EMPLOYMENT

1984-2006  Professor of Ocean Sciences, University of California at Santa Cruz

1982         Visiting Scientist, Institute of Applied Physical Chemistry, Nuclear Research Center (KFA), Julich, Germany (Sabbatical)

1982         Visiting Scientist, Netherlands Institute for Oceanographic Research (NIOZ) Texel, Netherlands (Sabbatical)

1980-84     Associate Professor of Marine Sciences, University of California at Santa Cruz

1974-80     Assistant Professor of Marine Studies, University of California at Santa Cruz

1971-74     Graduate Research Assistant, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego

1969-71     Lieutenant, United States Army, 82nd Airborne Division

EDUCATION

1974         Ph.D., Chemical Oceanography; Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego 

1968         B.A., Chemistry; Western Washington University

PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE AND ACTIVITY

Elected as a 2005 Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), awarded May 2005.

Awarded the 2005 Clair C. Patterson Medal for Environmental Geochemistry from the Geochemical Society, awarded May 2005.

Received the Division of Physical and Biological Sciences' Outstanding Faculty Award, in recognition for teaching, research and service.  Awarded October 2003 (it was for the 2001/02 year, but was not awarded until October 2003).

Awarded the Ida Benson Lynn Endowed Chair of Ocean Health (2003-2008).

On ISI's list of Most Highly Cited Researchers (as of 2002) - one of only twelve faculty on the UC Santa Cruz campus.   ISI HighlyCited.com.  For a list of faculty on the UC Santa Cruz campus, see: ISI's list of UCSC faculty

Member of the American Geophysical Union, the Geochemical Society, and the Society of Limnology and Oceanography

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Grants (since 2000)

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2005-08     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.

2005-06     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.

2004-07     Anonymous Gift in support of graduate education - Co-PI with Professor Christina Ravelo.

2004-05     National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: MBCCIMT: From Wind to Whales: Understanding California's upwelling ecosystems. Total award $2 M. P.I. Gary Griggs and Don Croll, UCSC.  Co-PI Bruland's component; 8/1/04-7/31/05.

2003-08     National Science Foundation: Collaborative Research: Productivity, biogeochemical transformations and cross-margin transport.  A collaborative study of the Columbia River plume.  Total award $8.7 M.  P.I. Barbara Hickey, University of Washington.  Co-PI Bruland's component - 6/1/03-7/31/08.

2003-06     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.

2003-05     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.

2003-05     Ida Benson Lynn Endowed Chair endowment.

2003-04     National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration:  MBCCIMT: From Wind to Whales: Understanding California's upwelling ecosystems. Total award $2 M. P.I. Gary Griggs and Don Croll, UCSC.  Co-PI Bruland's component; 8/1/03-7/31/04.

2002-05     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.

2002-03     National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration:  MBCCIMT: From Wind to Whales: Understanding California's upwelling ecosystems. Total award $2.2 M. P.I. Gary Griggs and Don Croll, UCSC.  Co-PI Bruland's component; 8/1/02-7/31/03.

2002-03     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.

2001-03     California Water Resource Control Board:  Trace metal (Cu) TMDL development: Impairment assessment and numeric target definition.  4/1/01-10/30/03.

2001-02     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.

2001-03     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 (support of a postdoctoral researcher).

2001-02     Center for Teaching Excellence, instructional improvement grant.

Research Cruises (since 1990)

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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, AK to Dutch Harbor, AK.

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, 6 weeks, Aug/Sept: Upwelling systems off Peru and the equatorial Pacific - San Diego, CA to Arica, Chile.

1999         Chief Scientist on the RV Point Sur, 3 weeks, June/July: Upwelling systems off central California - Moss Landing to Moss Landing.

1997         Chief Scientist on the RV Point Sur, 4 weeks, July: Upwelling systems off the west coast on North America - Moss Landing to Victoria, British Columbia.

