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EastWestCenter&Univ.ofHawaiiatManoaOctober14–16,2016

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Honolulu,Hawaii

14October2016FRIDAY

7:15-8:15BusfromHiltonDoubletreeAlanatoEastWestCenter

-notethatthisbuswillmake2trips,sincetheDISCOXXVparticipantswillalsoberidingwithyou.WeaskthattheCOMEABOARDparticipantstakethefirstbustrip.

7:30-8:45 ContinentalBreakfastatEast-WestCenterand

COMEABOARDregistration(East-WestCenterlanai).

8:45 Welcomebylocalhoststothemeeting (KeoniAuditorium,East-WestCenter)

8:50 Introductiontothemeeting Planningcommitteechair:AndreaFassbender,Univ.ofWashington

9:00–10:30PlenarySessionsTheme1:Theroleoftechnologyinfacilitatingdevelopmentsinmarinechemistry:pastinnovationsandfuturedirections.9:00-9:20 KenJohnson,MBARI9:20–9:45 DISCUSSIONofTHEME1Theme2:Howdoesthelackofgeochemicalknowledgelimitourunderstandinginotherfieldsofoceanography:whicharethemostcriticalareas?

9:45–10:05 DebbieBronk,VIMS 10:05–10:30 DISCUSSIONofTHEME2

10:30–11:00 Coffee/snackbreak(cateredonsite)

11:00-12:30PlenarySessions,continuedTheme3:Theroleoflargescaleorganizedprogramsinimprovingknowledgeofgeochemicalprocesses:lessonslearnedandfutureneeds

11:00–11:20 BobAnderson,LDEO 11:20–11:45 DISCUSSIONofTHEME3

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Theme4:Techniquesandapproachestoinformingthepublicoftheimportanceofchemicaloceanography:Canwedobetterandifso,how?

11:45–12:05 ChrisReddy,WHOI 12:05–12:30 DISCUSSIONofTHEME4

12:30–1:30 Lunchbreak(onyourown,manycampusvendorsavailable) 1:30–3:00 PlenarySessions,continued Theme 5: Important areas of traditional chemistry that are currently

undeveloped in chemical oceanography 1:30 – 1:50 George Luther, Univ. of Delaware 1:50 – 2:15 DISCUSSION of THEME 5

Theme 6: Chemical interactions between the oceans and other parts of the earth system (e.g., land and atmosphere) with a focus on fluxes at those boundaries and how they may change. 2:15 – 2:35 Adina Paytan, UC Santa Cruz 2:35 – 3:00 DISCUSSION of THEME 6

3:00–3:45 Coffee/snackbreak&GroupphotoshootforCOMEABOARDparticipants

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7:30 BusforCOMEABOARDparticipantstoUHManoa 7:45-8:30 ContinentalBreakfast(MarineScienceBuildinglanai)

8:30-9:00 PlenaryDiscussion/Announcements 9:00–10:00 Breakoutsessions

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15:00-15:30 Coffee/SnackBreak(MarineScienceBuildinglanai)

15:30-17:00 Breakoutreportsbacktoplenary,discussion

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12:00-13:00 LUNCH(cateredonsite)



15:30-17:00 Breakoutreportsbacktoplenary,discussion

17:15 Bustohotel

18:00 BusestoNatsunoyaTeaHouseRestaurantforbuffetdinner

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COME ABOARD Attendees Science Committee Members indicated by an asterik (*).

No. Last Name First Name Institution 1 Aluwihare* Lihini ScrippsInstitutionofOceanography,UCSD2 Anderson Robert LDEO,ColumbiaUniversity3 Bender Sara GordonandBettyMooreFoundation4 Boyle Ed MassachusettsInstituteofTechnology5 Brandes* Jay Univ.ofGeorgia6 Bronk Debbie VirginiaInstituteofMarineScience7 Buesseler* Ken WoodsHoleOceanographicInstitution8 Burdige* David OldDominionUniversity9 Cai* Wei-Jun UniversityofDelaware10 Casciotti* Karen StanfordUniversity11 Close Hilary RSMAS,U.Miami12 Conte* Maureen BermudaInstituteofOceanSciences13 Cutter* Greg OldDominionUniversity14 Easley Regina NationalInst.ofStandardsandTechnology15 Edmonds Hedy NationalScienceFoundation16 Estapa* Meg SkidmoreCollege17 Fassbender* Andrea NOAA/UCAR18 Fawcett* Sarah UniversityofCapeTown,SouthAfrica19 Fennel Katja DalhousieUniversity20 FerronSmith Sara UniversityofHawaiiatManoa21 Glazer Brian UniversityofHawaiiatManoa22 Gledhill* Martha GEOMAR,Germany23 Goni* Miguel OregonStateUniversity24 Grand Max NOC,SouthamptonUniversity25 Guay Chris WindwardCommunityCollege,HI26 Hassellöv Martin UniversityofGothenburg27 Hatta Mariko UniversityofHawaiiatManoa28 Hayes Chris UniversityofSouthernMississippi29 Horner Tristan WoodsHoleOceanographicInstitution30 Ingall* Ellery GeorgiaTech31 Ingalls* Anitra UniversityofWashington32 Johnson* Ken MontereyBayAquariumResearchInst.33 Juranek* Laurie OregonStateUniversity34 Knapp Angela FloridaStateUniversity35 Lam* Phoebe UniversityofCaliforniaSantaCruz36 Luther George UniversityofDelaware37 Martz Todd ScrippsInstitutionofOceanography,UCSD38 Matrai* Paty BigelowLaboratoryforOceanSciences39 Measures Chris UniversityofHawaiiatManoa40 Metz Simone NationalScienceFoundation41 Murray Richard NationalScienceFoundation42 Nicholson* David WoodsHoleOceanographicInstitution43 Ohlson Mats SahlgrenskaUniversityHospital,Sweden44 Paytan Adina UniversityofCaliforniaSantaCruz45 Pellenbarg Robert CollegeoftheDesert46 Piotrowicz Stephen NOAA

COME ABOARD Attendees, continued Science Committee Members indicated by an asterik (*)

No. Last Name First Name Institution 47 Poppendorf Kim RSMAS,U.Miami48 Reddy* Chris WoodsHoleOceanographicInstitution49 Rice Don NationalScienceFoundation50 Ruttenberg Kathleen UniversityofHawaiiatManoa51 Sabine Chris PacificMarineEnviron.Lab.,NOAA52 Sansone* Frank UniversityofHawaiiatManoa53 Shaltout Nayrah NationalInst.ofOceanogr.&Fish.,Egypt54 Sikes Liz RutgersUniversity55 Sundquist* Eric USGS(WoodsHole)56 Valentine* David UniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbara57 Wang Zhaohui WoodsHoleOceanographicInstitution58 Wilson Sam UniversityofHawaiiatManoa

Remote Participants

No. Last Name First Name Institution 1 Bowie Andrew Univ. of Tasmania 2 Bundie Randie Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution 3 Chase Zanna Univ. of Tasmania 4 Filippelli Gabriel Purdue, Indiana University 5 Gondwe Mtinkheni EP-Nuffic, The Netherlands 6 Hannides Angelos Coastal Carolina Univ. 7 Koch Boris AWI, Germany 8 Lønborg Christian Australian Institute of Marine Science 9 Miller Allison Schmidt Ocean Institute

10 Moore Eli Rutgers Univ. 11 Needoba Joseph Oregon Health & Science University 12 Osburn Chris North Carolina State University 13 Palacz Artur Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland 14 Woosley Ryan RSMAS, U. Miami 15 Wuttig Kathrin Univ. of Tasmania 16 Xia Meng Univ. of Maryland

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COME ABOARD PARTICIPANTS

LihiniAluwihareScripps Institution of Oceanography Lihini Indira Aluwihare is a tenured Professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), University of California, San Diego (UCSD). She received her PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program in Oceanography in 1999, and her B.A. in Chemistry and Philosophy from Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts, in 1993. Her outlook on life

is also strongly influenced by her childhood experiences in Sri Lanka, Zambia, and Great Britain. After completing two short Post Doctoral Investigations, first at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and subsequently, at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, she joined the UCSD faculty in 2001. She studies the cycling of organic molecules in seawater with an emphasis on examining their role in C and N cycling and in structuring microbial interactions. In addition to pursing her research and teaching interests she seeks out opportunities to make STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) education more accessible to a broader audience. She is married with one young son and several dog children.

RobertF.Anderson Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Columbia University Robert F. Anderson received a PhD (1981) in Chemical Oceanography from the WHOI-MIT Joint Program in Oceanography. He is a Ewing-Lamont Research Professor at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University. He studies the ocean carbon cycle and its sensitivity to global change spanning a range of time scales, from climate-related changes in the ocean's carbon budget across late-Pleistocene glacial cycles to predicting the ocean's response to global warming, and

the implications for the ocean's uptake of fossil fuel CO2. He played a leadership role in the Joint Global Ocean Flux Study, with a particular emphasis on the biogeochemistry of the Southern Ocean. Currently, he is one of the organizers of the GEOTRACES program, an international study of the marine biogeochemical cycles of trace elements and their isotopes. He received the A.G. Huntsman Award for Excellence in Marine Science and the C. C. Patterson medal for environmental geochemistry. He is a fellow of the American Geophysical Union and of the Geochemical Society. He has published 170 peer-reviewed papers and authored or edited 20 scientific volumes on special topics (e.g., science and implementation plans, special volumes of peer-reviewed journals).


