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Kenneth W. Bruland

Kenneth W. Bruland
Professor of Ocean Sciences

Ocean Sciences Department
University of California
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
Tel: (831) 459-4587
Fax: (831) 459-4882

Email: bruland@ucsc.edu
Website: LAB WEBSITE


Curriculum Vitae

Positions Held
Education
Professional Activities
Recent Research Publications
Awards, Grants & Expeditions
Teaching Assignments
Sponsored Student Research

POSITIONS HELD

2006-2007 Sabbatical Leave, Ocean Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz
2002-2006 Chairperson, Ocean Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz
1984-present Professor of Ocean Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz
1989-1992 Chairperson, Marine Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz
1982 Visiting Scientist, Institute of Applied Physical Chemistry, Nuclear Research Center (KFA), Julich, F.R.G. (Sabbatical)
1982 Visiting Scientist, Netherlands Institute for Oceanographic Research (NIOZ) Texel, Netherlands (Sabbatical)
1980-1984 Associate Professor of Marine Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz
1975-1980 Assistant Professor of Marine Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz

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EDUCATION

1974 Ph.D., Oceanography; Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego
1968 B.A., Chemistry; Western Washington University

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Department

2002-2006 Chair, Ocean Sciences Department
1989-1992 Chair, Marine Sciences Department
1984-1986 Chair, Marine Sciences Board of Studies

College

2002-2004       Member, Crown College Executive Committee
1994-1996 Member, Crown College Executive Committee

Division

1992-2005 Member, Radiation Safety and Biohazards Committee
2004-2005 Member of the Environmental Toxicology Personnel Review Committee
2004 Member, PBS Division Environmental Sciences Building Planning Committee
2004 Acting Director, Institute of Marine Sciences
2003 Chair, Institute of Marine Sciences External Review Committee
1994-1996 Member, MBRS Steering Committee.
1985-2005 Member of the Institute of Marine Sciences
1986-1994 Member, Nat Sci IV (E&MS) Building Planning Committee
1988-1994 Executive Committee of the system-wide UC Toxic Substances Research and Training Program
1989-1993 Member of Executive Committee for the campus Environmental Toxicology Program
1992-1993 Chairperson, Search Committee for Environmental Toxicology

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Academic Senate

2000-2002 Committee on Academic Personnel
1980-2005 Numerous ad hoc Personnel Committees

Campus

2003-2004 Member of the committee to produce a Coastal Long Range Development Plan for the UCSC Marine Science Campus
2003-2004 Member of the campus planning committee for the long range development of the Science Hill area by the Physical and Biological Sciences Division and the School of Engineering

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OUTSIDE PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES


Editor

1992-2005 Associate Editor of the journal Marine Chemistry
1995 Co-Editor of a Special Edition of Marine Chemistry
1986-1993 Associate Editor of Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Offices

1999-2001  Member of the Synthesis Committee of NSF ocean sciences planning the future of ocean sciences research
1998-1999 Member of the FOCUS working group planning the future of chemical oceanography – funded by the NSF
1995-1997 Chair, Gordon Research Conference-Chemical Oceanography
1993-1995 Vice-Chair, Gordon Research Conference - Chemical Oceanography
1990-1992 Ex-Officio Steering Committee member of the U.S. Joint Global Ocean Flux Program

Panelist and Advisor

2005 Panelist, Chemical Oceanography Panel, the National Science Foundation
2002 Panelist, Chemical Oceanography Panel, the National Science Foundation
2000 Member of external review committee for Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
1998 Member of external review committee for MBARI Ocean Processes Group
1994 NSF Review Panel - the Arabian Sea JGOFs Program
1993 Invited Expert for EPA’s workshop on Aquatic Life Criteria for Metals held in Annapolis, MD, in January 1993
1992 EPRI (Electric Power Research Institute) Review of their Selenium Biogeochemistry Program.  May
1991-1992 Member of a National Research Council Committee on "Wastewater management for coastal urban areas" dealing with "The transport and fate of pollutants in the coastal marine environment."
1991-1992 Member of a UC systemwide committee to recommend the fate or future of the Institute of Marine Resources (a systemwide MRU)
1991 Panel Member of the Chemical Oceanography Panel, Oceanography Section, NSF
1989-1990 Member of the Advisory Panel for Ocean Sciences Research, the National Science Foundation

