Congratulations to Ava McIlvaine and Megha Rudresh who are finishing isotopic analyses of dissolved organic carbon of water from the Baffin Bay! The first ever!

Congratulations to Postdoc Niels Hauksson for his new position at Claremont McKenna College! Go Niels!!!

Specialist Sheila Griffin has archived our coral collection with Dr. Nathalie Goodkin at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. The collection is now available to researchers for future generations! Nice job, Ms. Griffin!

Undergrad Taylor Hart is doing research on the cycling of organic matter in the Santa Clara River!

Ellen retired from teaching and is enjoying doing research as Emeritus!

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 by 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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