EMPLOYMENT
2003-current Distinguished Professor of Ocean Sciences, University of California at Santa Cruz
1984-2003 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
Honors, Awards
Appointed a Guest Professor at The Oceans University of China, Qingdao in April 2007.
Elected as a 2005 Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), awarded May 2005.
Awarded the 2005 Clair C. Patterson Medal for Environmental Geochemistry (The C.C. Patterson Medal honors individuals who have made an exceptional contribution or recent innovative breakthrough of fundamental significance in the field of 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
An interesting fact is that Bruland is listed under the Biological Sciences of ISI Highly Cited. An indication of the interdisciplinary nature of his research impact.
Bruland has an H-index of 56 - Meaning that 56 of his journal articles have had at least 56 citations. Bruland has 34 articles with ≥ 100 citations, and 110 articles with ≥ 10 citations. Over the past 4 years, his journal articles have averaged 590 citations per year.
During his career, Bruland has been the major Ph.D. advisor of graduate students in 4 different UCSC departments; 7 in Ocean Sciences, 9 in Chemistry and Biochemistry, 4 in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and 3 in Earth and Planetary Sciences.
Bruland is a member of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), the Geochemical Society, and the Society of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO)
Lab web-site
http://es.ucsc.edu/~kbruland/
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Pending Grants
2010-12 National Science Foundation, Chemical Oceanography Program: U.S. GEOTRACES North Atlantic Section: Trace metals in the surface waters of the North Atlantic Transect – plus an archive of the vertical profiles. 4/1/10 to 3/31/12: Submitted 8/14/09.
Grants (since 2000)
2009-12 National Science Foundation, Chemical Oceanography Program: The California Current transition zone off northern and central California: an extensive region exhibiting Fe-limitation and moderate chlorophyll. 2/1/09 to 1/31/12.
2008-10 National Science Foundation, Major Research Instrumentation: Acquisition of a high resolution inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer and laser ablation system. PI’s Peggy Delaney and Jeremy Hourigan, Bruland was a Co-PI who helped justify the instrumentation. 9/1/08 to 8/31/10.
2008-09 IMS Ocean Science and Technology – Packard Endowment grant: Acquisition of accessories to the ICPMS. PI’s Peggy Delaney, Ken Bruland and Patrick Hourigan.
2007-10 National Science Foundation: Collaborative Research: GEOTRACES Sampling Systems and Intercalibration. P.I. Gregory Cutter, Old Dominion University. Co-P.I. Bruland’s component – 4/1/07 to 3/31/10.
2006-07 National Science Foundation: Collaborative Research: SAFe, Completing the Last Part. 9/1/06 to 8/31/07.
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.
2005-07 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: MBCCIMT: From Wind to Whales: Understanding California’s upwelling ecosystems. P.I. Gary Griggs and Don Croll, UCSC. Co-PI Bruland’s component; 8/1/05–7/31/07.
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 received 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. 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. 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. 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. 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 2000)
2010 Chief Scientist on two 2.5-week cruises in early and late summer to the California Current
2009 Co-Chief Scientist on the RV Knorr, 3 weeks May – Honolulu to San Diego
2008 Co-Chief Scientist on the RV Knorr, 3 weeks Jun – Norfolk, VA to Bermuda
2007 Chief Scientist on the RV Thompson, 5 weeks Aug/Sept – Seattle to Dutch Harbor, Alaska
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.
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PUBLISHED WRITINGS
Books and Chapters in Books (since 2000)
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 in Preparation
Lippiatt, S.M, M.C. Lohan and K.W. Bruland. Reactive iron in northern Gulf of Alaska coastal waters. For submission to ?.
Brown, M.T., S.M. Lippiatt and K.W. Bruland. Dissolved aluminum, particulate aluminum, and silicid acid in northern Gulf of Alaska coastal waters: glacial/river inputs and extreme reactivity. For submission to Marine Chemistry.
Fiechter, J., A.M. Moore, H.G. Arango, and K.W. Bruland. Iron limitation and diatom Si:N uptake ratios in the coastal Gulf of Alaska. For submission to Geophysical Research Letters.