Membership and Activities in Professional Associations

1988-2000 American Chemical Society
1979-present American Geophysical Union
2004-present Geochemical Society

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PUBLICATIONS (last 5 years)

Books and Chapters in Books

Bruland, K.W. and M.C. Lohan. The control of trace metals in seawater.  Chpt 2 in The Oceans and Marine Geochemistry, Vol. 6 (Ed. Harry Elderfield) in Treatise on Geochemistry (Eds. H.D. Holland and K.K. Turekian (2004).

Bruland, K.W. and E.L. Rue. Analytical methods for determination of concentrations and speciation of iron.  Chapter 6 in "The Biogeochemistry of Iron in Seawater," Ed. by D.R. Turner and K.A. Hunter, John Wiley & Sons Ltd. (2001).

Papers Submitted and Under Review

Berger, C.J.M. and K.W. Bruland. The application of a chemical leach technique for estimating labile particulate trace metals in the Columbia River Plume and coastal waters off Oregon and Washington.  Marine Chemistry, submitted 3/07.

Buck, K.N. and K.W. Bruland.  The physico-chemical speciation of dissolved iron in the Bering Sea, Alaska. Limnology and Oceanography, submitted 10/06, revised 3/07.

Papers Accepted and in Press

Johnson, K.S. Edward Boyle, Kenneth Bruland, Kenneth Coale, Chris Measures, James Moffett, Ana Aguilar-Islas, Katherine Barbeau, Bridget Bergquist, Andrew Bowie, Kristen Buck, Yihua Cai, Zanna Chase, Jay Cullen, Takashi Doi, Virginia Elrod, Steve Fitzwater, Michael Gordon, Andrew King, Patrick Laan, Luis Laglera-Baquer, William Landing, Maeve Lohan, Jeffrey Mendez, Angela Milne, Hajime Obata, Lia Ossiander, Joshua Plant, Geraldine Sarthou, Peter Sedwick, Geoffrey Smith, Bettina Sohst, Sara Tanner, Stan Van den Berg, Jingfeng Wu. The SAFe Iron Intercomparison Cruise: An International Collaboration to Develop Dissolved Iron in Seawater Standards. EOS, revised 1/07, in press (2007).

Aguilar-Islas, A.M., M.P. Hurst, K.N. Buck, B. Sohst, G.J. Smith, M.C. Lohan and K.W. Bruland.  Micro- and macronutrients in the southeastern Bering Sea: Insight into iron-replete and iron-deplete regimes. Progress in Oceanography, submitted 10/06, revised 1/07, in press (2007).

Buck, K.N., M.C. Lohan, C.J.M. Berger and K.W. Bruland.  Dissolved iron speciation in two distinct river plumes and an estuary: Implications for riverine iron supply.  Limnology and Oceanography, 52(2): in press (2007).

Buck, K.N., J.Ross, K.W. Bruland and A.R. Flegal.  A review of total dissolved copper and its chemical speciation in San Francisco Bay, CA.  Environmental Research, in press (2007).

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Published Papers

Hurst, M.P. and K.W. Bruland. An investigation into the exchange of iron and zinc between soluble, colloidal, and particulate size-fractions in shelf waters using low-abundance isotopes as tracers in shipboard incubation experiments. Marine Chemistry, 103: 211-226 (2007).

Kudela, R.M., N. Garfield and K.W. Bruland.  Bio-optical signatures and biogeochemistry from intense upwelling and relaxation in coastal California.  Deep-Sea Research II53: 2999-3022  (2006).

