Jacqueline Behncke
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Research Scientist
Modeling the carbon cycle in the Earth system
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Scientific path
since Apr 2022 PhD Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg. Quantifying the added value and rate of improvement of underway carbon dioxide data from sailboats.
Jun 2023 SOLAS Summer School, Ocean Science Centre Mindelo, Cabo Verde.
Oct 2019 - Feb 2022 M.Sc. Marine Environmental Science, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg. Thesis: Effect of Light and Upwelling Intensity on the Phytoplankton Community Composition in the Peruvian Upwelling System.
Apr 2021 - Feb 2022 Research Assistant, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg. Work group Observations, Analysis and Synthesis: Analysis of sea surface carbon dioxide data collected by sailing yachts around the globe.
Feb 2020 - Apr 2020 Research Assistant, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Callao, Peru. Mesocosm study in the Humboldt Upwelling System (Research project CUSCO).
Oct 2016 - Sep 2019 B.Sc. Geoecology, Universität Potsdam. Thesis: Identification of biogeochemical processes in long-term monitoring data in coastal waters of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
Sep 2019 - Oct 2019 Student Assistant, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Gran Canaria. Mesocosm study on artificial upwelling in the Canary Current Upwelling System (Research project Ocean artUp).
Apr 2019 - May 2019 Internship, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Kiel: Implementation of an experiment to investigate the sensitivity of marine fluorescent dissolved organic matter to oxygen (research group: Microbial Biogeochemistry).
Research
I am a PhD candidate interested in the ocean carbon sink. My work combines machine learning and earth system science, particularly the ocean carbon sink. In my PhD project I aim to assess the impact of underway pCO2 observations from sailboats on the estimate of the air-sea CO2 flux. I am working under the supervision of Peter Landschützer, Tatiana Ilyina and Jochem Marotzke.
Publications
Behncke, J., Landschützer, P. & Tanhua, T. A detectable change in the air-sea CO2 flux estimate from sailboat measurements. Sci Rep 14, 3345 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-53159-0
Landschützer, P., Tanhua, T., Behncke, J. & Keppler, L. (2023). Sailing through the southern seas of air-sea CO2 flux uncertainty. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 381 (2249), 20220064. doi: 10.1098/rsta.2022.006451