SaraBenderGordon and Betty Moore Foundation Sara is a program officer in the foundation’s Marine Microbiology Initiative. She is interested in unraveling the complexities of marine microbial community composition and interactions through the application of molecular tools to conduct in situ monitoring. She was trained as a phytoplankton molecular ecologist, focusing on the dynamics between nutrient availability and phytoplankton metabolism in the lab and the field – her fieldwork has focused on the coastal Pacific Northwest, as well as Cape Cod Bay. Outside of research, Sara has been involved in

multiple organizations centered on the intersection of science and society, including the AAAS Emerging Leaders in Science & Society program and the National Network for Ocean and Climate Change Communication. She is passionate about communicating the wonder of marine microbes to broader audiences. Sara earned a B.A. in biology at Rutgers University and an M.S. and Ph.D. in biological oceanography at the University of Washington. Prior to joining the foundation, Sara was a postdoctoral scholar in the marine chemistry and geochemistry department at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

EdBoyleMassachusettes Institute of Technology Ed Boyle is a marine geochemist involved in the study of the oceanic dispersal of anthropogenic emissions and the evolution of the Earth’s climate. He is interested in the areas of paleoceanography, paleoclimatology, and the chemistry of environmental waters. His research includes climatological studies of past ocean circulation patterns based on the fossil chemistry of oceanic sediments, control of late Pleistocene carbon dioxide pressure by ocean circulation and chemistry, and trace element variability in polar ice cores. He is also investigating the trace element chemistry of rivers and estuaries, and the chemical composition of seawater. In particular, he studies the variability of oceanic trace metals related to atmospheric transport of anthropogenic emissions and natural mineral dust into the ocean and mineral dust, and the transport and fate of pollutant lead and biologically essential iron in the ocean. He obtained his PhD in Oceanography from MIT/WHOI in 1976 and, amongst numerous other awards, was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2008.


JayBrandesSkidaway Institute of Oceanography I am a chemical oceanographer who specializes in C, N and P cycling in a variety of environments. Since obtaining my Ph.D. in 1996, I have done a 2 year postdoc at the Carnegie Institute of Washington’s Geophysical Laboratory (with Marilyn Fogel and George Cody), followed by being an Assistant Professor in the Department of Marine Sciences at the University of Texas, Austin. In 2005 I moved to the Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, in Savannah Georgia, where I run a stable isotope laboratory as well as conducting biogeochemistry research. In addition to stable isotopes I also study the composition and structure of organic matter using X-ray spectromicroscopy techniques. I’ve been fortunate enough to study environments as diverse as the headwater rivers of the Amazon to the suboxic fjords of Vancouver Island. Much of my work these days focuses on processes taking place in Georgia’s estuaries and the adjacent South Atlantic Bight.

DebbieBronkVirginia Institute of Marine Science Deborah Bronk is a biogeochemist whose research focuses on two areas – water column nitrogen cycling in aquatic systems and organic nitrogen characterization and dynamics of wastewater effluent. She has conducted both laboratory and field studies, including over fifty research cruises and field trips. Her work has taken her to environments spanning freshwater and riverine systems, the blue water open ocean, the Arctic and Antarctica, and some particularly exotic wastewater treatment plants. She is currently the Nunnally Distinguished Professor of Marine Science and the Chair of the Department of Physical Sciences at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science. She is a former member-at-large and

president of the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography. She also served as Section Head for the Ocean Section and Director of the Division of Ocean Science at the National Science Foundation. She received a B.S. in marine science and biology from the University of Miami and her Ph.D. in Marine Estuarine and Environmental Science from the University of Maryland.


KenO.BuesselerWoods Hole Oceanographic Institution Dr. Buesseler specializes in the study of natural and man-made radionuclides in the ocean. His work includes studies of the ocean’s biological pump and ocean C cycle, as well as studies of the fate and impact of fallout from atmospheric nuclear weapons testing, Chernobyl and the Fukushima nuclear power plants. Dr. Buesseler has a BA from UC San Diego and a PhD in Marine Chemistry from the WHOI/MIT Joint Program in 1986. He has been on the scientific staff at WHOI since 1988. He has served as Chair of the Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry Department at WHOI, as Executive Scientist of the US Joint

Global Ocean Fluxes Planning and Data Management Office and for two years as an Associate Program Director at the US National Science Foundation, Chemical Oceanography Program. In 2009 he was elected Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and in 2013 selected as foreign member of the Dutch Academy of Sciences. In 2011, he was noted as the top-cited ocean scientist by the Times Higher Education for the decade 2000-2010. He is currently Director of the Center for Marine and Environmental Radioactivity at WHOI, and participates in public outreach throughout his career, including via his recent citizen-scientists campaign “Our Radioactive Ocean”.

DavidBurdigeOld Dominion University David Burdige is a professor and eminent scholar in the Department of Ocean, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Old Dominion University, where he has been a faculty member since 1985. He received a Ph.D. in oceanography from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD in 1983, and before joining the faculty at ODU he was a post-doctoral scholar in the Marine Sciences Program at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Dr. Burdige has spent much of his career studying biogeochemical processes in marine and estuarine sediments and their resulting effects on the cycling of carbon, nitrogen, and various trace metals. He has published more than 80 peer-reviewed papers, and in 2006 authored the book Geochemistry of Marine Sediments (Princeton Univ. Press). Dr. Burdige is a co-Editor in Chief of Estuarine and Coastal Shelf Science, an associate editor of the journals Marine Chemistry and Aquatic Geochemistry, and a former associate editor of Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. In addition to his research activities, Dr. Burdige teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in chemical oceanography, marine sediment geochemistry and global environmental change.


Wei-JunCaiUniversity of Delaware Wei-Jun Cai is Professor of Oceanography at the School of Marine and Policy of the University of Delaware, where he holds the title of Mary A. S. Lighthipe Chair of Earth, Ocean and Environment. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California in 1992 (DISCO IX in 1993) and, after a postdoctoral fellowship at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, became a faculty member in the Department of Marine Sciences, University of

Georgia (1994-2012). Cai is an expert in the marine carbon cycle and biogeochemistry. His research areas include, in early days, CaCO3 dissolution and sediment diagenesis in the sea floor using microelectrodes (O2, pH and pCO2) and, since 1998, air-sea exchange of CO2 and carbon cycling in estuarine and coastal oceans. Most recently, his research focuses on the responses of the coastal ocean carbon cycle and ecosystem to a changing terrestrial export of carbon and nutrients, interactions between coastal ocean acidification and eutrophication, mechanisms of coral calcification, and carbon cycle and acidification in the Arctic Ocean. Cai has collaborated extensively with colleagues in China and elsewhere. Cai has published 125 peer reviewed papers and 12 book chapters.

KarenCasciottiStanford University Karen Casciotti is an Associate Professor in the Department of Earth System Science at Stanford University. She received a Ph.D. in Geosciences from Princeton University in 2002. After earning her PhD, she worked as an NRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the US Geological Survey in Reston, VA. From 2004 to 2011, she was an Assistant Scientist and then Associate Scientist in the of Departement of Marine Chamistry and Geochemistry at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. In 2011 she joined the faculty at Stanford. She has participated in research cruises in the Pacific, Indian, and Southern Oceans. She has served as the nitrogen isotope intercalibration coordinator for GEOTRACES and currently serves on the US GEOTRACES Steering Committee and the Standards and Intercalibration Committee for GEOTRACES. Her current research focuses on marine nitrogen cycle biogeochemistry, with an emphasis on using nitrogen and oxygen isotopes to understand how nitrogen is cycled in oceanic suboxic zones. In addition, she teaches Marine Chemistry and Marine Stable Isotopes at Stanford and has mentored 7 graduate students.


HilaryCloseUniversityofMiamiI am a marine organic geochemist, and I have just begun a position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Ocean Sciences at RSMAS, University of Miami. I completed my Ph.D. with Ann Pearson at Harvard University in 2012. After my Ph.D. I conducted research on the degradation of particulate organic matter in open ocean water columns at the University of Hawaiʽi, where I worked in the stable isotope laboratory of Brian Popp and spent >100 days at sea, including a stint as Chief Scientist on the R/V Kilo Moana. In nearly three years at UH my positions included SOEST Young Investigator, NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellow, and assistant researcher, and I received ASLO’s

Lindeman Award in 2015. I then moved to a joint research position between University of California, Santa Cruz and the U.S. Geological Survey, conducting organic and isotope studies of marginal sediments and deep-sea communities for a year and a half. In Miami as of August 2016, I am building a new lab for organic and stable isotope geochemistry, I am advising a Ph.D. student, and I continue my work on organic matter dynamics in a variety of settings.

MaureenConteBermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences Maureen Conte is a geochemist at the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences and a Fellow at the Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Lab (where her lab is located). After receiving her PhD from Lamont/Columbia in 1989, she spent five years at the Organic Geochemistry Unit at the Univ of Bristol, England. There she conducted research on the North Atlantic particle cycle as a member of the British JGOFS team, and also had major projects focusing on coccolithophore biomarkers, early sediment diagenesis, and paleoceanography. In 1994, Maureen returned to the US and since 1996 has been the Principal Investigator of the Oceanic Flux Program time-series off Bermuda, a four decade long study of particle flux in the deep Sargasso Sea. Her primary research activities focus on the use of organic and elemental tracers to elucidate processes controlling flux generation and attenuation within the ocean interior on time scales of days to decades. Maureen also has research interests in molecular and isotopic organic geochemistry of biogenic aerosols, and in application of molecular and isotopic proxies in paleocean and paleoclimate reconstructions.


GregCutter Old Dominion University After getting his PhD in Chemistry from UC Santa Cruz in 1982, Greg headed to Old Dominion University in Virginia and is still there as a Professor in the Department of Ocean, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences. His research examines biogeochemical processes affecting trace element speciation and distributions in natural waters and sediments, air-sea transport and exchange of gases and trace elements, paleoceanographic tracers, analytical methods for aquatic chemistry, and computer modeling of biogeochemical processes. He works in environments as diverse lakes and rivers, estuaries such as San Francisco Bay, the Black Sea, and the Arctic, Atlantic, and Pacific Oceans. He has been involved with the GEOTRACES program since its beginnings in 2003 including starting and co-chairing the Standards and Intercalibration Committee from 2005-2016, leading the 2008 and 2009 Intercalibration Cruises, and participating in every US GEOTRACES to date.

ReginaEasleyNational Institute of Standards and Technology Regina Easley graduated from Hampton University with a B.S. in chemistry (1999) and obtained her M.S. in organic chemistry from the University of California, Los Angeles (2002). After working for two years in the pharmaceutical industry as an analytical chemist, she enrolled in the College of Marine Science at the University of South Florida as a NSF Florida Georgia LSAMP Bridge to the Doctorate and Alfred P. Sloan doctoral fellow. Her

research involved the development of novel analytical methods to examine the inorganic carbon dioxide system in seawater and particularly to monitor potential impacts of ocean acidification. While working on her doctoral degree, Dr. Easley spent over 120 days at sea participating in oceanographic research cruises in the Gulf of Mexico, Atlantic Ocean and Arctic Ocean. She also served as a Natural Resource Damage Assessment consultant during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. She completed her doctoral degree in Chemical Oceanography at USF in 2013. Regina Easley's current research focuses on the traceability of pH measurements in seawater by combining electrochemistry, spectrophotometry, and quantitative nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (qNMR). As an analytical chemist, Regina has extensive experience in physical organic chemistry and environmental chemistry. While an oceanographer, she participated in several research cruises and freshwater field deployments to examine nutrient concentrations and the inorganic carbon dioxide system using novel in situ sensors.


Henrietta(Hedy)EdmondsNSF – Lead Program Director, Chemical Oceanography Hedy Edmonds joined the Chemical Oceanography Program in January 2016 as Lead Program Director. Hedy first came to NSF in 2009 as a Program Director with the Arctic Natural Sciences (ANS) program in the Division of Polar Programs. Hedy has a B.S. in chemistry from Yale University and received her Ph.D. in Chemical Oceanography from the MIT/WHOI Joint Program. After postdoctoral research at the University of Rhode Island and the Southampton Oceanography Centre, she spent ten years on the marine science faculty of The University of

Texas at Austin. Her research interests included the use of natural and anthropogenic radioisotopes as tracers of a variety of oceanographic processes, and the global distribution and significance of mid-ocean ridge hydrothermal activity.

MegEstapaSkidmore College Meg Estapa earned her Ph.D. from the University of Maine in 2011 after completing her dissertation on photochemical reactions of particulate organic matter. While she is broadly interested in the cycling of marine particulate organic matter, following her PhD she was looking for a change from her primarily coastal graduate work. She moved to Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in 2011 as a postdoctoral scholar in the Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry department, where her first project focused on submesoscale variability in biogeochemical properties, export, and net community production in the Sargasso Sea. While at WHOI she also started new projects using commercial bio-optical sensors to detect concentrations and sizes of particles at high-temperature hydrothermal vent plumes, and settling fluxes of particles into the upper mesopelagic. In 2014 she joined the Geosciences faculty at Skidmore College, an all-undergraduate liberal arts college where she teaches courses in oceanography and remote sensing. In her free moments, she and her husband (also an assistant professor at Skidmore) are slowly renovating their 150-year old house, growing way too many tomatoes, and enjoying canoe and bike trips in the upstate NY area.


AndreaJ.FassbenderNOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory As a recent chemical oceanography graduate from the University of Washington, I am currently completing a Postdocs Applying Climate Expertise Fellowship with my host institution NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory. We are working with collaborators at the Washington State Department of Ecology and Washington Ocean Acidification Center to develop baseline carbonate-system information throughout Washington’s marine surface waters to provide context for ocean acidification research and water quality

monitoring and management. In January of 2017 I will be starting a position at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) to conduct research on marine carbon and biogeochemical cycling. Throughout my studies I have fostered an interest in identifying new approaches to address intractable research questions and in developing novel tools to do so. I am interested in studying the climate system at local and global scales and strive to discover new insights through interdisciplinary collaboration. One of my career goals is to strike a balance between advancing basic research and addressing ocean change issues that are immediately relevant to coastal communities.

SarahFawcettUniversity of Cape Town, South Africa I am interested in understanding the relationships between biogeochemical fluxes (particularly nitrogen) and primary productivity in the ocean. My principal tool is the natural abundance distributions of the stable isotopes of dissolved and particulate nitrogen, which provide an integrative view of biogeochemical and physical processes that are highly variable in time and space. The isotopes can be coupled with techniques such as flow cytometry and biological rate measurements to yield high resolution insights into marine ecosystems. My Ph.D. research (Princeton University, 2012) focused on phytoplankton-nitrogen interactions in upwelling ecosystems and the Sargasso Sea. As an Assistant Professor of Oceanography at the University of Cape Town, I am building on methods developed during my graduate work to address questions of nitrogen cycling in 1) the subpolar North Atlantic, where the massive spring phytoplankton bloom has biogeochemical consequences for the global ocean, 2) the past and present Southern Ocean, where the efficiency of the biological pump is limited by incomplete surface ocean nutrient utilization, and 3) the Benguela Upwelling System, which supports high levels of marine biodiversity and human subsistence, and experiences seasonal and episodic anoxia. I am the PI of the only South African project funded as part of the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition, and will spend three months this austral summer circumnavigating Antarctica.


KatjaFennelDalhousie University Katja Fennel obtained her PhD in 1998 from Rostock University, Germany, where she developed a coupled physical-biological model of the western Baltic Sea. After spending a one-year postdoc at the Alfred-Wegener-Institute in Bremerhaven working with Jens Schröter on biological data assimilation at the Bermuda Atlantic Time Series site, she moved to Oregon State University where, under supervision of Mark Abbott, she continued to develop and apply biological models, now for the Hawaii Ocean Time Series site and the Southern Ocean. In 2002 she joined the Ocean Modeling Group at Rutgers

University initially as Research Professor and later Assistant Professor. At Rutgers she worked on various biogeochemical models ranging from high-resolution physical-biogeochemical models of the North American east coast and northern Gulf of Mexico to global box models applied over geologic time scales. In 2006 she accepted the Canada Research Chair in Marine Prediction and an Assistant Professor position at Dalhousie University, Canada, where she is now a Full Professor. Her research questions are primarily focused on the biogeochemical cycling of nitrogen, carbon and oxygen in the ocean. She uses numerical models in combination with observations, including through formal data assimilation, to improve understanding and quantification of biogeochemical processes.

SaraFerrónUniversity of Hawaii at Manoa In 2009 I received a Ph.D. in MarineSciences from the University of Cadiz,Spain.Mydissertationresearch focusedoncycling of biogenic trace gases (carbondioxide,methane, nitrous oxide) in coastalenvironments.AsapostdoctoralresearcherwithDavidHoattheUniversityofHawaii,Iuseddeliberatetracerexperimentstostudymixing,gasexchange,andcarboncyclingincoastalandinlandsettings.Duringasecondpostdoctoral appointment with Dave Karl,my research interests expanded to theoligotrophic ocean, and since then havemainlyfocusedonproductivity,respiration,and export, whilst maintaining an active interest in climate relevant gases. I amcurrently an Assistant Researcher in the Department of Oceanography at theUniversityofHawaii.


