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"Cu speciation in San Francisco Bay, CA and to Fe speciation in the coastal NE Pacific and in the Bering Sea, AK" Ocean Sciences Ph.D. thesis. (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)
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." (Water Quality Scientist at Elkhorn Slough Sanctuary)
2001 Debra Weeks,"Detection of iron and resolution of iron forms in the coastal oceans," Chemistry, Ph.D. thesis. (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. (CEO, Scientist, 2ndNature Inc)
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. (Program Manager, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Region 9)
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 raising two beautiful boys, 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. (Assistant Center Director for Ecosystem Research, NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, La Jolla)
1994 David A. Hutchins,"Regeneration and recycling of biologically-required trace metals by marine plankton communities", Biology Ph.D. thesis. (Professor, University of Southern California)
1994 Lisa A. Miller,"Trace metal speciation in marine waters by competitive ligand equilibration/solvent extractions: Theory and practice" Chemistry Ph.D. thesis. (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. (Staff Research Assoc., IMS, UCSC)
1988 Kristin J. Orians, "The marine geochemistry of hydrolysis elements, aluminum and gallium", Chemistry Ph.D. thesis. (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. (Professor, Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Old Dominion University)
1988 Kenneth H. Coale, "Copper complexation in the North Pacific Ocean", Biology Ph.D. thesis. (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. (Professor of Environmental Chemistry and Oceanography, Florida State University)
1983 James Cowen, "Iron and manganese depositing bacteria in the Pacific", Biology Ph.D. thesis. (Research Professor, School of Oceanography and Earth Science and Technology, Department of Oceanography, Univ. of Hawai´i at Mãnoa)
1982 Greg Cutter, "Processes affecting the distribution and speciation of selenium in seawater", Chemistry Ph.D. thesis. (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
2007-08 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, keeping busy teaching part time and enjoying life with her family in Pacific Grove, CA.
1993-96 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
