Associate Professor Mark Holzer

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RESEARCH INTERESTS: Oceanography, atmospheric science, climate; Ocean biogeochemical cycles, ventilation, transport, tracers, inverse modelling; Long-range transport, stratosphere-troposphere exchange, trace gases

For more information see Mark Holzer's personal .

Phone

+61 2 9385 7109

E-mail

mholzer@unsw.edu.au

Location

School of Mathematics and Statistics University of New South Wales SYDNEY NSW 2052 The Red Centre Room 4107

Journal articles | 2025

Millet B; de Lavergne C; Gray W; Holzer M; Roche D, 2025, 'Global ocean ventilation: a comparison between a general circulation model and data-constrained inverse models', ,

Journal articles | 2025

Millet B; de Lavergne C; Gray WR; Éthé C; Madec G; Holzer M; DeVries T; Gebbie G; Roche DM, 2025, 'Deep Ocean Ventilation: A Comparison Between a General Circulation Model and Data-Constrained Inverse Models', Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 17,

Journal articles | 2024

Holzer M; DeVries T; Pasquier B, 2024, 'Atmospheric pCO2 Response to Stimulated Organic Carbon Export: Sensitivity Patterns and Timescales', Geophysical Research Letters, 51,

Journal articles | 2024

John SG; Liang H; Pasquier B; Holzer M; Silva S, 2024, 'Biogeochemical Fluxes of Nickel in the Global Oceans Inferred From a Diagnostic Model', Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 38,

Journal articles | 2024

Pasquier B; Holzer M; Chamberlain MA; Matear RJ; Bindoff NL, 2024, 'Deoxygenation and Its Drivers Analyzed in Steady State for Perpetually Slower and Warmer Oceans', Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 129,

Journal articles | 2024

Pasquier B; Holzer M; Chamberlain MA, 2024, 'The biological and preformed carbon pumps in perpetually slower and warmer oceans', Biogeosciences, 21, pp. 3373 - 3400,

Journal articles | 2023

Gray WR; de Lavergne C; Jnglin Wills RC; Menviel L; Spence P; Holzer M; Kageyama M; Michel E, 2023, 'Poleward Shift in the Southern Hemisphere Westerly Winds Synchronous With the Deglacial Rise in CO2', Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 38,

Journal articles | 2023

Pasquier B; Holzer M; Chamberlain MA; Matear RJ; Bindoff NL; Primeau FW, 2023, 'Optimal parameters for the ocean's nutrient, carbon, and oxygen cycles compensate for circulation biases but replumb the biological pump', Biogeosciences, 20, pp. 2985 - 3009,

Journal articles | 2023

Sulpis O; Trossman DS; Holzer M; Jeansson E; Lauvset SK; Middelburg JJ, 2023, 'Respiration Patterns in the Dark Ocean', Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 37,

Journal articles | 2022

Holzer M; DeVries T, 2022, 'Source-Labeled Anthropogenic Carbon Reveals a Large Shift of Preindustrial Carbon From the Ocean to the Atmosphere', Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 36,

Journal articles | 2022

Holzer M, 2022, 'The Fate of Oxygen in the Ocean and Its Sensitivity to Local Changes in Biological Production', Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans, 127,

Journal articles | 2022

John SG; Kelly RL; Bian X; Fu F; Smith MI; Lanning NT; Liang H; Pasquier B; Seelen EA; Holzer M; Wasylenki L; Conway TM; Fitzsimmons JN; Hutchins DA; Yang SC, 2022, 'The biogeochemical balance of oceanic nickel cycling', Nature Geoscience, 15, pp. 906 - 912,

Journal articles | 2022

Kwon EY; Holzer M; Timmermann A; Primeau F, 2022, 'Estimating Three-Dimensional Carbon-To-Phosphorus Stoichiometry of Exported Marine Organic Matter', Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 36,

Journal articles | 2021

Holzer M; DeVries T; de Lavergne C, 2021, 'Diffusion controls the ventilation of a Pacific Shadow Zone above abyssal overturning', Nature Communications, 12, pp. 4348,

Journal articles | 2021

Holzer M; Kwon EY; Pasquier B, 2021, 'A New Metric of the Biological Carbon Pump: Number of Pump Passages and Its Control on Atmospheric pCO2', Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 35,

