Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
Edward T. Peltzer
WHO I AM

CURRICULUM VITAE

EDWARD T. PELTZER, III

Senior Research Specialist
Monterey Bay Aquarium research Institute
7700 Sandholdt Road
Moss Landing, CA 95039

Tel: (831) 775-1851
Fax: (831) 775-1620
Email: etp3@mbari.org

Nationality: U.S.A

  • EDUCATION:
    • B.S.: Chemistry, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, 1972.
    • Ph.D.: Oceanography, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, 1979.
  • PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
    • Research Associate, Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, December 1977 to May 1985.
    • Research Specialist, Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, June 1985 to June 1997.
    • Senior Research Technician, Research and Development Division, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, CA, July 1997 to June 1999.
    • Adjunct Oceanographer, Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, August 1998 to July 2001.
    • Senior Research Specialist, Research and Development Division, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, CA, July 1999 to present.
  • PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
    • Associate Editor, Marine Chemistry, January 1996 to present.
    • Member of:
      • American Chemical Society
      • American Geophysical Union
      • The Oceanography Society
      • International Society for Complexity, Information and Design
  • RESEARCH INTERESTS:
  1. Gas hydrates in marine sediments:
    1. development of new analytical techniques for the measurement of the major components and selected trace gases in gas hydrates.
    2. analysis of samples collected with ROV and laboratory synthetics.
  2. Deep ocean disposal of fossil fuel carbon dioxide and processes controlling its long-term sequestration as a gas hydrate.
  3. The role of dissolved organic matter in the global ocean carbon cycle:
    1. development of new techniques for the measurement of DOC and DON;
    2. estimation of the sources and sinks of dissolved organic matter by modelling the observed distributions of DOC and DON.
  4. The geochemistry of naturally occurring organic compounds in atmospheric aerosols and seawater as a indicator of sources and transport mechanisms.
  5. The geochemistry of alpha-hydroxy and di-carboxylic acids in carbonaceous chondrites, deep-sea sediments and seawater.
  • PUBLICATIONS:
  1. Heine, H. W., J. D. Myers and E. T. Peltzer (1970). Stereospecific deaminations of some N-alkylaziridines by m-chloroperbenzoic acid. Angewandte Chemie, International Edition in English 9: 374.
  2. Peltzer, E. T. and J. L. Bada (1978). alpha-Hydroxycarboxylic acids in the Murchison Meteorite. Nature 272: 443-444.
  3. Hoopes, E. A., E. T. Peltzer and J. L. Bada (1978). Determination of amino acid enantiomeric ratios by gas liquid chromatography of the N-trifluoro-acetyl-L-prolyl-peptide methyl esters. Journal of Chromatographic Science 16: 556-560.
  4. Zafiriou, O. C., J. Alford, M. Herrera, E. T. Peltzer, R. B. Gagosian and S. C. Liu (1980). Formaldehyde in remote marine air and rain: flux measurements and estimates. Geophysical Research Letters 7: 341-344.
  5. Gagosian, R. B., E. T. Peltzer and O. C. Zafiriou (1981). Atmospheric transport of continentally derived lipids to the tropical north Pacific. Nature 291: 312-314.
  6. Peltzer, E. T. and J. L. Bada (1981). Low molecular weight alpha-hydroxy carboxylic and dicarboxylic acids in reducing marine sediments. Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta 45: 1847-1854.
  7. Gagosian, R. B., O. C. Zafiriou, E. T. Peltzer and J. B. Alford (1982). Lipids in aerosols from the tropical North Pacific: temporal variability. Journal of Geophysical Research 87: 11,133-11,144.
  8. Peltzer, E. T., J. L. Bada, G. Schlesinger and S. L. Miller (1984). The chemical conditions on the parent body of the Murchison meteorite: some conclusions based on amino, hydroxy and dicarboxylic acids. Advances in Space Research 4: 69-74.
  9. Zafiriou, O. C., R. B. Gagosian, E. T. Peltzer, J. B. Alford and T. Loder (1985). Air-to-sea fluxes of lipids at Enewetak Atoll. Journal Geophysical Research 90: 2409-2423.
  10. Gagosian, R. B. and E. T. Peltzer (1986). The importance of atmospheric input of terrestrial organic material to deep-sea sediments. Advances in Organic Geochemistry 1985 Organic Geochemistry 10: 661-669.
  11. Peltzer, E. T. and R. B. Gagosian (1987). Sampling and analysis of lipids in aerosols from the remote marine atmosphere. Analytica Chimica Acta 198: 125-144.
