How does the distribution and reactivity of molecules affect the fate of the ocean?
Chemical reactions underpin the biological, physical and geological processes that happen in the ocean. Ocean chemistry examines the history of our planet, the cycling of nutrients and pollutants, as well as the fate of our oceans as the result of human-induced climate change. Broad topics in chemical oceanography including paleoclimatology, nutrient chemistry, pollution chemistry, isotope chemistry, biological productivity, ocean acidification, ocean deoxygenation and much in between.
Active Projects
- Quantifying the Biological, Chemical, and Physical Linkages Between Chemosynthetic Communties and the Surrounding Deep Sea
- Deep North Atlantic Salinity, Density and Pre-formed Nitrate During the Last Glacial Maximum
- A low-cost float for distributed, Lagrangian observations of the biological carbon pump
- Concentrations and source assessment of black carbon across tropical Atlantic air and sediment
- How to trace glacial meltwater in the ocean by shipboard hydrographic analysis of dissolved neon and krypton
Principal Investigators | Ocean Chemistry
Professor of Oceanography
401.874.6612
rlohmann@uri.edu
Associate Professor of Oceanography
401.874.6610
momand@uri.edu
