James McCarthy (oceanographer)

Later field research sites included the North Atlantic, equatorial Pacific, and Arabian Sea.

[6][7] McCarthy received his undergraduate degree in biology from Gonzaga University, and his Ph.D. from Scripps Institution of Oceanography in 1971.

His research interests related to the regulation of plankton productivity in the sea, and in later years focused on regions that are strongly affected by seasonal and inter-annual variation in climate.

He was the founding editor for the American Geophysical Union's journal Global Biogeochemical Cycles.

[9] In 2018, James J. McCarthy was nominated as a recipient of the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement for his work on phytoplankton as it relates to climate change impacts and his outstanding leadership in the field of science policy.