Jean Whelan
Preferred Name: Jean K Whelan
OCEANOGRAPHER EMERITUS
MARINE CHEMISTRY & GEOCHEMISTRY
Email:
jwhelan@whoi.edu
Phone:
Address:
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,
Mail Stop 04
266 Woods Hole Road
Woods Hole, MA 02543
Education
B.S. University of California, Davis, 1961, Chemistry
Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1965, Organic Chemistry
Research Interests
Organic matter transformations in recent and ancient sediments and their use in deducing depositional processes, thermal history, and fluid migration history; mechanisms of petroleum formation and migration; effects of natural oil and gas seeps on ocean chemistry.