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ALUWIHARE, LIHINI

Associate Professor

Degrees:

• B.S., Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts
• Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology-Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Research Interests:

• Production, consumption, and burial of marine organic matter
• Chemistry and biology of marine dissolved organic matter
• Natural abundance 14C dating of marine organic matter
• Natural abundance d15N measurements of marine organic matter
• Microbial interactions with the Carbon and Nitrogen Cycles.

Courses Recently Taught:

• SIO 101: California Coast Oceanography
• SIO 102: Introduction to Geochemistry
• SIO 260: Marine Chemistry
• SIO101: California Coast Oceanography
• SIO260: Marine Chemistry
• SIO269: Spec Topics/Marine Chemistry

Honors and Awards:

• Geisel Faculty Career Development Award – UCSD/SIO, April 2005
• UCSD Campus Wide Diversity Award – February, 2008
• San Diego Metropolitan Magazine’s 40 under 40 List – September 2008
• San Diego Magazine "Powers To Be" - October 2008

Mentoring:

• Ball, Ian (Graduate; 2007-)
• Biller, Dondra (Undergrad; 2007-2008)
• Lang, Susan (Post Doc; 2007-)
• Shaul, Nellie (Graduate; 2007-)
• Ward, Nicholas (Undergrad; 2006-2008)
• Chong, Laurie (Undergrad; 2005-2006)
• de Jesus, Roman (Graduate; 2003-2008)
• Furutani, Hiroshi (Post Doc; 2003-2005)
• Herszage, Julian (Post Doc; 2003-2005)
• Hansman, Roberta (Graduate; 2002-2008)
• Meador, Travis (Graduate; 2001-2007)

Eglinton, T. I.; Aluwihare, L. I.; Bauer, J. E.; Druffel, E. R. M. and McNichol, A. P., “Gas Chromatographic Isolation of Individual Compounds from Complex Matrices for Radiocarbon Dating,” Analytical Chemistry, 68, 1996, pp. 904-912.

Aluwihare, L. I., Repeta, D. J. and Chen, R. F., “A Major Biopolymeric Component to Surface Seawater DOC,” Nature, 387 1997, pp. 166-168.

Aluwihare, L. I and Repeta, D. J., “A comparison of the Chemical Characteristics of Oceanic DOM and Extracellular DOM Produced by Marine Algae,” Marine Ecology Progress Series 186, 1999, pp. 105-117. Repeta, D. J.; Quan, T.; Aluwihare, L. I. and Chen, R. F., “Chemical characterization of high molecular weight dissolved organic matter in fresh and marine waters,” Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta 66(6), 2002, 955-962.

Aluwihare, L. I; Repeta, D. J., Chen, R. F. “Chemical Composition and Cycling of HMW DOM in the Mid-Atlantic Bight. Deep Sea Research II 49(2), 2002, pp. 4421-4438.

Aluwihare, L. I; Pantoja; S.P; Johnson, C. G; Repeta, D. J. “Two chemically distinct pools of organic nitrogen accumulate in the ocean.” Science 308, 2005, pp. 1007-1010.

Repeta, D. J. and Aluwihare, L. I. High molecular weight dissolved organic carbon cycling as determined by natural abundance radiocarbon measurements of neutral sugars. Limnology and Oceanography 51(2), 2006, pp.10451053.

Aluwihare, L. I and Meador, T. B. Chemical Composition of Marine Dissolved Organic Nitrogen. In: Nitrogen in the Marine Environment. Eds. Capone, D. G., Bronk, D. A., Mulholland, M., and Carpenter, E. Kluwer Press. In Press

Ingalls, A. E; Shah, S. R; Hansman, R. L; Aluwihare, L. I. etc “Quantifying archaeal community autotrophy in the mesopelagic ocean using natural radiocarbon.” PNAS 103(17) 2006, pp.6442-6447.

Meador, T. B., Aluwihare, L. I., Mahaffey, C. “Isotopic heterogeneity and cycling of organic nitrogen in the oligotrophic ocean.” Limnology and Oceanography 52(3), 2007, pp.934-947.

McNichol, A and Aluwihare, L. I. “The Power of Radiocarbon in Biogeochemical Studies of the Marine Carbon Cycle: Insights from Studies of Dissolved and Particulate Organic Carbon (DOC and POC)" Chemical Reviews (thematic issue on "Chemical Oceanography) , Luther III, G. W. and Boyle, E. A., Editors107, 2007, pp.443-466