CURRICULUM VITAE
KEN OWEN BUESSELER
Geochemist
Associate Scientist with Tenure
Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry
Mail Stop #25, Clark-447
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Woods Hole, MA 02543
Date of Birth: July 4, 1959
Place of Birth: Minneapolis, MN
Nationality:
U.S.
EDUCATION:
B.A.: Biochemistry and Cell Biology cum laude, University of California at San Diego, 1981.
Ph.D.: Marine Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program, 1986.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Lab Technician, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, part-time, September 1980 to August 1981.
M.I.T. Research Assistantship, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Fall 1981 to Spring 1983.
Graduate Research Assistant, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Spring 1983 to Fall 1986.
Post-Doctoral Investigator, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, September 1986 to February 1987.
Visiting Investigator, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, February 1987 to September 1988.
Assistant Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, September 1988 to September 1992.
Adjunct Associate Scientist, Bermuda Biological Station for Research, Inc., January 1992 to January 1996.
Associate Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, September 1992-March 1996.
Associate Program Director, National Science Foundation, Ocean Sciences Divison/Chemical Oceanography Program, September 1996 to
September 1998.
Associate Scientist w/Tenure, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, March 1996-present.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:
Member, Geochemical Society, 1982-1993.
Member, American Geophysical Union, 1984 to present.
Editorial Board, Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 1987 to 1993.
Member, The Oceanography Society, 1989 to present.
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Studies of scavenging and particle cycling processes using man-made and naturally occurring radionuclides.
Geochemical studies of the Black Sea using Chernobyl radiotracers.
Upper-ocean biogeochemical cycles and POC export fluxes.
Use of mass spectrometric procedures for long-lived radionuclides.
Plutonium isotopes and the geochemistry of fallout Pu.
Sources, sinks and transformation rates of dissolved, colloidal and particulate organic carbon.
PUBLICATIONS:
Buesseler, K. O., B. Brown and E. Borchardt (1980). A Limnological Investigation of Lake Itasca. Itasca Biological Station publication #1384.
Buesseler, K. O., G. Benoit and E. R. Sholkovitz (1985). A pore water study of plutonium in a seasonally anoxic lake. Journal of Environmental
Radioactivity, 2, 283–292.
Buesseler, K. O., H. D. Livingston and E. R. Sholkovitz (1985/1986). 239,240Pu and excess 210Pb inventories along the shelf and slope of the
northeast U.S.A. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 76, 10–22.
Buesseler, K. O. (1986). Plutonium Isotopes in the North Atlantic.
Oceanographic Institution Joint Program in Oceanography, 220 pp.
Ph.D. Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole
Kempe, S., H. Nies, V. Ittekkot, E. T. Degens, K. O. Buesseler, H. D. Livingston, S. Honjo, B. J. Hay, S. J. Manganini, E. Izdar and T. Konuk
(1987). Comparison of Chernobyl nuclide deposition in the Black Sea and in the North Sea. In: Particle Flux in the Ocean (E. T. Degens, E.
Izdar and S. Honjo, eds.), Mitt. Geol.-Palaont. Inst., Univ. Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany. SCOPE UNEP Sonderband, Vol. 62, pp. 165–178.
Buesseler, K. O. and J. Halverson (1987). The mass spectrometric analysis of fallout 239Pu and 240Pu in marine samples.
Environmental Radioactivity, 5(6), 425–444.
Journal of
Buesseler, K. O., H. D. Livingston, S. Honjo, B. J. Hay, S. J. Manganini, E. T. Degens, V. Ittekkot, E. Izdar and T. Konuk (1987). Chernobyl
radionuclides in a Black Sea sediment trap. Nature, 329, 825–828.
Buesseler, K. O. and E. R. Sholkovitz (1987). The geochemistry of fallout plutonium in the North Atlantic: I. A pore water study in shelf, slope and
deep-sea sediments. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 51, 2605–2622.
Buesseler, K. O. and E. R. Sholkovitz (1987). The geochemistry of fallout plutonium in the North Atlantic: II. 240Pu/239Pu ratios and their
significance. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 51, 2623–2637.
Buesseler, K. O. (1987). Chernobyl: Oceanographic studies in the Black Sea. Oceanus, 30(3), 23–30.
Anderson, R. A., R. F. Bopp, K. O. Buesseler and P. E. Biscaye (1988). Mixing of particles and organic constituents in sediments from the
continental shelf and slope off Cape Cod: SEEP-I Results. Continental Shelf Research, 8(5-7), 925–946.
