| Bada, Jeffrey |
Professor of Marine Chemistry MRD |
UCSD |
(858)534-4258 |
Characterization of the dissolved fluorescent components in seawater using laser fluorometry; geochemical and cosmochemical applications of two-step laser mass spectrometry; detection of extraterrestrial organic compounds on Earth; stable carbon and nitrogen isotopic chronologies obtained from animal teeth; accelerator mass spectrometry radiocarbon measurements of bomb 14C in mammalian tissues; amino acid diagenetic reactions and their implications and applications. |
| Barbeau, Katherine M. |
Assistant Professor, Scripps Institution of Oceanography |
UCSD |
(858) 822-4339 |
Biogeochemical cycling of trace materials in the marine environment. Grazer-mediated transformations of trace metals; iron photochemistry. |
| Bruland, Kenneth W. |
Professor, Ocean Sciences |
UCSC |
(831)459-4587 |
Chemical oceanography, marine and aquatic biogeochemistry of trace metals and radionuclides; analytical techniques for determining trace metals, metalloids, and radionuclides in natural waters and their interactive influences with phytoplankton. |
| Butler, Alison |
Professor, Chemistry |
UCSB |
(805)893-8178 |
Bioinorganic chemistry; metallobiochemistry with an emphasis on the roles of metal ions in the catalytic activity of metalloenzymes. |
| Carlson, Craig |
Associate Professor Ecology, Evolution & Marine Biology |
UCSB |
(805) 893-2541 |
Marine microbial ecology, bacterioplankton, dissolved organic carbon, marine biogeochemistry. |
| Clark, Jordan |
Associate Professor, Earth Science & Environmental Studies |
UCSB |
(805)893-7838 |
Aqueous geochemistry. |
| Crews, Phillip |
Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry |
UCSC |
(831)459-2603 |
Marine natural products chemistry, organic structural analysis by NMR; analysis of organic spectroscopy data and chromatographic separation techniques in newly isolated marine natural products. |
| Crutzen, Paul J. |
Professor |
UCSD |
(858) 822-4985 |
Atmospheric chemistry and its role in climate and biogeochemical cycles. |
| Dickson, Andrew G. |
Associate Professor-In-Residence In Marine Chemistry MPL |
UCSD |
(858) 822-2990 |
Analytical chemistry of carbon dioxide in seawater; biogeochemistry of the upper ocean; marine inorganic chemistry; quality control of oceanic carbon dioxide measurements; thermodynamics of electrolyte solutions at high temperatures and pressures. |
| Druffel, Ellen |
Professor of Earth System Science, UCI and UCSD/Scripps MRD |
UCI |
(949)824-2116 |
Chemical oceanography: the cycling of carbon in the oceanic water column; reconstruction of past variations in 14-carbon in annually banded corals using accelerator mass spectrometry. |
| Faloona, Ian |
Asst. Professor, Land, Air, Water Resources, BML |
UCD |
530-752-2044 |
The nexus of chemistry and turbulent mixing in the atmosphere; developing fast, sensitive spectroscopic detection techniques for the measurement of biogeochemical trace gases and their fluxes; airborne instrumental studies of chemistry and mixing; understanding the exchange of anthropogenic pollution with terrestrial and marine ecosystems and conversely, the influence of biogenic emissions on the composition of the atmosphere.
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| Frouin, Robert J. |
Associate Research Meteorologist |
UCSD |
(858)534-6243 |
Radiative transfer in the atmosphere and ocean; air-sea interactions; biogeochemical cycles. |
| Gieskes, Joris |
Professor of Oceanography MRD |
UCSD |
(858) 534-4257 |
Geochemistry of interstitial waters in marine sediments; ocean-borehole geochemistry; hydrothermal geochemistry; chemistry of methane seeps. |
| Goldberg, Edward D. |
Professor of Chemistry |
UCSD |
(858) 534-2407 |
Marine pollution. |
| Griffin, Sheila |
Specialist, Department of Earth System Science |
UCI |
(949) 824-3286 |
Carbon cycle in the oceans using radiocarbon by AMS. |
| Hill, Tessa |
Assistant Professor, Geology, BML |
UCD |
707-875-1910 |
Recent (late Quaternary to modern) environmental change in the marine environment, utilizing the geochemistry of microfossils and corals to understand rates and magnitude of climate change, response and adaptation of marine species to environmental change, role of methane emissions in climate change and marine geological processes, impact of climate change on carbon cycling and oceanic anoxia, connections between climate change in marine and terrestrial environments. Research utilizes several proxies in the paleoceanographic record as indicators of temperature and environmental change, such as stable isotopes, trace elements, radiocarbon, and foraminiferal species assemblages. |
| Hilton, David R. |
Professor of Geochemistry |
UCSD |
(858) 882-0639 |
Hydrogeological applications of noble gases. Noble gas geochemistry of mantle-derived rocks and fluids
Volatile mass balance of subduction zones. Stable isotope-noble gas isotope and relative abundance relationships in oceanic basalts. |
| Kastner, Miriam |
Professor of Earth Sciences GRD |
UCSD |
(858) 534-2065 |
The role of fluids in the transport of heat and solutes into the ocean, atmosphere and mantle in subduction zones; gas hydrates and global change; chemical paleoceanography; sedimentary geochemistry and diagenesis: mineralogical, chemical and isotopic studies of recent and older sediments; processes responsible for the formation of submarine hydrothermal deposits; the orgin of present day and ancient phosphorites, dolomites and cherts. |
| Lea, David W. |
Professor, Earth Science |
UCSB |
(805)893-8665 |
Chemical oceanography and paleoceanography. |
| Macdougall, J. Douglas |
Professor of Earth Sciences, GRD |
UCSD |
(858)534-3294 |