BrianGlazerUniversity of Hawaii at Manoa Brian Glazer is an Associate Professor in theDepartment ofOceanography at theUniversity ofHawaii at Manoa. He earned a B.S. degree inBiology fromthePennsylvaniaStateUniversity in1997, a M.S. in Marine Sciences from theUniversity of Delaware in 1999, and a Ph.D. inMarineSciencesin2004,alsoatUD.In2004,Brianwas awarded a postdoctoral fellowship with theNASA Astrobiology Institute at UH, where hefocused on deep subseafloor hydrothermalresearch.In2006hewasappointedasaprofessorintheOceanographyDepartment.Dr. Glazer’s work focuses on a blend of biogeochemistry and microbial redoxgeochemistry.Currently,hisgroupresearchesbiogeochemicalprocesses inOahu’snearshorecoastalzone,andalsochemicalandmicrobiologicalprocessesassociatedwithdeep-seavolcanoes.Glazer’sworkalsofrequentlyinvolvesdesigning,buildinganddeployingautonomoussamplers, insituchemicalanalyzers,andworkingwithassets from the National Deep Submergence Facility, including the mannedsubmersibleAlvin, ROV Jason-II, and AUV Sentry. Glazer has sailed on nearly twodozensea-goingresearchexpeditions,typicallyspendingbetween1&3monthsatseaperyear.

MarthaGledhillGEOMAR Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research, Kiel, Germany Martha Gledhill did her bachelors and PhD at the University of Liverpool in Chemical Oceanography. She was amongst the first researchers to identify that organic complexation is an important factor controlling iron distributions in the ocean. She went on to the University of Plymouth where she did a Post-doc and then became a Lecturer in Inorganic Chemistry. Here, her group measured the first distributions of specific iron chelators called siderophores in the ocean. In 2004 she left Plymouth

to take up a Royal Society fellowship and then a NERC fellowship at the School of Ocean and Earth Science at the University of Southampton. In Southampton she became interested in iron in the cell and she made the first determinations of cellular heme quotas in phytoplankton and oceanographic particles. In 2013 she moved to take a permanent position as a senior scientist at the GEOMAR Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research in Kiel, Germany. Her research interests are multidisciplinary, as they combine analytical chemistry, aquatic chemistry, organic geochemistry and biological oceanography. Her overarching aim is to continue to develop and apply new methods for investigating trace nutrients and their influence on the biological pump in the ocean.


MiguelGoniOregon State University Miguel Goni received his PhD from the University of Washington in 1992, and proceeded to a post-doctoral position at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. He is currently a professor in the College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences at Oregon State University. His overall scientific interest is to better understand the cycling of natural organic matter in the earth's surface, mainly in aquatic environments such as oceans, estuaries, rivers, groundwater, and lakes. A key objective of his research is to elucidate the role that organic matter plays on the global biogeochemical cycles of major elements (e.g., carbon, oxygen, nitrogen). His current research involves elucidating the sources, transport and fate of terrigenous organic matter in river-dominated margins, including the Gulf of Papua (Papua New Guinea), Gulf of Mexico, Arctic, and in the Southeast U.S. He is also involved in studying the fluxes and transformations of organic matter in the water column and sediments from upwelling margins, such as the Cariaco Basin. Another project involves the climatic and oceanographic reconstructions of Holocene conditions in tropical and temperate ocean margins using organic biomarkers.

MaximeGrandUniversity of Southampton, National Oceanography Centre I am an observational chemical oceanographer interested in the biogeochemical dynamics of bioactive trace elements (e.g., Fe and Zn), tracers (e.g., Al) and nutrients (N, P and Si) and their role in moderating upper ocean biogeochemical processes. At present, my research activities are concerned with the development and validation of wet-chemical microfluidic methods for in situ determinations of nutrients and trace metals in seawater. Following my PhD (2014), I pursued a 9-month postdoc at the University of Hawaii, where I developed a novel miniaturized shipboard method for

trace Zn analysis and finalized the publication of a series of papers describing the biogeochemical dynamics of Fe and Al in the Indian Ocean. In July 2015, I joined the University of Southampton National Oceanography Centre as a research fellow. I work in collaboration with the Ocean Technology and Engineering Group on the development and oceanographic validation of in situ Lab-On-a-Chip sensors for nutrient determinations. My work is funded through the SenseOCEAN project, a EU consortium of academics and industrial partners working towards the development of an integrated package of biogeochemical sensors.


ChrisGuayWindward Community College, and Mamala Research LLC, Oahu, Hawaii Chris was born and raised in Hawaii, where he attended Punahou School. He received a B.S. degree in Chemistry from the University of California, Davis, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Chemical Oceanography from the College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences at Oregon State University. Chris was selected as a postdoctoral fellow of the NOAA Climate and Global Change Program. His research interests include geochemical tracers of Arctic river waters and interactions between the Arctic system (land,

ocean, atmosphere, ice and biota) and global climate. Chris is currently a lecturer in the Natural Sciences Department at Windward Community College and has also taught at several other colleges and universities (past assignments have included Hawaii Pacific University, Laney College, UC Davis and Cal State East Bay). He is an adjunct faculty member of the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute at the University of Hawaii. Chris also works as an independent consultant in the field of marine sciences and renewable energy resources. The name of his consulting business is Mamala Research LLC.

MartinHassellövUniversity of Gothenburg Dr. Martin Hassellöv is a professor in the Department of Marine Sciences at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden.


MarikoHattaUniversity of Hawaii at Manoa My expertise is in the shipboard determination of dissolved trace elements using flow injection analysis technique and to better understand the geochemical cycle of trace elements in the global ocean. I’ve participated in various cruises (the US CLIVAR, US GEOTRACES, and Southern Ocean programs) over the past 10 years to develop a database of dissolved trace elements, especially Al and Fe, over large areas of the ocean. Recently I am developing trace element and micronutrient methods using the Sequential injection platform. I am currently a research affiliate in the Department of Oceanography at the University of Hawaii.

ChristopherT.HayesUniversity of Southern Mississippi Since Chris finished his PhD, he did research as a post-doctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for a little over 2 years. While there, he participated in expeditions to the Station ALOHA time-series station, cored for African dust in the Bahamas, and sailed on a UNOLS Chief Scientist Training cruise between Barbados and Bermuda. Just this year he has begun a faculty position in the School of Ocean Science and Technology at the University of Southern Mississippi, based at the Stennis Space Center. Here he is starting a lab for long-lived radioisotopes for GEOTRACES and is pursuing projects on the carbon cycle in the Gulf of Mexico.


TristanHornerWoods Hole Oceanographic Institution Tristan is an Assistant Scientist in Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry at WHOI. He obtained his PhD in Earth Sciences from the University of Oxford in 2012. His research focuses on understanding the marine biogeochemistry of metals. By combining a range of techniques, ranging from mass spectrometric to genomic, his work examines: metal cycling in the modern ocean; processes that control the deposition and removal of metals from seawater; relating metal availability to phytoplankton physiology and how this

modulates primary productivity; how metal availability may affect Earth's climate over geological timescales (and vice versa). His recent projects include studying 'micronutrient' metal cycling in the modern ocean and interactions with marine primary producers, investigating patterns, processes, and mechanisms of metal isotope fractionation in biological systems, understanding environmental and physiological controls on trace metal incorporation into CaCO3 and probing the fildelty of sedimentary archives to record seawater metal isotope chemistry.

ElleryIngallGeorgia Tech Dr. Ellery Ingall earned his Ph.D. at Yale University in 1991 under the guidance of Bob Berner, then worked with Rick Jahnke at the Skidaway Institute of Oceanography as a post-doc, followed by seven years at the University of Texas as an assistant & associate professor. He has been at Georgia Tech since 2000, where he is a professor and director of teaching effectiveness. His research has explored the factors affecting phosphorus burial in sediments and he has characterized the forms of phosphorus in sediments, waters and aerosols using a variety of spectroscopic approaches and new technologies. Over the last few years he has used synchrotron-based approaches to examine phosphorus, iron, selenium and sulfur chemistry in atmospheric aerosols, speleothems, aquaculture systems and marine particles. In addition to his scientific pursuits, Dr. Ingall is passionate about improving K-12 Earth Science Education in Georgia. He has worked with over 100 Georgia middle and high school teachers in intensive summer workshops and has distributed thousands of mineral, rock and fossil specimens for their classroom use. The teachers are especially enthusiastic about the geologic field trips he has led to far off corners of Georgia. These activities have been recognized with the Georgia Tech outreach award.


AnitraIngallsUniversity of Washington Anitra Ingalls received her PhD from Stony Brook University in 2002. She then pursued a postdoc at Harvard University and Columbia University. Anitra took a faculty position in the School of Oceanography at the University of Washington in 2004 where she is now an Associate Professor. Anitra leads the Microbial Metabolomics Research Center, a mass spectrometry facility dedicated to applying the tools of metabolomics and proteomics to the

study of marine microbial communities. Her research includes studies of living microbial communities as well as microbially derived paleoproxies deposited in marine sediments. Her most recent works explore cobalamin (vitamin B12) based microbial interactions in the ocean and non-thermal controls on the paleo sea surface temperature proxy called the TEX86 Index.

