CURRICULUM VITAE

Education

Dec. 2009         Ph.D. in Ocean Sciences (expected date); University of California Santa Cruz. Dissertation advisor: Dr. Ken Bruland.

2003         M.Sc. (Oceanography); University of Hawaii. Thesis title: Aluminum and Iron Distributions in the central and western North Pacific Ocean-Results from the 2002 Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission cruise. Thesis advisor: Dr. Chris Measures.

1998         B.Sc. (Cum Laude) Chemistry; Old Dominion University. Graduating Senior in Chemistry (3.8/4.0 GPA)

Honors

2009         UC Santa Cruz Ocean Sciences Outstanding Graduate Student

2002         Winner, UH Oceanography Star Symposium

1998         A.C.S. Student Achievement Award (Chemistry)—December

1998         1 of 10 nationally selected NSF-REU participants, U. of Hawaii

1997         Golden Key National Honor Society

Employment

2009-current      Adjunct Faculty, Introductory Oceanography, Monterey Peninsula College

2005-current      Ph.D. Candidate, Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant, Graduate Student Representative to Faculty, Physical Oceanography Hire Search Committee Member, UC Santa Cruz, Ocean Sciences Department

2003-2005         Oceanographic Research Specialist, Univ. of Hawaii, Dept. of Oceanography

2002-2003         Graduate Research Asst., Univ. of Hawaii, Dept. of Oceanography

2000-2002         Graduate Teaching Asst., Univ. of Hawaii, Oceanography Department

1998-2000         Research Technician, Dept. of Chemistry, Old Dominion University

1997-1998         Undergraduate Teaching Asst, Dept. of Chemistry, Old Dominion University

Research Interests

Chemical education and communication science; Chemical oceanography, environmental and aquatic chemistry: Including

1. the delivery of trace elements via atmospheric deposition and riverine inputs to the oceans
2. the biogeochemical cycling of trace elements at river/ocean boundaries
3. the development of chemical techniques to analyze for trace metals in natural waters
4. the effects of climate change and anthropogenic input on biogeochemical processes in the marine environment

Publications and Presentations

Articles published in peer-reviewed journals

M.T. Brown and K.W. Bruland (2009). Dissolved and particulate aluminum in the Columbia River and coastal waters of Oregon and Washington: behavior in near-field and far-field plumes. Estuarine and Coastal Shelf Science, 84, 171-185.

C.I. Measures, W.M. Landing, M.T. Brown, and C.S Buck (2008). A commercially available rosette system for trace metal clean sampling. Limnology and Oceanography Methods, 6: 384-394.

C.I. Measures, W.M. Landing, M.T. Brown, and C.S. Buck (2008). High-resolution Al and Fe data from the Atlantic Ocean CLIVAR-CO2 Repeat Hydrography A16N Transect: Extensive linkages between atmospheric dust and upper ocean geochemistry, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 22, GB1005, doi: 10.1029/2007/GB003042.

M.T. Brown and K.W. Bruland (2008). An improved flow-injection analysis method for the determination of dissolved aluminum in seawater. Limnology and Oceanography Methods, 6, 87-95.

C.I. Measures and M.T. Brown (2005). Dust deposition to the surface waters of the western and central North Pacific inferred from surface water dissolved aluminum concentrations. Geochemistry, Geophysics, and Geosystems, vol. 6, Q09M03, doi: 10.1029/2005GC000922.

M.T. Brown, W.M. Landing, and C.I. Measures (2005). Dissolved and particulate iron in the central and western North Pacific: Results from the 2002 IOC cruise. . Geochemistry, Geophysics, and Geosystems, vol. 6. no. 10, Q10001, doi: 10.1029/2004GC000893.

R.N. Sambrotto, A. Matsuda, R. Vaillancourt, M. T. Brown, C. Langdon, S. S. Jacobs, and C.I. Measures (2003). Summer plankton production and nutrient consumption patterns in the Mertz Glacier Region of East Antarctica. Deep-Sea Research Part II, 50, 1393-1414.

