Invitees/Resumes

The Following lists scientist invited to the workshop, as of August 1, along with, in most cases, a brief bio-sketch provided by them.

Clark R. Alexander : Professor (Skidaway Institute of Oceanography), Sedimentary Geology. Sedimentary processes in estuarine, coastal and continental margin environments, estuarine geomorphology and the record of anthropogenic impacts in the coastal zone. Recent research is focused on centennial- and millennial-scale sedimentary processes on the outer continental shelf and slope off the Waipaoa River , North Island , New Zealand , coastal erosion along the SE U.S. coast and the hydrogeology of isolated marsh islands in coastal estuaries.

Robert F. Anderson: Doherty Senior Scholar (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory), Chemical oceanography and paleoceanography. Scavenging processes that remove particle-reactive trace chemicals from the ocean water column; interpreting the sedimentary record of scavenged tracers to infer past changes in ocean circulation, biological productivity, and their combined impact on the ocean carbon cycle. Recent research has exploited uranium series radionuclides to reconstruct climate-related changes in biological productivity of equatorial regions and of the Southern Ocean, as well as fluxes of dust (equatorial Pacific) and ice-rafted debris (Southern Ocean), during the late Pleistocene. Future work planned under GEOTRACES will focus on quantifying the lateral transport of U-series radionuclides within the ocean, and the response of scavenging efficiency to changes in particle abundance and composition. Co-Chair of the GEOTRACES program.

Larry P Atkinson : Slover Professor of Oceanography ( Old Dominion University ), Descriptive and physical oceanography. Nutrient fluxes across ocean margins. Recent research address global assessment of nutrient and carbon fluxes in ocean margins and measurement of coastal currents using radar.

Elizabete S. Braga : Associated Professor (Oceanographic Institut of São Paulo University), Chemical Oceanographer. Biogeochemical cycles of nutrients, micronutrients and tracers in seawater and processes in the interfaces sea/sediment, sea/air and sea/land. Recent research in nutrients as a tracer of terrestrial inputs in Western South Atlantic region, radionuclides as a tracer of organic matter sinking in Antarctic region and estuarine anthropogenic influe.

Jay Brandes: Associate Professor (Skidaway Institute of Oceanography), Chemist. Conducts research into the biogeochemical cycling of nitrogen, phosphorus and carbon in marine and terrestrial ecosystems. Recent research has focused on investigating the nanoscale composition of marine phosphates and organic matter using X-ray spectromicroscopy, as well as using the stable isotopes of C and N to examine carbon and nutrient exports from Andean river systems to the Amazon proper. Longstanding interests in nitrogen cycling, in particular processes taking place at strong redox boundaries.

Derek Burrage: Oceanographer (US Naval Research Laboratory) Research interests include microwave remote sensing of ocean circulation, mesoscale circulation and and coastal ocean dynamics. Recent research in the South Atlantic region has been through participation in the Plata Experiment. The aircraft survey of the Plata plume in winter and summer was made using the NRL Salinity Temperature and Roughness Remote Scanner (STARRS) mounted on a Uruguayan Air Force twin engine aircraft.

William C. Burnett : Professor of Oceanography ( Florida State University ), Isotope geochemist. Interests include the use of natural uranium and thorium decay-series isotopes to investigate processes in the earth and marine sciences. Recent research has centered on use of radon and radium isotopes to trace groundwater discharge into the coastal ocean.

Lauro Júlio Calliari : Professor (Department of Geosciences. Geological Oceanographic Laboratory. Fundação Universidade Federal do Rio Grande (FURG)). Coastal and Estuarine Morphodynamics and Mineral Resources of the Sea with focus on marine aggregates are the main research lines.

Edmo J.D. Campos : Associate Professor (Instituto Oceanográfico da Universidade de Sao Paulo), Physical Oceanographer. Research interest: Ocean Circulation and its role on Climate. Recent research ranges from problems related to the dynamics of the Rio de la Plata plume investigates and the impacts of changes in the thermohaline circulation on the South ant Tropical Atlantic modes of Variability.

Aurea M. Ciotti . Adjunct Professor, Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP-CLP), Oceanographer. Bio-optical properties of ocean and marine phytoplankton ecology. Currently working in continental shelf and estuarine waters.

Joselene De Oliveira : Researcher (Instituto de Pesquisas Energéticas e Nucleares (IPEN)), Radiochemist. Major field of research: Analytical Chemistry, with emphasis in Trace Analyses and Environmental Chemistry. Recent research addresses the application of natural radionuclides from U and Th series in environmental studies, assessment of submarine groundwater discharge and mixing rates in Southeastern Brazilian coastal areas, Bransfield Straight – Antartic and Amazon region. 18 years of experience in studies performed in the field of radioecology and radioprotection, including the assessment of natural radioactivity levels in mineral waters and drinking water supplies.

Pedro J. Depetris : Full Professor (Univ. Nac. de Córdoba) and senior researcher ( Argentina 's CONICET). River basin geochemistry and hydrology. Recent research aims to the effect of climatic events on freshwater systems in southern South America.

