MAC Faculty

Elliot L. Atlas
Professor
sources, transport, and transformation of atmospheric trace gases in the global atmosphere

Rana A. Fine
Professor
the role of the oceans in climate change occurring on time scales of up to decades

Dennis Hansell
Professor and Chair
biogeochemistry of carbon and nitrogen in the Sargasso Sea, the North Atlantic, the Ross Sea, the Indian Ocean, the eastern and western South Pacific, the Antarctic Polar Front, the Equatorial Pacific, and the Arctic Ocean.

Jim Happell
Research Associate Professor
use of transient tracers, such as chlorofluorocarbons and tritium, to determine groundwater flow patterns and rates

Anthony J. Hynes
Professor
development of laser diagnostics for the study of the kinetics and spectroscopy of fundamental processes in atmospheric, plasma and combustion chemistry

David C. Kadko
Professor
utilizing naturally occurring radioactivity for the purpose of tracing the pathways and discovering the rates of various oceanic processes

Frank Millero
Professor
the application of physical chemical principles to natural waters

Joseph M. Prospero
Professor
aerosol chemistry of the marine atmosphere and the biogeochemical effects of the long range atmospheric transport of materials from the continents to the ocean environment

Xinrong Ren
Research Associate Professor
atmospheric free radical chemistry, model prediction of atmospheric oxidation processes, heterogeneous chemical reactions, spectroscopic and chromatographic detection techniques, field measurement of atmospheric trace gases and radical species

Daniel D. Riemer
Research Assistant Professor
using the measurement of reduced and oxidized volatile organic compounds to characterize processes involving different oxidants

Zafer Top
Research Professor
distributions of tritium, helium isotopes and noble gases in the ocean and in ground water

Rod G. Zika
Professor
measurement of rapid detection of certain gases using laser-based techniques. We are also studying the involvement of volatile compounds in the production of ozone in the troposphere

Emeritus Faculty

Dr. Göte Ostlund
Emeritus Professor (Marine and atmospheric chemistry, especially radioactive tracers in oceanography and meteorology)