Staff Profile

Wokil Bam

Preferred Name: Wokil Bam

POSTDOC INVESTIGATOR

MARINE CHEMISTRY & GEOCHEMISTRY

Email: wokil.bam@whoi.edu

Phone: 508 289 3843

Website: http://wokilbam.com

Lab/Group Site: http://cafethorium.whoi.edu/

Education

PhD, Chemical Oceanography (May 2021)

Louisiana State University (LSU), Baton Rouge, LA

MS, Oceanography and Coastal Sciences (Aug 2015)

Louisiana State University (LSU), Baton Rouge, LA,

BS, Environmental Science (Major), Chemistry (Major) (Dec 2012)

Southwest Minnesota State University (SMSU), Marshall, MN

Research Statement

My research interests are biological carbon pump and particle dynamics, utilization of artificial and natural radioisotopes to study environmental process, sediment geochemistry and chemical processes at sediment-water interface, climate change.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Bam, W., Maiti, K., Baskaran, M., 2021. ²¹⁰Po and ²¹⁰Pb as Tracers of Particle Export and Cycling in the Western Arctic Ocean, Frontier in Marine Science, 8:697444

Bam, W., and Maiti, K., 2021. ²¹⁰Po-²¹⁰Pb distribution and carbon export in the northern Gulf of Mexico continental slope. Deep Sea Research I, 172, 103535

Bam, W., Maiti, K., Baskaran, M., Krupp, K., Lam, P.J., Xiang, Y., 2020. Variability in ²¹⁰Pb and ²¹⁰Po partition coefficients (Kd) along US GEOTRACES Arctic transect.
Marine Chemistry 219: 103749

AWARDS

Center for Marine and Environmental Radioactivity Postdoctoral Scholar, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA

CCE Outstanding Dissertation Award, College of Coast and Environment, LSU, Baton Rouge, LA

NSF Dissertations Symposium in Chemical Oceanography (DISCO XXVII), University of Hawaii, National Science Foundation