Staff Profile
Ken Buesseler
Preferred Name: Ken Buesseler
Senior Scientist
Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry
Email: kbuesseler@whoi.edu
Phone: 508 289 2309
Office: Clark Laboratory-4th Floor MC&G
Address:
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,
Mail Stop 25
266 Woods Hole Road
Woods Hole, MA 02543
Website: https://www2.whoi.edu/staff/kbuesseler/
Education
B.A. University of California, San Diego, 1981, Biochemistry/ Cell Biology
Ph.D. MIT/WHOI Joint Program, 1986, Marine Chemistry
Research Interests
Upper-ocean biogeochemical cycles and POC export fluxes; studies of scavenging and particle cycling processes using anthropogenic and naturally occurring radionuclides; geochemical studies of the Black Sea using Chernobyl radio tracers; plutonium isotopes and the behavior of fallout Pu in seawater and groundwater; use of radium isotopes and other tracers of submarine groundwater discharge.