1996         Chief Scientist on the RV Point Sur, 3 weeks, Jun/July: upwelling systems off central California

1995         Chief Scientist on the RV Point Sur, 3 weeks, July; upwelling systems off central California

1994         Chief Scientist, 1 week, June; Narragansett Bay, RI

1991         Chief Scientist on the RV Moana Wave, 5 weeks, August; Equatorial Pacific - Tahiti to Hawaii.

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PUBLISHED WRITINGS AND CREATIVE ACTIVITIES

Books and Chapters in Books (since 2000)

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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

Buck, K.N., M.C. Lohan and K.W. Bruland.  Dissolved iron speciation in two distinct river plumes and an estuary: Implications for riverine iron supply.  Limnology and Oceanography, submitted 6/06.

Hickey, B.M, A. MacFadyen, W.P. Cochlan, R.M. Kudela, K.W. Bruland, and C.R. Trick.  Evolution of water column properties in the Pacific Northwest in  2005: Remote or local effect? Geophysical Research Letters, submitted May 2006 for special issue on "Warm Ocean 2005".

Hurst, M.P. and K.W. Bruland. Geochemistry of trace metals in the Gulf of the Farallones: Effects of the San Francisco Bay plume on trace metal nutrient and contaminant distributions in coastal waters. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, submitted 6/06.

Papers Accepted and in Press

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, in press (2006).

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, (2006).

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 II, in press (2006).

Published Papers (since 2000)

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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).

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).

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.  Limnology & Oceanography, 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.  Analytica 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).

Ndungú, 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).

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).

Ndungú, 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 Concentrations in 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 partitioning 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 mass spectrometry coupled 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).

Bruland, K.W., E.L. Rue and G.J. Smith.  The influence of iron and macronutrients in coastal upwelling regimes off central California: implications for extensive blooms of large diatoms.  Limnology and Oceanography, 46:1661-1674 (2001).

Macrellis, H.M., C.G. Trick, E.L. Rue, G. Smith and K.W. Bruland.  Collection and detection of natural  iron-binding ligands from seawater.  Marine Chemistry, 76:175-187 (2001).

Rue, E.L. and K.W. Bruland.  Domoic acid binds iron and copper; a possible role for the toxin produced by the marine diatom Pseudo-nitzchia.  Marine Chemistry, 76:127-134 (2001).

Barbeau, K., E.L. Rue, K.W. Bruland and A. Butler.  Photochemical cycling of iron in the surface ocean mediated by microbial iron(III)-binding ligands.  Nature, 413:409-413 (2001).

Beck, N.G., A.T. Fisher and K.W. Bruland.  Modeling water, heat and oxygen budgets in a tidally dominated estuarine pond.  Marine Ecology Progress Series, 217:43-58 (2001).

Kirchman, D. L., B. Meon, M.T. Cottrell, D.A. Hutchins, D. Weeks, and K.W. Bruland.  Carbon versus iron limitation of bacterial growth in the California upwelling regime.  Limnology & Oceanography, 45:1681-1688 (2000).

Beck, N.G. and K.W.  Bruland. Diel biogeochemical cycling in a hyperventilating  estuarine environment.  Estuaries, 23:177-187 (2000).

Bruland, K.W., E.L. Rue, J.R. Donat, S. Skabal and J.W. Moffett.  An intercomparison of voltammetric approaches to determine the chemical speciation of dissolved copper in a coastal seawater sample.  Analytica Chimica Acta, 405:99-113 (2000).

Wells, M.L., G.L. Smith and K.W. Bruland.  The distribution of colloidal and particulate bioactive metals in Narragansett Bay, R.I.  Marine Chemistry, 71:143-163 (2000).