Livingston, H. D., K. O. Buesseler, E. Izdar and T. Konuk (1988). Characteristics of Chernobyl fallout in the southern Black Sea.
Radionuclides: A Tool for Oceanography (J. C. Guary, P. Guegueniat and R. J. Pentreath, eds.), Elsevier, Essex, U.K., pp. 204–216.
In:
Buesseler, K. O., S. A. Casso, M. C. Hartman and H. D. Livingston (1990). Determination of fission-products and actinides in the Black Sea
following the Chernobyl accident. Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, Articles, 138(1), 33–47.
Buesseler, K. O., H. D. Livingston, S. Honjo, B. J. Hay, T. Konuk and S. Kempe (1990). Scavenging and particle deposition in the southwestern
Black Sea--evidence from Chernobyl radiotracers. Deep-Sea Research, 37(3), 413–430.
Cochran, J. K., T. McKibbin--Vaughan, M. M. Dornblaser, D. Hirschberg, H. D. Livingston and K. O. Buesseler (1990). 210Pb scavenging in the
open ocean. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 97, 332–352.
Druffel, E. R. M., L. L. King, R. A. Belastock and K. O. Buesseler (1990). Growth rate of a deep-sea coral using 210Pb and other isotopes.
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 54(5), 1493–1500.
Buesseler, K. O. (1991). Do upper-ocean sediment traps provide an accurate record of particle flux? Nature, 353, 420–423.
Buesseler, K. O., H. D. Livingston and S. A. Casso (1991). Mixing between oxic and anoxic waters of the Black Sea as traced by Chernobyl cesium
isotopes. Deep-Sea Research, 38(Suppl. 2), S725–S745.
Sanchez, A. L., J. Gastaud, V. Noshkin and K. Buesseler (1991). Plutonium oxidation states in the southwestern Black Sea: Evidence regarding the
origin of the cold intermediate layer. Deep-Sea Research, 38(Suppl. 2), S845–S854.
Buesseler, K. O., H. D. Livingston and S. A. Casso (1991). Ruthenium-106 in the Black Sea. In: Black Sea Oceanography (E. Izdar and J.W.
Murray, eds.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Netherlands, pp. 229–243.
Polikarpov, G. G., H. D. Livingston, L. G. Kulebakina, K. O. Buesseler, N. A. Stokozov and S. A. Casso (1992). Inflow of Chernobyl 90Sr to the
Black Sea from the Dnepr River. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 34, 315–320.
Buesseler, K.O., J.K. Cochran, M.P. Bacon, H.D. Livingston, S.A. Casso, D. Hirschberg, M.C. Hartman and A.P. Fleer (1992). Determination of
thorium isotopes in seawater by non-destructive and radiochemical procedures. Deep-Sea Research, 39(7/8), 1103–1114.
Buesseler, K. O., M. P. Bacon, J. K. Cochran and H. D. Livingston (1992). Carbon and nitrogen export during the JGOFS North Atlantic bloom
experiment estimated from 234Th:238U disequilibria. Deep-Sea Research, 39(7/8), 1115–1137.
Moran, S. B. and K. O. Buesseler (1992). Short residence time of colloids in the upper ocean off Bermuda. Nature, 359, 221–223.
Keafer, B. A., K. O. Buesseler and D. M. Anderson (1992). Burial of living dinoflagellate cysts in estuarine and nearshore sediments. Marine
Micropaleontology, 20, 147–161.
Buesseler, K. O. (1993). Thermal ionization mass spectrometry. In: Development and evaluation of alternative radioanalytical methods, including
mass spectrometry for marine materials, Proceedings of an Advisory Group Meeting, Monaco, 6-9 June 1989, International Atomic Energy
Agency, IAEA-TECDOC-683, pg. 45-52.
Cochran, J. K., K. O. Buesseler, M. P. Bacon and H. D. Livingston (1993). Thorium isotopes as indicators of particle dynamics in the upper
watercolumn: Results from the JGOFS North Atlantic Bloom Experiment. Deep-Sea Research, 40(8), 1569-1595.
Moran, S. B., and K. O. Buesseler (1993). Size-fractionated 234Th in continental shelf waters off New England: implications for the role of colloids
in oceanic trace metal scavenging. Journal of Marine Research, 51, 893-922.