  12. Gagosian, R. B., E. T. Peltzer and J. T. Merrill (1987). Long range transport of terrestrially-derived lipids in aerosols from the south Pacific. Nature 325: 800-803.
  13. Peltzer, E. T. and R. B. Gagosian (1989). Organic Geochemistry of aerosols over the Pacific Ocean. In: Chemical Oceanography, 10, R. A. Duce, guest editor; J. P. Riley and R. Chester, editors. pp. 281-338. Academic Press, London.
  14. Sicre, M.-A., R. B. Gagosian and E. T. Peltzer (1990). Evaluation of the atmospheric transport of marine-derived particles using long-chain unsaturated ketones. Journal of Geophysical Research 95: 1789-1795.
  15. Sharp, J. H. and E. T. Peltzer (1993). Procedures subgroup report. Marine Chemistry 41: 37-49.
  16. Peltzer, E. T. and P. G. Brewer (1993). Some practical aspects of measuring DOC-sampling artifacts and analytical problems with marine samples. Marine Chemistry 41: 243-252.
  17. Goyet, C. and E. T. Peltzer (1994). Comparison of the August-September 1991 and 1979 surface partial pressure of CO2 distribution in the Equatorial Pacific Ocean near 150degW. Marine Chemistry 45: 257-266.
  18. Sharp, J. H., R. Benner, L. Bennett, C. A. Carlson, S. E. Fitzwater, E. T. Peltzer and L. M. Tupas (1995). Analyses of dissolved organic carbon in seawater: the JGOFS EQPAC methods comparison. Marine Chemistry 48: 91-108.
  19. Vodacek, A., F. E. Hoge, R. N. Swift, J. K. Yungel, E. T. Peltzer and N. V. Blough (1995). The use of in situ and airborne fluorescence measurements to determine UV absorption coefficients and DOC concentrations in surface waters. Limnology and Oceanography 40: 411-415.
  20. Goyet, C., D. Davis, E. T. Peltzer and P. G. Brewer (1995). Development of improved space sampling strategies for ocean chemical properties: total carbon dioxide and dissolved nitrate. Geophysical Research Letters 22: 945-948.
  21. Chen, R. F., B. Fry, C. S. Hopkinson, D. J. Repeta and E. T. Peltzer (1996). Dissolved organic carbon on Georges Bank. Continental Shelf Research 16: 409-420.
  22. Peltzer, E. T., B. Fry, P. H. Doering, J. H. McKenna, B. Norrman and U. L. Zweifel (1996). A comparison of methods for the measurement of dissolved organic carbon in natural waters. Marine Chemistry 54: 85-96.
  23. Peltzer, E. T. and N. A. Hayward (1996). Spatial and temporal variability of total organic carbon along 140degW in the equatorial Pacific ocean in 1992. Deep-Sea Research II (Equatorial Pacific 2) 43: 1155-1180.
  24. Fry, B., E. T. Peltzer, C. H. Hopkinson, A. Nolin and L. Redmond (1996). Analysis of Marine DOC using a Dry Combustion Method. Marine Chemistry 54: 191-201.
  25. Vodacek, A., N. V. Blough, M. D. DeGrandpre, E. T. Peltzer and R. K. Nelson (1997). Seasonal variations of CDOM and DOC in the Middle Atlantic Bight: Terrestrial inputs and photooxidation. Limnology and Oceanography 42: 674-686.
  26. Archer, D., E. T. Peltzer and D. L. Kirchman (1997). A timescale for dissolved organic carbon production in equatorial Pacific surface waters. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 11: 435-452.
  27. Goyet, C. and E. T. Peltzer (1997). Variation of CO2 partial pressure in surface seawater in the equatorial Pacific Ocean. Deep-Sea Research 44: 1611-1625.
  28. Archer, D., J. Aiken, W. Balch, R. Barber, J. Dunne, P. Flament, W. Gardner, C. Garside, C. Goyet, E. Johnson, D. Kirchman, M. McPhaden, J. Newton, E. Peltzer, L. Welling, J. White and J. Yoder (1997). A meeting place of great ocean currents: shipboard observations of a convergent front at 2degN in the Pacific. Deep-Sea Research II 44: 1827-1849.
  29. Hansell, D. A. and E. T. Peltzer (1998). Spatial and temporal variations of total organic carbon in the Arabian Sea. Deep-Sea Research II 45: 2171-2193.
  30. Walsh, J. J., D. A. Dieterle, F. E. Muller-Karger, R. Bohrer, W. P. Bissett, R. J. Varela, R. Aparicio, R. Diaz, R. Thunell, G. T. Taylor, M. I. Scranton, K. A. Fanning, E. T. Peltzer (1999). Simulation of carbon-nitrogen cycling during spring upwelling in the Cariaco Basin. Journal Geophysical Research 104: 7807-7825.