KennethS.JohnsonMonterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute Dr. Ken Johnson is a Senior Scientist at MBARI. His research interests are focused on the development of new analytical methods for chemicals in seawater and application of these tools to studies of chemical cycling throughout the ocean. Currently, his group is developing chemical sensors that can be deployed on profiling floats. Sensors include nitrate and pH. He has developed a variety of analytical methods for metals present at ultratrace concentrations in seawater using flow injection analysis with chemiluminescence and fluorescence detection. These methods have been used in a variety of studies of metal cycling in the ocean. Analytical methods for iron, an essential micronutrient, have been used in the IRONEX experiment to map iron as it was added in the equatorial Pacific and to study iron in coastal ecosystems. Methods sensitive to metal speciation have been used to study copper complexation in polluted harbors and to study the physical chemistry of metal oxidation. Over the past 15 years, he has been involved in developing a variety of sensors and analyzers that operate in situ to depths of 4000 m. These instruments have been used to study processes ranging from the distribution of sulfide in deep-sea hydrothermal vent systems to nitrate in coastal ponds surrounded by intensive agricultural activities.


LaurieJuranekOregon State University Laurie Juranek is an Assistant Professor in the College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences at Oregon State University. She obtained her PhD in Chemical Oceanography from the University of Washington in 2007. Her research falls into two basic categories: 1) understanding the role of the biological pump in regulating ocean CO2 uptake using in situ measurements of geochemical tracers such as dissolved gases, gas ratios and gas isotopes, and 2) predicting and quantifying the impact of climate- and CO2- related changes to biogeochemical cycling. She actively seeks to incorporate novel research methods, technologies, and platforms to improve the spatial and temporal resolution of field-based observations in the coastal and open ocean.

AngelaKnappFlorida State University I study the marine nitrogen cycle on a range of temporal and spatial scales, from physiological scales up to ocean-basin scale estimates of fluxes of nitrogen to the ocean based on the distribution of geochemical tracers. One theme of my research is quantifying the magnitudes and isotopic composition of the fluxes of nitrogen to the ocean, especially from nitrogen fixation. I often use nitrogen isotope budgets to quantify the importance of nitrogen fixation and subsurface nitrate for supporting export production. I also measure the concentration and d15N of dissolved organic nitrogen in

surface waters. Recently, I have started working on chemically characterizing surface ocean dissolved organic nitrogen with Fourier-Transform Ion Cyclotron Resonance (FT-ICR) mass spectrometry at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory at FSU.


PhoebeLamUniversity of California, Santa Cruz: After completing a PhD in Earth and Planetary Science at the University of California, Berkeley in 2005, Phoebe Lam was a Postdoctoral Scholar in the department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. In 2007, she was hired onto the scientific staff there, where she remained until 2014. Since September 2014, she has been an assistant professor in the Ocean Sciences department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is very active in the US and International GEOTRACES program, where she is a US representative to the international Scientific Steering Committee. Her research focus is on the role of marine particles in the cycling of major (e.g. C) and minor (e.g. Fe) elements.

GeorgeLutherUniversity of Delaware George Luther received a B.A. in chemistry at La Salle College and a Ph. D. in physical-inorganic chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh. After graduate school in 1972, he taught Chemistry in the Chemistry-Physics Department at Kean College of New Jersey where he became chairman and led the Department to obtain an American Chemical Society (ACS) accredited B. S. degree. He then moved to the University of Delaware in 1986, where he is now the Maxwell P. and Mildred H. Harrington Professor of Marine Chemistry in the School of Marine Science and Policy. Luther uses concepts from

Physical and Inorganic Chemistry to understand marine processes. His interests cover a wide range of areas including redox reactions in the environment, trace element speciation in marine waters and sediments including metal-ligand complexes, application of chemical kinetics and molecular orbital theory to geochemical processes, and application of in situ electrochemistry and microelectrode technology to elucidate biogeochemical processes in marine environments. His group emphasizes research that interfaces chemistry with biology with the view that chemistry drives biology. In 2016, he wrote a text “Inorganic Chemistry for Geochemistry and Environmental Sciences: Fundamentals and Applications”, published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Luther received the Clair C. Patterson award from the Geochemical Society (GS) in 2004 and was the ACS Division of Geochemistry medalist in 2013. He is a Fellow of the AAAS, ACS, AGU and GS.


ToddMartzScripps Institution of Oceanography Todd Martz is an associate professor of marine chemistry at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego. Martz obtained a PhD in Chemistry at the University of Montana working with Michael DeGrandpre. Following this, he studied as a postdoc under Kenneth Johnson at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute before joining the Scripps faculty in 2008. Martz’s research focuses on exploring new methods and technologies for measuring dissolved carbon dioxide in the ocean and adapting these techniques for use on autonomous instrumentation, such as oceanic floats and moorings. His research focuses on observing both short and long term variability of ocean chemistry in order to characterize a variety of biogeochemical processes, such as production and respiration in the open and coastal ocean.

PatriciaA.MatraiBigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences Patricia A. Matrai completed her Ph.D. in Biological Oceanography at Scripps Institution of Oceanography (1989). She has held research and academic positions at the University of Miami (Florida, USA) (1989- 1995) and Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences (Maine, USA) (1995- present). Dr. Matrai has served on numerous national and international boards and committees, including IGAC, SOLAS, NASA Earth Sciences Division Advisory sub-committee, IGBP Science Committee, ASLO and, presently, the NSF Advisory Committee for Environmental Research and Education. She has recently co-organized three community-wide scoping exercises for the next decade:

“The Coupled North Atlantic-Arctic System: Processes and Dynamics”, the “Sweden-US Planning Workshop on joint Arctic Research using the I/B Oden”, and the “Arctic-COLORS = Land-Ocean Interactions in the Arctic”. Her current scientific interests include the biological underpinnings of air-sea exchange; precursors and production of marine primary aerosols; biological production and consumption of organic sulfur compounds; physiological ecology of phytoplankton and primary production, with emphasis on ocean acidification. Time series, whether producing new or using existing data, have been the foundation of multiple Arctic Ocean projects. As an active research scientist, she has participated, or been involved, in ~40 cruises. She is excitedly returning to Antarctica next austral summer for 10 weeks!


ChrisMeasuresUniversity of Hawaii at Manoa After completing my PhD at the University of Southampton in 1977, I was offered a one year Post Doc at MIT with John Edmond to work on the newly discovered hydrothermal systems in the Galapagos. This initial one-year position turned into a 12-year soft money position with many other exciting projects including river chemistry work, methodology development and participation in some of the earliest long-lines global section cruises. Although I really enjoyed my time with John's group and also working with Ed Boyle, I did not want to spend my career on "soft money". So in 1989 when the University of Hawaii offered me a tenure track position I accepted and have

been here since. My research continued with the development of shipboard trace element detection methods using Flow Injection Analysis methodology, as well as developing a series of trace metal survey cruises with Bill Landing and Greg Cutter. These cruises and the later development of a trace element sampling component to the CLIVAR program with Bill Landing and Joe Resing led to involvement in the development of the GEOTRACES program. My current research, in addition to the GEOTRACES work, involves adapting chemical methodology to the new micro-sequential injection platform.

SimoneMetzNSF- Chemical Oceanography Program Simone Metz has been a Program Manager in the NSF Chemical Oceanography Program for 16 years. Before coming to NSF, she was a Research Associate at Florida Institute of Technology carrying out research on trace metals at various seawater interfaces such as river water, sediments and hydrothermal vents. She attended DISCO VII and at NSF has had the privilege of running the DISCO program, going to the meetings, and getting to know the next generation of ocean scientists.


RichardW.MurrayNSF and Boston University Rick Murray is Division Director, Ocean Sciences, at the National Science Foundation. He is a Professor of Earth and Environment at Boston University (BU), where he has been since 1992. He was the Director of the BU Marine Program from 2006-2009, and Chair of the Department of Earth Sciences from 2000-2005. While pursuing his undergraduate degree at Hamilton College (1985), he also participated in the Sea Education Association’s (SEA’s) program in Woods Hole. After receiving his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley, he was a post-doctoral scholar at the Graduate School of Oceanography (University of Rhode Island). Murray’s research interests are in marine geochemistry, with an emphasis on sedimentary chemical records of climate change, volcanism, and tropical oceanographic processes. He has authored or co-authored ~90 peer-reviewed research papers, is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America, a former Trustee of SEA, and helped initiate and manage the Link Foundation’s Ph.D. Fellowship Program in “Ocean Engineering and Instrumentation”. A seagoing oceanographer, he has participated on many research cruises in various capacities, including co-Chief Scientist on the “Asian Monsoon” IODP expedition and Chief Scientist on the last full research cruise of R/V Knorr.