Presentations at conferences or institutions (Speaker underlined)

C.I. Measures, W.M. Landing, C. Buck, M.T. Brown, W.M. Hiscock, M. Grand, M. Hatta, K. Gosnell. Global patterns of dust deposition deduced from dissolve Al in the surface ocean. V.M. Goldschmidt Conference. July, 2008 Vancouver, Canada.

M.T. Brown and K.W. Bruland. Dissolved Al in the northern Gulf of Alaska: Glacial/river Inputs and extreme reactivity. ASLO Ocean Sciences Meeting, Orlando, Florida. January 2008.

C.I. Measures, M.T. Brown, W.M. Landing, C.S. Buck. Trace element distributions along P16S show the effect of Australian continental dust inputs. AGU Fall Meeting. San Francisco, California. December, 2006.

C.I. Measures, W.M. Landing, M.T. Brown, C.S. Buck. Geochemical insights from high resolution trace element sections in the Atlantic and Pacific. International Ocean Research Conference. Paris, France. June, 2005.

W.M. Landing, C.I. Measures, C.S. Buck, M.T. Brown. Sections of dissolved iron and aluminum in the North Atlantic and the North Pacific: results from the CLIVAR Repeat Hydrography A16N and P02 expeditions. AGU Fall Meeting. San Francisco, California. December, 2004.

W.M. Landing, C.I. Measures, C.S. Buck, M.T. Brown. A North Atlantic Section for Dissolved Fe and Al. ASLO/TOS Ocean Research Conference. Honolulu, Hawaii. February 2004.

C.I. Measures, W.M. Landing, C.S. Buck, M.T. Brown. The influence of eolian deposition on dissolved Al and Fe distributions in the North Atlantic during the CLIVAR A16N Cruise. AGU Fall Meeting. San Francisco, California. December, 2003.

M.T. Brown and C.I. Measures. Dissolved Al and Fe in the central and western North Pacific Ocean: Results from the 2002 IOC Cruise. IUGG General Assembly Meeting, Sapporo, Japan. July 2003.

M.T. Brown, C.I. Measures, and S. Vink. Dissolved Fe in the central and western North Pacific. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA. December 2002.

M.T. Brown and J.R. Donat. The distribution of platinum in the South Atlantic Ocean. Virginia Academy of Science Annual Meeting. Old Dominion Univ., June 1999.

Oceanographic Research Expeditions

2008         GEOTRACES Intercalibration Cruise, R/V Knorr, Norfolk, VA to St. Georges, Bermuda, 21 days, intercalibration exercise to test GEOTRACES rosette, on-board aluminum analysis.

2007         Gulf of Alaska Eddy Cruise, R/V Thompson, Seattle, WA to Dutch Harbor, AK, 42 days, study of influence of coastal inputs of trace metals and offshore eddy transport.

2006         RISE Cruise, R/V Wecoma, Newport, OR to Newport, OR, 21 days, upwelling and Columbia river plume studies off coastal Oregon and Washington.

2005         CLIVAR P16S Repeat Hydrography Cruise, R/V Revelle, Papeete, Tahiti to Wellington, New Zealand, 42 days, on-board aluminum and iron analyses.

2004         CLIVAR P2 Repeat Hydrography Cruise, R/V Melville, Yokohama, Japan to San Diego, CA, 76 days, on-board aluminum and iron analyses.

2004         Drake Passage BWZ Antarctic Cruise, R/V Lawrence M. Gould, Puntarenas, Chile-Puntarenas,Chile, 42 days, on-board aluminum, iron, and manganese analyses examining metal input into blue water region from the Shackleton Fracture Zone off of the Antarctic peninsula.

2003         CLIVAR A16N Repeat Hydrography Cruise, R/V Ronald Brown, Charleston, SC to Reyjkavik, Iceland, 10 days, setup on-board analytical systems for aluminum and iron determinations prior to main cruise.

2002         IOC Cruise, R/V Melville, Osaka, Japan to Honolulu, Hawaii, 35 days, on-board aluminum and iron analyses to examine role of atmospheric dust inputs of metals to the western and central north Pacific.