Staff Profile

Makoto (Mak) Saito

Preferred Name: Mak Saito

Saito CV 6/2025

Senior Scientist

Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry

Email: msaito@whoi.edu

Phone: 508 289 2393

Office: BioGeoChemistry Laboratory-1st Floor 

Address:
 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,   Mail Stop 51
266 Woods Hole Road
Woods Hole, MA 02543

CV

Website: https://bsky.app/profile/maksaito.bsky.social

Lab/Group Site: https://www2.whoi.edu/site/saito-lab/

Education

B.A., Oberlin College, 1994, Biology and Environmental Studies (Highest Honors)
Ph.D. MIT/WHOI Joint Program in Chemical Oceanography, 2001
Harry Hess Postdoctoral Fellow Princeton University 2001-2003

Research Interests

Influence of metal nutrition and toxicity on microbes and phytoplankton, trace metal biogeochemistry cycling, impacts of nutrient limitation on carbon cycling, proteomics and metaproteomics; marine bioinorganic chemistry, evolution of Earth’s biochemical and biogeochemical systems, marine microbiology, human sustainability, and anthropogenic use of metals.