David(Roo)NicholsonWoods Hole Oceanographic Institution David (Roo) Nicholson is an Associate Scientist in the Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry Department at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. In 2008, Nicholson attended DISCO XXI. Dr. Nicholson completed a B.S. and M.S. from Stanford University, working with Adina Paytan and a Ph.D. from the University of Washington with Prof. Steve Emerson. Dr. Nicholson came to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in 2009 as a Postdoctoral Investigator with Drs. Scott Doney and Rachel Stanley. Dr. Nicholson’s areas of research include the study of biogeochemistry from autonomous platforms, air-sea gas

exchange and tracers of primary productivity. To tackle these topics, he applies a range of tools, including numerical modeling, the development and application of novel biogeochemical sensing systems and stable isotope geochemistry.


MatsOhlsonSahlgrenska University Hospital, Sweden For 11 years, Mats Ohlson had his affiliation at the national Oceanographical Laboratory in Gothenburg Sweden, as “1:e statsoceanograf”. On a monthly basis, the Oceanographical Laboratory operated the monitoring of the seas surrounding Sweden: the Skagerrak, the Kattegat, the Baltic Sea, and the Gulf of Bothnia. The aim was to support the fishing industry, environmental monitoring programs, and the public with measurements of physical, chemical and biological oceanographic parameters. Mats was involved in the study of

the acidified rain impact, and he took part in the quality assurance of the laboratories measurements. He was also a board member of the Swedish Society for Marine Sciences (SHF) and secretary general for the Conference of Baltic Oceanographers (CBO). Yearly, SHF organized a national conference. In 2001, Mats became a member of both the scientific and the organization committee for the Baltic Sea Science Congress 2001 held in Stockholm. He was engaged as a reviewer for the journal Marine Chemistry and guest editor for the Baltic Sea Science Congress issue of the Journal of Sea Research. Since 2002, Mats has a position as a clinical biochemist at the department of Clinical Chemistry at the Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden.

AdinaPaytanUniversity of California, Santa Cruz The major focus of my research is understanding past and present marine biogeochemical cycles. After receiving a PhD at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography, with a thesis on marine barite as a recorder of oceanic chemistry, productivity, and circulation. I stayed in San Diego (UCSD) for a post doc, this time producing a high resolution sea water S isotope curve for the past 120 Ma. In the summer of 1999, I moved to Stanford, where I worked for 8 years as a professor in the department of Geological and Environmental Sciences. Currently I am a Research Scientist at the Institute of Marine Sciences at the University of California Santa Cruz and I am affiliated with the Departments of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Ocean Sciences and teach and mentor students from these departments.


RobertE.PellenbargCollege of the Desert After spending two successive summers as an undergraduate lab assistant at the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, Solomons Island, MD, a future in Oceanography seemed ‘on target’ for me. Chemistry (B.Sc. from George Washington University) and the sea has been a good mix: Chemical Oceanography has been my focus since undergraduate days. My first position was with the Naval Oceanographic Office at the Washington, DC Navy Yard. However, a National Research

Council Post-Doctoral opportunity at the Naval Research Laboratory, also in DC, took me to research full – time. I spent some 25 years as a Research Oceanographer, initially in the NRL Ocean Sciences Division, then in the Chemistry Division when the OSD was stood down. My focus was on the geochemistry of trace metals in the oceans. While at NRL, a colleague and I patented a new technology for the desalination of seawater; this project is still under development. Regarding time – at – sea, work has taken me from north of the Arctic Circle to south of South Georgia in the Atlantic, far into the Chukchi Sea north of Alaska, and a weeks – long assignment in the waters off Hawaii. Placid seas, heavy weather, brine-in – the - face, and a chance to see the archeological sites of Peru enroute to a deployment in the South Atlantic have added spice to time in King Neptune’s realm. In closing, I would say to seek appropriate mentors, and stay flexible. Good luck, and following seas… Currently, I serve as Professor of Oceanography and Earth Science at College of the Desert in Palm Desert, CA.

StephenR.Piotrowicz NOAA Steve Piotrowicz graduated from Purdue University in 1967 with a B.S. in Chemistry. After active duty in the United States Navy, he proceeded to the University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Oceanography, where he received his Ph.D. in Oceanography in 1977. He conducted research on inorganic geochemistry from 1976 through 1992 - for two and one-half years in private industry and then at NOAA’s Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory in Miami, Florida. From 1992 to 2001, he served at the headquarters of NOAA’s Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research developing and managing climate research programs and ocean observing systems. He served as Deputy Director for the U.S. National Office for Integrated and Sustained Ocean Observations from 2001 to 2008. Presently he is a Program Manager in NOAA’s Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, Climate Program Office, Climate Observation Division with primary responsibility is for the U.S. component of the International Argo Profiling Float Program and is the U.S. Technical Expert for the U.S. delegation to the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission’s Advisory Body of Experts on the Law of the Sea.


KimPoppendorfRSMAS, University of Miami After completing my PhD in chemical oceanography in the MIT-WHOI joint program, I received a Lamont Postdoctoral Fellowship to work at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. At Lamont I worked with Dr. Solange Duhamel in the biology and paleo environment department, combining geochemical analytical tools with cell sorting flow cytometry to investigate microbial phosphorus dynamics. On cruises in the Gulf of Mexico and the Sargasso Sea I measured microbial fluxes of dissolved organic and inorganic phosphorus

and the diversity of intracellular phosphorus allocation across microbial groups, comparing P allocation to cellular biochemicals such as DNA, RNA, lipids, and polyP in cyanobacteria and heterotrophic bacteria. During my postdoc I taught undergraduate oceanography at Quest University in British Columbia, in a block-plan setting (a semester’s class taught in one month) with a focus on interactive learning. This fall I joined the University of Miami’s Rosentiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science as an assistant professor in the Ocean Sciences department. At RSMAS my lab will be continuing to combine geochemical and microbial tools, particularly liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry and isotope labeling, to investigate microbially mediated chemical fluxes in the ocean and their role in biogeochemical cycles.

ChristopherM.ReddyWoods Hole Oceanographic Institution Chris Reddy is a senior scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). His work focuses on marine pollution and communicating science outside of the Ivory Tower. Reddy has published over 150 peer-reviewed manuscripts and holds five US patents. Reddy earned an executive certificate in Management and Leadership from the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the recipient of the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, an Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellow, and was named a Kavli Fellow in 2009, 2010, and 2011, which is the National Academy of Science’s premiere recognition for distinguished young scientists under 45 years of age. He was honored with the Patterson Award, which is bestowed annually to an international scientist who leads an innovative breakthrough of fundamental significance in environmental geochemistry, particularly in service to society. He received his BS in chemistry from Rhode Island College and PhD in chemical oceanography at the Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island. He has testified before Congress several times and frequently briefs members of the executive branch, written over 30 opinion pieces about science and policy, and given 100s of interviews for print, radio, and television.


DonaldRiceNSF Don Rice (PhD, Marine Geochemistry, Georgia Tech, 1979; DISCO II, 1980) was the second Director of the NSF Chemical Oceanography Program from September, 1996 until May, 2015, succeeding Dr. Neil Andersen who founded the Program in 1975. Before coming to NSF he held faculty appointments in the Department of Geological Sciences at the State University of New York at Binghamton and at the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory of the University of Maryland. He is currently the Section Head for Marine Geosciences in the NSF Division of Ocean Sciences.

KathleenRuttenbergUniversity of Hawaii at Manoa Kathleen Ruttenberg is a tenured professor with a joint appointment in the Department of Oceanography and the Department of Geology and Geophysics within the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa. She received her PhD in Geology at Yale University studying the geochemistry of phosphorus in marine sediments under Dr. Robert A. Berner. Upon moving to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution for a Postdoctoral Scholarship, she shifted her focus from the seabed to the water column, and has studied various aspects of phosphorus cycling in aquatic systems ever since. After 12 years at WHOI, Dr. Ruttenberg made the move to UHM where she has been ever since. She has served in several leadership positions, including 2 terms as Secretary of the Chemical Oceanography division of the American Geophysical Union, Chair of the Gordon Research Conference in Chemical Oceanography, and is currently Co-Chair of the upcoming ASLO Aquatic Sciences meeting that will take place in Honolulu Feb 26-March 3, 2017. In addition to an active research program focusing on phosphorus biogeochemistry, Dr. Ruttenberg teaches undergraduate courses in the Oceanography Department’s Global Environmental Sciences major, as well as graduate courses in both the Oceanography and Geology and Geophysics Departments at UHM, has been principal advisor for 11 graduate students and 9 undergraduate students. Since 2007, Dr. Ruttenberg has had an active program studying the biogeochemistry of a local native Hawaiian fishpond, He‘eia Fishpond, which has provided numerous opportunities for community outreach.