José Luis Esteves : Senior Researcher at National Council of Science and Technical Research (CONICET)- Puerto Madryn, Patagonia Argentina, Chemical oceanography and water pollution., Argentina. Research interest: Chemical oceanography and water pollution on the continental shelf of southwest Atlantic Ocean. Biogeochemical cycles of nutrients and heavy metals in coastal zone associated with primary production.

Elisa Helena Fernandes : Assistant Professor, Fundação Universidade Federal do Rio Grande (FURG), Physical Oceanographer. Numerical modelling of the dynamics of coastal areas (estuaries and inner shelf). Recent research address the dynamics of coastal plumes in the southern coast of Brazil.

Hugo Freije : Professor of Environmental Chemistry.(Universidad Nacional del Sur , Argentina ), Oceanologist. Long-Time series on oceanographic and phytoplankton data. Primary Production and nutrients cycling in coastal and estuarine waters.

Carlos Garcia: Professor (Department of Oceanography, Federal University of Rio Grande)

Felipe Garcia : Paleoclimatology

Virginia M.T. Garcia : Associate professor (Department of Oceanography, Federal University of Rio Grande) Remote sensing and in-situ phytoplankton biomass distribution and primary production. Chlorophyll distribution patterns in the Southwestern Atlantic from ocean color images. Presently envolved with biogeochemical studies in the Patagonia shelf-break.

Jordi Garcia-Orellana: Postdoctoral research scientist (Marine Sciences Research Center- Stony Brook, NY). My work is focused on the study of environmental processes using radionuclides. My main research projects are related to the study of groundwater discharge using Ra and Rn isotopes in several Mediterranean coastal settings and sedimentation processes in different environments (lacustrine and ocean sediments and peat bogs) using 210Pb, 137Cs and 239,240Pu

José Marcus Godoy :Senior researcher (Instituto de Radioproteção e Dosimetria/Comissão Nacional de Energia Nuclear) and Associate Professor (Departamento de Química, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro),
Radiochemistry, application of natural radionuclides to environmental studies. Recent researches addresses short- and long-lived radium isotopes in the Paraiba do Sul river estuary, C-14 dating, Pb-210 dating of sediments, 230Th/234U dating of deep-sea sediments and fossil corals.

Todd Holland.

Pablo Muniz Maciel : Benthologist .

Jorge E. Marcovecchio : Senior Researcher at CONICET (Instituto Argentino de Oceanografia - IADO) Main Professor (Universidad Tecnologica Nacional -UTN-FRBB), Biogeochemist. Chemical oceanography. Biogeochemical cycles of nutrients and heavy metals in coastal and estuarine systems. Primary production.

Carlos M. Martinez: Aggregate Professor Oceanography, Facultad de Ciencias, Uruguay. Oceanographer. Oceanic instrumentation, physical oceanography. Recent research is related with the remote sensing of ocean surface salinity by airborne and satellilte methods, along the coast of South America.

Pere Masqué : Associate Professor (Environmental Science and Technology Institute and at the Department of Physics of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) Spain . Current research is based on the use of radionuclides to investigate processes in the ocean, such as the carbon and nitrogen cycles, submarine groundwater discharge, transference of sediments and contaminants in continental margins and the role of sea-ice in the transport of particulate matter and contaminants in the Arctic Ocean.

Mauricio M. Mata : A/Professor, Fundação Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Oceanographer. South Atlantic and Southern Ocean Circulation and Dynamics; Western Boundary Currents dynamics. Recent research addresses southern ocean water masses and also temporal variability, eddy characteristics and energetics along the Brazil Current and the Brazil-Malvinas Confluence.

Brent McKee: Professor ( University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ) Geochemist. The fate of terrestrial materials in river, estuaries and coastal margins, with special emphasis on responses to global change. Use of radiochemical tracers to examine the rate and pathways of material transport and fate. Recent research examines the fates of riverine organic matter and metals (Fe/Mn) in the lower Amazon and Mississippi Rivers and adjacent margins.

Jennifer Miselis : National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow (Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS). Geology (e.g. sediments, morphology) influences coastal processes over a range of time and space scales, relationship of relict geology to modern nearshore processes that effect regional shoreline change, from seasons to decades, the role of relict fluvial and tidal channels as conduits for submarine groundwater discharge (SGD). and how that might affect coastal productivity.

Osmar O. Möller Jr. :Prof. Titular (Fundação Universidade Federal do Rio Grande) Physical Oceanography. Circulation of E stuarine and Continental shelf waters. Recent publications deal with: a) the dynamics of Patos Lagoon and; b) the effect of wind and Plata river discharge on the circulation and mixing processes occurring along the shelf areas off the Southwestern South America.

Willard S. Moore : Research Professor and Distinguished Professor Emeritus ( University of South Carolina ), Geochemist. Interactions of coastal margins with the ocean, especially submarine groundwater discharge (SGD) as a source of carbon, nutrients, and metals. Recent research on SGD on the southern coast of Brazil.

