. and E. Di Lorenzo, 2018: Mechanisms and Predictability of Pacific Decadal Variability. Current Climate Change Reports, https://doi.org/10.1007/s40641-018-0090-5.
- Liguori, G., and E. Di Lorenzo (2018), Meridional Modes and Increasing Pacific decadal variability under greenhouse forcing, Geophys. Res. Lett., DOI 10.1002/2017GL076548.
- Joh, Y. and E. Di Lorenzo, 2017: Evidence for stronger and more prolonged Northeast Pacific marine heatwaves. Geophysical Research Letters, 44(22), 11663-11671, doi:10.1002/2017gl075930.
- Pozo Buil, M. and E. Di Lorenzo, 2017: Decadal predictability of coastal hypoxia in the Northeast Pacific. Geophysical Research Letters, doi:10.1002/2017GL072931.
- 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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