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The Integrated Earth System Dynamics Laboratory tackles difficult interdisciplinary problems related to the functioning of the Human-Earth system. The lab aims to build new knowledge about important, interesting and poorly-understood aspects of the Earth system. The majority of our research concerns the global ocean. The approaches we use include (1) assembling and analyzing large datasets; (2) building and running numerical models; (3) developing simple theory for complex systems. Our research does not restrict itself to traditional disciplinary boundaries, including elements of climate science, oceanography, ecology, and social sciences. Research topics include (1) interactions of climate, ocean biogeochemistry and marine animals; (2) general framework for dynamic simulation of fishing effort, fishing fleets and management; (3) environmental influences on observed changes in global fishing dynamics; (4) predictability of subjective well-being; (5) whole ecosystem metabolism. |