  31. Brewer, P. G., G. Friederich, E. T. Peltzer and F. M. Orr, Jr. (1999). Direct experiments on the ocean disposal of fossil fuel CO2. Science 284: 943-945.
  32. Carlson, C. A., D. A. Hansell, E. T. Peltzer and W. O. Smith, Jr. (2000). Stocks and dynamics of dissolved and particulate organic matter in the southern Ross Sea, Antarctica. Deep-Sea Research II 47: 3201-3225.
  33. Peltzer, E. T. and P. G. Brewer (2000). Practical physical chemistry and empirical predictions of methane hydrate stability. In: M.D. Max (ed.), Natural Gas Hydrate in Oceanic and Permafrost Environments. Kluwer Academic Publishers, The Netherlands. pp. 17-28.
  34. Brewer, P. G., E. T. Peltzer, G. Friederich, I. Aya and K. Yamane (2000). Experiments on the ocean sequestration of fossil fuel CO2: pH measurements and hydrate formation. Marine Chemistry 72: 83-93.
  35. Tamburri, M., E. T. Peltzer, G. Friederich, I. Aya, K. Yamane and P. G. Brewer (2000). A field study of the effects of CO2 disposal on mobile deep-sea animals. Marine Chemistry 72: 95-101.
  36. Xu, W., Lowell, R.P. and Peltzer, E.T. (2001). Effect of seafloor temperature and pressure variations on methane flux from a gas hydrate layer: Comparison between current and late Paleocene climate conditions. Journal Geophysical Research 106: 26,413-26,423.
  37. Brewer, P.G., J. Pasteris, G. Malby, E.T. Peltzer, S. White, J. Freeman, B. Wopenka, M. Brown and D. Cline (2002). Laser Raman spectroscopy at 3600m ocean depth. Eos, Trans. AGU 83(42): 469-470.
  38. Sharp, J.H., C.A. Carlson, E.T. Peltzer, D.M. Castle-Ward, K.B. Savidge and K.R. Rinker (2002). Final dissolved organic carbon broad community intercalibration and preliminary use of DOC reference materials. Marine Chemistry 77: 239-253.
  39. Rehder, G., P.G. Brewer, E.T. Peltzer and G. Friederich (2002). Enhanced lifetime of methane bubble streams within the deep ocean. Geophysical Research Letters 29(15) doi:10.1029/2001GL013966.
  40. Brewer, P.G., C. Paull, E.T. Peltzer, W. Ussler, G. Rehder and G. Friederich (2002). Measurement of the fate of gas hydrates during transit through the ocean water column. Geophysical Research Letters 29(22) doi:10.1029/2002GL014727.
  41. Brewer, P.G., E.T. Peltzer, G. Friederich and G. Rehder (2002). Experimental determination of the fate of rising CO2 droplets in sea water. Environ. Sci. Technol. 36: 5441-5446.
  42. Kleinberg, R.L., P.G. Brewer, G. Malby, E.T. Peltzer III, G. Friederich, J. Yesinowski, C. Flaum (2003). Seafloor magnetic resonance assay of methane hydrate in sediment and rock. Journal Geophysical Research 108(B3): 2137. doi:10.1029/2001JB000919
  43. Kleinberg, R.L., C. Flaum, D.D. Griffin, P.G. Brewer, G.E. Malby, E.T. Peltzer, J.P. Yesinowski (2003). Deep sea NMR: Methane hydrate growth habit in porous media and its relationship to hydraulic permeability, deposit accumulation and submarine slope stability. Journal Geophysical Research 108(B10): 2508. doi:10.1029/2003JB002389.
  44. Rehder, G., S.H. Kirby, W.B. Durham, L.A. Stern, E.T. Peltzer, J. Pinkston, P.G. Brewer (2004). Dissolution rates of pure methane hydrate and carbon-dioxide hydrate in undersaturated seawater at 1000-m depth. Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta 68: 285-292. doi:10.1016/j.gca.2003.07.001.
  45. Aya, I., R. Kojima, K. Yamane, K. Shiozaki, P.G. Brewer, E.T. Peltzer III (2004). In situ experiments of cold CO2 release in mid-depth. Energy 29: 1499-1509. doi:10.1016/j.energy.2004.03.055.
  46. Brewer, P.G., G. Malby, J.D. Pasteris, S.N. White, E.T. Peltzer, B. Wopenka, J. Freeman, M.O. Brown (2004). Development of a laser Raman spectrometer for deep-ocean science. Deep-Sea Research 51: 739-753. doi:10.1016/j.dsr.2003.11.005.