Polikarpov, G. G., K. O. Buesseler, S. A. Casso, L. G. Kulebakina, H. D. Livingston and N. A. Stokosov (1993). Discharge of 90Sr form 19861990 with the waters of Dnepr River to the Black Sea. Aquatic Resources, 20(3), 387-390 (in Russian).
Buesseler, K. O. and C. R. Benitez (1994). Determination of mass accumulation rates and sediment radionuclide inventories in the deep Black Sea.
Deep-Sea Research I, 41(11/12):1605-1615.
Buesseler, K. O., H. D. Livingston, L. Ivanov, and A. Romanov (1994). Stability of the Oxic/Anoxic Interface in the Black Sea. Deep-Sea
Research, Part I, 41(2), 283-296.
Buesseler, K. O., A. F. Michaels, D. A. Siegel, A. H. Knap (1994). A Three Dimensional Time-Dependent Approach to Calibrating Sediment Trap
Fluxes. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 8(2), 179-193.
Hartman, M. C. and K. O. Buesseler (1994). Adsorbers for In-Situ Collection and At-Sea Gamma Analysis of Dissolved Thorium-234 in Seawater.
WHOI Technical Report, WHOI-94-15.
Michaels, A. F., N. R. Bates, K. O. Buesseler, C. A. Carlson, and A. H. Knap (1994). Carbon System Imbalances in the Sargasso Sea. Nature, 372,
537-540.
Waser, N. A., A. P Fleer, T. R. Hammar, K. O. Buesseler and M. P. Bacon (1994). Determination of Natural 32P and 33P in Rainwater, Marine
Particles and Plankton by Low-Level Beta Counting. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A, 338, 560-567.
Buesseler, K. O., J. A. Andrews, M. C. Hartman, R. Belastock, and F. Chai (1995). Regional Estimates of the Export Flux of Particulate Organic
Carbon Derived from Thorium-234 During the JGOFS EQPAC Program. Deep-Sea Research Part II, 42(2-3), 777-804.
Cochran, J. K., D. J. Hirschberg, H. D. Livingston, K. O. Buesseler, and R. M. Key (1995). Natural and Anthropogenic Radionuclide Distributions
in the Nansen Basin, Arctic Ocean: Scavenging Rates and Circulation Timescales. Deep-Sea Research, Part II, 42(6), 1495-1517.
Moran, S. B., J. A. Hoff, K. O. Buesseler, and R. L. Edwards (1995). High Precision
Mass Spectrometry. Geophysical Research Letters, 22(19), 2589-2592.
230
Th and 232Th in the Norwegian Sea by Thermal Ionization
Murnane, R. J., J. K. Cochran, K. O. Buesseler, and M. P. Bacon (1996). Least-squares Estimates of Thorium, Particle, and Nutrient Cycling Rate
Constants from the JGOFS North Atlantic Bloom Experiment. Deep-Sea Research I, 43(2), 239-258.
Buesseler, K.O. and H.D. Livingston (1996). Natural and Man-Made Radionuclides in the Black Sea. In: Radionuclides in the Oceans, Inputs and
Inventories, P. Guéguéniat, P. Germain and H. Métivier, eds. Institut de Protection et de Surete Nucleaire, Cherbourg, France, 199-217.
Buesseler, K., J. Bauer, R. Chen, T Eglinton, Ö. Gustafsson, W. Landing, K. Mopper, S. B. Moran, P. Santschi, R. Vernon Clark, M. Wells (1996).
An Intercomparison of Cross-Flow filtration Techniques Used for Sampling Marine Colloids: Overview and Organic Carbon Results. Marine
Chemistry, 55(1/2), 1-32.
Gustafsson, Ö., K. O. Buesseler, and P. M. Gschwend (1996). On the Integrity of Cross-Flow Filtration for Marine Organic Colloids. Marine
Chemistry, 55(1/2), 93-112
Buesseler, K.O. and H.D. Livingston (1997). Time-series profiles of 134Cs, 137Cs and 90Sr in the Black Sea. NATO ARW on “Sensitivity of North
Sea, Baltic Sea and Black Sea to Anthropogenic and Climatic Changes” (E. Ozsoy and A. Mikaelyan, eds.) Kluwer Academic Publishers, The
Netherlands, 239-251.
Gustafsson, Ö., P.M. Gschwend and K.O. Buesseler (1997). Using 234Th disequilibria to estimate the vertical removal rates of polycyclic aromatic
hydrocarbons from the surface ocean. Marine Chemistry, 57, 11-23.