Journal articles | 2020

Holzer M; Chamberlain MA; Matear RJ, 2020, 'Climate-Driven Changes in the Ocean's Ventilation Pathways and Time Scales Diagnosed From Transport Matrices', Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans, 125,

Journal articles | 2020

John SG; Liang H; Weber T; DeVries T; Primeau F; Moore K; Holzer M; Mahowald N; Gardner W; Mishonov A; Richardson MJ; Faugere Y; Taburet G, 2020, 'AWESOME OCIM: A simple, flexible, and powerful tool for modeling elemental cycling in the oceans', Chemical Geology, 533, pp. 119403,

Journal articles | 2019

Chamberlain MA; Matear RJ; Holzer M; Bi D; Marsland SJ, 2019, 'Transport matrices from standard ocean-model output and quantifying circulation response to climate change', Ocean Modelling, 135, pp. 1 - 13,

Journal articles | 2019

DeVries T; Holzer M, 2019, 'Radiocarbon and Helium Isotope Constraints on Deep Ocean Ventilation and Mantle-3He Sources', Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 124, pp. 3036 - 3057,

Journal articles | 2019

Holzer M; DeVries T; Smethie WJ, 2019, 'The ocean's global 39Ar distribution estimated with an ocean circulation inverse model', Geophys. Res. Lett., 46, pp. 7491 - 7499,

Journal articles | 2019

Holzer M; Pasquier B; DeVries T; Brzezinski M, 2019, 'Diatom Physiology Controls Silicic Acid Leakage in Response to Iron Fertilization', Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 33, pp. 1631 - 1653,

Journal articles | 2018

Holzer M; Smethie WM; Ting YH, 2018, 'Ventilation of the Subtropical North Atlantic: Locations and Times of Last Ventilation Estimated Using Tracer Constraints From GEOTRACES Section GA03', Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans, 123, pp. 2332 - 2352,

Journal articles | 2018

Pasquier B; Holzer M, 2018, 'Iron fertilization efficiency and the number of past and future regenerations of iron in the ocean', ,

Journal articles | 2018

Pasquier B; Holzer M, 2018, 'The number of past and future regenerations of iron in the ocean and its intrinsic fertilization efficiency', Biogeosciences, 15, pp. 7177 - 7203,

Journal articles | 2018

Yang H; Waugh DW; Holzer M, 2018, 'Decoupling the Effects of Transport and Chemical Loss on Tropospheric Composition: A Model Study of Path-Dependent Lifetimes', Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, 123, pp. 2320 - 2335,

Journal articles | 2017

DeVries T; Holzer M; Primeau F, 2017, 'Recent increase in oceanic carbon uptake driven by weaker upper-ocean overturning', Nature, 542, pp. 215 - 218,

Journal articles | 2017

Holzer M; DeVries T; Bianchi D; Newton R; Schlosser P; Winckler G, 2017, 'Objective estimates of mantle 3He in the ocean and implications for constraining the deep ocean circulation', Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 458, pp. 305 - 314,

Journal articles | 2017

Pasquier B; Holzer M, 2017, 'Inverse-model estimates of the ocean's coupled phosphorus, silicon, and iron cycles', ,

Journal articles | 2017

Pasquier B; Holzer M, 2017, 'Inverse-model estimates of the ocean’s coupled phosphorus, silicon, and iron cycles', Biogeosciences, 14, pp. 4125 - 4159,

Journal articles | 2017

Ting YH; Holzer M, 2017, 'Decadal changes in Southern Ocean ventilation inferred from deconvolutions of repeat hydrographies', Geophysical Research Letters, 44, pp. 5655 - 5664,

Journal articles | 2016

Frants M; Holzer M; DeVries T; Matear R, 2016, 'Constraints on the global marine iron cycle from a simple inverse model', Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences, 121, pp. 28 - 51,

Journal articles | 2016

Holzer M; Frants M; Pasquier B, 2016, 'The age of iron and iron source attribution in the ocean', Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 30, pp. 1454 - 1474,

Journal articles | 2016

Pasquier B; Holzer M, 2016, 'The plumbing of the global biological pump: Efficiency control through leaks, pathways, and time scales', Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans, 121, pp. 6367 - 6388,

Journal articles | 2015

Holzer M; Brzezinski MA, 2015, 'Controls on the silicon isotope distribution in the ocean: New diagnostics from a data-constrained model', Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 29, pp. 267 - 287,