Bruland, K.W.  A review of the chemistries of redox sensitive elements within suboxic zones of oxygen minimum regions. Gayana, 70: 6-13 (2006).

Lohan, M.C., A.M. Aguilar-Islas and K.W. Bruland.  Direct determination of iron in acidified (pH 1.7) seawater samples by flow injection analysis with catalytic spectrophotometric detection: Application and intercomparison.  Limnology & Oceanography: Methods, 4: 164-171 (2006).

Aguilar-Islas, A.M. and K.W. Bruland.  Dissolved manganese and silicic acid in the Columbia River plume: A major source to  the California Current and coastal waters off Washington and Oregon.  Marine Chemistry, 101: 233-247 (2006).

Hickey, B.M, A. MacFadyen, W.P. Cochlan, R.M. Kudela, K.W. Bruland, and C.R. Trick.  Evolution of chemical, biological and physical water properties in the Northern California Current in  2005: Remote or local wind forcing? Geophysical Research Letters, 33: L22S02, doi:10.1029/2006GL026782, (2006).

Aguilar-Islas, A.M., J. Reising, and K.W. Bruland. Catalytically enhanced spectrophotometric determination of manganese in seawater by flow-injection analysis with a commercially available resin for on-line preconcentration. Limnology & Oceanography: Methods, 4: 105-113 (2006).

Lohan, M.C. and K.W. Bruland.  Importance of vertical mixing for additional sources of nitrate and iron to surface waters of the Columbia River plume: Implications for biology.  Marine Chemistry, 98: 260-273 (2006).

Leblanc, K., C.E. Hare, P.W. Boyd, K.W. Bruland, B. Sohst, S. Pickmere, M.C. Lohan, K.N. Buck, M. Ellwood and D.A. Hutchins.  Fe and Zn effects on the Si cycle and diatom community structure in two contrasting high and low-silicate HNLC areas.  Deep-Sea Research I, 52: 1842-1864 (2005).

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DiTullio, G.R., M.E. Geesey, J.M. Maucher, M.B. Alm, S.F. Riseman, and K.W. Bruland.  Influence of iron on algal community composition and physiological status in the Peru upwelling system.  Limnol. & Oceanogr., 50: 1887-1907 (2005).

Hurst, M.P. and K.W. Bruland. The use of Nafion coated thin mercury film electrodes for the determination of the dissolved copper speciation in estuarine waters.  Analyitica Chimica Acta, 546: 68-78 (2005).

Buck, K.N. and K.W. Bruland.  Copper speciation in San Francisco Bay:  a novel approach using multiple analytical windows.  Marine Chemistry, 96: 185-198 (2005).

Hare, C.E., G.R. DiTullio, C.G. Trick, S. Wilhelm, K.W. Bruland, E.L. Rue, D.A. Hutchins.  Phytoplankton community structure changes following simulated upwelled iron inputs in the Peru Upwelling region.  Aquatic Microbial Ecology, 38: 269-282 (2005).

Franck, V.M., G. Smith, K.W. Bruland, and Mark A. Brzezinski.  Comparison of size-dependent carbon, nitrate and silicic acid uptake rates in high and low-iron waters. Limnology and Oceanography, 50: 825-838 (2005).

Ndungu, K., M.P. Hurst, and K.W. Bruland.  Comparison of copper speciation in estuarine water measured using analytical voltammetry and supported liquid membrane techniques. Environmental Science and Technology, 39: 3166-3175 (2005).

Lohan, M.C., A.M. Aguilar-Islas, R.P. Franks and K.W. Bruland.  Determination of iron and copper in seawater at pH 1.7 with a new commercially available chelating resin,  NTA Superflow. Analytica Chimica Acta, 530: 121-129 (2005).

