Job Type
Teaching/Education
Research
Subject Area
Chemical Oceanography
Physical Oceanography
Activities
Dr. Rodrigo Kerr is an oceanographer and Senior Lecturer of the Institute of Oceanography at Federal University of Rio Grande (FURG), Brazil. He is head of the CARBON team at Oceans and Climate Laboratory, which has research foci on studying the marine carbon cycle on distinct environments (e.g., estuaries, coastal and deep ocean) to investigate the role of anthropogenic influence on global climate.
Sea regions of study
South Atlantic Ocean
Southern Ocean
Skills
Dr. Rodrigo Kerr is a researcher fellow of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) and a member of the Brazilian High Latitude Oceanography Group (GOAL), the National Institute of Science and Technology of the Cryosphere (INCT-CRYOSPHERE), the Latin-America Ocean Acidification Network (LAOCA Network) and the Global Ocean Acidification Observing Network (GOA-ON Network). He is currently co-chairing the Brazilian Ocean Acidification Research Network (BrOA; www.broa.furg.br). He has been coordinating scientific projects and/or cruises along the South Atlantic and Southern oceans during the last decade. His current main research topics of interest are Ocean ventilation, Water mass formation processes, Ocean acidification, Air-sea CO2 fluxes, and Anthropogenic carbon.