  47. Sicre, M-A., E.T. Peltzer (2004). Lipid geochemistry of remote aerosols from the southwestern Pacific Ocean sector. Atmos. Environ. 38: 1615-1624. doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2003.12.012.
  48. Tsouris, C., P.G. Brewer, E. Peltzer, P. Walz., D. Riestenberg, L. Liang, O. West (2004). Hydrate composite particle for ocean carbon sequestration: Field verification. Environmental Science & Technology 38: 2470-2475. doi:10.1012/es034990a.
  49. Pasteris, J.D., B. Wopenka, J.J. Freeman, P.G. Brewer, S.N. White, E.T. Peltzer, G.E. Malby (2004). Raman Spectroscopy in the deep ocean: Successes and challenges. Appl. Spectro. 58(7): 195A-208A.
  50. Brewer, P.G., E. Peltzer, I. Aya, P. Haugan, R. Bellerby, K. Yamane, R. Kojima, P. Walz, Y. Nakajima (2004). Small scale field study of an ocean CO2 plume. Journal Oceanography 60: 751-758.
  51. Barry, J.P., K.R. Buck, C.F. Lovera, L. Kuhnz, P.J. Whaling, E.T. Peltzer, P. Walz, P.G. Brewer (2004). Effects of direct ocean CO2 injection on deep-sea meiofauna. Journal Oceanography 60: 759-766.
  52. Brewer, P.G., E.T. Peltzer, P. Walz, I. Aya, K. Yamane, R. Kojima, Y. Nakajima, N. Nakayama, P. Haugan, T. Johannessen (2005). Deep Ocean Experiments with fossil fuel carbon dioxide: creation and sensing of a controlled plume at 4 km depth. Journal of Marine Research 63: 9-33.
  53. Nakayama, N., E.T. Peltzer, P. Walz, P.G. Brewer (2005). First results from a controlled deep sea CO2 perturbation experiment: Evidence for rapid equilibration of the oceanic CO2 system at depth. Journal of Geophysical Research 110, C09S11 doi:10.1029/2004JC002597.
  54. Riestenberg, D., C. Tsouris, P.G. Brewer, E.T. Peltzer, P. Walz, A. Chow, E. Adams (2005). Field studies on the formation of sinking CO2 particles for ocean carbon sequestration: Effects of injector geometry on particle density and dissolution rate and model simulation of plume behavior. Environmental Science and Technology 39: 7287-7293.
  55. Dunk, R.M., E.T. Peltzer, P. Walz, P.G. Brewer (2005). Seeing a deep ocean CO2 enrichment experiment in a new light: Laser raman detection of dissolved CO2 in seawater. Environmental Science and Technology 39: 9630-9636.
  56. White, S.N., W. Kirkwood, A. Sherman, M. Brown, R. Henthorn, K. Salamy, P. Walz, E.T. Peltzer and P.G. Brewer (2005). Development and deployment of a precision underwater positioning system for in situ laser Raman spectroscopy in the deep ocean. Deep-Sea Research I 52: 2376-2389. doi:10.1016/j.dsr.2005.09.002.
  57. Hester, K.C., S.N. White, E.T. Peltzer, P.G. Brewer, E.D. Sloan (2006). Raman spectroscopic measurements of synthetic gas hydrates in the ocean. Marine Chemistry 98: 304-314.
  58. White, S.N., R.M. Dunk. E.T. Peltzer, J.J. Freeman, P.G. Brewer (2006). In situ Raman analyses of deep-sea hydrothermal and cold seep systems (Gorda Ridge and Hydrate Ridge). Geochemistry, Geophysics & Geosystems 7 (5) doi:10.1029/2005GC001204.
  59. White, S.N., P.G. Brewer, E.T. Peltzer (2006). Determination of gas bubble fractionation rates in the deep ocean by laser Raman spectroscopy. Marine Chemistry 99: 12-23.
  60. Alendal, G., P.M. Haugan, R. Gangsto, K. Caldeira, E. Adams, P.G. Brewer, E.T. Peltzer, G. Rehder and T. Sato (2006). Comment on “Fate of a Rising CO2 Droplets in Seawater. Environmental Science and Technology 40 (11): 3653-3654. doi:10.1021/es052458c.
  61. Brewer, P.G., B. Chen, R. Warzinski, A. Baggeroer, E.T. Peltzer, R.M. Dunk and P.M. Walz (2006). Three-dimensional acoustic monitoring and modeling of a deep-sea CO2 droplet cloud. Geophysical Research Letters 33 (L23607). doi:10.1029/2006GL027181.
