Staff Profile

Fred Sayles

Preferred Name: Fred Sayles

Scientist Emeritus

Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry

Email: fsayles@whoi.edu

Phone: 508 289 2561

Office: McLean Laboratory

Address:
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Mail Stop 08
266 Woods Hole Road
Woods Hole, MA 02543

Education

B.A. Amherst College, 1962, Geology
M.A. University of California, Berkeley, 1966, Geology
Ph.D. University of Manchester, U.K., 1968, Geochemistry

Research Interests

Chemical reactivity of fluvial sediments with seawater; diagenesis of marine sediments; benthic metabolism and stoichiometry; modeling and characterization of the sources, behavior, and fate of radioactive materials in the marine environment; advective processes in marine sediments; influence of chemical exchange across the water-sediment interface upon biogeochemical cycles.