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Chemical Oceanography

Amy Apprill,  Associate Scientist
Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry,  WHOI
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marine microbiology, contribution of microbes to marine organism health, coral reefs

Andrew Babbin,  Associate Professor
Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences,  MIT
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global biogeochemical cycles, nitrogen metabolisms, microfluidics, chemical-microbial interactions, marine particles

Peter Barry,  Associate Scientist
Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry,  WHOI
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Noble Gases, Isotope Geochemistry, Fluids and Volatiles, Volcanoes, Crustal Processes

Tanja Bosak,  Professor
Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences,  MIT
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molecular and morphological biomarkers, molecular microbiology, fossilization, microbial and algal ecophysiology

Edward A. Boyle,  Professor
Chair, Joint Committee for Chemical Oceanography
Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences,  MIT
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paleoceanography; trace element geochemistry; sediment geochemistry

Ken O. Buesseler,  Senior Scientist
Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry,  WHOI
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carbon cycle science, colloid chemistry, environmental biogeochemistry, geochemistry, global change, isotope geochemistry, nuclear and radioactive waste disposal, ocean tracers, particle fluxes, radiochemistry

Matt Charette,  Senior Scientist
Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry,  WHOI
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coastal groundwater, environmental biogeochemistry, environmental chemistry, estuarine sciences, global change, nutrient chemistry, ocean tracers, radiochemistry

Ann Dunlea,  Assistant Scientist
Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry,  WHOI
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Biogeochemistry of marine sediment, paleoceanography/paleoclimatology, cycling of elements between seawater and sediment, monsoon variability, dust and volcanic ash fluxes, multivariate statistics

Valier Galy,  Associate Scientist
Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry,  WHOI
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global carbon cycle, organic carbon, rivers, erosion, paleoclimate, biomarkers, radiocarbon, stable isotopes

Philip M. Gschwend,  Professor
Associate Director of the Joint Program
Civil and Environmental Engineering,  MIT
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environmental organic chemistry

Colleen Hansel,  Senior Scientist
Education Coordinator
Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry,  WHOI
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metal biogeochemistry, microbial redox-active metabolites, microbe-microbe and microbe-mineral interactions, biomineralization, environmental mineralogy, microbial production of reactive oxygen species, microbial (exo) proteomes

Sophie Hines,  Assistant Scientist
Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry,  WHOI
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paleoceanography, paleoclimate, marine geochemistry, isotope geochemistry, Climate dynamics

Tristan Horner,  Associate Scientist
Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry,  WHOI
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Isotope geochemistry, Chemical oceanography, Trace-element biogeochemistry, Paleoceanography, Biological carbon pump

Julie Huber,  Senior Scientist
Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry,  WHOI
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microbial ecology, deep sea, subseafloor, hydrothermal vents, biogeochemistry, genomics, astrobiology

Konrad Hughen,  Senior Scientist
Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry,  WHOI
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paleoclimatology, paleoceanography, geochemistry, geochronology, global carbon cycle, climate change, coral reefs

Heather H. Kim,  Assistant Scientist
Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry,  WHOI
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microbial oceanography, numerical modeling, physical-biological coupling, global carbon and biogeochemical cycles, climate change, and polar research

Frieder Klein,  Associate Scientist
Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry,  WHOI
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fluid-rock interactions, oceanic crust, hydrothermal systems

Elizabeth B. Kujawinski,  Senior Scientist
Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry,  WHOI
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organic geochemistry, microbial ecology, high-resolution mass spectrometry, biogeochemical cycles, bacterial-protozoan interactions

Matt Long,  Associate Scientist
Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry,  WHOI
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Benthic biogeochemistry, carbon cycling, eutrophication, turbulent exchange, eddy covariance, air-sea exchange, in-situ chemical sensor and instrument development, coastal ecosystem dynamics

David McGee,  Associate Professor
Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences,  MIT
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paleoclimatology, isotope geochemistry, U-Th geochronology

Laura Motta,  Assistant Scientist
Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry,  WHOI
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Stable Isotopes, Mercury, Photochemistry, Biogeochemical Cycles, Phytoplankton, Zooplankton, Theoretical Chemistry, Relativistic Quantum Chemistry

David (Roo) Nicholson,  Associate Scientist
Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry,  WHOI
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air-sea exchange, autonomous observations, biogeochemical cycles, carbon cycle science, ecosystem modeling, gas tracers, geochemical modeling, global change, isotope geochemistry, primary production, marine carbon dioxide removal, sensor development

Shuhei Ono,  Professor
Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences,  MIT
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stable isotope, biogeochemical cycle, mass-independent fractionation, deep biosphere, hydrothermal deposit, Archean

Bernhard Peucker-Ehrenbrink,  Senior Scientist
Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry,  WHOI
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geochemistry, global element cycles, hard-rock geochemistry, isotope geochemistry, mantle geochemistry, sedimentary geochemistry, trace elements, Globa Rivers Observatory

Desiree Plata,  Associate Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering,  MIT
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environmental chemistry, environmentally and economically sustainable design

Chris Reddy,  Senior Scientist
Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry,  WHOI
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environmental biogeochemistry, environmental chemistry, organic chemistry

