TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

Graduate courses in the Oceanography Department at Texas A&M University, in "Isotope Geochemistry" “Seminar in Oceanography/Marine Science” and “Dynamics of Environmental Colloids”; at the Swiss Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, Switzerland, in "Geochemical Oceanography", "Radioactivity in the Environment", and “Environmental Colloids”; at AMCE, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HKUST, a block course in Marine Biogeochemistry (i.e., Marine Organic Chemistry, Marine Colloids Chemistry, and Marine Radiochemistry).

Undergraduate courses in the Department of Marine Sciences at Texas A&M University at Galveston in "Chemical Oceanography", "Geological Oceanography", "Environmental Chemistry", "Environmental Geology", and “Geochemistry”.

Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Research Scientists:

List of chaired or co-chaired graduate student committees in the last 10 years (Total number of sponsored graduate students: 21; 18 at TAMU, 1 at EAWAG, 2 at LDEO):

• PhD: Saijin Zhang, Oceanography, Texas A&M University (current).

• MS: Chen Xu, Oceanography, Texas A&M University (current).

• MS: Charlie Landin, Oceanography, Texas A&M University (current), “Dissolved Gaseous Mercury Behavior in Shallow Water Estuaries”.

• PhD: Kimberly A. Roberts, Oceanography, Texas A&M University (current). “The interaction of actinides (Pu, Th, and Pa), inorganic particles, and organic colloids (humic substances and extracellular polymeric substances, EPS). ”.

• MS: Sara E. Keach. Oceanography, Texas A&M University (2006). "Monomethylmercury Concentrations on the Texas-Louisiana Shelf during Hypoxia Formation".

• MS: Jennifer Haye, Oceanography, Texas A&M University (graduated in 2005). “Role of Natural Organic Matter in Governiing the Bioavailability of Toxic Metals to American Oysters (Crassostrea virginica)”.

• PhD: Nicolas G. Alvarado Quiroz, Oceanography, Texas A&M University (graduated in 2004). “Characterization of Marine Exopolymeric Substance (EPS) Responsible for Binding of Thorium (IV) Isotopes”.

• PhD: Kathy Schwehr, Oceanography, Texas A&M University (graduated in 2004). “Speciation and Transport of Anthropogenic ¹²⁹Iodine and Natural ¹²⁷Iodine in Surface and Subsurface Environments”.

• PhD: Kevin Yaeger, Geology, Texas A&M University (graduated in 2002). “Texas Coastal Plain Fluvial Processes and Marine Sedimentation Using Lithogenic and Atmospheric Radionuclides; Sediment Source Apportioning, Isotope Fractionation and Coupled Transport Processes”.

• PhD: Kent Warnken, Oceanography, Texas A&M University (graduated in 2002). “Trace Metal Inputs to Galveston Bay: Importance of Benthic and Riverine Fluxes”.

• PhD: Degui Tang, Oceanography, Texas A&M University (graduated in 2000). “The organic complexation of trace metals in estuarine waters of Galveston Bay: the importance of reduced sulfur species”.

• PhD: M. Quigley, Oceanography, Texas A&M University (graduated in 2000). “Tracing Colloid-Colloid and Colloid-Particle Interactions Using Thorium”.

• PhD: S. Oktay, Oceanography, Texas A&M University (graduated in 1999). “¹²⁹I Cycling in Terrestrial and Coastal Marine Environments”.

• PhD: Liang-Saw Wen, Oceanography, Texas A&M University (graduated in 1996). “Geochemistry of trace metals in estuarine waters: A multi-phase speciation approach”.

• PhD: Laodong Guo, Oceanography, Texas A&M University (graduated in 1995). “Cycling of dissolved and colloidal organic matter in oceanic environments as revealed by carbon and thorium isotopes”.

• MS: J. Schwantes, Oceanography, Texas A&M University (graduated in 1997). “Natural and Anthropogenic Radionuclides in the Marginal Seas of Siberia: Implications for the Fate and Removal of Pollutants”.

• MS: R. Carvalho, Oceanography, Texas A&M University (graduated in 1997). “Bioavailability of Colloidally-bound Metals in Penaeid Shrimp”.

• MS: M. Ravichandran, Oceanography, Texas A&M University (graduated in 1995). “Investigations on the Sediment Chronology and Trace Metal Accumulation in Sabine-Neches Estuary, Beaumont”.

List of sponsored postdocs and visiting scientists in last few years (Total number of sponsored postdoctoral scholars: 12)

• Kathy Schwehr (since 2004). Assistant Research Scientist, Texas A&M University, Galveston, TX.

• Robin Brinkmeyer (since 2004). Assistant Research Scientist, Texas A&M University, Galveston, TX.

• Kevin Yeager (2003-2005), presently Assistant Professor, University of Southern Mississippi, Mississippi.

• Gary Schultz (2001-2003), presently at National Institute of Environ. Health, North Carolina.

• Chin-Chang Hung (1999-2002), presently Associate Research Scientist, Texas A&M University, Galveston, TX.

• Degui Tang (2000), presently Postdoctoral Research Associate at Princeton University.

• Liang-Saw Wen (1996-1998), presently Assistant Professor, Dept. of Oceanography and National Center for Ocean Research, National Taiwan University Taipei, Republic of China.

• Laodong Guo (1995-1997), presently Associate Research Scientist at Arctic Research Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks, AK.

• Jean Moran (1995-1998), presently Research Scientist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, CA.

External reader and examiner on Ph.D. Dissertations:

Dalhousie U., Canada, U. Geneva, Switzerland.