Oliver Zafiriou
Preferred Name: Oliver C Zafiriou
SCIENTIST EMERITUS
MARINE CHEMISTRY & GEOCHEMISTRY
Email:
ozafiriou@whoi.edu
Phone:
Address:
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,
Mail Stop 04
266 Woods Hole Road
Woods Hole, MA 02543
Education
B.A. Oberlin College, 1962, Chemistry
Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University, 1966, Chemistry
Research Interests
Photochemistry and free radical chemistry and their effects on ocean redox chemistry (especially of oxygen monoxide, organic compounds, and carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide); modeling short-lived species in the mixed layer; the oceanic nitrogen cycle, especially nitrification and denitrification processes; chemistry of the marine atmosphere; remote sensing.