Lawrence, M.G., M.C. Lohan, K. Balz and K.W. Bruland. Dissolved cerium and iron in the Columbia River plume – the importance of shelf interactions, and their broader implications. For submission to Geophysical Research Letters.
Papers Submitted and Under Review
Lippiatt, S.M., M.T. Brown, M.C. Lohan, C.J.M. Berger and K.W. Bruland. Leachable particulate iron in the Columbia River, estuary, and near-field plume. Submitted to Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, June 2009.
Silver, M.S., S. Bargu, S.L. Coale, C.R. Benitez-Nelson, A.C. Garcia, K.J. Roberts, E.S. Wood, K.W. Bruland and K.H. Coale. Natural and iron-fertilized oceanic communities contain toxic algae. Submitted to , July 2009.
Hurst, M.P., A.M. Aguilar-Islas, and K.W. Bruland. Iron in the southeastern Bering Sea: Elevated leachable particulate Fe in shelf bottom waters as an important source for surface waters. Submitted to Continental Shelf Research, June 2009.
Papers Accepted and in Press
Hickey, B.M., R.M. Kudela, J.D. Nash, K.W. Bruland, W.T. Peterson, P. MacCready, E.J. Lessard, D.A. Jay, N.S. Banas, A. M. Baptista, E.P. Dever, P.M. Kosro, L.K. Kilcher, A.R. Horner-Devine, E.D. Zaron, R. M. McCabe, J.O. Peterson, P.M. Orton, J. Pan, and M.C. Lohan. River influences on shelf ecosystems: Introduction and synthesis. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, accepted August 2009; doi:10.1029/2009JC005452 (2009).
Rovegno, P.S., C.A. Edwards and K.W. Bruland. Observations of a Kenai Eddy and a Sitka Eddy in the Northern Gulf of Alaska. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, accepted July 2009, doi:10.1029/2009JC005451 (2009).
Published Papers (since 2000)
Brown, M.T. and K.W. Bruland. Dissolved and particulate aluminum in the Columbia River and coastal waters of Oregon and Washington: behavior in near-field and far-field plumes. Estuarine Coastal Shelf Science, doi:10.1016/j.ecss.2009.05.031, vol. 84: 171-185 (2009).
Fiechter, J., A.M. Moore, C.A. Edwards, K.W. Bruland, E. DiLorenzo, C.V.W. Lewis, T.M. Powell, E.N. Curchitser, and K. Hedstrom. Modeling iron limitation of primary production in the coastal Gulf of Alaska. Deep Sea Research II, doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2009.02.010 (2009).
Bruland, K.W., M.C. Lohan, A.M. Aguilar-Islas, G.J. Smith, B. Sohst and A. Baptista. Factors influencing the chemistry of the near-field Columbia River plume: nitrate, silicic acid, dissolved Fe and dissolved Mn. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 113: doi:10.1029/2007JC004702 (2008).
Berger, C.J.M., S.M. Lippiatt, M.G. Lawrence and K.W. Bruland. The application of a chemical leach technique for estimating labile particulate aluminum, iron, and manganese in the Columbia River plume and coastal waters off Oregon and Washington. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 113: C00B01, doi:10.1029/2007JC004703 (2008).
Lohan, M.C. and K.W. Bruland. Elevated Fe(II) and dissolved Fe in hypoxic shelf waters off Oregon and Washington: an enhanced source of iron to coastal upwelling regimes. Environmental Science and Technology, 42(17): 6462-6468, DOI: 10.1021/es800144j (2008).
Brown, M.T. and K.W. Bruland. An improved flow injection analysis method for the determination of dissolved aluminum in seawater. Limnology & Oceanography: Methods, 6: 87-95 (2008).
Hurst, M.P. and K.W. Bruland. The effects of the San Francisco Bay plume on trace metal and nutrient distributions in the Gulf of the Farallones. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 72: 395-411 (2008).
Black, F.J., K.W. Bruland and A.R. Flegal. Competing ligand exchange-solid phase extraction method for the determination of the complexation of dissolved inorganic mercury(II) in natural waters. Analytical Chimica Acta, 598: 318-333 (2007).
Buck, K.N. and K.W. Bruland. The physico-chemical speciation of dissolved iron in the Bering Sea, Alaska. Limnology & Oceanography, 52(5): 1800-1808 (2007).
