Steven Emerson

Steven Emerson

Professor Emeritus

Chemical Oceanography

Specialty

Cycling of metabolic gases and isotopes

Cycling of oxygen and carbon in the upper ocean using in situ analytical methods; The distribution of inert gases in the sea and their utility as tracers of mixing and ventilation of the ocean; Mechanisms of Organic carbon and calcium carbonate preservation in marine sediments; Sediment-sea water chemical exchange and the effect of anoxic conditions on solubility of metals in seawater.

Steven Emerson

Steven Emerson

Professor Emeritus

Chemical Oceanography

Specialty

Cycling of metabolic gases and isotopes

Cycling of oxygen and carbon in the upper ocean using in situ analytical methods; The distribution of inert gases in the sea and their utility as tracers of mixing and ventilation of the ocean; Mechanisms of Organic carbon and calcium carbonate preservation in marine sediments; Sediment-sea water chemical exchange and the effect of anoxic conditions on solubility of metals in seawater.