Staff Profile

Susan Humphris

Preferred Name: Susan Humphris

Emeritus Research Scholar

Geology & Geophysics

Email: shumphris@whoi.edu

Phone: 508 289 3451

Office: McLean Laboratory 

Address:
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,   Mail Stop 08
266 Woods Hole Road
Woods Hole, MA 02543

Education

B.A./Hons., University of Lancaster, U.K., 1972, Environmental Sciences
Ph.D. MIT/WHOI Joint Program, 1977, Chemical Oceanography

Research Interests

Volcanic and tectonic controls on the distribution and characteristics of hydrothermal activity at mid-ocean ridges; geochemistry of rock-water interactions and the rate of the associated hydrothermal fluxes in global geochemical mass balances.