Daniel J. Repeta,  Senior Scientist
Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry,  WHOI
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carbon cycle science, climate, colloid chemistry, diagenesis, ecosystem dynamics, environmental biogeochemistry, environmental chemistry, estuarine sciences, geomicrobiology, global change, global element cycles, microbial biogeochemistry, nuclear and radioactive waste disposal

Mak Saito,  Senior Scientist
Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry,  WHOI
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Trace element biogeochemistry, metal-microbes interactions, cyanobacteriology, marine metalloenzymes, environmental genomics and proteomics, evolution of biogeochemical cycles

Jeffrey S. Seewald,  Senior Scientist
Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry,  WHOI
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deep-sea hydrothermal processes, fluid-rock interaction, geochemical modeling, geochemistry, isotope geochemistry, mid-ocean ridges, petroleum science, sedimentary geochemistry

Alan Seltzer,  Assistant Scientist
Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry,  WHOI
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paleoclimate, air-sea gas exchange, hydroclimate, groundwater, isotope geochemistry, hydrology, noble gas geochemistry

Adam V. Subhas,  Associate Scientist
Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry,  WHOI
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carbon cycle, calcium carbonate, biomineralization, sediment geochemistry

Roger E. Summons,  Professor
Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences,  MIT
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biogeochemistry and geobiology with the following themes: lipid chemistry of geologically significant microbes and microbially dominated ecostsyems; organic and isotopic indicators of climate change, biotic evolution and mass extinction; age- and environment-diagnostic biomarkers in sediments and petroleum; Archean, Proterozoic and extraterrestrialbiogeochemical fossils

Benjamin Van Mooy,  Senior Scientist
Department Chair
Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry,  WHOI
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organic geochemistry, molecular biology, global biogeochemical cycles, microbial ecology, planktonic nutrient dynamics, carbon export

Zhaohui Aleck Wang,  Associate Scientist
Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry,  WHOI
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carbonate system, inorganic carbon, marine CO2 removal, Monitoring Recording and Verification (MRV), ocean acidification, chemical sensors, Blue Carbon, wetlands, carbon cycle, coastal biogeochemistry, marine chemistry

Scott Wankel,  Associate Scientist
Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry,  WHOI
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nitrogen cycling, links between redox cycling of metals and nitrogen/carbon, biogeochemistry of coastal and seafloor vent/seep systems, stable isotope biogeochemistry

Collin Ward,  Associate Scientist
Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry,  WHOI
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aquatic photochemistry, biogeochemistry, and organic geochemistry

Retired/Emeritus Faculty

Werner Deuser,  Scientist Emeritus
Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry,  WHOI
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John W. Farrington,  Dean Emeritus
Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry,  WHOI
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biogeochemistry of organic contaminants; marine organic geochemistry; science education; science-policy interactions; oil pollution; contaminated sediments; ocean environmental quality

Nelson M Frew,  Oceanographer Emeritus
Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry,  WHOI
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air-sea exchange, remote sensing, sea-surface microlayer

David M. Glover,  Emeritus Research Scholar
Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry,  WHOI
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air-sea exchange, carbon cycle science, carbon dioxide, computer simulation and modeling, geochemical modeling, global change, nutrient chemistry, ocean chemistry, ocean tracers, particle fluxes, remote sensing, seawater properties

Harold F. Hemond,  Professor Emeritus
Civil and Environmental Engineering,  MIT
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biogeochemistry and hydrology of wetlands; chemical limnology; in-situ instrumentation

Susumu Honjo,  Scientist Emeritus
Geology & Geophysics,  WHOI
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sedimentation

William J. Jenkins,  Emeritus Research Scholar
Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry,  WHOI
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air-sea exchange, carbon cycle science, climate, computer simulation and modeling, deep-sea hydrothermal processes, ecosystem dynamics, geochemical modeling, global change, global element cycles, isotope geochemistry, nutrient chemistry, ocean circulation, ocean tracers, particle fluxes, radiochemistry, sediment-seawater exchange

Mark D. Kurz,  Senior Scientist
Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry,  WHOI
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hard-rock geochemistry

William R. Martin,  Scientist Emeritus
Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry,  WHOI
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diagenesis, radiochemistry, sediment-seawater exchange, sedimentary geochemistry

Fred Sayles,  Scientist Emeritus
Marine Geochemistry,  WHOI
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Edward R. Sholkovitz,  Scientist Emeritus
Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry,  WHOI
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atmospheric chemistry, coastal groundwater, estuarine sciences, geochemistry, remote sensing, sedimentary geochemistry, trace elements

Margaret K. Tivey,  Senior Scientist
Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry,  WHOI
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deep-sea hydrothermal processes, geochemical modeling, geochemistry, mid-ocean ridges

Jean K. Whelan,  Oceanographer Emeritus
Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry,  WHOI
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geochemistry, geomicrobiology, organic chemistry, organic geochemistry, petroleum science, remote sensing, trace elements

James A. Yoder,  Dean Emeritus
Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry,  WHOI
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Oliver C. Zafiriou,  Scientist Emeritus
Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry,  WHOI
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air-sea exchange, carbon dioxide, environmental biogeochemistry, environmental chemistry, ocean chemistry, organic chemistry, photochemistry