Jose H Muelbert : Associate Professor (Departamento de Oceanografia, Fundação Universidade Federal do Rio Grande) Biological Oceanographer. Physical-biological interactions in the plankton, with emphasis on early life history of fish. Modeling of fish larvae transport. Marine ecosystems change as a result from global climate change.

Gustavo Nagy : Oceanographer

Gustavo Necco: Meteorologist and former director of the IAI.

Luis Felipe Niencheski : Professor (Fundação Universidade Federal do Rio Grande) (FURG)), Oceanographer. The transport, fate and cycling of materials in/across ocean margins. Recent research addresses groundwater-surface water interactions along the southern coast of Brazil.

Clarisse Odebrecht : Professor ( Federal University of Rio Grande – FURG) Biological Oceanography. The role of phytoplankton in the ecology of coastal ecosystems. Research comprises the scales of variability of phytoplankton in the Patos Lagoon estuary and Cassino Beach , southern Brazil .

Gustav-Adolf Paffenhöfer : Professor Emeritus (Skidaway Institute of Oceanography), Plankton Ecologist. With interdisciplinary studies we intend to obtain a comprehensive understanding of variables governing the functioning of plankton communities, specifically on continental shelves. Recent research addressed how in situ processes on scales of micrometers and milliseconds govern large-scale processes.

Katherina Pahnke: Postdoctoral research scientist (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory ), paleoceanography, geochemistry. Reconstruction of past, abrupt changes in ocean circulation and climate, with a focus on the Southern Hemisphere, using stable (O, C, H) and radiogenic (Nd) isotopes as paleo-proxies. Recent activities involve co-coordination of the international intercalibration of dissolved and particulate Nd isotopes and rare-earth elements in the GEOTRACES program.

Ana Perdomo: Researcher. Estudio Ingeniería Ambiental (EIA). Oceanographer; Water quality and pollution. Experience in International Projects as Frente Maritimo, FREPLATA, ECOPLATA.

Alberto R. Piola : Director of Research (Servicio de Hidrografia Naval), Associate Professor of Oceanography (Universidad de Buenos Aires) and a member of CONICET, Argentina. Physical oceanographer with interest on the impact of river discharge on the adjacent ocean circulation, and the interaction between continental shelf and western boundary currents.

Alexandra M. F. Rao : Postdoctoral Investigator (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution),Geochemist. Biogeochemical cycling in marine and coastal sediments and in the subterranean estuary; fluxes of groundwater-derived trace elements to the coastal zone.

Isaac R. Santos : Chemical Oceanographer (graduate student at Florida State University). Conducts research on the use of radon and radium isotopes as tracers of submarine groundwater discharge and nutrient cycling in permeable sediments. Recent research addresses long-term measurements of radon in Florida and SGD into southern Brazilian coastal areas.

Dana K. Savidge : Assistant Professor (Skidaway Institute of Oceanography), Physical Oceanographer. Boundary current, wind, and buoyancy effects on shelf circulation, cross-shelf transport mechanisms. Recent work addresses these topics off Cape Hatteras , U.S, the shelf region adjacent to the Gulf Stream separation point and the north Atlantic subpolar/subtropical boundary current convergence.

Jan C. Scholten : Research Scientist (Marine Environment Laboratories; IAEA-MEL), Monaco . Geochemist. Natural radionuclides as tracers in marine processes. Recent research interests: Submarine groundwater discharge; boundary exchange and scavenging processes at ocean margins.

Sergio R. Signorini: Senior Scientist, Science (Applications International Corporation/Contractor at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ). The role of physical forcing on the biological processes and carbon budget of continental shelf systems. Processing, analysis, and interpretation of ocean color satellite data. Recent research addresses physical and biological interactions along the Patagonian shelf and southern coast of Brazil.

Peter Sedwick: Associate Research Scientist ( Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences). St George's , Bermuda . Iron geochemistry.

Harvey E. Seim : Professor ( University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ) physical oceanographer. Observing systems, turbulence and mixing processes, internal hydraulics, high-frequency acoustics, boundary layer processes, flow interaction with topography, coastal oceanography, estuarine oceanography, tidal dynamics. Recent research addresses observing system design and operation, shelf-scale circulation and internal tides.

Ronald B. Souza : Reseacher (National Institute for Space Research (INPE)), Antarctic Programme. Mesoscale processes, air-sea interactions, sea surface temperature variability. Recent research addresses sinoptic measurements of atmosphere-ocean fluxes in the Brazil-Malvinas Confluence region and connections with the Southern Ocean.

Joel C. Wesson : Oceanographer (US Naval Research Laboratory) research interests include oceanographic instrumentation design and calibration, turbulence, near surface ocean physics and salinity remote sensing. Recent research in the South Atlantic region has been through participation in the Plata Experiment. The aircraft survey of the Plata plume in winter and summer was made using the NRL Salinity Temperature and Roughness Remote Scanner (STARRS) mounted on a Uruguayan Air Force twin engine aircraft.

Herbert L. Windom : Professor Emeritus (Skidaway Institute of Oceanography), Geochemist. The transport, fate and cycling of materials in/across ocean margins. Recent research addresses groundwater-surface water interactions along the southern coast of Brazil .