Isotope geochemistry: chemical composition and evolution of the earth’s mantle; processes and chronology of development of oceanic and continental crust from isotope systematics; paleoenvironmental changes using seawater isotopes as tracers. |
| McCarthy, Matthew D. |
Assistant Professor in Ocean Sciences |
UCSC |
(831) 459-4718 |
Marine organic geochemistry / oceanic biogeochemical cycles. Biogeochemistry of dissolved organics in the ocean, in particular organic nitrogen; organic biogeochemistry of hydrothermal crustal fluids; molecular-level radiocarbon measurements, organic tracers for microbial sources in biogeochemical systems. |
| Molinski, Tadeusz F. |
Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry |
UCSD |
(858)534-7115 |
Organic chemistry; chemical/geochemical/ biogeochemical oceanography: Marine natural products, drugs from the sea; pharmaceutical potential of marine antifungal agents from marine invertebrates; chemical synthesis of marine natural products. |
| Moore, J. Keith |
Assistant Professor, Department of Earth System Science |
UCI |
(949) 824-5391 |
Ocean ecosystem and biogeochemical modeling, phytoplankton ecology and remote sensing of the marine biological and physical parameters. |
| Randerson, James |
Professor of Earth System Science |
UCI |
(949) 824-9030 |
The global carbon cycle. Partitioning ocean and land carbon sinks using geochemical tracers. Using radiocarbon and other isotopes to constrain regional patterns of air-sea trace gas exchange. |
| Rau, Greg H. |
Senior Marine Researcher, Institute of Marine Sciences, UCSC (Off Campus) |
UCSC |
(925)423-7990 |
Marine biogeochemistry; carbon and nitrogen isotope natural abundances; CO2 sequestration; CO2 effects on biota; biofouling and ballast water treatment |
| Reeburgh, William |
Professor of Earth System Science |
UCI |
(949)824-2986 |
Biogeochemical oceanography: the carbon cycle, with emphasis on methane biogeochemistry in marine and terrestrial environments. |
| Russell, Ann D. |
Assistant Researcher |
UCD |
(530)752-9225 |
Chemical/geochemical/ biogeochemical oceanography; development and application of geochemical indicators in changes in ocean temperature, circulation, nutrient distribution, and redox environment. |
| Saltzman, Eric |
Professor of Oceanography and Earth System Science |
UCI |
(949) 824-3936 |
Marine and atmospheric chemistry: air/sea exchange; sulfur and halocarbons; ice core studies of atmospheric variability and its relationship to climate change. |
| Spero, Howard J. |
Professor of Geology |
UCD |
(530)752-3307 |
Paleoceanography: Biogeochemistry of living and fossil marine organisms. Stable isotopes, paleoenvironmental reconstruction of the chemistry; circulation and physical parameters of modern and ancient oceans; paleoclimatology. |
| Stolzenbach, Keith D. |
Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering |
UCLA |
(310)206-7624 |
Integrated modeling of the southern California coastal ocean: biogeochemistry and particulate dynamics; integrated urban watershed analysis; measuring and modeling atmospheric deposition on Santa Monica Bay and its watershed. |
| Suffet, Irwin (Mel) |
Professor of Environmental Science & Engineering Program |
UCLA |
(310)206-8230 |
Estuary and marine chemistry of trace organics and metals: Bioavailability and transport chemistry of humic substances (colloids, suspended solids and sediments); developing analytical techniques for trace organics. |
| Tebo, Bradley M. |
Research Biologist/Senior Lecturer MBRD/CMBB |
UCSD |
(858)534-5470 |
Marine organic biogeochemisry; the biogeochemical cycling of manganese, iron, and trace metals in marine environments (anoxic basins, surface waters, and hydrothermal vents); physiology, biochemistry, and molecular biology of bacteria that catalyze metal transformations; microbial chemoautotrophy; bioremediation, marine biotechnology; biomineralization. |
| Trumbore, Susan |
Professor of Earth System Science |
UCI |
(949) 824-6142 |
Use of radiocarbon to determine trace the sources and rates of cycling of organic matter in the ocean, and to provide chronologies for paleoenvironmental tracers in sediment cores. |
| Venkatesan, M. Indira |
Associate Professor of Geophysics & Planetary Physics |
UCLA |
(310)206-2561 |
Chemical oceanography, marine biogeochemistry and carbon cycle, measuring trace organic compounds and stable isotopes to infer source, transport and fate of environmental pollutants in marine waters. |
| Weiss, Ray F. |
Professor of Geochemistry GRD |
UCSD |
(858)534-2598 |
Distributions of trace gases in the atmosphere and in the sea, with emphasis on halocarbons, nitrous oxide, and methane; geochemical tracers of ocean circulation and mixing; chemical limnology. |
| Wells, Mark |
Associate Researcher |
UCSC |
(207)581-4322 |
Trace metal biogeochemistry; influence of bioactive metal requirements and toxicity on the structure and productivity of planktonic algal assemblages in nearshore and offshore seawaters; the form of metals in seawater and the biogeochemical processes which affect metal cycling and removal from the oceans. |
| Zierenberg, Robert |
Professor of Geology |
UCD |
(530)752-1863 |
Marine geology/geochemistry: submarine hydrothermal systems, formation of massive sulfide deposits, water/rock interaction, geochemical, and biological interactions at midocean ridge spreading centers. |
| Zimmer, Richard K. |
Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Neurosciences Pr |
UCLA |
(310) 206-4981 |
Ecology and sensory biology of aquatic organisms; chemical signals and
communication. |
| Zirino, Alberto |
Research Associate MRD |
UCSD |
(858)534-8525 |
Trace metal speciations in seawater and metal-organism interactions; electroanalytical chemistry of seawater; the seawater CO2 system. |
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