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Marine Chemistry


College or University: University of Connecticut

Type of degree: Ph.D.

Brief overview of program: A common denominator for the chemistry faculty is a cross-disciplinary approach - all professors in the group use biology, geology, and physics to understand chemical processes in the complex natural environment. The research interests in the group include environmental chemistry and cycling of mercury, organic geochemistry, evaluation of the rates of transport and reaction in aqueous systems, geomicrobiology of mineral formation, trace gas production in microbial mats, modeling of organic matter distributions, and the effect of bubble cavitation on marine organic matter. Chemical oceanography includes both field and laboratory work. The group works in a range of environments, from the cold of the Arctic to the heat of hydrothermal environments and tropical areas. Analytical techniques used include high-performance liquid-chromatography (HPLC), gas chromatography (GC), spectrophotometry, fluorometry, micro-electrodes, GC-mass spectrometry (GC-MS), and inductively coupled plasma with infra-red detection (ICP-IR). The group also uses many more pieces of chemical instrumentation belonging to the Suspended Matter Analysis Laboratory for Education and Research, an NSF-funded facility housed in the department. Five new clean rooms, ranging from class 10,000 to class 100, are other recent additions to the infrastructure available to the chemistry group. The clean rooms make it possible to carry out sensitive trace analysis of metals and organic materials.

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Program Faculty: The chemical oceanography faculty includes William Fitzgerald, Rob Mason, Annelie Skoog, Thomas Torgersen, and Pieter Visscher. In addition, Penny Vlahos is a professor in residence with the department.


Program Point of Contact: Annelie Skoog

Email: annelie.skoog@uconn.edu

 



This project is supported, in part, by the NationalScience Foundation.  Opinions expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily the Foundation