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Overview

David T. Ho is affiliated with the University of Hawaii System in the United States. Their research primarily spans Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant work in Environmental Science.

Their expertise covers multiple subfields including Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Chemistry, Ecology, and Mechanical Engineering. These areas reflect a broad focus on both physical and chemical processes affecting marine and environmental systems.

Their main topics of research include:

  • Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Marine and Coastal Ecosystems
  • Carbon Dioxide Capture Technologies
  • Marine and Coastal Plant Biology
  • Coastal Wetland Ecosystem Dynamics

Some recent publications by David T. Ho are:

  • Carbon dioxide removal is not a current climate solution - we need to change the narrative, 2023, Nature
  • Monitoring, reporting, and verification for ocean alkalinity enhancement, 2023, State of the Planet

Other notable papers relevant to the fields they work in, authored by frequent collaborators or appearing within related research contexts, include:

  • Toward a consensus framework to evaluate air-sea CO2 equilibration for marine CO2 removal, 2023, Limnology and Oceanography Letters
  • Alkalinity Production Coupled to Pyrite Formation Represents an Unaccounted Blue Carbon Sink, 2021, Global Biogeochemical Cycles
  • Mangroves as a Source of Greenhouse Gases to the Atmosphere and Alkalinity and Dissolved Carbon to the Coastal Ocean: A Case Study From the Everglades National Park, Florida, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences

David T. Ho frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Laurent Bopp
  • Damien T. Maher
  • Manon Berger
  • Lester Kwiatkowski
  • Michael D. Tyka

The scientist publishes regularly in several journals with recurrent contributions to Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Environmental Research Letters, Biogeosciences, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), and Cytotherapy.

Best Publications

  • Advances in Quantifying Air-Sea Gas Exchange and Environmental Forcing*

    Rik Wanninkhof;William E. Asher;David T. Ho;Colm Sweeney

  • Measurements of air‐sea gas exchange at high wind speeds in the Southern Ocean: Implications for global parameterizations

    David T. Ho;David T. Ho;Cliff S. Law;Murray J. Smith;Peter Schlosser;Peter Schlosser

  • Environmental turbulent mixing controls on air-water gas exchange in marine and aquatic systems

    Christopher J. Zappa;Wade R. McGillis;Peter A. Raymond;James B. Edson

  • Toward a universal relationship between wind speed and gas exchange: Gas transfer velocities measured with 3He/SF6 during the Southern Ocean Gas Exchange Experiment

    David T. Ho;Rik Wanninkhof;Peter Schlosser;Peter Schlosser;David S. Ullman

  • The effect of rain on air-water gas exchange

    David T. Ho;Larry F. Bliven;Rik Wanninkhof;Peter Schlosser

  • Gas diffusion through columnar laboratory sea ice: Implications for mixed-layer ventilation of CO2 in the seasonal ice zone

    B. Loose;B. Loose;B. Loose;P. Schlosser;P. Schlosser;D. Perovich;D. Ringelberg

  • Transfer Across the Air-Sea Interface

    Christoph S. Garbe;Anna Rutgersson;Jacqueline Boutin;Gerrit de Leeuw;Gerrit de Leeuw;Gerrit de Leeuw

  • Determination of longitudinal dispersion coefficient and net advection in the tidal hudson river with a large-scale, high resolution SF6 tracer release experiment.

    David T. Ho;Peter Schlosser;Theodore Caplow

  • Atmospheric O2/N2 changes, 1993–2002: Implications for the partitioning of fossil fuel CO2 sequestration

    Michael L. Bender;David T. Ho;Melissa B. Hendricks;Robert Mika

  • Impact of an artificial surfactant release on air‐sea gas fluxes during Deep Ocean Gas Exchange Experiment II

    M Salter;M Salter;RC Upstill-Goddard;PD Nightingale;SD Archer

  • On mechanisms of rain-induced air-water gas exchange

    David T. Ho;William E. Asher;Larry F. Bliven;Peter Schlosser

  • Atmospheric potential oxygen: New observations and their implications for some atmospheric and oceanic models

    Mark Battle;Sara Mikaloff Fletcher;Michael L. Bender;Ralph F. Keeling

  • Influence of current velocity and wind speed on air-water gas exchange in a mangrove estuary

    David T. Ho;Nathalie Coffineau;Benjamin Hickman;Nicholas Chow

  • Spatial and temporal variability of CO2 and CH4 gas transfer velocities and quantification of the CH4 microbubble flux in mangrove dominated estuaries

    Judith Rosentreter;Damien T Maher;D T Ho;M Call

  • Dissolved O2/Ar and other methods reveal rapid changes in productivity during a Lagrangian experiment in the Southern Ocean

    Roberta C. Hamme;Nicolas Cassar;Veronica P. Lance;Veronica P. Lance;Robert D. Vaillancourt

  • Gas exchange, dispersion, and biological productivity on the west Florida shelf: Results from a Lagrangian tracer study

    Rik Wanninkhof;Gary Hitchcock;William J. Wiseman;Gabe Vargo

  • Influence of rain on air-sea gas exchange: Lessons from a model ocean

    David T. Ho;David T. Ho;Christopher J. Zappa;Christopher J. Zappa;Wade R. McGillis;Wade R. McGillis;Larry F. Bliven

  • Toward a consensus framework to evaluate air–sea CO2 equilibration for marine CO2 removal

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  • Rain‐induced turbulence and air‐sea gas transfer

    Christopher J. Zappa;David T. Ho;Wade R. McGillis;Wade R. McGillis;Michael L. Banner

  • Gas transfer velocities for SF6 and ³He in a small pond at low wind speeds

    Jordan F. Clark;Peter Schlosser;Rik Wanninkhof;H. James Simpson

  • Correction to “Measurements of air-sea gas exchange at high wind speeds in the Southern Ocean: Implications for global parameterizations”

    David T. Ho;Cliff S. Law;Murray J. Smith;Peter Schlosser

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Schlosser
Peter Schlosser Arizona State University
Wade R. McGillis
Wade R. McGillis Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Rik Wanninkhof
Rik Wanninkhof Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory
Christopher J. Zappa
Christopher J. Zappa Columbia University
Cliff S. Law
Cliff S. Law National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
Martin Stute
Martin Stute Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Michael L. Bender
Michael L. Bender Princeton University
Gernot E. Friederich
Gernot E. Friederich Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
Damien T. Maher
Damien T. Maher Southern Cross University
Scott G Johnston
Scott G Johnston Southern Cross University

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