Staff Profile

Nelson Frew

Preferred Name: Nelson M Frew

OCEANOGRAPHER EMERITUS

MARINE CHEMISTRY & GEOCHEMISTRY

Email: nfrew@whoi.edu

Phone:

Office: FYE 125 

Address:
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,   Mail Stop 04
266 Woods Hole Road
Woods Hole, MA 02543

Education

A.S. Henry Ford Community College, 1966, Chemistry
B.S. University of Michigan, 1968, Chemistry
Ph.D. University of Washington, 1971, Chemistry

Research Interests

Chemistry and physics of the sea surface microlayer; sources, composition, and distribution of surface active organic materials in the marine microlayer; mechanisms of air-sea gas exchange; remote sensing of air-sea gas fluxes; applications of chromatography and mass spectrometry to characterization of marine organic matter.