Journal articles | 2015

Holzer M; Waugh DW, 2015, 'Interhemispheric transit time distributions and path-dependent lifetimes constrained by measurements of SF6, CFCs, and CFC replacements', Geophysical Research Letters, 42, pp. 4581 - 4589,

Journal articles | 2015

Orbe C; Newman PA; Waugh DW; Holzer M; Oman LD; Li F; Polvani LM, 2015, 'Air-mass origin in the arctic. Part II: Response to increases in greenhouse gases', Journal of Climate, 28, pp. 9105 - 9120,

Journal articles | 2015

Orbe C; Newman PA; Waugh DW; Holzer M; Oman LD; Li F; Polvani LM, 2015, 'Airmass origin in the Arctic. Part I: Seasonality', Journal of Climate, 28, pp. 4997 - 5014,

Journal articles | 2015

Tisdell CC; Holzer M, 2015, 'Analysis of the boundary value problem associated with the nonrelativistic Thomas-Fermi equation for heavy atoms in intense magnetic fields', Differential Equations and Applications, 7, pp. 27 - 41,

Journal articles | 2014

Holzer M; Primeau FW; DeVries T; Matear R, 2014, 'The Southern Ocean silicon trap: Data-constrained estimates of regenerated silicic acid, trapping efficiencies, and global transport paths', Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans, 119, pp. 313 - 331,

Journal articles | 2014

Orbe C; Holzer M; Polvani LM; Waugh DW; Li F; Oman LD; Newman PA, 2014, 'Seasonal ventilation of the stratosphere: Robust diagnostics from one-way flux distributions', Journal of Geophysical Research, 119, pp. 293 - 306,

Journal articles | 2013

Holzer M; Polvani LM, 2013, 'Lifetime dependent flux into the lowermost stratosphere for idealized trace gases of surface origin', Journal of Geophysical Research, 118, pp. 9367 - 9375,

Journal articles | 2013

Holzer M; Primeau FW, 2013, 'Global teleconnections in the oceanic phosphorus cycle: Patterns, paths, and timescales', Journal of Geophysical Research, 118, pp. 1775 - 1796,

Journal articles | 2013

Orbe C; Holzer M; Polvani LM; Waugh DW, 2013, 'Air-mass origin as a diagnostic of tropospheric transport', Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 118, pp. 1459 - 1470,

Journal articles | 2013

Primeau FW; Holzer M; DeVries T, 2013, 'Southern Ocean nutrient trapping and the efficiency of the biological pump', Journal of Geophysical Research, 118, pp. 2547 - 2564,

Journal articles | 2013

Waugh DW; Primeau FW; DeVries T; Holzer M, 2013, 'Recent changes in the ventilation of the southern oceans', Science, 339, pp. 568 - 570,

Journal articles | 2012

Holzer M; Orbe C; Primeau FW, 2012, 'Stratospheric mean residence time and mean age on the tropopause: Connections and implications for observational constraints', Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 117, pp. D12314 (8pp),

Journal articles | 2012

Khatiwala S; Primeau FW; Holzer M, 2012, 'Ventilation of the deep ocean constrained with tracer observations and implications for radiocarbon estimates of ideal mean age', Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 325-326, pp. 116 - 125,

Journal articles | 2012

Orbe C; Holzer M; Polvani LM, 2012, 'Flux distributions as robust diagnostics of stratosphere-toposphere exchange', Journal of Geophysical Research, 117, pp. Article number: D01302,

Journal articles | 2010

Holzer M; Primeau FW, 2010, 'Improved constraints on transit time distribtions from argon 39: A maximum entropy approach', Journal of Geophysical Research, 115, pp. c12021(19pp),

Journal articles | 2010

Holzer M; Primeau FWP; Smethie JWM; Khatiwala S, 2010, 'Where and how long ago was water in the western North Atlantic ventilated? Maximum entropy inversions of bottle data from WOCE line A20', Journal of Geophysical Research, 115,

Journal articles | 2009

Holzer M, 2009, 'The path density of interhemispheric surface-to-surface transport. Part I: Development of the diagnostic and illustration with an analytic model', Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 66, pp. 2159 - 2171,

