WHAT I DO
My current research activities at MBARI
I am an analytical chemist working in oceanography. My primary task is to develop new instruments and new analytical methods that can be used to solve oceanographic problems.
Currently, I am working with Dr. Peter Brewer, Bill Kirkwood and Peter Walz studying various aspects of the ocean chemistry and environmental impacts of carbon dioxide and methane.
- On the Ocean Chemistry of Greenhouse Gases web-page you will find:
- An introduction to the ocean geochemistry of methane gas hydrates.
- Video clips and images of our first deep ocean release of liquid carbon dioxide.
- I was also part of the engineering and science team that adapted the laser Raman spectrometer for use in the deep ocean. We produced two deep ocean spectrometers for use with the MBARI ROVs and two high precision pointing devices:
- My work also involves a variety of computational tasks including the calculation and interpolation of physical chemical data, thermodynamic properties and various oceanographic parameters. In addition, I frequently make use of model-1 and model-2 linear least squares regressions for evaluating and interpreting experimental data. I have written and collected Matlab® shell-scripts (m-files) for these purposes:
- M-files for linear regression analysis
- M-files files for calculating oceanographic parameters
- M-files files for physical chemistry calculations
- Recently, I have converted some of these M-files for use with Excel®: