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Professor ALTABET, MARK A. (Dartmouth)
Professor, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth; Fellow, School for Marine Science and Technology

Phone: (508) 999-8622
Email: maltabet@umassd.edu

Teaching the following courses:

Chemical Oceanography

Environmental Chemistry

Treatment Processes in Marine Environmental Engine

Introductory Chemical Oceanography

Global Marine Biogeochemistry

**Disclaimer: Condensed CVs for the School of Marine Sciences. For a full CV, please contact the professor.**

Education:
1984 - 1986 - Postdoctoral Fellow, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

1984 - Ph.D., Harvard University

1979 - B.Sc., S.U.N.Y. at Stony Brook, Magna cum Laude

Professional History:
1995 - present - Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
Fellow, School for Marine Science and Technology

1990 - 1995 - Associate Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

1993 - Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor, Institute for Earth Sciences, The Hebrew University in Jerusalem

1986 - 1990 - Assistant Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

1984 - 1986 - Postdoctoral Fellow, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

1984 - Postdoctoral Research Associate, Harvard University

Current Research Support:
Nitrogen and Carbon Isotope Paleo - Proxy Verification and Calibration in the Southern Ocean, NSF OCE - 9530714, $259,501, 15 Nov. 1996 - 31 Oct. 1999

High resolution reconstruction of Arabian Sea denitrification and its forcing by productivity and hydrography, NSF - Division of Ocean Sciences, $281,975, 1 Aug.. 1999 - 31 July 2002

Evaluating oceanic nitrogen fixation using spatial variations in the natural isotopic composition of nitrate in the subsurface waters of the subtropical N. Atlantic, NSF - Division of Ocean Sciences, $190,000, 1 July 1999 - 30 June 2002

Studies of nitrogen and carbon isotope biogeochemistry during SOFeX (this submission), NSF - Division of Ocean Sciences, $247,485, 1 Feb. 2000 - 30 Jan. 2003

Selected Publications:
Altabet, M.A. and R. Francois (1994) The use of nitrogen isotopic ratio for reconstruction of past changes in surface ocean nutrient utilization, in Carbon Cycling in the Glacial Ocean: Constraints on the Ocean's Role in Global Change, edited by R. Zahn, M. Kaminski, et al., pp. 281 - 306, Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York.

Altabet, M. A. and R. Francois (1994). Sedimentary nitrogen isotopic ratio records surface ocean NO3 - utilization, Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 8, 103 - 116.

Francois, R., M.A. Altabet, E. - F. Yu, D. Sigman, M.P. Bacon, M. Frank, G. Bohrmann, G. Barielle and L. Labeyrie (1997) Contribution of Southern Ocean surface - water column stratification to low atmospheric CO2 concentrations during the last glacial period. Nature, 389, 929 - 935.

Altabet, M.A., C. Pilskaln, R. Thunell, C. Pride, D. Sigman, F. Chavez and R. Francois (1999) The nitrogen isotope biogeochemistry of sinking particles from the margin of the eastern North Pacific, Deep - Sea Res., 46, 655 - 679, 1999.

Sigman, D.M., M.A. Altabet, R. Francois, D.C. McCorkle, J - F. Gaillard. (1999) The isotopic composition of diatom - bound nitrogen in Southern Ocean sediments. Paleoceanography, 14, 118 - 134.