Staff Profile

Jean Whelan

Preferred Name: Jean K Whelan

OCEANOGRAPHER EMERITUS

MARINE CHEMISTRY & GEOCHEMISTRY

Email: jwhelan@whoi.edu

Phone:

Office: FYE 107B 

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.