Bruland, K.W., E.L. Rue, G.J. Smith and G.R. DiTullio.  Iron, macronutrients and diatom blooms in the Peru Upwelling regime: Brown and blue waters of Peru.  Marine Chemistry, 93: 81-103 (2005).

Eldridge, M.L., C.G. Trick, M. Alm, G.R. DiTullio, E.L. Rue, K.W. Bruland, D.A. Hutchins, S.W. Wilhelm.  The response of the marine phytoplankton community to a manipulation of bioavailable iron in HNLC waters of the Subtropical Pacific Ocean. Aquatic Microbial Ecology, 35: 79-91 (2004).

Barbeau, K., E.L. Rue, C.G. Trick, K.W. Bruland and A. Butler.  The photochemical reactivity of siderophores produced by marine heterotrophic bacteria and cyanobacteria, based on characteristic iron(III)-binding groups.  Limnology and Oceanography, 48; 1069-1078 (2003).

Firme, G.F., Rue, E.L., Weeks, D.A., Bruland, K.W. and Hutchins, D.A.  Spatial and temporal variability in phytoplankton iron limitation along the California coast and consequences for Si, N, and C biogeochemistry. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 17(1):10.1029/2001GB001824 (2003).

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Hudson, R.J.M., E.L. Rue, and K.W. Bruland.  Modeling complexometric titrations of natural water samples.  Environ. Sci. Technol., 37: 1553 –1562 (2003).

Franck V.M., K.W. Bruland, D.A. Hutchins, and M.A. Brzezinski.  Iron and zinc effects on silicic acid and nitrate uptake kinetics in three high-nutrient, low-chlorophyll (HNLC) regions. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 252: 15-33 (2003).

Ndung’u, K., R.P. Franks, K.W. Bruland and A.R. Flegal.  Organic complexation and total dissolved trace metal analysis in estuarine waters: Comparison of solvent-extraction GFAAS and chelating resin flow injection ICP-MS analysis. Analytica Chimica Acta, 481: 127-138 (2003).

Beck, N.G. , E.L. Rue and K.W. Bruland.  Short-Term Biogeochemical Influence of a Diatom Bloom on the Nutrient and Trace Metal Concentrationsin a South San Francisco Bay Microcosm Experiment.  Estuaries, 25: 1063-1076 (2002).

Gee, A.K. and K.W. Bruland.  Tracing Ni, Cu and Zn kinetics and equilibrium partitioniing between  dissolved and particulate phases in South San Francisco Bay, CA, using stable isotopes and HR-ICPMS. Geochimica Cosmochimica  Acta, 66: 3062-3082 (2002).

Hutchins, D.A., C.E. Hare, R.S. Weaver, Y. Zhang, G.F. Firme, G.R. DiTullio, M.B. Alm, S.F. Riseman, J.M. Maucher, M.E. Geesey, C.G. Trick, G.J. Smith, E.L. Rue, J. Conn, and K.W. Bruland.  Phytoplankton Fe limitation in the Humboldt Current and Peru Upwelling system.  Limnology and Oceanography, 47:  997-1011 (2002).

Beck, N.G., R.P. Franks and K.W. Bruland.  Analysis for Cd, Cu, Ni, Zn and Mn in estuarine water by inductively coupled plasma massspectrometrycoupled with an automated flow injection system.  Analytica Chimica Acta, 455: 11-22 (2002).

Weeks, D.A. and K.W. Bruland.  An improved flow injection analysis method for the determination of iron in seawater.  Analytica Chimica Acta, 453: 21-32 (2002).

Roitz, J.S., A. R. Flegal, and K.W. Bruland. The biogeochemical cycling of manganese in San Francisco Bay: Temporal and spatial variations in surface water concentrations.  Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science , 54: 227-239 (2002).

