Chemical Oceanography
College or University: University of Rhode Island
Type of degree: Ph.D.
Brief overview of program: Chemical oceanographers study the chemical composition of seawater and how it is affected by physical mixing processes and by interactions with the atmosphere, the biosphere, and the sediments and rocks which form the seafloor. The most basic courses include chemical oceanography and the distribution of chemical species in seawater. Students may also specialize in the organic chemistry of seawater and sediments, physical chemistry of seawater, geochemistry of natural and artificial radionuclides, photochemical reactions in seawater, air-sea chemical interactions, and the chemical cycling of elements important to biological systems such as carbon, sulfur, and nitrogen.
Website: Click here for program website
Description of Facilities: Scientific Facilities
Because of the wide range of research activities conducted at GSO, an extensive and specialized array of scientific and technical equipment and services is required. Most of the laboratories and instrument facilities are state-of-the-art and unique to GSO.
Center for Atmospheric Chemistry Studies
GSO Paleomagnetics Laboratory
ICP-MS Laboratory
Marine Ecosystems Research Laboratory (MERL)
Marine Geological Samples Laboratory
Oceanographic Remote Sensing Laboratory
Physical Oceanographic Facilities
Research Diving Web Site
Seawater Facilities
Analytical Services
A number of research laboratories at the Graduate School of Oceanography (GSO) can provide analytical services on a per sample basis or by arrangement. In addition, GSO has a machining and fabrication facility, seawater facilities, and a pressure test facility that can be used, by arrangement, by persons outside of the University of Rhode Island. In addition to facilities and specific analytical services, arrangements may be made with individual or teams of researchers to test materials, equipment, etc. For general information or for inquiries concerning services that are not covered in the list of analytical and fabrication services at right or below, please contact:
Dean's Office
Tel: 401-874-6222
TheDean@gso.uri.edu
Magnetic Properties of Sediments
Sediment Grain Size
ICP-MS Analyses
Trace Metal Analyses
Acid Volatile Sulfide
Pressure Test Facilities
Program Faculty: Brian Heikes, atmospheric chemistry, atmospheric oxidants, heterogeneous processes
Katherine A. Kelley, igneous petrology and high temperature geochemistry
Rainer Lohmann, organic geochemistry of organic pollutants and black carbon - atmospheric and marine fluxes
Craig McNeil, air-sea gas exchange, upper-ocean process and interactions
John T. Merrill, atmospheric transport, atmospheric waves
S. Bradley Moran, trace element and radionuclide geochemistry, oceanic particle dynamics
Rebecca Robinson, paleoceanography, global biogeochemical cycles
Tatiana Rynearson, marine genomics and population genetics
Arthur Spivack, environmental and marine geochemistry
Program Point of Contact: Brian Heikes
Email: bheikes@gso.uri.edu Institution address: 9 Alumni Avenue University of Rhode Island Kingston,RI 02881
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