DOUGLAS W. R. WALLACE   Scientist      

dwallace@ifm.uni-kiel.de

Education

University of East Anglia (B.S., Environmental Science, 1978); Dalhousie University (Ph.D., Chemical Oceanography, 1985).

Research Interests

Oxygen production and consumption on continental shelves; Nutrient cycling; Anthropogenic halocarbon tracers; Air-sea exchange of gases; Arctic oceanography; Groundwater tracing; Carbon Dioxide in the oceans.

Professional Affiliations

American Geophysical Union; Oceanography Society.

Summary of Experience

Developed analytical instrumentation to determine trace levels of Freon gases in seawater. Collected and interpreted halocarbon tracer data from research cruises in the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans. Interpreted and analyzed nutrient and oxygen distribution on continental shelves. Measurement and interpretation of inorganic carbon distributions in the ocean.

Selected Publications

Wallace, D. W. R. and Wirick, C. D. Large air-sea gas fluxes associated with breaking waves. Nature 356, 694-96 (1992). (BNL #46752).

Wallace, D. W. R., Beining, P., and Putzka, A. Carbon tetrachloride and chlorofluorocarbons in the South Atlantic Ocean. J. Geophys. Res. 99, 7803-19 (1994). (BNL #49205).

Wallace, D. W. R., Minnett, P. J., and Hopkins, T. S. Nutrients, oxygen and inferred new production in the Northeast Water Polynya. J. Geophys. Res. 100(C3), 4323-40 (1992). (BNL #60079).