Buesseler, K. O. (1997). The Isotopic Signature of Fallout Plutonium in the North Pacific. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 36 (1), 69-83.
Gustafsson, Ö., P.M. Gschwend and K.O. Buesseler (1997). Settling Removal Rates of PCBs into the Northwestern Atlantic Derived from 238U234Th Disequilibria. Env. Sci. and Tech., 31, 3544-3550.
Buesseler, K.O. (1998). The de-coupling of production and particulate export in the surface ocean. Global Biogoechemical Cycles, 12 (2), 297310.
Benitez-Nelson, C. and K. O. Buesseler (1998). New techniques for the measurement of 32P and 33P activities in rain and seawater. Analytical
Chemistry, 70 (1), 64-72.
Dai, M., K. O. Buesseler, P. Ripple, J. Andrews, R. Belastock, O. Gustafsson and S. B. Moran (1998). Evaluation of two cross-flow ultrafiltration
membranes for their ability to isolate marine organic colloids. Marine Chemistry, 62, 117-136.
Gustafsson, Ö., K. O. Buesseler, W. Rockwell Geyer, S. Bradley Moran and P. M. Gschwend (1998). On the Relative Significance of Horizontal
and Vertical Transport of Chemicals in the Coastal Ocean: Application of a Two-Dimensional Th-234 Cycling Model. Cont. Shelf Res. 18, 805829.
In Press:
Stokozov, N.A. and K.O. Buesseler (1998). Mixing Model for the NW Black Sea Using Sr-90 and Salinity as Tracers. J. Environ. Radioactivity, in
press.
Staneva, J., K.O. Buesseler, E. Stanev, and H.D. Livingston (1998). Application of radiotracers to study Black Sea circulation: Validation of
numerical simultions against observed weapon testing and Chernobyl 137Cs tracers. JGR-Oceans, in press.
Buesseler, K. O., L. Ball, J. Andrews, C. Benitez-Nelson, R. Belastock, F. Chai and Y. Chao (1998). Upper Ocean Export of Particulate Organic
Carbon in the Arabian Sea derived from Thorium-234. Deep-Sea Res. II, Arabian Sea Volume, in press.
Lee, C., D. W. Murray, R. T. Barber, K. O. Buesseler, J. Dymond, J. I. Hedges, S. Honjo, S. J. Manganini, J. Marra, C. Moser, M. L. Peterson, W.
L. Prell and S. G. Wakeham (1998). Particulate organic carbon fluxes: Results from the U.S. JGOFS Arabian Sea Process Study. Deep-Sea
Res II, Arabian Sea Volume, in press.
Stanev, E., K. O. Buesseler, J. V. Staneva, and H. D. Livingston (1998). The fate of Chernobyul 90Sr in the Black Sea: validation of numerical
simulations against observed data. J. Environ. Radioactivity, in press.
Manuscripts Submitted:
Benitez-Nelson, C. and K. Buesseler. (1998). 32P, 33P, 7Be and 210Pb as Tracers of Aerosol Residence Times and Statosphere/Troposphere
Exchange. JGR-Atmospheres. Submitted July, 1998.
Bidigare, R.R., Hanson, K.L., Buesseler, K.O., Wakeham, S.G., Freeman, K.H., Pancost, R.D., Millero, F.J., Steinberg, P., Popp, B.N., Latasa, M.,
Landry, M.R. and E.A. Laws (1998). Iron-stimulated changes in 13C fractionation and export by equatorial Pacific phytoplankton. Nature.
Submitted, August, 1998.
Benitez-Nelson, C., Buesseler, K., and G. Crossin. (1998). Carbon export, eddy diffusivity and horizontal transport in the southwestern Gulf of
Maine. Cont. Shelf. Res. Submitted, June, 1998.
Benitez-Nelson, C. and K. Buesseler. (1998). Temporal variability of inorganic and organic phosphorus in the coastal ocean. Nature. Submitted,
June, 1998.
Buesseler, K.O., Steinberg, D.K., Michaels, A.F., Johnson, R.J., Andrews, J.E., Valdes, J.R., and J.F. Price (1998). A comparison of the quantity
and quality of material caught in a neutrally buoyant versus surface-tethered sediment trap. DSR I. Submitted, Oct. 1998.
Updated Oct. 14, 1998