ChristopherL.SabinePacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, NOAA Christopher L. Sabine is director of NOAA’s Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory in Seattle, WA. He also holds an affiliate faculty position at the University of Washington and is a senior fellow at the UW/NOAA Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Oceans. Since receiving his PhD. in chemical oceanography from the University of Hawaii in 1992, he has published over 150 journal articles and book chapters on carbon cycling and climate change. His current research focuses on understanding the global carbon cycle, the role of the ocean in absorbing CO2 released from human activity, and ocean acidification. He has been a scientific advisor for a number of U.S. and international carbon programs. He has won several awards

including the U.S. Department of Commerce Gold Medal Award for pioneering research leading to the discovery of increased acidification in the world’s oceans and was recognized by the Intergovernmental Program on Climate Change (IPCC) for his contributions to the IPCC when they were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. He was also a coordinating lead author for working group 1 of the IPCC 5th assessment report, Chapter 6: Carbon and other Biogeochemical Cycles. For more information go to: http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/.

FrankSansoneUniversity of Hawaii at Manoa Frank Sansone is a marine biogeochemist with a with a broad range of interests. His research has included organic matter diagenesis in shallow and deep fine-grain sediments, methane cycling in environments ranging from nearshore sediments to the open ocean, methane stable isotopic measurements, lava-seawater interactions and hydrothermal processes, carbonate diagenesis, and physically induced water exchange and diagenesis in sandy sediments. He is currently chair of the Department of Oceanography at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.


NayrahShaltoutNational Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries, Egypt I am Dr. Nayrah Abdel Nabi Shaltout, Associate Professor of Marine Chemistry, Marine Environment Division, National Institute of oceanography and Fisheries, Egypt. My PhD concerned with studying marine inorganic carbon cycle in Egyptian coastal water. Then I was a PI of the Med SeA project (Mediterranean Sea Acidification in a changing Climate), in the Framework Program (FP7) for three years since February 2011. We studied the current acidification of Egyptian Mediterranean water and the impact of this acidification,

and increasing sea surface temperature on bacterial community and some diatoms. I am also interested in Nutrient salts monitoring and biogeochemical cycles in Egyptian water. Moreover, my research focused on the pollution monitoring and treatment. I also touched the field of the green chemistry extraction of economically active compounds from marine resources such as biofuel and omega (3, 6, 7 and 9) compounds.

ElizabethSikesRutgers University When I attended DISCO IX in 1990 I continued on to Hobart Tasmania to search for housing. I knew I would be moving there several months later, following my graduation. I lived in Hobart for 8 years first working for the University of Tasmania as an Australian Research Council Post-Doctoral Research Fellow (ARC is Australia’s NSF), then as an employee of the Geological Survey and member of the Antarctic Cooperative Research Center, based at U Tas. In early 1998, I left Tasmania for Auckland, NZ where I joined the University of Auckland. There, I had a joint appointment between the Geology department and the School of Environmental and Marine Sciences. I moved on to Rutgers, in New Jersey in 2001. Through these moves, my research has primarily centered on understanding the Southern Ocean’s role in recent glacial-interglacial climate changes. My initial focus was on sea surface temperature change and surface frontal movements. More recently, my work has broadened to include assessing the sequestration of CO2 in the deep ocean. Using a variety of proxies I am working to constrain carbon sequestration in the glacial ocean and Southern Ocean circulation changes that control the dynamics of CO2 release in the most recent deglaciation.


EricT.SundquistUSGS (Woods Hole) Eric T. Sundquist has been a Research Geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) since 1978. His research seeks to evaluate and understand the processes that control and respond to changes in the level of CO2 in the atmosphere. A recipient of the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) Superior and Meritorious Service Awards, Dr. Sundquist is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has edited two American Geophysical Union (AGU) Monographs, The Carbon Cycle and Atmospheric CO2: Natural Variations Archean to Present, and Carbon

Sequestration and its Role in the Global Carbon Cycle; and he has served as Editor-in-Chief of the AGU journal, Global Biogeochemical Cycles. He has served as chair of several national scientific committees, including the AGU Focus Group on Global Environmental Change, the USGS Interdisciplinary Carbon Committee, and the DOI Biological Carbon Sequestration Workgroup. He has also served as a member of the U.S. Carbon Cycle Scientific Steering Group and the U.S. Carbon Cycle Interagency Working Group. He was a coauthor of the U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Plan and the North American Carbon Program Plan. Dr. Sundquist holds a B.A. degree in Geology from Pomona College, and A.M. and Ph.D. degrees in Geological Sciences from Harvard University.

DavidL.ValentineUniversity of California, Santa Barbara Dr. David Valentine received his PhD in Earth System Science from UC Irvine in 2000. He was an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow in Microbial Biology at Scripps Institution of Oceanography before joining the faculty at the University of California Santa Barbara as an Assistant Professor in 2001. In 2006 he was promoted to Associate Professor, and to Full Professor of Marine Geochemistry and Microbiology in 2010. His research interests focus on the transformation of chemicals in the ocean, particularly those affected by microbial processes, and on the capacity of microbes to affect geochemistry. He was a recipient of an NSF CAREER award in Chemical Oceanography, and is a Fellow of the Aldo Leopold Leadership Program. He has participated on over thirty oceanographic expeditions, over half as chief scientist, and has dove more than 25 times on the submarine Alvin. Dr. Valentine also avidly engages the media and has conducted over 400 interviews for all forms of media.


Zhaohui(Aleck)WangWoods Hole Oceanographic Institution Aleck received his PhD from the Department of Marine Sciences at the University of Georgia in 2003. He attended DISCO XVIII in 2003. Aleck is a marine chemist and geochemist specialized in carbonate chemistry. He spent his postdoc years in the University of South Florida for studying the marine CO2 system and developing CO2 sensors and instruments. He became an Assistant Scientist in 2009, and was promoted to Associate Scientist in 2013 in the Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. His research interests span from freshwater inorganic carbon geochemistry to

carbon cycling in the ocean. His research group has been developing and deploying new sensor technologies to study ocean acidification and the inorganic carbon cycle at in-situ conditions. He is particularly interested in biogeochemistry of the CO2 system, and its interaction and fluxes at biogeochemically important boundaries, such as the land-to-coast and shelf-ocean interfaces. He has been studying ocean acidification and its impacts on seawater chemistry and biology, and examining exports of inorganic carbon and alkalinity from intertidal salt marshes, and if and how such exports may affect the coastal carbon cycle and buffer capacity of coastal water. He has also established time- series measurements of CO2 parameters in a suite of river systems to study riverine exports of inorganic carbon species to the ocean.

SamWilsonUniversity of Hawaii at Manoa Since obtaining my PhD in 2007, I conducted a postdoc in Dave Karl’s laboratory. I am now an Assistant Researcher within the Department of Oceanography at the University of Hawaii. My scientific research focuses on trace gases and their role in the wider biogeochemical cycles. One aspect of this research is the long-term time-series analysis of methane and nitrous oxide in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre and this work led to the formation of an ongoing SCOR Working Group which has the objective of ‘Dissolved nitrous oxide and methane measurements: Working towards a global network of ocean time series measurements of methane and nitrous oxide’.


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ZannaChaseUniversity of Tasmania Zanna Chase is a chemical oceanographer and paleoceanographer. Her research focuses on the interaction of chemical cycles, particularly trace elements, with biological production in the ocean, on a range of spatial scales from estuaries to the open ocean, and a range of temporal scales, from glacial-interglacial variations to predictions of future changes. She is a Senior Lecturer and ARC Future Fellow at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS) at the University of Tasmania. Prior to moving to Australia she

was a faculty member at Oregon State University, and a postdoctoral fellow at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. She received her PhD from Columbia University and Masters and undergraduate degrees from McGill University.

GabrielFilipelli Indiana University-Purdue University (IUPUI) Gabriel Filippelli is a Professor of Earth Sciences and Directs the Center for Urban Health at IUPUI. Dr. Filippelli’ s research focuses on earth sciences, and includes examinations of the geologic record of climate change and the impacts of climate change on global and local environments. His worked has appeared in venues including technical scientific journals, newspaper editorials, television and radio interviews, and more recently a blog (gabrielfilippelli.wordpress.com). He received his PhD in Earth Sciences from the University of California after a 2 year stint in the Peace Corps, and has proudly called Indiana home for 21 years and counting.


MtinkheniGondweEP-Nuffic Dr. Mtinkheni Gondwe is Senior Policy Officer at EP-Nuffic (Netherlands Organisation for Inter-nationalisation of education). EP-Nuffic manages the Dutch study abroad/study in Holland programmes, as well as related scholarship programmes from the Dutch government and the EU. Her specific areas of focus are primary education and teacher training. She is responsible for research, policy advice, vision development and product initiation and implementation. Internationalisation has to do with gaining competences that are necessary for global

citizenship (particularly 21st century skills related to inter-cultural awareness and effectiveness). Prior to her joining this field 7 years ago, Dr. Gondwe worked as a project leader in Atmospheric Sciences at TNO (the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research), managing motor vehicle-related air pollution projects at national and EU levels. While there, she attended an in-company 2-year management talent development programme for young leaders. Prior to her time at TNO, Dr. Gondwe received her PhD degree in Mathematics and Natural Sciences (Atmospheric Sciences) from the Marine Biology Department at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, under the supervision of Prof Hein de Baar. She attended DISCO during her PhD study. Prior to that, Dr. Gondwe worked for the CSIR (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research) in South Africa (national research organization of South Africa). There she was a researcher in urban air pollution and climate-related projects. Although Dr. Gondwe no longer works in the field of atmospheric sciences, her transition to her new line of work has been natural and she has been able to bring a different, but valuable, way of thinking and working to her work.