Aguilar-Islas, A.M., M.P. Hurst, K.N. Buck, B. Sohst, G.J. Smith, M.C. Lohan and K.W. Bruland. Micro- and macronutrients in the southeastern Bering Sea: Insight into iron-replete and iron-deplete regimes. Progress in Oceanography, 73(2): 99-126 (2007).
Buck, K.N., M.C. Lohan, C.J.M. Berger and K.W. Bruland. Dissolved iron speciation in two distinct river plumes and an estuary: Implications for riverine iron supply. Limnology & Oceanography, 52(2): 843-855 (2007).
Johnson, K., E. Boyle, K. Bruland, K. Coale, C. Measures, J. Moffett, A. Aguilar-Islas, K. Barbeau, B. Bergquist, A. Bowie, K. Buck, Y. Cai, Z. Chase, J. Cullen, T. Doi, V. Elrod, S. Fitzwater, M. Gordon, A. King, P. Laan, L. Baquer, W. Landing, M. Lohan, J. Mendez, A. Milne, H. Obata, L. Ossiander, J. Plant, G. Sarthou, P. Sedwick, G. Smith, B. Sohst, S. Tanner, S. Van den Berg, J. Wu. Developing standards for dissolved iron in seawater. EOS, 88: 131-132 (2007).
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, 103: 211-226 (2007).
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, 105(1): 5-19 (2007).
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, 53: 2999-3022 (2006).
Bruland, K.W. A review of the chemistries of redox sensitive elements within suboxic zones of oxygen minimum regions. Gayana, 70: 6-13 (2006).
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
Present Ph.D. Candidate Supervisor
2008–present Dondra Billar, Ocean Sciences. Dondra is making excellent progress beginning her second year as a Ph.D. graduate student.
2006-present Sherry Lippiatt, Advanced to Candidacy in 2009, Ocean Sciences. Won the Knauss Fellowship to spend 2010 in Washington DC working with NOAA or EPA on policy issues. Will finish her Ph.D. when she returns in winter quarter 2011.
2005-present Matthew Brown, Advanced to Candidacy in 2008, Ocean Sciences. Won the Outstanding Ocean Sciences Graduate Student Award for 2009. Matt will finish and graduate in Fall quarter 2009.
Ph.D. Theses Supervised
2007 Ana Aguilar-Islas "Sources and processes controlling dissolved manganese in the eastern boundary regions of the North Pacific and Bering Sea, and an insight into the iron-replete and iron-deplete regimes of the Bering Sea" Ocean Sciences Ph.D. thesis. Currently an Assitant Professor at the University of Alaska,IARC, Fairbanks.
2006 Kristen Buck "The application of a modified CLE-ACSV method to dissolved copper and iron speciation in the coastal marine environment." Ocean Sciences Ph.D. thesis. Earned the Outstanding Ocean Sciences Graduate Student award for 2006. Currently an Assistant Research Scientist at the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences
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)
2002 Allison Gee "Tracing Ni, Cu and Zn kinetics and equilibrium partitioniing between dissolved and particulate phases in South San Francisco Bay, CA, using stable isotopes and HR-ICPMS". Earth Sciences, Ph.D. thesis. Currently a staff scientist at the Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve.
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 CEO of 2ndNature)
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 leave of absence teaching part-time and enjoying life with her family, 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)
Masters Theses Supervised
2006 Carolyn Berger, "Application of a chemical leach technique for estimating labile particulate trace metals in the Columbia River plume and coastal waters off Oregon and Washington," 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
2007-2008 Michael Lawrence, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
2003-05 Maeve C. Lohan, Senior Lecturer, Plymouth University, UK.
2001-03 Kuria Ndungú, faculty position at the University of Stockholm, Sweden.
2000-01 Eden L. Rue, on leave but still teaching part-time and enjoying life with her family in Pacific Grove, CA
1994-96 Mark Wells, Associate Professor at the University of Maine, School of Marine Sciences
1993-96 Robert Hudson, Associate Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana
1986-88 Gary Gill, Group Manager for the Marine and Environmental Chemistry Group at Battelle Marine Sciences Laboratory