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AWARDS, GRANTS & EXPEDITIONS
Recent Grants (last 5 years)

2007-2010 National Science Foundation: Collaborative Research: GEOTRACES Intercalibration.  P.I. Gregory Cutter, Old Dominion University. Co-P.I. Bruland’s component – 4/1/07 to 3/31/10.
2005-2008 National Science Foundation, Chemical Oceanography Program: Mixing of iron-rich coastal waters with nutrient-rich HNLC waters leading to enhanced phytoplankton biomass: a focus on the northwest Gulf of Alaska.  9/1/05 – 9/1/08.
2005-2006 CEBIC (Center in Environmental Bioinorganic Chemistry), an NSF-funded center at Princeton University with Francois Morel as the PI.  Bruland is one of the Co-PI collaborators and receives partial support for a post doc. 9/05 – 9/06.
2004-2007 Anonymous Gift in support of graduate education – Co-PI with Professor Christina Ravelo.
2004-2005 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: MBCCIMT: From Wind to Whales: Understanding California’s upwelling ecosystems.  P.I. Gary Griggs and Don Croll, UCSC.  Co-PI Bruland’s component; 8/1/04–7/31/05.
2003-2008 National Science Foundation: Collaborative Research: Productivity, biogeochemical transformations and cross-margin transport.  A collaborative study of the Columbia River plume.  P.I. Barbara Hickey, University of Washington.  Co-PI   Bruland’s component – 6/1/03–7/31/08.
2003-2006 National Science Foundation: Collaborative Research: Sampling and Analysis of Iron (SAFe), an International Collaboration.  Co-PI Bruland’s component, 10/1/03-3/30/06.
2003-2005 CEBIC (Center in Environmental Bioinorganic Chemistry), an NSF-funded center at Princeton University with Francois Morel as the PI.  Bruland is one of the Co-PI collaborators and receives partial support for a post doc. 10/1/03 – 9/30/05.
2003-2005 Ida Benson Lynn Endowed Chair endowment.
2003-2004 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration:  MBCCIMT: From Wind to Whales: Understanding California’s upwelling ecosystems. P.I. Gary Griggs and Don Croll, UCSC.  Co-PI Bruland’s component; 8/1/03–7/31/04.
2002-2005 National Science Foundation, Chemical Oceanography Program: Coupling of trace metal micronutrients and phytoplankton dynamics – a focus on the Bering Sea and the role of iron. 4/1/02–9/31/05.
2002-2003  National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration:  MBCCIMT: From Wind to Whales: Understanding California’s upwelling ecosystems. M. P.I. Gary Griggs and Don Croll, UCSC.  Co-PI Bruland’s component; 8/1/02–7/31/03.
2002-2003     CEBIC (Center in Environmental Bioinorganic Chemistry), an NSF-funded center at Princeton University with Francois Morel as the PI.  Bruland is one of the collaborators and receives partial support for a post doc. 10/1/02 – 9/30/03.
2001-2003 California Water Resource Control Board:  Trace metal (Cu) TMDL development:   Impairment assessment and numeric target definition.  4/1/01–10/30/03.
2001-2002 Keck Foundation Proposal for instrumentation to be used in studies of the Environmental Toxicology of Trace Metals.  Co-PI with Russ Flegal as the PI.
2001-2003    UCR Water Resources Center: The development of a liquid membrane technique to measure the temporal variation in “bioavailable” copper and nickel in South San Francisco Bay.  7/1/01–6/31/03
2001-2002 Center for Teaching Excellence, instructional improvement grant.
1998-2003 National Science Foundation: Center for Environmental Bioinorganic Chemistry (CEBIC).  P.I. – Francois Morel, Princeton University.  Co-PI Bruland’s component; 10/1/98-9/30/02.
1998-2002 National Science Foundation: The interdependence of the chemistry of Fe and Zn and phytoplankton dynamics in coastal upwelling regimes.  10/1/98-6/31/02:
1998-2001 Office of Naval Research, Harbor Processes Program.  Trace metal speciation: Equilibration and kinetic considerations on biological effects, phytoplankton uptake and sorption processes in coastal waters.  11/1/98-12/31/01.

