James McCarthy (oceanographer)
![Professor James McCarthy en route to the North Pole](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4e/Harvard_Professor_James_McCarthy.jpg)
McCarthy was the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Biological Oceanography in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and former Master of Pforzheimer House. He was also Acting Curator of the Malacology Department in the Museum of Comparative Zoology.
His studies addressed factors that regulate the processes of primary production and nutrient supply in upper ocean, approached using controlled laboratory studies and field investigations. Study sites ranged from near shore to the open ocean. Later field research sites included the North Atlantic, equatorial Pacific, and Arabian Sea.
He was on the faculty of the Harvard Medical School Center for Health and the Global Environment. Provided by Wikipedia
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