Marine and Atmospheric
- Global carbon cycling in the atmosphere, water column, and sediments anthropogenic and biogenic).
- Effect of global warming and sea level rise on the remineralization of organic matter in coastal and estuarine sediments.
- Biogeochemical controls on methyl mercury production and flux in estuarine sediments.
- Isotopic characterization of carbon to elucidate sources and cycling of organic matter.
- Air sea exchange processes especially as they relate to global warming issues.
- Trace metal speciation in estuarine and atmospheric waters.
- Photochemically mediated processes and their impact on environmental systems.
- Marine and environmental geochemistry.
- Speciation and cycling of trace metals (especially Hg) in natural waters.
- Sediment-water exchange in estuaries and coastal waters.
- Microbial natural products drug discovery
- Natural products structure elucidation
- Mass spectrometry-based bioassay development for drug discovery
- Mass spectometry-based environmental metabolomics
- Application of novel screening technologies for marine natural products drug discovery
- Structure determination of marine and terrestrial natural products
- Application and method development in NMR spectroscopy
- Online organic reaction and bioprocess monitoring & mechanistic studies
- Chemical ecological studies in the context of drug-discovery
