Dr. Ken Drinkwater

Institute: 
Institute of Marine Research
City: 
Bergen
Country: 
Norway

Ken Drinkwater has been involved in research on physical oceanography and climate variability and their effects on the marine ecosystem including fish and fisheries for over 35 years. He joined the Institute of Marine Research and the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research in Bergen Norway, in 2003, where he has continued his work on ocean climate and its marine impacts.  He is a former chair of the ICES/GLOBEC Cod and Climate Change (CCC) Program is presently co-chair of the Ecosystems Studies of Sub-Arctic Seas (ESSAS) Program under IMBER. He was co-author of the the Marine System chapter in the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA) to assess possible consequences of climate change on the Arctic and is presently a review editor for the Ocean Systems chapter within Working Group II of the IPCC.