Roger E. Summons

Discipline: Biological Oceanography

Institution: MIT

Research Overview:

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

Interests: Biogeochemistry, Climate & Paleoclimate, Coral reefs, Carbon cycling, Geochemistry
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