Staff Profile

Ken Buesseler

Preferred Name: Ken O Buesseler

SENIOR SCIENTIST

MARINE CHEMISTRY & GEOCHEMISTRY

Email: kbuesseler@whoi.edu

Phone: 508 289 2309

Office: CLARK 447 

Address:
 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,   Mail Stop 25
266 Woods Hole Road
Woods Hole, MA 02543

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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.