Congratulations to Postdoc Niels Hauksson for having an NSF RAPID grant funded to study the effect of El Nino on the Santa Clara River carbon cycle!

Sheila Griffin is archiving our coral collection to be sent to the American Museum of Natural History in New York. The collection will be made available to researchers for future generations!

We are excited that our undergrad Taylor Hart will be studying abroad in Australia during the fall 2024 quarter!

Our Research Lab focuses on the cycling of marine dissolved organic carbon (DOC), and why it is thousands of 14C years old, despite evidence that most of it is produced in the surface ocean during photosynthesis of modern carbon. An ancient component of marine DOC is black carbon, produced by combustion of fossil fuels and biomass on land. We are studying black carbon abundance and 14C, and other components of DOC, and how they cycle through the ocean.

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