Art Spivack

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Arthur J. Spivack (born July 9, 1956 in Queens, New York), also known as "Art" or "Arturo", is an American geochemist. He is currently a professor at the University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography. [1]

Spivack's research interest is the geochemistry of the oceans, atmosphere, and crust. He developed the use of boron isotopes for determining the pH of ancient oceans. [2] This approach provides a principal basis for estimating atmospheric CO2 concentrations of the last several tens of million years. [3] He led the investigation of the 2015 Salty Brine Beach explosion. [4] He has also contributed to scientific understanding of geochemical fluxes in mid-ocean-ridge hydrothermal systems and subduction zones [5] and understanding of subseafloor life. [6]

Spivack received his bachelor's degree (1980) in chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and his Ph.D. in oceanography from MIT and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (1986).

References

  1. ↑ "spivack | URI Graduate School of Oceanography". Gso.uri.edu. Archived from the original on 2008-05-17. Retrieved 2012-05-22.
  2. ↑ Spivack, Arthur J.; You, Chen-Feng; Smith, H. Jesse (1993). "Foraminiferal boron isotope ratios as a proxy for surface ocean pH over the past 21 Myr" . Nature. 363 (6425): 149–151. doi:10.1038/363149a0.
  3. ↑ Pearson, Paul N.; Palmer, Martin R. (2000). "Atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations over the past 60 million years" . Nature. 406 (6797): 695–699. doi:10.1038/35021000. PMID   10963587.
  4. ↑ "Department of Environmental Management" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-08-04. Retrieved 2016-06-22.
  5. ↑ Spivack, A. J; Edmond, J. M (1987). "Boron isotope exchange between seawater and the oceanic crust" . Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 51 (5): 1033–1043. doi:10.1016/0016-7037(87)90198-0.
  6. ↑ d'Hondt, Steven; Rutherford, Scott; Spivack, Arthur J. (2002). "Metabolic Activity of Subsurface Life in Deep-Sea Sediments" . Science. 295 (5562): 2067–2070. doi:10.1126/science.1064878. PMID   11896277.


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