AngelosHannidesCoastal Carolina UniversityAngelos Hannides is an Assistant Professor of marine chemistry at Coastal Carolina University. He studied at the University of Miami, Stony Brook University, and the University of Hawaii, from which he received his PhD in 2008. His research activities center on organic matter redox cycling and nutrient dynamics, and he has explored these processes in marine sediments, the euphotic zone, river-ocean margins, estuaries, hard substrate communities, coral reefs, and chemosynthetic habitats. Currently, he is focusing on nearshore permeable sediments and the fascinating interactions of physical forcing, biotic processes and organic matter cycling that determine their function. He is also working on the applicability and performance of biogeochemical sensors on gliders and other sensor platforms. Finally, he is interested in marine policy definitions of good environmental state and designing the indicators and activities necessary to monitor this state.


BorisKochAlfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research During the DISCO meeting 2002 I reported on my PhD results addressing carbon flux in mangroves in Northern Brazil using organic geochemical biomarkers. For my Postdoc I switched from the tropics to the Polar Regions and started to work on the biogeochemistry of marine dissolved organic matter at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI). In the meanwhile, I am staff scientist at AWI and deputy head of the section Ecological Chemistry. In 2008, I also became full professor for chemistry at the University of Applied Science in Bremerhaven. Since 2012, I am president of the German Society for Marine Research (DGM)

and coordinator for the field of Physics/Chemistry within the priority program “Antarctic research” of the German Science Foundation. I appreciated very much to get the chance to participate in the DISCO meeting especially because it resulted in lasting cooperation and friendships with other participants. ChristianLønborgAustralian Institute for Marine Science Christian Lønborg is currently a research scientist at the Australian Institute for marine science. His research interests are focused around the biogeochemistry of organic matter and nutrients in aquatic systems, with a special focus on Dissolved organic matter (DOM). During his research career he has amongst many other things investigated the impact of viruses on ocean biogeochemistry, determined the microbial degradation of DOM, studied the effects of photochemistry on DOM degradation and the microbial community, and determined the impact of temperature on biogeochemical processes.


AllisonMillerSchmidtOceanInstituteAllison Miller holds a bachelor’s degree in Marine Science with a minor in Environmental Science from Coastal Carolina University, and a master of science degree in Oceanography from Florida State University. She joined Schmidt Ocean Institute in August 2013. Her main duties include working with researchers following their cruise onboard R/V Falkor to help manage their data, make it publically available, and fulfill all post-cruise deliverable requirements, as well as working with external data management partners. Prior to joining

Schmidt Ocean Institute, she was a program manager for the National Oceanographic Partnership Program at the Consortium for Ocean Leadership. There, she supported the Interagency Working Group on Ocean Partnerships and its subgroups, facilitating partnerships in a variety of ways. She also managed the peer review process for funding opportunities that were created in partnership with federal agencies and was involved in other programs, such as the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative, the National Ocean Sciences Bowl, and the Ocean Sciences Educator’s Retreat. In 2009, Allison dove in the Alvin off the coast of Costa Rica on a mission to service and maintain IODP’s CORK observatories. EliMooreRutgers University Eli Moore is originally from Yamhill, OR and attended Oregon State University for his undergraduate studies where he received two B.S. degrees in chemistry and bioresource research, and minors in oceanography and toxicology. He then went on to receive his PhD from the University of Maryland studying with Rodger Harvey tracking protein cycling from the water column to sediments in the Bering Sea. In his first postdoc at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, working with Jaap Damste, Eli and his colleagues discovered new bacterial cell membrane lipid structures from environments that are susceptible to climate change such as subpolar peatlands in Russia and Sweden. In his current postdoc at Rutgers University with Paul Falkowski, Eli is collaborating with geoscientists and data integration scientists to build a global mineralogical/protein structure database that will be used to understand how microbial metabolism and the geosphere have co-evolved in deep time.


JosephNeedobaOregon Health & Science University In 2003 I received a Ph.D. in Botany at the University of British Columbia, Canada under the direction of Dr. Paul J. Harrison. My thesis focused on natural abundance nitrogen isotope fractionation in marine phytoplankton. I was a Postdoctoral Research at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute under the mentorship of Dr. Ken Johnson, where I was introduced to chemical sensors and their application to in situ sensor networks in coastal environments. In 2008 I joined the faculty at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, Oregon. My area of research is nutrient-microorganism interactions

and associated biogeochemical cycling in aquatic ecosystems. I use chemical and biological sensors in the environment to characterize water quality and its determinants, with a focus on linking to human activities, ecological processes, and human health. My current research activities focus on tracking water quality in juvenile salmon habitat, assessing chemical pollution in the Columbia River watershed, and understanding the biogeochemical dynamics of ocean acidification and hypoxia in estuaries. Additional methodologies that I employ include mass spectrometry, fluorescence spectroscopy, and flow cytometry. I teach a graduate level course on Aquatic Chemistry and an environmental issues course titled Environmental Systems & Human Health. ChrisOsburnNorth Carolina State University Chris Osburn received his Ph.D. in Environmental Science from Lehigh University in 2000. His doctoral research focused on the effects of sunlight on dissolved organic matter (DOM) in surface waters and he published one of the first accounts documenting carbon stable isotope fractionation in DOM due to its photochemical oxidation. From 2000-2003 he was an NRC postdoctoral fellow at the US Naval Research Laboratory where he transitioned from limnology to coastal oceanography and began investigating DOM fluorescence and dissolved lignin in coastal waters. From 2003 to 2008 he was a Research Chemist in the Marine Biogeochemistry section at US NRL where he developed a continuous flow method for measuring stable carbon isotopes of DOM in seawater and began work linking the optical and chemical properties of DOM in coastal waters. In 2008, he joined the Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences at NC State University where he currently is Associate Professor of marine biogeochemistry. Current research efforts include quantifying the flux of “blue carbon” from coastal wetlands in the Gulf of Mexico and investigating the formation of colored dissolved organic matter (CDOM) from phytoplankton and marine snow degradation in the open ocean.


ArturPalaczInternational Ocean Carbon Coordination Project I hold a B.Sc. in Geosciences & Astrophysics from Jacobs University in Bremen, Germany (2006) and a Ph.D. in Oceanography from the University of Maine in Orono, Maine, USA (2011). I took advantage of my transdisciplinary education to explore innovative approaches to combining multi-platform ocean observations with ecosystem model results while contributing to numerous national and international, regional and global projects. My scientific interests and contributions range from cold-water coral biology and trace metal biogeochemistry, through ecosystem modelling, to the development of decision-support tools for marine resource management. From 2012 to 2015 I worked as a researcher at the National Institute of Aquatic Resources, Technical University of Denmark (DTU-Aqua), Copenhagen, Denmark, where I focused on developing ecosystem models. I was also providing scientific advice as a member of three working groups of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES). Currently, I work as a project officer at the International Ocean Carbon Coordination Project (IOCCP; ww.ioccp.org) where I help deliver coordination and communication service for the benefit of the global marine biogeochemistry observing community.

KathrinWuttigUniversity of Tasmania Kathrin Wuttig is a Postdoc at the Antarctic Climate & Ecosystems CRC at the University of Tasmania in Hobart, Australia. She obtained her PhD on “Manganese biogeochemistry in the sunlit ocean” from the GEOMAR, Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel at the Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Germany in 2013. She participated in a number of cruises and mesocoms studies and is specialized in various seagoing analysis techniques like FIAs and the preconcentration SeaFAST system and

trace metal analysis on the ICP-MS. The central focus of her Postdoc is on the key processes involved in marine biogeochemical cycles, especially on iron (and fingerprint trace metals) - their concentrations, sources (e.g. atmospheric, riverine input or upwelling) and sinks (e.g. biological uptake, sedimentation) and their relevance to other biogeochemical cycles in seawater. It is vital to understand their bioavailability and kinetics in the ocean as the controlling element of Southern Ocean biological productivity which can be (co-) limited by iron. The goal is to understand the responses to natural (iron) fertilization which depend on climate variability and changes.


MengXiaDr. Meng Xia is an Associate Professor in the Department of Natural Sciences at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES). He joined the department in 2011. A physical oceanographer by training, Dr. Xia received his PhD from North Carolina State University in 2007 and his M.S. degree from First Institute of Oceanography in China in 2002. Before coming to UMES, he served as Research Investigator in the Cooperative Institute of Limnology and Ecosystems Research at University of Michigan. Dr. Xia's research interests focus on estuarine and coastal dynamics, specifically river plume and estuary dynamics, larval transport

processes, TMDL modeling, watershed modeling, wave current dynamics and sediment transport processes.

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