  62. Hester, K.C., R.M. Dunk , S.N. White, P.G. Brewer, E.T. Peltzer and E.D. Sloan (2007). Gas hydrate measurements at Hydrate Ridge using Raman spectroscopy. Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta 71: 2947-2959. doi:10.1016/j.gca.2007.03.032.
  63. Paull, C.K., W. Ussler III, E.T. Peltzer, P.G. Brewer, R. Keaten, P.J. Mitts, J.W. Nealon, J. Greinert, J-C. Herguera and M.E. Perez (2007). Authigenic carbon entombed in methane-soaked sediments from the northeastern transform margin of the Guaymas Basin, Gulf of California. Deep-Sea Research II 54: 1240-1267. doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2007.04.009.
  64. Hester, K.C., R.M. Dunk, P.M. Walz, E.T. Peltzer, E.D. Sloan and P.G. Brewer (2007). Direct measurements of multi-component hydrates on the seafloor: Pathways to growth. Fluid Phase Equilibria 261: 396-406. doi:10.1016/j.fluid.2007.07.053.
  65. Tsouris, C., P. Szymcek, P. Taboada-Serrano, S.D. McCallum, P. Brewer, E. Peltzer, P. Walz, E. Adams, A. Chow, W.K. Johnson and J. Summers (2007). Scaled-Up Ocean Injection of CO2-Hydrate composite particles. Energy & Fuels 21: 3300-3309.
  • TECHNICAL REPORTS:
  1. Peltzer, E.T., J.B. Alford and R.B. Gagosian (1984). Sampling, separation and quantitative identification of lipids in remote marine aerosols. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Technical Report, WHOI-84-9.
  2. Tracy, M.E., E.T. Peltzer and C. Goyet (1994). Measuring xCO2 using the CAT/NDIR method: system set-up, calibration, maintenance and shutdown. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Technical Report, WHOI-94-01.
  3. Lantry, T., M.F. Lamb, J.C. Hendee, R. Wanninkhof, R.A. Feely, F.J. Millero, R. Byrne, E.T. Peltzer, D. Wilson and G. Berberian (1995). Chemical and Hydrographic Measurements from the Equatorial Pacific during Boreal Spring 1992. NOAA Data Report ERL AOML-27.
  4. Lamb, M.F., T. Lantry, J. Hendee, K.E. McTaggart, P.P. Murphy, R.A. Feely, R. Wanninkhof, F.J. Millero, R. Byrne, E.T. Peltzer, D. Frazel (1995). Chemical and Hydrographic Measurements from the Equatorial Pacific during Boreal Autumn 1992. NOAA Data Report ERL PMEL-56.
  5. Peltzer, E. T., P. G. Brewer, G. Friederich and G. Rehder (2000). Direct observation of the fate of oceanic carbon dioxide release at 800m. In: Preprints of Symposia, Division of Fuel Chemistry, American Chemical Society, 45 (4), 794-798.
  6. Dickson, A., R. Bidigare, J. Hedges, K. Johnson, D. Leblanc, C. Lee, F. Millero, J. Moffet, W. Moore, E. Peltzer and S. van den Berg (2002). Chemical Reference Materials: Setting the Standards for Ocean Science. Ocean Studies Board, National Research Council Report. National Academies Press, Washington, DC. 130p.
  7. White, S.N., W.J. Kirkwood, A. Sherman, M. Brown, R. Henthorn, K.A. Salamy, E.T. Peltzer, P. Walz and P.G. Brewer (2004). Laser Raman spectroscopic instrumentation for in situ geochemical analyses in the deep ocean. In: Proceedings of the Marine Technology Society / Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Oceans Conference, Kobe, Japan, pp. 95-100.
  8. Kirkwood, W., D. Graves, M. Conway, D. Pargett, J. Scholfield, P. Walz, R.M. Dunk, E.T. Peltzer, J. Barry and P.G. Brewer (2005). Engineering development of the free ocean CO2 enrichment (FOCE) experiment. In: Proceedings of the Marine Technology Society / Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Oceans Conference, Washington, D.C.
  9. Paull, C.K., W. Ussler III, E.T. Peltzer, P.G. Brewer, R. Keaten, P. Mitts, J.C. Herguera, E. Perez, J. Nealon, T.H. Naehr, J. Greinert and J.A. Barron (2005). Carbon signatures entombed in methane-soaked hydrate-bearing sediments: Preliminary results. In: Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Gas Hydrates, V.3, Exploration, Resources and Environment, Trondheim, Norway, pp. 699-708.
Last updated: Jan. 29, 2008
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