Journal articles | 2009

Holzer M, 2009, 'The path density of interhemispheric surface-to-surface transport. Part II: Transport through the troposphere and stratosphere diagnosed from NCEP data', Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 66, pp. 2172 - 2189,

Journal articles | 2008

Haine TWN; Zhang H; Waugh D; Holzer M, 2008, 'On transit-time distributions in unsteady circulation models', Ocean Modelling, pp. 35 - 45,

Journal articles | 2008

Holzer M; Hall TM, 2008, 'Tropospheric transport climate partitioned by surface origin and transit time', Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 113,

Journal articles | 2008

Holzer M; Primeau F, 2008, 'The path-density distribution of oceanic surface-to-surface transport', Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 113,

Journal articles | 2007

Hall T; Haine TWN; Holzer M; Lebel DA; Terenzi F; Waugh D, 2007, 'Ventilation rates estimated from tracers in the presence of mixing', Journal of Physical Oceanography, pp. 2599 - 2611,

Journal articles | 2007

Holzer M; Hall T, 2007, 'Low-level transpacific transport', Journal of Geophysical Research, 112,

Journal articles | 2006

Holzer M; Primeau FW, 2006, 'The Diffusive Ocean Conveyor', Geophysical Research Letters, 33,

Journal articles | 2006

Primeau FW; Holzer M, 2006, 'The Ocean's Memory of the Atmosphere: Residence-Time and Ventilation-Rate Distributions of Water Masses', Journal of Physical Oceanography, 7, pp. 1439 - 1456

Journal articles | 2005

Holzer M; Hall T; Stull RB, 2005, 'Seasonality and weather-driven variability of transpacific transport', Journal of Geophysical Research, 110,

Journal articles | 2003

Hall TM; Holzer M, 2003, 'Advective-diffusive mass flux and implications for stratosphere-troposphere exchange', Geophysical Research Letters, 30, pp. 26 - 1,

Journal articles | 2003

Holzer M; McKendry IG; Jaffe DA, 2003, 'Springtime trans-Pacific atmospheric transport from east Asia: A transit-time probability density function approach', Journal of Geophysical Research D: Atmospheres, 108,

Journal articles | 2001

Holzer M; Boer GJ, 2001, 'Simulated changes in atmospheric transport climate', Journal of Climate, 14, pp. 4398 - 4420,

Journal articles | 2000

Holzer M; Hall TM, 2000, 'Transit-time and tracer-age distributions in geophysical flows', Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 57, pp. 3539 - 3558,

Journal articles | 1999

Denning AS; Holzer M; Gurney KR; Heimann M; Law RM; Rayner PJ; Fung IY; Fan S-M; Taguchi S; Friedlingstein P; Balkanski Y; Taylor J; Maiss M; Levin I, 1999, 'Three-dimensional transport and concentration of SF<sub>6</sub> A model intercomparison study (TransCom 2)', Tellus B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology, 51, pp. 266 - 266,

Journal articles | 1999

Denning AS; Holzer M; Gurney KR; Heimann M; Law RM; Rayner PJ; Fung IY; Friedlingstein P; Fan S-M; Taguchi S; Balkanski Y; Taylor J; Maiss M; Levin I, 1999, 'Three-dimensional transport and concentration of SF6 a model intercomparison study (TransCom 2)', Tellus, Series B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology, 51, pp. 266 - 297,

Journal articles | 1999

Holzer M, 1999, 'Analysis of passive tracer transport as modeled by an atmospheric general circulation model', Journal of Climate, 12, pp. 1659 - 1684,

Journal articles | 1996

Holzer M, 1996, 'Asymmetric geopotential height fluctuations from symmetric winds', Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 53, pp. 1361 - 1379, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/1520-0469(1996)053<1361:AGHFFS>2.0.CO;2

Journal articles | 1996

Holzer M, 1996, 'Optimal spectral topography and its effect on model climate', Journal of Climate, 9, pp. 2443 - 2463, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/1520-0442(1996)009<2443:OSTAIE>2.0.CO;2

Journal articles | 1995

Holzer M; Siggia E, 1995, 'Erratum: "Turbulent mixing of a passive scalar" (Physics of Fluids (1994) 6 (1820))', Physics of Fluids, 7, pp. 1519,

