Skidaway Institute of Oceanography
10 Ocean Science Circle
Savannah, Georgia 31411
Telephone: (912) 598-2361
Fax: (912) 598-2310

Director, Skidaway Island Scientific Stable Isotope Laboratory (SISSIL).

B.S. Humboldt State University, Chemistry, cum laude, 1988
B.S. Humboldt State University, Oceanography, magna cum laude, 1988
M.Sc. University of Washington, Oceanography, 1994
Ph.D. University of Washington, Oceanography [Chemistry], 1996

SISSIL
Global Ecology
Unknown Knowns & Known Unknowns

Use of Stable isotopes to determine sources and diagenesis of organic compounds and nutrients in ecosystems. Development of high resolution X-ray spectromicroscopic techniques for examining nutrient cycling and sequestration and organic matter diagenesis.

• Skidaway Institute Scientific Stable Isotope Laboratory (SISSIL)
• Summer 2007 cruise to Vancouver Island
• Fall trip to the X-ray microscope
• SISSIL webpage
• Examining Marine Phosphate Sources and Sinks using Advanced Spectromicroscopy and NMR Techniques. NSF.
• Mechanisms behind non-Redfieldian P cycling in water masses of the Southern Ocean, new insights from x-ray spectromicroscopy. NSF.
  

• Introduction to Coastal Oceanography, Savannah State University
• Introduction to Estuarine and Coastal Oceanography, Georgia Institute of Technology .
  

• Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Dept. of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

Graduate Recruitment Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin, 2001;
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Carnegie Institute of Washington, 1996;
NSF Dissertations in Chemical Oceanography Award, 1996;
National Defense, Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship, 1991-1994;
Fred Telonicher Marine Laboratory Research Fellowship, 1986