| May 3, Sunday PM |
Dynamics of Ocean Tracers |
| Leader: Daniel Schrag; Harvard University |
Bill Jenkins
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute |
"Studying recent variations in ocean circulation and ventilation using tracers" |
Daniel Schrag
Harvard University |
"Dynamics of radiocarbon (and surface current) variability in the tropical Pacific" |
Jess Adkins
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
"Measuring the rate of past ocean circulation with deep-sea corals" |
| May 4, Monday AM |
What Controls the Concentration of Organic Matter in the Sea? |
| Leader: Cindy Lee; SUNY Stony Brook, New York |
Eiichiro Tanoue
Institute for Hydrologic and Atmospheric Sciences, Nagoya University, Japan |
"Proteins in the Sea" |
John Hedges
School of Oceanography, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington |
"Compositional characterization of bulk organic matter in marine sediments by NMR and DRIFT spectroscopy" |
Claude Largeau
Chimie Bio-organique et Organique, E.N.S.C.P., France |
"Macromolecular organic matter in recent sediments from upwelling areas: source organisms and formation pathway(s)" |
| May 4, Monday PM |
Organic Interactions with Trace Species |
| Leader: James Moffett; Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution |
Orjan Gustafsson
Swedish Museum of Natural History Division of Isotope Geology, Sweden |
"Physico-chemical speciation of hydrophobic organic compounds in seawater" |
Ken Bruland
University of California at Santa Cruz |
"Metal complexation in the sea" |
| May 5, Tuesday AM and PM |
Carbon & Nitrogen Isotope Fractionation in Marine Biological Systems |
| Leader: John Hayes; Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution |
Jonathan Erez
The Interuniversity Institute for Marine Science in Elat, Hebrew University, Israel |
"The effect of the carbon concentrating mechanism (CCM) on stable isotope fractionation in phytoplankton" |
Brian Popp
University of Hawaii |
" Controls in the carbon isotopic composition of marine phytoplankton: laboratory and field studies" |
John Hayes
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute |
"An 800 million year record of carbon isotope fractionation in the marine carbon cycle" |
Francis Albarede
Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France |
"A first step towards low-temperature isotope geochemistry of transition elements: Cu and Zn isotopes in sediment trap material from the Atlantic" |
Danny Sigman
Princeton University, Dept. of Geosciences |
Nitrogen isotopic constraints on glacial/interglacial changes in oceanic nutrient cycling" |
| May 6, Wednesday AM & PM |
Consumption & Production of Trace Gases in the Oceans |
| Leader: Meinrat Andreae; Max Planck Institüt für Chemie, Mainz |
Jim Butler
NOAA, CMDL, Boulder, Colorado |
"Oceanic fluxes and lifetimes of trace atmospheric halocarbons" |
James Kettle
Max Planck Institüt für Chemie, Mainz |
"Photochemical production of trace gases and global extrapolations" |
Ron Kiene
Department of Marine Sciences, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL |
"DMSP as a source of reduced sulfur gases and tracer of biogeochemical processes in the ocean" |
Robert Moore
Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia |
"Marine production of halogenated methanes" |
Nelson M. Frew
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute |
"Air-sea gas transfer: Uncertainties and new approaches to estimating fluxes" |
| May 7, Thursday AM |
Enzymes in the Oceans: Marine Bioinorganic Chemistry |
| Leader: Alison Butler; UC Santa Barbara |
Ed Stiefel
Corporate Research Science Laboratory, Exxon Research & Engineering Co., N.J. |
"Molybdenum enzymes" |
Mike Adams
Dept. of Biochemistry and Center for Metalloprotein Studies, Univ. of Georgia |
"Tungsten - an essential element for marine life growing near 100 °C ?" |
Ivano Bertini
Department of Chemistry, University of Florence, Italy |
"Solving the solution structure of paramagnetic metalloproteins by NMR" |
| May 7, Thursday PM |
Gas Hydrates in Seawater |
| Leader: Peter Brewer; Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute |
Gerald Dickens
Dept. of Earth Sciences, James Cook University, Queensland, Australia |
"Dissociation of gas hydrate and oxidation of methane at the Paleocene/Eocene boundary" |
Ben Clennell
Rob Kidd ODP Fellow, School of Earth Sciences, University of Leeds, England, U.K. |
"Habitat and stability of methane gas hydrates in submarine sediments: Influence of the tectonic setting and effects of the host sediment properties" |
