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Science
Dr. Glendon B. Hunsinger's First Dissertation Paper Makes It Into Limnology and Oceanography!!
Glendon Hunsinger, the Mitra Organic Geochemistry group's first PhD student, gets his first dissertation paper published in the prestigious journal Limnology and Oceanography! Congratulations Glendon!
Local News Coverage of ECU Professors' Involvement in Gulf Oil Spill Related Research
This past week, Dr. Dave Kimmel and I were interviewed several times by local media. No, we didn't rob a bank!!:) We are both involved in research projects related to the Deepwater Horizon spill.
Here is a link to one of the stories:
http://www2.wnct.com/news/2010/jun/08/ecu-profs-research-gulf-spill-hydr...
Water sampling in coastal North Carolina and the Gulf Stream for baseline levels of hydrocarbons
Greetings Everyone! My graduate student Nidhi Patel, an undergraduate Kirsten Grosweiller, and I just returned from a ~24h cruise collecting water and sediment from coastal North Carolina. This expedition was conducted in collaboration with UNC Wilmington onboard their vessel the R/V Cape Fear. The samples we collected will be analyzed for baseline levels of hydrocarbons in case the Deepwater Horizon spill makes it way around Florida and proceeds up the Atlantic seaboard.
Stay tuned for the results of our analyses.
SM
Graduate and Undergraduate Students Present at ECU Research and Creativity Week
Nidhi Patel, Caitlin Bell, and Josh Bartel all presented the results of their research at this week's Research and Creativity Week.
Congratulations to Dr. Glendon B. Hunsinger, the first Mitra Organic Geochemistry PhD student
Glendon Brian Hunsinger succesfully defended his PhD dissertation on April 16th, 2009. Glendon did most of his work in the Hudson River. Throughout his graduate career, he has been awarded not one, but two prestigious graduate fellowships: a National Estuarine Research Reserve Fellowship as well as a US EPA Greater Research Opportunities Fellowship.
His work highlited the importance of river riparian zones in changing the composition of organic matter that is delivered to the main body of the river. Stay tuned for the publications resulting from his work.
Recent Paper Gets Featured by Discovery Channel
Check out our recent article on the Discovery Channel Network.
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/02/25/wildfire-drought-warming.html
Current Professional and Scholarly Interests
My expertise lies in the field of Organic Geochemistry. One goal of our research group is to address questions about the composition of organic matter in coastal systems. Throughout geologic time, the transfer of carbon from the atmosphere to the geosphere by organic matter fixation has played a significant role in atmospheric carbon dioxide and oxygen levels, and hence, has affected the Earth’s climate. A main route of transfer of carbon from the atmosphere to the geosphere is by river discharge of terrestrial organic matter to coastal systems. So, we try to better understand the composition, flux, and fate of the types of organic molecules transported by rivers and buried in coastal environments.
Keil Lab at the University of Washington in Seattle USA
The AOG unit at UW is composed of three labs. This is the web site for Rick Keil’s lab. You can also visit Anitra Ingalls’ web zone and Julian Sachs’ web site. The broadly defined goal of the Rick Keil’s AOG group is to understand the factors that control organic matter preservation in marine and freshwater systems. We are interested in mechanisms that control the extent to which bacteria degrade different forms of organic matter.
University of Bristol Organic Geochemistry
The Organic Geochemistry Unit (OGU) is based in the School of Chemistry of the University of Bristol. The research we conduct aims to develop our understanding of the biogeochemistry of modern-day and ancient environments and the way that it is affected by natural processes and the actions of mankind. This is achieved principally through the application of cutting-edge analytical chemistry and instrumental techniques.