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Recent Research Cruises (last 10 years)

2007 Chief Scientist on the RV Thompson, 5 weeks Aug/Sept – Seattle, WA to Dutch Harbor, AL
2005 Chief Scientist on the RV Wecoma, 3 weeks Aug: RISE cruise – Newport Or to Newport OR
2004 RV Melville, 3 weeks Oct/Nov, SAFE cruise - Honolulu to San Diego.
2004 Chief Scientist on the RV Pt. Sur, 2 weeks, June: Upwelling and River Plume studies off northern California, Oregon and Washington – Moss Landing to Newport, OR.
2003 Chief Scientist on the RV Kilo Moana, 4 weeks, Aug/Sept: Bering Sea – Dutch Harbor to Dutch Harbor.
2003 Chief Scientist on the RV Pt. Sur, 1 week, Feb: Coastal Upwelling systems off Central California – Moss Landing to Moss Landing.
2000 Chief Scientist on the RV Melville, 5 weeks August/September: upwelling systems off Peru
1999 Chief Scientist on the RV Point Sur, 3 weeks, June/July: Upwelling systems off central California
1997 Chief Scientist on the RV Point Sur, 3.5 weeks, Jun/July: upwelling systems off the US west coast
1996 Chief Scientist on the RV Point Sur, 3 weeks, Jun/July: upwelling systems off central California

CURRENT TEACHING ASSIGNMENTS

• The Oceans (OCEA 01)
• In Deep Water: The World's Oceans Today (OCEA 88A)
• Aquatic Chemistry (OCEA 120)
• Chemical Oceanography (OCEA 220)
• Topics in Chemical Oceanography (OCEA 290A)
• Ocean Sciences Seminar (OCEA 292)
• Plus directed and Independent Study and Thesis Research in Biology, Chemistry, Earth Sciences, and Ocean Sciences
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SPONSORED STUDENT RESEARCH

Ph.D. Theses Supervised
2007 Ana Aguilar-Islas “Sources and processes controlling dissolved manganese in the eastern boundary regions of the North Pacific and Bering Sea, and an insight into the rion-replete and iron-deplete regimes of the Bering Sea” Ocean Sciences Ph.D. thesis. (Currently a post doc with Jingfeng Wu at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks)
2006 Kristen Buck “The application of a modified CLE-ACSV method to dissolved copper and iron speciation in the coastal marine environment.” Ocean Sciences Ph.D. thesis. (Currently a post doc with Katherine Barbeau at SIO/UCSD)
2005 Matthew Hurst “Physical and chemical speciation of trace metals in estuarine and shelf water systems: San Francisco Bay, Gulf of the Farallones and the Bering Sea.” Chemistry Ph.D. thesis.  (Currently an Assistant Professor, Dept of Chemistry, Humboldt State University)
2003 Alison Gee “Tracing Ni, Cu and Zn kinetics and equilibrium partitioniing between  dissolved and particulate phases in South San Francisco Bay, CA, using stable isotopes and HR-ICPMS.” (Currently a lecturer at CSU Monterey Bay)
2001 Debra Weeks “Detection of iron and resolution of iron forms in the coastal oceans,” Chemistry, Ph.D. thesis.  (Currrently an assistant professor at the University of Hawaii at Hilo)
2001 Nicole Beck, "Biogeochemical cycling in estuarine environments of the central California coast",
Earth Sciences (Geochemistry) Ph.D. thesis.
1996

Peter Kozelka, "Chemical speciation of copper, lead, cadmium and zinc in estaurine and coastal waters: investigating organic complexation in size fractionated samples", Chemistry Ph.D. thesis.

1995

Edie Rue, "Complexation of iron (III) by natural organic ligands in the central North Pacific and the equatorial Pacific: a re-evaluation of oceanic iron chemistry", Chemistry Ph.D. thesis.