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Graduate advising

Ph.D. Theses Supervised

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. (Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry at Humboldt State University)

2001         Alison Gee "Tracing Ni, Cu and Zn kinetics and equilibrium partitioning 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.  (Currently an assistant professor at the University of Hawaii at Hilo)

2001         Nicole G. Beck, "Biogeochemical cycling in estuarine environments of the central California coast", Earth Sciences, Ph.D. thesis.  ( Currently a Senior Associate, Swanson Hydrology)

1996         Peter B. Kozelka, "Chemical speciation of copper, lead, cadmium and zinc in estuarine and coastal waters: Investigating organic complexation in size fractionated samples", Chemistry Ph.D. thesis.  (Currently a Program Manager, California EPA)

1995         Eden L. Rue, "Complexation of iron (III) by natural organic ligands in the central north pacific and the equatorial pacific: A revaluation of oceanic iron chemistry", Chemistry Ph.D. thesis.  (Currently on child-bearing leave of absence, formerly Asst. Prof at CSU Monterey Bay)

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. (Currently a senior Marine Scientist, NOAA Research, Silver Spring, Maryland)

1994         David A. Hutchins, "Regeneration and recycling of biologically-required trace metals by marine plankton communities", Biology Ph.D. thesis. (Currently a Professor, Dept of Oceanography, University of Delaware)

1994         Lisa A. Miller, "Trace metal speciation in marine waters by competitive ligand equilibration/solvent extractions:  Theory and practice", Chemistry Ph.D. thesis. (Currently a Senior Scientist, Centre for Ocean Climate Chemistry, Inst. Of Ocean Sciences, Sidney, British Columbia)

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. (Currently a Staff Research Assoc., IMS, UCSC)

1988         Kristin J. Orians, "The marine geochemistry of hydrolysis elements, aluminum and gallium", Chemistry Ph.D. thesis. (Currently an Assoc. Professor, Dept. of Oceanography and Chemistry, Univ. of British Columbia)

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. (Currently a Professor, Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Old Dominion University)

1988         Kenneth H. Coale, "Copper complexation in the North Pacific Ocean", Biology Ph.D. thesis. (Currently a Professor and Director, Moss Landing Marine Labs)

1983         William M. Landing, "The biogeochemistry of manganese and iron in the Pacific Ocean", Chemistry Ph.D. thesis. (Currently a Professor of Environmental Chemistry and Oceanography, Florida State University)

1983         James Cowen, "Iron and manganese depositing bacteria in the Pacific", Biology Ph.D. thesis. (Currently a Research Professor, School of Oceanography and Environment, Univ. of Hawaii)

1982         Greg Cutter, "Processes affecting the distribution and speciation of selenium in seawater", Chemistry Ph.D. thesis. (Currently a Professor, Dept. of Oceanography, Old Dominion University)

Present Ph.D. Candidate Supervisor

2001-present      Kristen Buck, Ocean Sciences - advanced to candidacy

2002-present      Ana Islas-Aguilar, Ocean Sciences - advanced to candidacy

2005-present      Matthew Brown, Ocean Sciences

2006-present      Sherry Lippiatt

Masters Thesis Advisor

2006         Carolyn Berger, "get title," 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 Sciences.

1996         John S. Roitz, "The determination of dissolved manganese (II) in coastal and estuarine 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         Emily Giambalvo, "KINETQL", M.S. Marine Sciences.

1996         Marta P. Sanderson, "After iron, what are the next limiting nutrients in the HNLC region of the equatorial Pacific?", M.S. Marine Sciences.

1995         Sean M. Wallace, "Supported liquid membranes with macrocyclic carriers: mimicking the metal uptake mechanisms of micro-organisms for determinization 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".

Post Doctoral Scholars supervised

2003-05     Maeve C. Lohan, faculty position at Plymouth Univ., UK.

2001-03     Kuria Ndungú, faculty position at the University of Stockholm, Sweden.

2000-01     Eden L. Rue, on leave raising two children.

Robert Hudson, Associate Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana

Gary Gill, Professor at Texas A&M University

Mark Wells, Associate Professor at the University of Maine

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