Journal articles | 1994

Holzer M; Siggia ED, 1994, 'Turbulent mixing of a passive scalar', Physics of Fluids, 6, pp. 1820 - 1837,

Journal articles | 1993

Holzer M; Pumir A, 1993, 'Simple models of non-Gaussian statistics for a turbulently advected passive scalar', Physical Review E, 47, pp. 202 - 219,

Journal articles | 1993

Holzer M; Siggia E, 1993, 'Skewed, exponential pressure distributions from Gaussian velocities', Physics of Fluids A, 5, pp. 2525 - 2532,

Journal articles | 1992

Shore JD; Holzer M; Sethna JP, 1992, 'Logarithmically slow domain growth in nonrandomly frustrated systems: Ising models with competing interactions', Physical Review B, 46, pp. 11376 - 11404,

Journal articles | 1991

Holzer M, 1991, 'Multifractal wave functions on a class of one-dimensional quasicrystals: Exact f(alpha) curves and the limit of dilute quasiperiodic impurities', Physical Review B, 44, pp. 2085 - 2091,

Journal articles | 1990

Holzer M, 1990, 'Equilibrium crystal shapes and correlation lengths: A general exact result in two dimensions', Physical Review Letters, 64, pp. 653 - 656,

Journal articles | 1990

Holzer M, 1990, 'Exact equilibrium crystal shapes in two dimensions for free-fermion models', Physical Review B, 42, pp. 10570 - 10582,

Journal articles | 1989

Holzer M; Wortis M, 1989, 'Low-temperature expansions for the step free energy and facet shape of the simple-cubic Ising model', Physical Review B, 40, pp. 11044 - 11058,

Journal articles | 1988

Holzer M, 1988, 'Nonlinear dynamics of localization in a class of one-dimensional quasicrystals', Physical Review B, 38, pp. 5756 - 5759,

Journal articles | 1988

Holzer M, 1988, 'Three classes of one-dimensional, two-tile Penrose tilings and the Fibonacci Kronig-Penney model as a generic case', Physical Review B, 38, pp. 1709 - 1720,
Preprints | 2023

Sulpis O; Trossman D; Holzer M; Jeansson E; Lauvset SK; Middelburg JJ, 2023, Respiration patterns in the dark ocean, ,

Preprints | 2023

2023, Optimal parameters for the ocean's nutrient, carbon, and oxygen cycles compensate for circulation biases but replumb the biological pump, ,

Conference Papers | 2022

John S; Kelly R; Bian X; Yang S-C; Fu F; Smith M; Lanning N; Liang H; Pasquier B; Seelen E; Holzer M; Conway T; Fitzsimmons J; Hutchins D, 2022, 'The biogeochemical balance that controls oceanic nickel cycling in the modern and past oceans', in Goldschmidt2022 abstracts, European Association of Geochemistry, presented at Goldschmidt2022, 10 July 2022 - 15 July 2022,

Preprints | 2022

John SG; Pasquier B; Holzer M; Silva SJ, 2022, Biogeochemical fluxes of nickel in the global oceans inferred from a diagnostic model, ,

Conference Papers | 2022

Sulpis O; Trossman D; Jeansson E; Holzer M; Lauvset S; Middelburg J, 2022, 'Respiration signals from the dark ocean', in Goldschmidt2022 abstracts, Geochemical Society, presented at Goldschmidt2022 abstracts, 10 July 2022 - 15 July 2022,

Conference Papers | 2021

Gray W; deLavergne C; Wills R; Menviel L; Spence P; Holzer M; Kageyama M; Michel E, 2021, 'Poleward shift in the Southern Hemisphere westerly winds synchronous with the deglacial rise in CO₂', in Goldschmidt2021 abstracts, European Association of Geochemistry, presented at Goldschmidt2021, 04 July 2021 - 09 July 2021,

Preprints | 1992

Shore JD; Holzer M; Sethna JP, 1992, Logarithmically slow domain growth in nonrandomly frustrated systems: Ising models with competing interactions,

Conference Papers | 1991

Shore JD; Holzer M; Sethna JP; Elser V, 1991, 'Logarithimically slow coarsening in nonrandomly frustrated models', in AIP Conf. Proc., American Institute of Physics, Fukuoka (Japan), presented at Slow dynamics in condensed matter, Fukuoka (Japan), 04 November 1991 - 08 November 1991,

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