1995 Jonathan T. Phinney, "Uptake of lipohilic organic metal (Cu, Cd, Pb, Ni and Zn) complexes by the coastal diatom, Thalassiosira weissflogii". Biology Ph.D. thesis.
1994 David A. Hutchins, "Regeneration and recycling of biologically-required trace metals by marine plankton communities".
Biology Ph.D. thesis.
1994 Lisa A. Miller, "Trace metal speciation in marine waters by competitive ligand equilibration/solvent extractions: Theory and practice".   Chemistry Ph.D. thesis.
1989 Linda C.D. Anderson, "Trace element speciation in fresh waters: (1) Technique development for determining
Zinc-organic ligand complexation, (2) Arsenic speciation and redox cycling in a seasonally anoxic lake".   Earth Science Ph.D. thesis.
1988 Kristin J. Orians, "The marine geochemistry of hydrolysis elements, aluminum and gallium",   Chemistry Ph.D. thesis.

1988
John R. Donat, "Trace metals in seawater: The simultaneous determination of cobalt and nickel and a field comparison of techniques for determining organic complexation of copper and zinc", Chemistry Ph.D. thesis.
1988 Kenneth H. Coale, "Copper complexation in the North Pacific Ocean",   Biology Ph.D. thesis.
1983 William M. Landing, "The biogeochemistry of manganese and iron in the Pacific Ocean", Chemistry Ph.D. thesis.
1983 James Cowen, "Iron and manganese depositing bacteria in the Pacific",   Biology Ph.D. thesis.
1982 Greg Cutter, "Processes affecting the distribution and speciation of selenium in seawater",   Chemistry Ph.D. thesis.

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Present Ph.D. Candidate Supervisor

2006-present Sherry Lippiatt
2005-present Matthew Brown

Masters Thesis Advisor

2006 Carolyn Berger, “Application of a chemical leach technique for estimating labile particulate trace metals in the Columbia River plume and coastal waters off Oregon and Washington,” M.S. Ocean Sciences
2002 Laura Lessin, “Spatial variability of copper speciation in San Francisco Bay,” M.S. Marine Sciences.
1999 Heather M. Macrellis, “Isolation of natural organic iron-binding ligands from the California coastal upwelling system,” M.S. Marine Sciences.
1998 Sibel Bargu, "Cadmium and zinc complexation with coastal diatom cell surface sites in seawater",
M.S. Marine Science.
1997 Emily Giambalvo, "A new method for modeling coupled equilibrium and non-equilibrium chemical reactions",
M.S. Earth Sciences
1997 John Roitz, "The determination of dissolved manganese (II) in coastal and estaurine waters by differential pulse cathodic stripping voltammetry and the biogeochemical cycling of manganese in San Francisco Bay: seasonal and spatial variation",
M.S. Marine Sciences.
1996 Marta Sanderson, "After iron, what are the next limiting nutrients in the HNLC region of the equatorial Pacific?",
M.S. Marine Sciences.
1996 Sean Maurice Wallace, "Supported liquid membranes with macrocyclic carriers: mimicking the metal uptake mechanisms of microorganisms for determination of metal speciation",
M.S. Marine Sciences.
1995 Robin Grossinger, "Historical evidence of freshwater effects on the plan form of tidal marshlands in the Golden Gate estuary",
M.S. Marine Sciences.
1992 Kathy Lao, "The chemical speciation of copper, nickel, cadmium and zinc in the South San Francisco Bay:A multi-method approach."
M.S. Marine Sciences.
1985 Terrance D. Cooke, "Aquatic speciation of selenium: evidence of biomethylation in the Kesterson Reservoir."
M.S. Marine Sciences.
1984 Marilyn Arsenault, "High performance liquid chromatographic separation of trace metals in seawater",
M.S. Marine Sciences.
1980 Co-Thesis Advisor for Teri Leslie, "238U - 230Th Chronology of a Basalt from Red Mountain, CA."

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